How schemes to improve the human condition have failed, by James C. Scott
The story of spontaneous order and emergent complexity, by Leonard E. Read
The transformer architecture that revolutionized AI, by Vaswani et al.
On the ubiquity of coordination challenges, by Farnum Street
When markets fail and institutions don't fix things, by Eliezer Yudkowsky
The 1945 vision of hypertext and collective intelligence, by Vannevar Bush
How network effects evolve and change over time, by Li Jin & D'Arcy Coolican
Technology as a self-reinforcing system of creation, by Kevin Kelly
A prescient 1909 story about technological dependence, by E.M. Forster
Power dynamics in organizations, by Venkatesh Rao
Classic paper on shared resource problems, by Garrett Hardin
How simple models and lots of data trump complex models, by Alon Halevy, Peter Norvig, Fernando Pereira
The information problem in economic coordination, by Friedrich Hayek
On multipolar traps and coordination failures in society, by Scott Alexander
Infinite information and the search for meaning, by Jorge Luis Borges
The famous paper introducing the Turing test, by Alan Turing
On perseverance and strategic endurance, by Venkatesh Rao
Three responses to organizational decline, by Albert O. Hirschman
A story about intelligence enhancement and its consequences, by Ted Chiang
Complexity science in economic systems, by W. Brian Arthur
Using prediction markets to improve governance, by Robin Hanson
Why monopolies drive innovation and create lasting value, by Peter Thiel
Why startups need to do manual, unscalable work at the beginning, by Paul Graham
Defining startups through the lens of exponential growth, by Paul Graham
Framework for finding ideas with high demand and low competition, by Paul Graham
Why firms exist and how transaction costs shape economic organization, by Ronald Coase
Lessons on capital allocation and long-term thinking from Buffett, by Warren E. Buffett
A framework for understanding change across different timescales, by Stewart Brand
Insights on decentralized collaboration and open-source development, by Eric S. Raymond
Understanding how power laws drive venture returns and strategy, by Peter Thiel (CS183 Lecture Notes)