I like to collect stuff that I want to remember. This site is a portable way of
  doing that so here it is.
  
    Compilations:
    
Aaron Swartz
Derek Sivers
Podcasts
TED Talks.
  
  
  
    - Derek Sivers on friendships that serve you & leaning into things you hate
 
  
    - How do you sit quietly in the middle of a storm? - Search Engine Podcast
 
  
    - Skrjabin: Le poème de l’extase ∙ hr-Sinfonieorchester
 
  
    - Astronomy Picture of the Day
 
  
    - The Untold Story of SQLite
 
  
    - Letters Live - celebrities reading hilarious or  profound letters
 
  
    - Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra
 
  
    - Who's really using up the water in the American West? - Vox
 
  
    - Best Of: The Tim Ferriss Show
 
  
    - Best Of: Lex Fridman Podcast
 
  
    - 8 Concepts of Mindfulness
 
  
    - National Park Typeface
 
  
    - Radiolab Mixtape: Help?
 
  
    - Apple Time to Walk
 
  
    - "Before Breakfast" Podcast
 
  
    - How to Save a Planet
 
  
    - Julia Evans's Software Comics
 
  
    - Emotional Intelligence - Craig Mod
 
  
    - Online Privacy Should Be Modeled on Real-World Privacy - Daring Fireball
 
  
    - Inside a CODE RED: Network Edition - Signal vs Noise
 
  
    - Lex Fridman Podcast
 
  
    - Ezra Klein on The Axe Files
 
  
    - Bring Back Blogs
 
  
    - Sean McElwee on Why Bernie Sanders lost and how progressives can still win
 
  
    - TED’s Chris Anderson on the lessons of listening - The Ezra Klein Show
 
  
    - Dr. Sue Johnson: Cracking the Code of Love - The Knowledge Project
 
  
    - Summer Walker: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
 
  
    - Frances Frei’s three pillars of leadership - The TED Interview
 
  
    - Sarah Jones: Polymorphic Playwright at TED
 
  
    - Masters in Business: Kara Swisher Discusses the Tech Industry
 
  
    - "The Report" by Lawfare: A Podcast about the Mueller Report
 
  
    - German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Harvard Commencement Address 2019
 
  
    - Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
 
  
    - NYT: Transcript: President Obama on What Books Mean to Him
 
  
    - Cal Newport has an answer for digital burnout - The Ezra Klein Show
 
  
    - Everything you've ever wanted to know about coffee | Chandler Graf | TEDxACU
 
  
    - Lawrence Lessig: Of course it matters
 
  
    - Suzanne Simard: How trees talk to each other
 
  
    - Bernie Krause: The voice of the natural world
 
  
    - Rev. William Barber on why you shouldn't give up the fight
 
  
    - "The Wizard of Photography" - Documentary about George Eastman
 
  
    - Sanctuaries of Silence by Adam Loften & Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
 
  
    - How to Report Bugs Effectively - Simon Tatham
 
  
    - Jonathan Haidt: The moral roots of liberals and conservatives
 
  
    - "On Code Review" - Glen Sanford
 
  
    - "We should look closely at what Adam Smith actually believed"
 
  
    - "Modern Media Is a DoS Attack on Your Free Will" - Nautilus
 
  
    - The Great Attention Heist - LA Review of Books
 
  
    - Steve Yegge on Google & Amazon as Platforms
 
  
    - NOTHING TO HIDE
 
  
    - Rebuilding the Cathedral by Nadia Eghbal
 
  
    - The USE Method
 
  
    - Don't Call Me Remote! Building and Managing Distributed Teams
 
  
    - Jeff Dean on AI
 
  
    - Freakonomics: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Money (But Were Afraid to Ask)
 
  
    - Petrified Forest - Lapham's Quarterly
 
  
    - Tim Ferriss on Fear-setting instead of Goal-setting
 
  
    - Dean James Ryan's 5 Essential Questions In Life
 
  
    - Tank And The Bangas
 
  
    - TED Talk: Laura Sicola on sounding like a leader
 
  
    - What it feels like to be an open source maintainer
 
  
    - "Building Jarvis" – A very lofty but nevertheless interesting project in home automation
 
