50+ Links Worth Reading & Boundless Roundup (2022)

Happy Thursday! I’m doing a week of posts to recap 2022 and kick off 2023 with some writing momentum. Today I’m sharing some of the links I was inspired by.

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I went through every newsletter issue I wrote in 2022 and pulled out all the links worth reading. I’m guessing if you like this you’ll find 10-15 links you didn’t find the first time and want to throw into your queue.

50+ Links From Other People That Inspired My From 2023

• This is a great post from Jamie Catherwood on the history of Innovation Hubs. Did you know Cleveland was a thriving hub in the late 1800s?

• A deep dive into the history of work through the lens of r/antiwork by Anna Codrea-Rado as well as her interview on Modern Wisdom

• A deep dive into how an obsession with procedures and rules slows down institutional change.

• Tina He on the power of the collective and the “New Frontier of Belonging”

• Lauren Valdez on long games: “Although I've never gotten a regular cadence of producing down, I have consistently come back to making content after each break. I keep playing the game.

• Jason Levin on decentralized friendships

• Sam Smith on not knowing what he’s doing

• Mike Newton on art & authenticity and being careful what you aim at

• Corey Wilks on embracing his accent and upbringing

• Rohit Krishnan on hierarchy and growth trade-offs and how to actually have an “impact”

• Tons of interesting publishing info from Brandon Sanderson’s FAQ from his self-published book launch

• Adam Ozimek on The Donut Effect post-pandemic

• Cecile M awesome thread of thoughts on sabbaticals

• Gretchen McCullough on “weird internet careers.”

• Tom Critchlow’s map for indie living

• Ben Weiss’ Self-Directed Masters

• Ryan Herr on taking more swings

• Tara McMullin discovered she was autistic at 38

• Nat Eliason on engaging with information in 2022 and balancing money versus going what you want to be doing and AI and writing

• Robert Anton Wilson on How To Tell Your Friends From The Apes

• Morgan Housel on how the eight-hour workday happened and when to quit

• Sam Sager on health challenges and commitment to health

• A profile on June Huh on wandering & being a math genius

• Ben Hunt on how wealth creation and economic growth became disconnected

• Ricky Yean on growing up in poverty and mindset inequality

• Freddie DeBoer on the fundamental challenge of absolute learning

• NBER research on remote work and hours worked

• Econofact on How covid crushed immigration

• Michael Story on his unconventional approach to curing a fear of flying

• David Kadavy on “making it” as a creator

• Claire Coffey on the limits of blaming capitalism

• Tyler Alterman on the problems with effective altruism

• Brian Timar on mimetic traps

• Angie Wang on overcoming her fear of being an immigrant and writing in a second language

• Byrne Hobart on Big Tech & Thymos

• Richard Hamming on doing “world-class work”

• Michelle Varghoose with great reflections on sabbaticals:

• Andrew Bartholemew on his first year freelancing

• Cal Newport on our changing relationship with work

• Isabel on intensity and avoidance

• Katherine Dee writes a reflection on the pitfalls of the “girl boss” meme:

• Nathan Baschez on the craft of coding

• Venkatesh Rao on mediocre computing

• Nix on filling the void and ambition

My Writing

32 Boundless Newsletter Topics & Themes Worth Reading

I went through every issue and only pulled out the parts I thought were good:

• Ten Reflections On Writing A Book (at launch)

• The End of “Meaningful Work”

• How I went from writing on Quora to running a six-figure consulting course

• Hosting An Event in Austin using Nick Gray’s formula

• Finding Wisdom in The Space

• My Thought on Mr. Beast on Rogan

• On Finding Your Conversation With The World

• Mailbag Q&A #1

• Using “Curiosity Triggers” to make friends & create opportunities

• My Remote Work Framework For Companies

• Taking Every 7th Week Off & Async Board

• In Praise of 4-Hour Workweek

• Thoughts on My Ten-Year B-School Reunion

• There is no “great resignation” – it’s the “great contemplation”

• The Origins of “The American Dream” in 1931

• Question People vs. Answer People

• Losing My Grandmother

• On Believing In Others

• Reminding Myself to “Write, Most Days”

• My thoughts on the limits of effective altruism (pre-SBF!)

• Managing Complexity & Many Income Streams

• What is your rich life?

• #200 The Creator Arbitrage Opportunity (Most shared)

• Boomer-Compatible Stories

• My Twelve-Hour Walk

• Why Kyla Scanlon Writes TikToks as Poems

• Reflections from Founders Podcast

• Operating In A Serendipity Economy

• Q&A Mailbag #2 and The Upside of Manners

• Reflections on 2022 and Ambient Anxiety

8 Longform Blog Posts (Longer or Adapted From Newsletter)

• From Blog to Book – The Ultimate Guide to Self-Publishing On Your Own Terms

• Too Big to Think: How Prestigious Institutions Stopped Generating Good Ideas

• The Inspiration Deficit (Or Why Young People Still Want to be Challenged)

• Book Review of Wild Problems by Russ Roberts

• Don’t Find a Niche, Find a Mode

• Ship, Quit & Learn

• My Creative Engine (Or how I write all this stuff!)

• On selling my time too cheap

9 Tweet Threads You Might Like

• Maslow Didn’t Invent a Pyramid

• Quotes from The Forgotten Highlander a book about a Sottish solder that is a POW in WWII

• 12 Common Phases of The Pathless Path

• Reality shifts from full-time to freelance

• The Shame Of Not Having A job

• Do 100 of something

• The Default Path Has Ruined Ambition

• The Imagination Crisis

• 30 Favorite Ideas From My Book