Rohan Singh

AI Experiments

• The Long Day
• Canvassy
• U.S. Civics Flashcards
• Done
• Outliney

Inspiration

Old-school blogs

I miss reading through people's blogs from "back in the day" (mid-2010s, I think?)

• LukeW Ideation + Design

  Consistently writing about design since the early 2000s.

• Ben Kuhn
• Irrational Exuberance (Will Larson)

  Mainly engineering topics, but I love how consistent and simple it's been.

• Construction Physics

  Articles on construction specifically.

• Julian Shapiro

  Banger articles.

• Geoffrey Litt

  Tools for thought.

• A Smart Bear

  Forgot where I got this from but looks interesting.

• Steph Ango

  Kepano on Twitter, runs Obsidian. I really like the evergreen-notes style of his "digital gardeny" blog.

• Jon Lax

  The Teehan and Lax guy, ex-VP design at Facebook. Not really old school, but he's written bingeworthy posts on design.

• Mike Crittenden

  An engineering leader at GitHub, I think? Posts every day — truly old school.

• Subtraction (Khoi Vinh)

  Design-focused, but mainly him reviewing TV shows and movies he's watched. An inspiration since at least 2013.

• Bobulate (Liz Danzico)

  Not updated frequently, but a treasure trove of peak late-2000s blogging by design leader Liz Danzico. Bonus: she's a New Yorker with posts waxing poetic about the city.

• Design a Day

  Jack Moffett's blog about literally a design every day. His consistency over the years is incredible.

• Julia Evans

  Blogs about engineering concepts like TCP, and makes phenomenal zines explaining tech concepts. Favorite: What a Manager Does.

• Raptitude

  Reminds me of Leo Babauta and Steve Pavlina's blogs I used to follow in 2013.

• Kottke

  Old old-school blog.

• A List Apart

  Not a personal blog, and the articles can be more design-philosophical than immediately practical, but I love the typography, layout, and reading experience.

• Matthew Dicks

  Didn't love the book (Storyworthy), but I like his approach to daily blogging.

• Amelia Wattenberger

  Don't remember the context for this.

• Venkatesh Rao — Ribbonfarm

  Don't remember the context for this.

Digital gardens

• Andy Matuschak's working notes

  The gold standard of digital gardens. Densely linked notes — like exploring a maze, a choose-your-own-adventure. Start with what interests you and follow it; no folders, hierarchies, or neat categories. I don't know how he organizes it for his own workflow, but it's a great end-user experience.

• Tom Critchlow's wikifolder

  A folder- and tag-based organization.

  But ideas aren't summoned from nowhere: they come from raw material, other ideas or observations about the world. Hence a two-step creative process: collect raw material, then think about it. From this process comes pattern recognition and eventually the insights that form the basis of novel ideas.

• Joel Hooks' digital garden

  A blog with a "start here" page of his favorite links.

• Gwern Branwen's website

  An incredibly well-curated "start here" page. Most content is too complex for me, but I love the thoughtfulness of the curation.

• Meaningness (David Chapman)

  A book-in-progress on one of my favorite topics — meaning. I love how he's expanded his thoughts on this single topic over time.

• Maggie Appleton's digital garden

  A tag-based system. She also curates other digital gardens.

• Ness Labs — You and Your Mind Garden

  Heavily inspired by Andy's system.

• Everything I Know

  A super comprehensive garden built on GitLab. Pretty close to my ideal digital garden.

Interactive storytelling

• The Pudding
• Bartosz Ciechanowski
• Distill

  Latest articles about machine learning.

• Nicky Case