  
    - Typography of A. Lange & Söhne
 
  
    - I Kept Walking - Salva Dut at TEDxYouth@BeaconStreet
 
  
    - "Hopelessness and Confidence in Distributed Systems Design" by Camille Fournier
 
  
    - Distributed Filesystems
 
  
    - Going the Distance: On and off the road with Barack Obama
 
  
    - Navigating unfamiliar Go code with Guru - Alan Donovan
 
  
    - "The Code: Story of Linux" documentary
 
  
    - Open Culture
 
  
    - Pepe Mujica of Uruguay on Happiness
 
  
    - Interview with Pepe Mujica of Uruguay
 
  
    - The New Republicans - Jacobin Mag
 
  
    - On the Media
 
  
    - Logging v. Instrumentation
 
  
    - Don't let Trump fool you: rightwing populism is the new normal
 
  
    - Why I'm Not Using Your Open Source Project - NCZOnline
 
  
    - UNIX Time Definitions
 
  
    - Interviews: Alan Donovan and Brian Kernighan Answer Questions about Go
 
  
    - Blockchain vs/and Bitcoin: a16z podcast
 
  
    - Freshman Senator To His Colleagues: 'The People Despise Us All'
 
  
    - Kim Burrell
 
  
    - CHINA UPDATE: HOW THE HARDLINERS WON
 
  
    - Life's Lessons from Harvard Business School Graduates of 1963
 
  
    - GovernmentAttic.org
 
  
    - Rita Pierson: Every kid needs a champion
 
  
    - MeisterSinger Nº3
 
  
    - Dame Stephanie Shirley: Why do ambitious women have flat heads?
 
  
    - Be Grateful
 
  
    - James A. White Sr: The little problem I had renting a house
 
  
    - Clay Shirky on Love, Internet Style
 
  
    - Go at Google
 
  
    - President Barack Obama on U.S. Cuba Policy
 
  
    - Chad Fowler at Hack Summit
 
  
    - Explained Visually
 
  
    - Ed Sheeran
 
  
    - "Web Browsers: Om nom nom" by Steve Klabnik
 
  
    - The Mahogany Sessions
 
  
    - Open Process Open Collaboration
 
  
    - Dylan Ratigan of MSNBC Explains Our Debt Crisis
 
  
    - Janee Woods: 12 things you can do to help end America's racist system
 
  
    - What Problems to Solve – By Richard Feynman
 
  
    - What's the matter with PGP?
 
  
    - No, You're Not Entitled to Your Opinion
 
  
    - So Open It Hurts: What the Internet did to Aaron Swartz
 
  
    - (Illustrated) Book of Bad Arguments
 
  
    - Chris Hunt: Secrets of a World Memory Champion
 
  
    - Guerilla Open Access Manifesto
 
  
    - Marc Broussard - Weight of the World
 
  
    - The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz
 
  
    - TED Talks on Cyber Security
 
  
    - The Snowden Files
 
  
    - Árstíðir
 
  
    - The Strange Relationship the US Government has with Open-Source Software
 
  
    - Fred Hammond
 
  
    - 'The Terrible & Wonderful Reasons Why I Run Long Distances' by The Oatmeal
 
  
    - Brigham and Women's Hospital Interview with Nicholas Tilney, MD
 
  
    - Linux Commands in Structured Order with Detailed Reference
 
  
    - A Brand new politics: Russell Brand interview with Mehdi Hasan
 
  
    - "Putin, Ukraine, and the New Cold War," featuring TNR's Julia Ioffe
 
  
    - Antonin Scalia and Stephen Breyer debate the Constitution
 
  
    - Guide To Advanced Programming in C
 
  
    - Getting Started with GNU Smalltalk
 
  
    - Gaither
 
  
    - Steve Jobs Unveils the First Macintosh
 
  
    - Clear Sans by Intel
 
  
    - Smokie Norful
 
  
    - Son, It's Time We Talk About Where Start-Ups Come From.
 
