Best Article You Read Online This Year? (2019)

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 online this year?

Shane Parrish @ShaneAParrish

What is the best article you read online this year?

Business, Investing & Markets

• Shopify and the Power of Platforms

• Context over control: the future of remote work

• Status as a Service (StaaS)

• Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company

• My Billion Dollar Mistake

• How to Pick a Career (That Actually Fits You)

• Why and How Capitalism Needs to Be Reformed

• What is Chasing You?

• What Makes an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem?

• How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy

• Andrew Chen on marketplaces

• The Truth About Marketing: Why All Forms Of Business Marketing Are A Scam

• 57 startup lessons

• The ergodicity problem in economics

• Making sense of the New Capitalists

• The Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code

• Three’s Company: Of Shopify, Amazon, and Etsy

• Facebook’s Libra Is Half a Century Late and a Navy Short

• Jeff Bezos’s Master Plan

• My Bootstrapped Micro-Startup got acquired for $22k

Science & Tech

• CO₂ and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

• The Truth About Blockchain

• I work in the environmental movement. I don’t care if you recycle.

• How Tech Is Ruining Our Quality of Life—and What We Can Do About It

• Going Critical

• Nuanced Analysis of LocalBitcoins Data Suggests Bitcoin is Working as Satoshi Intended

• Your Real Biological Clock Is You’re Going to Die

• We’ve Reached Peak Wellness. Most of It Is Nonsense.

Behavioural

• The Lesson to Unlearn

• The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius

• Why Procrastinators Procrastinate

• Why universality trumps IQ

• The Thinking Ladder

• The happiness ruse

• The only metric of success that really matters is the one we ignore (Behind member paywall though)

• 30 Years of Depression, Gone

• Elite Universities Are Breeding Grounds for Insecure Overachievers

• Joy Is a Tension Between Happiness and Nihilism

• Gates’ Law: How Progress Compounds and Why It Matters

• The Complete Guide to Self-Control

• Secrets about People: A Short and Dangerous Introduction to René Girard

• Having an Answer to “Where Did the Time Go?”

• Blue spaces: why time spent near water is the secret of happiness

• How to Master Your Fear Like a Navy SEAL

• Slowing down on Sundays

History, Government & Nations

• Five Lessons from History

• Common Plots of Economic History

• If Sapiens were a blog post

• The Story of Us

• How China’s Rise Has Forced Hong Kong’s Decline

• Engineers of the Soul: Ideology in Xi Jinping’s China

• Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and the Rise of Radical Incompetence

• Three Big Things: The Most Important Forces Shaping the World

• Homo Narrativus and the Trouble with Fame

Misc

• ‘I’m gonna lose everything’

• When You Don’t Feel Like It, You Often Produce Your Greatest Work

• Catching a catfish

• The Kremlin’s Creative Director

• The Cult of the Imperfect

• Rick and Morty and the Meaning of Life

• Why books don’t work

• Rise above it or drown: How elite NBA athletes handle pressure

• The PARA Method: A Universal System for Organizing Digital Information

• What Really Brought Down the Boeing 737 Max?

• How To Enjoy Without Going Overboard

• How Doctors Die

• 6 Harsh Truths That Will Make You a Better Person

• A Guide To Using Your Career To Help Solve The World’s Most Pressing Problems

• The Pianist and the Lobster

• How To Be Successful

• The Real Reason Fans Hate the Last Season of Game of Thrones

• 13 Life-Learnings from 13 Years of Brain Pickings

• Online Cesspool Got You Down?

• How Superhuman Built an Engine to Find Product/Market Fit

• Peter Thiel’s Religion

• The Edge of the Center

• Demon Underneath John DeLorean and the Invention of the Future

• The Mastermind

• The Man Who Tried to Redeem the World with Logic

• Having Kids

• Chaos at the Top of the World

• David Chang’s Unified Theory of Deliciousness

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