Best Piece of Content on the Internet at Least Five Years Old?

Compiling James Clear's tweet replies

I’m trying to be helpful and listing some older useful and insightful internet content recommended by others, sort them by category and linking to them. 

James Clear @JamesClear

Let’s dig through the archives... What is a useful or insightful piece of content on the internet that is at least five years old?

Inspired by James Clear’s tweet. What is a useful or insightful piece of content on the internet that is at least five years old?

Business, Investing & Markets

• Amazon’s 1997 Letter to Shareholders

• An Interview with W. Brian Arthur

• Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System

• ‘Give Away Your Legos’ and Other Commandments for Scaling Startups

• How to Get Startup Ideas

• Increasing Returns and the New World of Business

• Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule

• Management Time: Who’s Got the Monkey?

• Strategy Letter V and Strategy Letter I: Ben and Jerry’s vs. Amazon

• The Entrepreneurial Age

• The Loser’s Game

• The Shockingly Simple Math Behind Early Retirement

• We Don’t Sell Saddles Here

• What does, “it’s too expensive,” mean?

• Why New York Real Estate Is the New Swiss Bank Account

• Why Startups Need to Focus on Sales, Not Marketing

Behavioural, Philosophy, and Psychology

• I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup

• Why Procrastinators Procrastinate

Life and Self Improvement

• 6 Harsh Truths That Will Make You a Better Person

• 7 Reasons Why You Will Never Do Anything Amazing With Your Life

• 1000 True Fans

• Be brave or go home

• GTD in 15 minutes – A Pragmatic Guide to Getting Things Done

• Life is Short

• Live Life as an Experiment

• No “yes.” Either “HELL YEAH!” or “no.”

• Solitude and Leadership

• Some Practical Thoughts on Suicide

• Taming the Mammoth: Why You Should Stop Caring What Other People Think

• The Rest Of Your Freakin’ Life (again)

• The Tail End

• What You’ll Wish You’d Known

Misc

• Cranking

• I, Pencil

• Indispensable Man

• Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System

• Never Be Like Them

• Pearls Before Breakfast: Can one of the nation’s great musicians cut through the fog of a D.C. rush hour? Let’s find out.

• The Best Fat Loss Article on the Motherfuckin’ Internet

• The Disadvantages of an Elite Education

• Why So Many Artists Are Highly Sensitive People

• Writing with the Master – The Magic of John McPhee

Videos

• Cal Newport: “Follow Your Passion” Is Bad Advice

• Into the night with Garry Kasparov and Peter Thiel

• Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement Address

• The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

• This Is Water—David Foster Wallace Commencement Speech

• Why We Do What We Do | TED Talks | Tony Robbins

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