A list of random websites I find interesting or useful. For better adulting and making sense of the world.

Matty McTech has a substantial list of helpful links: [Personal Website].

Take me to a Random Website

• GoStudyHall by John Green. Website
• Playboard (analysis of thousands of Youtube channels). Main page
• Personify WildApricot. How to Start a Nonprofit
• The Fire.
  • College Free Speech Rankings
• Z-Lib: The world’s largest ebook library
  • Website
• You Will Own Nothing And Be Happy
  • Wiki
  • The Great Taking
  • Project Cedar (by the NY FED)
• PDF 417 Decoder
  • [Website]

Podcasts and Newsletters

• 99% Invisible
  • Podcast
• Swindled Podcast
  • Podcast
• Deep Dive with Ali Abdaal
  • Podcast
• Jocko Underground
  • Podcast
• Every.to
  • Newsletter
• Articles of interest
  • Blog
• Modern-O
  • Some hippie I met once in Traverse City, MI

Culture

• Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
  • Education
  • Interviewing Guide
• Webby Awards
  • Winner Lists
• The Spruce
  • Concepts to spruce up your home
  • Feng Shui
• Website Design Museum
  • Website
• Killed By Google
  • Website
• Wikipedia Folklore
  • Website

Music

• Indie Cantina
  • Indie music
• Mississippi Blues Trail
  • Website
• Damon Stone
  • Cultural Blues
• Doc Watson (musician)
  • Biography
• Scott Bradley’s Blog
  • Blog

Political Science

• Center for Foreign Relations
  • Website
• Jonathan Haidt (Social Psychologist)
  • Project Liberty
  • After Babel
  • Coddling of the American Mind
• Cory Doctorow (Author)
  • Social-political
• Brookings Institute
  • Website
• YouGov
  • Polls
• FiveThirtyEight (discontinued)
  • Polls
• Open Secrets
  • Website
• Bipartisan Policy Center
  • Deficit Tracker

AI Governance

• Governance.AI
  • Website
• UK AI Security Institute
  • Website
• Distributed AI Research Institute
  • Website

Emerging Technology Policy

• Horizon Institue for Public Service
• Blog The rise and fall of the industrial R&D lab by Ben Southwood, Works in Progress

Law and Research

• Cornell’s Legal Information Institute (LII)
  • Website
• UPenn Libraries
  • Research Guides
• Harvard Business School Online
  • Blog

Philosophy

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  • Website
• The School of Life
  • Website
  • Wu Wei
• Philosophy Break
  • Reading List
• Stephen Joppich
  • Website
• Berry Belmont
  • Bio-ethics
• No Vehicles Left in the Park (similar to Trolly Problem)
  • Website

Psychology

• Positive Psychology
  • Blog
• Psychology Today
  • Blog
• Psychology Labs (Dr. Martin Shapiro)
  • Book recommendations
• Free to Attach
  • Website
• Self Actualization Test (Scott Kaufman)
  • Test Website
  • See also this blog post from Positive Psychology [link]
• Enneagram insitute
  • Check this out if you’re into MBTI tests [9 Enneagram Types]
  • [16 Personalities]

Science

• Vsauce
  • Website
• Veritasium
  • Website
• Also see Kurzgesagt, 3Blue1Brown, The Action lab, and of course the Vlogbrothers (SciShow, Crash Course)