What the smart people are recommending. 7861 books, tools, and products endorsed by the thinkers absorb.md tracks. Ranked by how many times each has been recommended across compiled podcasts, papers, posts, and tweets.
“# Running Pydantic's Monty Rust sandboxed Python subset in WebAssembly”
“# D4RT: Teaching AI to see the world in four dimensions _Blog post by Google DeepMind_ https://deepmind.google/blog/d4rt-teaching-ai-to-see-the-world-in-four-dimensions”
“The evolution of OpenAI's mission statement”
“https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/ai-5-layer-cake/”
“New post: Endnotes on 2020: Crypto and Beyond”
“# Gemini 3.1 Flash Live: Making audio AI more natural and reliable”
“How to use AI for your next job interview”
“_Blog post by Lenny Rachitsky_”
“_Blog post by Cohere_”
“https://anthropic.com/news/where-stand-department-war”
“# How to prompt Seedream 5.0”
“# Experimenting with Starlette 1.0 with Claude skills _Blog post by Simon Willison_ https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/22/starlette/”
“Blog post by Ben Thompson https://stratechery.com/2026/jensen-huang-and-andy-grove-groq-lpus-and-vera-cpus-hotel-california/”
“# Plan, divide, and conquer: How weak models excel at long context tasks”
“# Vibe coding SwiftUI apps is a lot of fun”
“Announcing the LangChain + MongoDB Partnership: The AI Agent Stack That Runs On The Database You Already Trust”
“Ensemble and Cohere building the first RCM‑native healthcare LLM”
“How can we stay open to both the suffering and the joy of life”
“_Blog post by Patrick Collison_ https://patrickcollison.com/questions”
“_Blog post by Mark Zuckerberg_”
“_Blog post by Patrick Collison_ https://patrickcollison.com/growth”
“Blog post by Naval Ravikant”
“Exactly. Exactly. Although, as people figure out in my emerging boats report, and many people already know, Argentina does not have new bank and that's one of the reasons why Marcato Pago is much more…”
“Blog post by Naval Ravikant”
“# AP SBC: The Tragic Algebra Recurrence”
“I've written about this in a blog post I did called grow the puzzle around you which essentially was a little bit the most autobiographical thing I've ever written and it really is to inspire other pe…”
“_Blog post by LangChain_”
“Making Something Social Destroys the Truth of It _Blog post by Naval Ravikant_”
“# 10 Sunday Reads _Blog post by Barry Ritholtz_”
“# Self-Supervised Learning from Images with a Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture _Blog post by Yann LeCun_”
“Don’t Rely on Credibility Stamps _Blog post by Naval Ravikant_ https://nav.al/credibility”
“_Blog post by Naval Ravikant_”
“How founders can build Trust & Safety teams”
“_Blog post by Naval Ravikant_”
“_Blog post by LangChain_”
“One Einstein Is Worth A Legion Of PhD Drones _Blog post by Naval Ravikant_”
“_Blog post by Naval Ravikant_”
“_Blog post by LangChain_”
“_Blog post by LangChain_”
“Before we start on quantum”
“# Roll your way to a billion dollar startup - Advice for founders from Katamari Damacy _Blog post by Garry Tan_”
“# Suppressing quantum errors by scaling a surface code logical qubit _ArXiv paper co-authored by Hartmut Neven_”
“# Six skills for startup success: What founders can do to improve their chances before they take the plunge”
“# 2026: the biggest year of M&A in history? _Blog post by Andreessen Horowitz_ https://a16z.com/2026-the-biggest-year-of-ma-in-history”
“This was all the way back in 2017 when we created this paper called the “Unsupervised Sentiment Neuron.””
“Blog post by Andreessen Horowitz https://a16z.com/the-case-for-scaling-venture”
“11 years ago I wrote a big \n\n uh \n uh \n essay which was called the ghost in the quantum touring machine \n uh which which was very much about \n uh \n uh \n that kind of question”
“Wrote about how to help young men, many of whom are failing 👉 https://www.profgalloway.com/boys-to-men/”
“https://statedept.substack.com/p/100-days-of-an-america-first-state-department”
“So we have a couple articles on the deconstructor of fun. So we have match three D genre deconstruction by Amit Chan, host of our puzzle monthly and Josh Chanley host of UAE monthly.”
“Why infinite scroll's inventor wants to kill his creation”
“Blog post by Andrew Ng”
“Barbara Fried’s 'The Trial of Sam Bankman-Fried'”
“# Strengthening LLM guardrails with synthetic data generation”
“Securing the next generation of AI agents”
“# How I Beat Lyme Disease with The Ketogenic Diet — Science, How-To Protocols, and 10+ Years of Zero Symptoms”
“Well, Entropic actually released this blog post recently called improve Sonic for front end design through skills. It basically introduces front-end design skew that you can install in cloud code and …”
“Marc Andreessen: What We Got Right—and Wrong—About the Future of Tech _Blog post by Marc Andreessen_”
“# Best Supplements for Travel: Support for Jet Lag, Digestion, Sleep & Immune Health*”
“In a recent essay with Sai Kapoor called AGI is not a milestone, we argued that nukes are the wrong analogy for AI in every possible way.”
