Best Article You Read Online This Year? (2020)

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? (No politics)

Business, Investing & Markets

• Ads Don’t Work That Way

• Avoiding the Validation Trap

• Dare to be Great II by Howard Marks

• Growth Through Global Sustainability: An Interview with Monsanto’s CEO, Robert B. Shapiro

• Marc Andreessen on The Observer Effect

• Tobi Lütke on The Observer Effect

• Money, Bitcoin and Time: Part 1 of 3 [Part 2] [Part 3]

• The Makings of a Multibagger

• The (Not Failing) New York Times

Science, Tech & Innovation

• APIs All the Way Down

• Computers Are Hard: building software with David Heinemeier Hansson

• Gravity, Gizmos, and a Grand Theory of Interstellar Travel

• How Apple Is Organized for Innovation

• How Science Beat the Virus

• IT’S TIME TO BUILD by Marc Andreessen

• The Shoulders of Giants (presentation)

• The Day the Dinosaurs Died

• The Friendship That Made Google Huge

• The Metaverse: What It Is, Where to Find it, Who Will Build It, and Fortnite

• The Secret Economic Lives of Animals

• Thirty-six Thousand Feet Under the Sea

• Why Scrum is killing your product

Behavioural, Philosophy, and Psychology

• First Principles: Elon Musk on the Power of Thinking for Yourself

• Humanity is stuck in short-term thinking. Here’s how we escape.

• Signaling as a Service

• What is it like to be intelligent?

Life and Self Improvement

• 6 Small Steps for Handling the Emotional Ups and Downs at Work

• 7 Ways to Retain More of Every Book You Read

• Abraham Lincoln on Living with Loss

• Do the Real Thing

• How To Think For Yourself by Paul Graham

• Life Advice for 18 Year Olds (19 Lessons for Teenagers and Young Men)

• My Ordinary Life: Improvements Since the 1990s

• Regrets of the Dying

• SMART goals are not so smart: make a PACT instead

• Solitude and Leadership

• The Generalized Specialist: How Shakespeare, Da Vinci, and Kepler Excelled

• The Only Real Way to Acquire Wisdom

• The Religion of Problem Solving

• The Three Sides of Risk

• This is Water by David Foster Wallace

• What If You Could Do It All Over?

• When Criticism Gets Personal

History, Government & Nations

• Mystic Chords of Memory: Learning From the American Story

• The Big Lessons From History

• The Next Experiments in Elitism

• The Story of Us: Full Series

• We Have No Idea What Happens Next

Misc

• Murder in Malta

• I Went to Disney World

• Pseudo-epidemics

• The Crane Wife

• The Old Man in the Piazza

• To Learn the Truth, Read My Wikipedia Entry on Sichuan Peppers (paywall)

• What Really Happened to Malaysia’s Missing Airplane

• When the Timeline Becomes Our Sidewalk

Related Posts of Mine

• Best Article You Read in 2018?

• Best Article You Read Online This Year? (2019)

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