Articles, essays, books, and other things I’ve read in 2022. I try to keep this updated, but tracking across several places can be tricky so sometimes it takes me a week or two.
You can view my current top five reading recs on my Reading This Page!
| Title | Writer | Type | Link | Date Read |
| Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius | Jorge Luis Borges | Short Story | Wiki | January 3rd, 2022 |
| Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote | Jorge Luis Borges | Short Story | Wiki | January 3rd, 2022 |
| The Circular Ruins | Jorge Luis Borges | Short Story | Wiki | January 3rd, 2022 |
| The Approach to Al-Mu’tasim | Jorge Luis Borges | Short Story | Wiki | January 3rd, 2022 |
| An Examination of the Work of Herbert Quain | Jorge Luis Borges | Short Story | Wiki | January 4th, 2022 |
| The Lottery in Babylon | Jorge Luis Borges | Short Story | Wiki | January 4th, 2022 |
| The Bigger, Better Boom | Kevin Kelly | Essay | kk.org | January 5th, 2022 |
| The Biden Boom | Noah Smith | Essay | noahpinion | January 7th, 2022 |
| How an Anonymous 4chan Post Helped Solve a 25-Year-Old Math Puzzle | Erica Klarreich | Article | wired.com | January 10th, 2022 |
| Why Wokeism Will Rule the World | Tyler Cowen | Essay | bloomberg | January 10th, 2022 |
| Interview: Tyler Cowen | Noah Smith + Tyler Cowen | Interview | noahpinion | January 10th, 2022 |
| Why is the Nuclear Power Industry Stagnant? | Austin Vernon | Essay | austinvernon | January 11th, 2022 |
| A Simple Plan to Solve All of America’s Problems | Derek Thompson | Essay | The Atlantic | January 12th, 2022 |
| Progress is a Policy Choice | Alec Stapp + Caleb Watney | Essay | Institute for Progress | January 20th, 2022 |
| It’s a Terrible Idea to Deny Medical Care to Unvaccinated People | Ed Yong | Essay | The Atlantic | January 21st, 2022 |
| What You’ll Wish You’d Known | Paul Graham | Essay | paulgraham.com | January 25th, 2022 |
| Bounded Distrust | Scott Alexander | Essay | astral codex ten | January 27th, 2022 |
| Silicon Valley’s New Obsession: Science Funding | Derek Thompson | Article | The Atlantic | February 1st, 2022 |
| What the Truckers Want | Rupa Subramanya | Article | Bari Weiss Substack | February 10th, 2022 |
| Putting Ideas into Words | Paul Graham | Essay | paulgraham.com | February 13th, 2022 |
| A Techno-optimist Roundup | Noah Smith | Essay | noahopinion.com | March 5th, 2022 |
| What I talk about when I talk about running | Haruki Murakami | Memoir | Feb – March 2022 | |
| A New Industrialist roundup | Noah Smith | Essay | noahopinion | March 16th, 2022 |
| It | Stephen King | Novel | Feb – April 2022 | |
| Heresy | Paul Graham | Essay | paulgraham.com | April 10th, 2022 |
| Why American Teens Are So Sad | Derek Thompson | Article | theatlantic.com | April 11th, 2022 |
| How to Think for Yourself | Paul Graham | Essay | paulgraham.com | April 16th, 2022 |
| Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid | Jonathan Haidt | Essay | theatlantic.com | April 16th, 2022 |
| The Case for American Seriousness | Katherine Boyle | Essay | https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/the-case-for-american-seriousness?s=r | April 18th, 2022 |
| The Next Chapter of Readwise: Our Own Reading App | Daniel Doyon and Tristan Homsi | Essay | Readwise Blog | April 20th, 2022 |
| The Path to Better Thinking Through Puzzles and Riddles | A.J Jacobs | Essay | tim.blog | April 25th, 2022 |
| Austin lands $9 million from feds for more work on Waterloo Greenway | Ryan Autullo | Article | Austin American Statesman | April 26th, 2022 |
| Why Do We Think Library Services are Free? | Nadine Kramarz | Essay | publiclibrariesonline.org | April 30th, 2022 |
| How to Write Usefully | Paul Graham | Essay | paulgraham.com | May 1st, 2022 |
| Web Reading Mode: The non-standard rendering mode | Daniel Aleksandersen | Essay | ctrl blog | May 1st, 2022 |
| Fed’s Inflation Fight Could Use a Slower Jobs Market | Conor Sen | Article | Bloomberg | May 4th, 2022 |