  
    - Matt Andersen
 
  
    - I'm with Neil
 
  
    - For the Love of Money - NYTimes
 
  
    - Dan Eden: "Everything is Terrible"
 
  
    - "Niggerization of America" - Cornel West
 
  
    - The Builder's High - Rands in Repose
 
  
    - Stephen Cave: The 4 stories we tell ourselves about death
 
  
    - De Long Wine Tasting Notebooks
 
  
    - Diana Nyad: Never, ever give up
 
  
    - How Can C Programs Be So Reliable?
 
  
    - Litwak: Google is the new Bell Labs
 
  
    - Clay Shirky: How the internet will (one day) transform government
 
  
    - Offices For All: Why and How the Open-Office Layout Kills Productivity
 
  
    - Omakase Charity, the best new start-up in Silicon Valley
 
  
    - WHY DO I CAN'T
 
  
    - testling-ci: Test JavaScript in multiple Browsers
 
  
    - Listen as Albert Einstein Reads "The Common Language of Science" (1941)
 
  
    - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton totally reams Rep. Christopher Smith on Pro-Choice Efforts of US State Dept
 
  
    - Excerpt from Daniel Everett's Book about the Pirahã, "Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes"
 
  
    - Go: a simple programming environment - Andrew Gerrand
 
  
    - This is why you shouldn't interrupt a programmer
 
  
    - Russell Brand Understands the Problem With Government: A BBC Interview
 
  
    - How Medium is building a new kind of company with no managers
 
  
    - Your team should work like an open source project - Ryan Tomayko
 
  
    - The Shutdown Prolonged by a Secret Rule
 
  
    - Clay Shirky: The Possibility of Spectrum as a Public Good
 
  
    - Robert Shiller: Offset forces which drive economic inequality
 
  
    - Flurschäden der Politik - Frühaufsteher - FAZ
 
  
    - Exposure by Elepath
 
  
    - Eric Whitacre Live at the Union Chapel
 
  
    - _why's (poignant) guide to Ruby
 
  
    - The Government Is Finally Re-Opened
 
  
    - Rubinius X
 
  
    - Ben Balter's Books for Geeks
 
  
    - When to get up... for stupid people like me
 
  
    - The Go Blog: Arrays, slices (and strings): the mechanics of 'append'
 
  
    - Convert a GitHub Issue into a Pull Request
 
  
    - The Reign of Morons is Here
 
  
    - Nick Hanauer: Rich People Don't Create Jobs
 
  
    - Alison Gopnik on Hume and Buddhism
 
  
    - Viktor Frankl: Why to believe in others
 
  
    - Learn Go in 9 Minutes
 
  
    - Clojure for the Brave and True
 
  
    - Authentication at Scale - Google Research
 
  
    - Epic Coffee Quotation
 
  
    - Implementing Multi-Table Full Text Search with Postgres in Rails
 
  
    - What I learned from other shell scripts
 
  
    - The algorithm for a perfectly balanced photo gallery
 
  
    - Analysis of SSH crc32 compensation attack
 
  
    - Rotating Globe in JavaScript
 
  
    - Linus Torvalds talks Git at Google
 
  
    - EmacsBites
 
  
    - TextBlob: Simplified Text Processing
 
  
    - Margaret Heffernan: The dangers of "willful blindness"
 
  
    - Some advice from Jeff Bezos - Jason Fried on SVN
 
  
    - Pirahã - Gespräch mit Daniel Everett
 
  
    - jrnl: Journaling with Python
 
  
    - Intro to Sed
 
  
    - Sample Sinatra App
 
  
    - Unix Tricks
 
  
    - Optimize for Happiness - Tom Preston-Werner
 
  
    - House Divided - Abraham Lincoln
 
  
    - Frederick Douglass's Fourth of July Speech
 
  
    - The Archive of Interesting Code
 
  
    - All-American Boy - Steve Grand
 
  
    - 'The Pale Blue Dot' - Carl Sagan
 
  
    - Graduation Speech by Jon Lovett at Pitzer College