Best Article You Read in 2018?

Compiling Shane Parrish's tweet replies

I’m trying to be helpful and listing some articles recommended by others, sort them by category and link to them.

Inspired by Shane Parrish’s tweet. What is the best article you read in 2018?

Shane Parrish @ShaneAParrish

What is the best article you read in 2018?

Business, Investing & Markets

• The Growth of the Network Media Economy in Canada, 1984-2016

• The business of SaaS

• The Friendship That Made Google Huge

• GE Powered the American Century—Then It Burned Out

• How Slavery Inspired Modern Business Management

• The Working Hypothesis

• 10 Things Investors Can Expect in 2018

• The idea that most successful startup founders are in their twenties is a myth — the average entrepreneur is much older

Science, Health & Tech

• How technology can shape our lives — for the better

• Why Technology Favors Tyranny

Behavioural

• The Tyranny of Relentless Positivity

• Hunter S. Thompson’s Letter on Finding Your Purpose and Living a Meaningful Life

• Mental Models: The Best Way to Make Intelligent Decisions (109 Models Explained)

• Hemingway, a Lost Suitcase, and the Recipe for Stupidity

• 3 Easy Ways You Can Cultivate A Creative Hobby In Life

• The world’s worst boss

• Anne Lamott on Love, Despair, and Our Capacity for Change

• How To Overcome Your Fear Of Failure With The Bucky Method

• The Difference Between Amateurs and Professionals

• How to Deconstruct Yourself

• 7 Psychological Superpowers Few People Have (That You Can Use to Set Yourself Apart)

• Why Most People Will Remain in Mediocrity

• Travel Is No Cure for the Mind

History, Government & Nations

• The 9.9 Percent Is the New American Aristocracy

• A Saudi Prince’s Quest to Remake the Middle East

• A Warning From Europe: The Worst Is Yet to Come

• How This All Happened

Sports & Gaming

• How to Identify Talent: Five Lessons from the NFL Draft

• Naked Brands: The Future Of Basketball

• Life And Times Of Allen Iverson

• The Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code

• Your Life Is Tetris. Stop Playing It Like Chess.

Misc

• The Ultimate Learning Guide via Shane Parrish

• Prisoners of memes, social media victims

• Maybe She Had So Much Money She Just Lost Track of It

• How Hitler Nearly Destroyed the Great American Novel

• How to Configure Your iPhone to Work for You, Not Against You

• Complicating the Narratives

• The Gospel According to Kendrick Lamar

• If work dominated your every moment would life be worth living?

• For Innovation, Knowledge is a Poor Substitute for Experimentation

• The Great Chinese Art Heist

• The White Darkness

• My New Year’s Letter to the World

• A Better Way to Look at Most Every Political Issue

• How to Make a Life From Scratch

• Here It Is! Your Cartoon Guide to the Best Life Ever

• I Am Not a Blank Page

• The Bitter Regrets of a Useless Chinese Daughter

---

You can find my previous posts here. I also interview legends at Compounding Curiosity, lurk on Twitter @scarrottkalani, and have a Discord server for everything Allocators Asia (I’d love for you to join our cool little community we got going).

Want to get in contact? Reply to this email, comment on Substack, or send a letter via carrier pigeon and trust that fate will deliver it.