https://web.archive.org/web/20000620164302/https://www.wired...

Alaskan Alpine Club -- Offbeat, but interesting. (I can't find the reference, CURSE YOU GOOGLE! but somewhere in this rabbit hole, I found a profound essay that talked about human conversation as an error correcting mechanism, and it changed how I talk with others forever)

https://billstclair.com/doug/alaskanalpineclub.com/index.htm...

Travels with Samantha by Philip Greenspun - showed me storytelling on the web in a way I had never seen it before

https://philip.greenspun.com/samantha/

https://www.uio.no/studier/emner/hf/iakh/HIS1300MET/v12/unde...

[0] - http://www.eoos.dds.nl/texts/russel_inpraiseofidleness.pdf

https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html

https://mises.org/library/book/profit-and-loss

https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-neuroscience...

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07075332.2018.1...

This essay has saved me from wasting away so much time in general.

(1) https://paulgraham.com/identity.html

On truly changing the way I thought of something, I'd say some of Cory Doctorow's writing on Pluralistic, namely on if enshittification was a necessary consequence of the SEO spammers or a conscious choice by Google to increase.

Finally, Lies My Teacher Told Me. It's about how textbooks (in the US at least) misrepresent history, and how many of them still teach things effectively from the 50s. It's great. If you struggle with context and/or comprehending it (it's written fairly academically), he has a young readers edition (actually I'd recommend it anyway; it's good and young readers editions often provide more context than the 'adult' versions)

https://historyforatheists.com/2019/05/the-great-myths-7-hit...