Charlie Sabino

Books and Movies

See my GoodReads and my Letterboxd. Shamelessly basic.

Podcasts

• Acquired
• Dwarkesh Podcast
• Signals and Threads
• Two's Complement

Blogs

I mostly read from miscellaneous sources found on hckr news (a better HN interface). But here are some writers I frequently return to, even if they're inactive:

• Paul Graham
• Ben Kuhn
• Nabeel S. Qureshi
• Betaveros
• Alexey Guzey
• The Diff

Software

Listed roughly in order of how happy they make me. I omitted many tools/smaller pieces; see my dotfiles for more.

• Raycast
• Karabiner Elements
• Aerospace
• Neovim
• Arc
  • I'm actively trying to churn since its no longer maintained, but I can't. It's that good.
• Anki
• Superhuman
  • The student discount is the only way I justify this. It's still not justifiable.
• Alacritty
• Obsidian
  • I use this solely as a fancy markdown editor. I don't use any community plugins or advanced features (including internal links). See this image for my philosophy — I was stuck in the middle for a little.

Blog Posts

Some articles and pages I return to frequently.

Life and Career

• What You'll Wish You'd Known, Paul Graham
• How to Be Successful, Sam Altman
• Adivce, Patrick Collison
• Outliers, Ben Kuhn
• Impact, agency, and taste, Ben Kuhn
• Staring Into the Abyss as a Core Life Skill, Ben Kuhn
• Principles, Nabeel Qureshi
• All the evidence-based advice we found on how to be more successful in any job, 80,000 Hours

Learning

• How to Write Good Prompts, Andy Matuschak
• Andy's Working Notes
• Augmenting Long Term Memory, Michael Nielsen
• Math Contest Platitudes, Evan Chen
• Using Spaced Repetition Systems to See Through a Piece of Mathematics, Michael Nielsen

On Blogging

• A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox , Henrik Karlsson
• Alexey Guzey
• Betaveros

Health

I tend to be a bit overly concerned about health (e.g., was a big fan of Bryan Johnson, Andrew Huberman, etc. for a while). The articles below have been useful within the context of my background and may not be useful to you — see "Should You Reverse Any Advice You Hear?". I am not advising anyone make any medical decisions based on the content below.

• Theses on Sleep and A Critique of "Why We Sleep", Alexey Guzey
• Should you try to live like your ancient ancestors?, ClearerThinking
• This tweet