A Linkpost Linkpost
Collecting collections
(Epistemic Status: a collection of (mostly recurring) linkposts that I use to learn interesting things.)
I personally read a lot of blogs, but I often find it annoyingly time-consuming to find blog posts that actually make me change my mind or teach me something I didn’t know. Consequently, I really appreciate it when other people publish linkposts (especially regular ones) that introduce me to new ideas, findings, or authors. Since I appreciate them so much, I thought my readers might also, so I’ve put together a quick collection of some regular (and regularly interesting) linkpost sources in the hope that others will find it useful. I’ve included some notes on each, which I expect should be straightforward to interpret, except perhaps “Difficulty,” which refers to the degree of effort/knowledge required to engage with the links, and “Frequency of link following,” which refers to how many links I actually click/follow on the linkpost (which is often low if the linkpost author’s own commentary satisfies my curiosity about the link).
Linkpost Sources
Most recent linkpost: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/09/saturday-assorted-links-527.html
Regularity: Daily
Topics: Economics, politics, culture, often topical
Commentary: Minimal commentary
Difficulty: low to medium
Number of links in last linkpost: 7
Frequency of link following: 0.5 to 1 per post
Links I liked from last post
“Time series on politically motivated killings. There is no surge.”
Most recent linkpost:
Regularity: semi-weekly
Topics: AI, Dating, Children and Education, and general monthly roundup
Commentary: Substantial commentary, often worth reading even if you don’t follow the links (which I usually don’t)
Difficulty: Medium to high
Number of links in last linkpost: many more than I am willing to count
Frequency of link following: ~2 per post
Links I liked from last post
Most were very interesting, but I was usually satisfied/intrigued enough by Zvi’s explanation/commentary that I skipped following the link itself.
Most recent linkpost:
Regularity: Monthly
Topics: Anything and everything
Commentary: Substantial commentary, often worth reading even if you don’t follow the links
Difficulty: Medium to high
Number of links in last linkpost: 61
Frequency of link following: ~2 per post
Links I liked from last post
Most were very interesting, but I was usually satisfied/intrigued enough by Scott’s explanation/commentary that I skipped following the link itself.
Most recent linkpost: https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2025/08/31/links-for-august-2025/
Regularity: Monthly
Topics: obesity, health science, and citizen science/science innovation
Commentary: Minimal commentary
Difficulty: Low to medium
Number of links in last linkpost: 11 (counting 4 related ones as 1)
Frequency of link following: 1-2 per post
Links I liked from last post
Most recent linkpost: https://www.thediff.co/archive/longreads-open-thread-145/
Regularity: Weekly
Topics: Finance, economics, and technology
Commentary: Substantial commentary, often worth reading even if you don’t follow the links (which I often don’t)
Difficulty: Medium to high
Number of links in last linkpost: 5
Frequency of link following: 0.2-0.5 per post
Links I liked from last post
Most recent linkpost: https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram/archives/2025/0815.html
Regularity: Monthly
Topics: Software and security
Commentary: Often substantial commentary, worth reading even if you don’t follow the links (which I usually don’t)
Difficulty: Medium to high
Number of links in last linkpost: 25
Frequency of link following: 0.5-1 per post
Links I liked from last post
Technically, this is a roundup of the author’s own posts for the month, but those posts are almost always themselves just a link plus commentary.
Most recent linkpost: https://splittinginfinity.substack.com/p/links-26
Regularity: Monthly
Topics: Hard science, speculative science
Commentary: Substantial commentary, often worth reading even if you don’t follow the links (which I often don’t)
Difficulty: Medium to high
Number of links in last linkpost: ~16
Frequency of link following: 1-2 per post
Links I liked from last post
Most recent linkpost:
Regularity: Monthly
Topics: Economics, philosophy
Commentary: Substantial commentary, often worth reading even if you don’t follow the links (which I often don’t)
Difficulty: Low to high
Number of links in last linkpost: more than I’m willing to count
Frequency of link following: ~3 per post
Links I liked from last post
“many professional philosophers who have recently started blogs”
“Which genres of books are men vs women more likely to review?”
Most recent linkpost:
Regularity: Monthly
Topics: Effective altruism, fiction
Commentary: Substantial commentary, often worth reading even if you don’t follow the links (which I often don’t)
Difficulty: low to medium
Number of links in last linkpost: ~46
Frequency of link following: ~3 per post
Links I liked from last post
Most recent linkpost: https://dynomight.net/links-3/
Regularity: Every few months
Topics: Science, economics, and random interesting things
Commentary: Substantial commentary, often worth reading even if you don’t follow the links (which I often don’t)
Difficulty: low to medium
Number of links in last linkpost: 12
Frequency of link following: 2-3 per post
Links I liked from last post
Other Linkpost-adjacent Recommendations:
Read Something Wonderful is a site that gives you a random essay from a curated collection of extremely high-quality and influential writing that includes authors like Scott Alexander, Donald Knuth, Nick Bostrom, Richard Feynman, and Richard Hamming.
The ‘official’ LessWrong collection of Scott Alexander’s writings
The ‘Best of LessWrong’ collection of essays for each year.
I especially recommend: There’s no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically) and A voting theory primer
Anyway, that’s what I’ve got for this post. If you have any recommendations for authors with regular linkposts, please feel free to link them in the comments.