“I still remember that year kind of the thrill when I read like a freshly big Alex net paper just like out of nurs right and I really appreciated its Simplicity and minimalism”
“Every link in R^3 can be represented by a one-vertex ribbon graph. We prove a Markov type theorem on this subset of link diagrams.”
“Today's really good. The real topic, what we'll be discussing, America is rewriting its relationship with news. So we are thrilled to have Pew Research join the show. I've been using their research si…”
“# Why Every Organization Needs a Chief of Staff Like This One”
“UAE monthly wrote about the user acquisition system that companies need to build versus rely on the networks to handle for it. Sounds complicated. But he's actually just really writing what kind of a …”
“I'm very excited about FMA and more generally Foundation models for robotics at the beginning we briefly touch on this statement that the history of AI is a history of unification before alexnet 2012”
“Experiments on MMToM-QA, MuMA and FanToM show that PDDL-Mind achieves over 5% absolute accuracy gain over the best existing state-of-the-art method on ToM benchmark questions.”
“Experiments on MMToM-QA, MuMA and FanToM show that PDDL-Mind achieves over 5% absolute accuracy gain over the best existing state-of-the-art method on ToM benchmark questions.”
“Experiments on MMToM-QA, MuMA and FanToM show that PDDL-Mind achieves over 5% absolute accuracy gain over the best existing state-of-the-art method on ToM benchmark questions.”
“We propose \textbf{LAnR} (Latent Abstraction for RAG), a unified framework... Extensive experiments on six QA benchmarks... demonstrate that LAnR outperforms existing RAG methods...”
“To bridge this gap, we introduce ReCoQA, a large-scale benchmark of 29,270 real-estate instances...”
“Complementarily, we propose HIRE-Agent, a hierarchical framework... Extensive experiments demonstrate that HIRE-Agent constitutes a strong baseline...”
“It leverages COUP, a recent Bayesian optimization algorithm (Graham, Velez & Leyton-Brown, 2026), after introducing several substantive modifications to make the algorithm suitable for practical LLM p…”
“From: https://t.co/a5VGTQk18L”
“Cross-benchmark validation on 18 models using MMLU with verbalized confidence and on external data from Yang et al. (2024) confirms the screen transfers across benchmarks and probe formats.”
“That's Julia Minson, professor at the Harvard Kennedy School, co-author of the HBR article, A Smarter Way to Disagree, and author of the new book, How to Disagree.”
“Companion papers extract a portable screening protocol (Cacioli, 2026e) and validate it against selective prediction (Cacioli, 2026f).”
“Companion papers extract a portable screening protocol (Cacioli, 2026e) and validate it against selective prediction (Cacioli, 2026f).”
“See also my posts: * https://t.co/cezOk1ilHy”
“* https://t.co/wCjLcUoyxY”
“We present SWE-chat, the first large-scale dataset of real coding agent sessions collected from open-source developers in the wild.”
“The Federal Reserve put out a paper, CalShe and the rise of macro markets. Maybe you can dive into that because that seems right at the sweet spot of where you came from and where you're from.”
“The other thing that I'll say that is kind of interesting about the Fed paper is three months prior to the Fed releasing this paper, Kalshi Research released a paper. It was our first paper, and it wa…”
“* https://t.co/LTMrsxFeuS”
“The New York Times story: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/technology/ev-williams-twitter-medium-mozi.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare”
“To bridge this gap, we propose Language-Agnostic Utility-driven Reranker Alignment (LAURA), which aligns multilingual evidence ranking with downstream generative utility.”
“This paper presents F²LP-AP (Fast and Flexible Label Propagation with Adaptive Propagation Kernel), a training-free, computationally efficient framework...”
“Read our research: https://research.perplexity.ai/articles/advancing-search-augmented-language-models”
“Dive into the technical details → https://deepmind.google/blog/decoupled-diloco/?utm_source=x&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=&utm_content=”
“I endorse everything in this manifesto.”
“There are still likely a few weeks before the company files publicly, but PitchBook recently put out a great report looking at the business and its valuation. I want to bring on PitchBook's Franco Gra…”
“We have to shill Josh's uh blog post on deconstructor of fun. Now blog post is called the systems the platform can't build for you”
“Gift link: Yale Has Come Up With a Surefire Way to Make a Terrible Situation Worse https://t.co/LN1OWwM5hX”
“We introduce VEFX-Dataset, a human-annotated dataset containing 5,049 video editing examples across 9 major editing categories and 32 subcategories...”
“Building on VEFX-Dataset, we propose VEFX-Reward, a reward model designed specifically for video editing quality assessment.”
“In this work, we present SCALA (Signaling CA with Local Attraction), a novel non-hierarchical cellular automaton decoder for quantum repetition and toric codes.”
“By evaluating SCALA alongside the hierarchical CA decoder proposed by Harrington, we provide a direct comparison between non-hierarchical and renormalization-group-style local decoding strategies.”
“We further release VEFX-Bench, a benchmark of 300 curated video-prompt pairs for standardized comparison of editing systems.”
“we propose StructMem, a structure-enriched hierarchical memory framework that preserves event-level bindings and induces cross-event connections. By temporally anchoring dual perspectives and performi…”
“The other research work that I want to highlight is a work from Stanford called the Stanford Smallville where they instantiate 25 agents in like little world and have them kind of interact with with…”