Ben Thomas

        • A life of good ideas
        • Avoid most advice
        • Be thoughtful about 7 to 9pm
        • Books as consumption vs. investment
        • Choose to communicate more
        • Compressing the best ideas is hard
        • Do long feedback loops cause fatigue?
        • Feeling bored is your fault
        • Focus on positive ambition AND contentment
        • Get agency by diving right in
        • How to try LLMs at work
        • If you make change happen then people want to work with you
        • Is it time to diversify my human capital?
        • It only takes one to slow the tempo
        • Leaders productively meddle
        • Make your own syllabi for lifelong learning
        • Optimal zone of effort is multi-domain
        • Say no like you're famous
        • Set a high bar for recommending books
        • Set boundaries between actions, values, and identity
        • Taste is leverage
        • There are many paths not taken
        • Things will get weird in my lifetime
        • Think of job search as matching
        • Value your time
        • Was one Billion Americans written too early?
        • What I’m doing differently because of AI
        • What's the future of content creation?
        • Write for your grandkids
        • Writing the doc is power
      • A case for Christian longtermism
      • About
      • Are we becoming more self-centered over time? Evidence from Google Ngram
      • Autism & Education
      • Chief of Staff
      • Economics of Progress
      • Geothermal energy for kids (Geothermal I)
      • Housing Affordability
      • How geothermal really is renewable (Geothermal II)
      • How I think about climate change
      • How USDA can help make more housing
      • I want to figure out my taste
      • Links from April 2024
      • Links from April 2025
      • Links from December 2023
      • Links from December 2024
      • Links from February 2024
      • Links from February 2025
      • Links from January 2024
      • Links from January 2025
      • Links from June 2024
      • Links from March 2024
      • Links from March 2025
      • Links from May 2024
      • Links from November 2023
      • Links from November 2024
      • Links from October 2024
      • Links from September 2024
      • Marathon Training
      • On Writing
      • Patrick Collison's Bookshelf
      • Projects
      • Religion and economic progress
      • Six years of reading
      • Technology & Society
      • The Bible in the 21st Century
      • The Economic Benefit of the Freedom of the Seas
      • The essays about progress that I share the most
      • Tinkering with local LLMs
      • Why state capitals are such random cities
      • Working with me
    Home

    ❯

    shorts

    Folder: shorts

    30 items under this folder.

    • Jun 30, 2024

      Books as consumption vs. investment

      • Jun 29, 2024

        A life of good ideas

        • Jun 29, 2024

          There are many paths not taken

          • Jun 28, 2024

            What's the future of content creation?

            • Jun 28, 2024

              Value your time

              • Jun 27, 2024

                Think of job search as matching

                • Jun 27, 2024

                  Optimal zone of effort is multi-domain

                  • Jun 26, 2024

                    Avoid most advice

                    • Jun 26, 2024

                      Taste is leverage

                      • Jun 25, 2024

                        Say no like you're famous

                        • Jun 23, 2024

                          Set boundaries between actions, values, and identity

                          • Jun 21, 2024

                            Focus on positive ambition AND contentment

                            • Jun 20, 2024

                              Do long feedback loops cause fatigue?

                              • Jun 18, 2024

                                Make your own syllabi for lifelong learning

                                • Jun 15, 2024

                                  Choose to communicate more

                                  • Jun 14, 2024

                                    Get agency by diving right in

                                    • Jun 03, 2024

                                      Is it time to diversify my human capital?

                                      • Jun 02, 2024

                                        If you make change happen then people want to work with you

                                        • May 30, 2024

                                          Feeling bored is your fault

                                          • May 29, 2024

                                            Leaders productively meddle

                                            • May 28, 2024

                                              Be thoughtful about 7 to 9pm

                                              • May 27, 2024

                                                Things will get weird in my lifetime

                                                • May 26, 2024

                                                  It only takes one to slow the tempo

                                                  • May 25, 2024

                                                    Writing the doc is power

                                                    • Apr 02, 2024

                                                      What I’m doing differently because of AI

                                                      • Mar 28, 2024

                                                        Set a high bar for recommending books

                                                        • Mar 24, 2024

                                                          Was one Billion Americans written too early?

                                                          • Mar 23, 2024

                                                            How to try LLMs at work

                                                            • Mar 11, 2024

                                                              Compressing the best ideas is hard

                                                              • Mar 02, 2024

                                                                Write for your grandkids


                                                                Created with Quartz v4.4.0 and Obsidian, © 2025