| 11/22/63 | Stephen King | Novel | May4th, 2022 | |
| Learning at Scale: An interview with Stewart Brand | Stewart Brand | Interview | The Prepared | May 9th, 2022 |
| The Bitter Lesson | Richard Sutton | Essay | incompleteideas.net | May 14th, 2022 |
| A Rocket to Nowhere | Maciej Cegłowski | Article | idlewords.com | May 19th, 2022 |
| The Ungated Manifesto | Rob Hardy | Essay | ungated.media | May 19th, 2022 |
| The Mystery of the Miracle Year | Dwarkesh Patel | Essay | dwarkishpatel.com | May 22nd, 2022 |
| Greedflation, gouging, and price controls | Noah Smith | Essay | May | |
| Why the Children of Immigrants Get Ahead | Leah Boustan | Article | May | |
| The Mysterious Disappearance of a Revolutionary Mathematician | Rivka Galchen | Article | June | |
| Don’t Let Climate Change Stop You From Having Kids | Ezra Klein | Essay | June | |
| What’s the Future of IDEs? | Gian Segato | Essay | June | |
| The Year We All Became Reactionaries | Noah Smith | Essay | noahsmith.substack.com | June |
| Truth vs Trust | Kevin Kelly | Essay | kk.org | June |
| Quit Your Job | Wolf Tivy | Essay | June | |
| Can One of the Great Chess Personalities Set Up a Dream Match with the World Champion? | Michael Doyle | Article | June | |
| Walking the Cotswolds, Walking Japan | Craig Mod | Essay | craigmod.com | June |
| How to Do What You Love | Paul Graham | Essay | paulgraham.com | June |
| What is LaMDA and What Does It Want? | Blake Lemoine | Essay | June 13th, 2022 | |
| Construction is Life | Kevin Kelly | Essay | kk.org | June 14th, 2022 |
| Nonsense on Stilts | Gary Marcus | Essay | garymarcus.substack.com | June 14th, 2022 |
| The Shining | Stephen King | Novel | June 19th, 2022 | |
| 14 Warning Signs That You Are Living in a Society Without a Counterculture | Ted Gioia | Essay | tedgioia.substack.com | June 20th, 2022 |
| Aliens Are Here on Earth | Kevin Kelly | Essay | kk.org | June 20th, 2022 |
| Where Did the Long Tail Go? | Ted Gioia | Essay | tedgioia.substack.com | June 21st, 2022 |
| The Chairman of the Board | Joe Posnanski | Essay | joeposnanski.substack.com | June 23rd, 2022 |
| My New Old Apple IIe Computer | Charlie Harrington | Essay | charlieharrington.com | June 24th, 2022 |
| My Statement with Michelle on the Draft Supreme Court Decision to Overturn Roe v. Wade | Barack Obama | Essay | barackobama.medium.com | June 25th, 2022 |
| The Intellectual Mistake of Once-And-For-Allism | Tyler Cowen | Essay | marginalrevolution.com | June 26th, 2022 |
| Childhood’s End | Arthur C. Clarke | Novel | June 26th, 2022 | |
| Annie Leibovitz At Work | Annie Leibovitz | Essays + photos | July 5th, 2022 | |
| Day One of My 2022 Walk Across Connecticut | Senator Chris Murphy | Blog post | chrismurphyct.medium.com | July 6th, 2022 |
| June Huh, High School Dropout, Wins the Fields Medal | Jordana Cepelewicz | Article | quantamagazine.org | July 6th, 2022 |
| The Media Revolution that Everyone is Sleeping On | Jack Shafer | Article | Politico | July 6th, 2022 |
| Sensitivity Readers Are the New Literary Gatekeepers | Kat Rosenfield | Essay | Reason | July 12th, 2022 |
| This is How to End Abortion Politics as We’ve Known It | Michael Wear | Essay | Reclaiming Hope | July 12th, 2022 |
| This is No Time for Passive Patriotism | Ben Rhodes | Essay | The Atlantic | July 4th, 2022 |
| Benevolence without compromise | Matt Bateman | Essay | Matt Bateman newsletter | July 15th, 2022 |
| What Comes After the Turing Test? | Gary Marcus | Essay | The New Yorker | June 28th, 2022 |
| The Need for World Government | Kevin Kelly | Essay | kk.org | June 30th, 2022 |
| How to write a successful Substack | Noah Smith | Essay | noahpinion | July 8th, 2022 |
| My Recent Divorce, and/or Dior Homme Intense | Sasha Chapin | Essay | Sasha’s Newsletter | July 8th, 2022 |
| No, America is not collapsing | Noah Smith | Essay | noahpinion | July 12th, 2022 |
| I should have loved Biology | James Somers | Essay | James Somers | July 18th, 2022 |
| It’s Time to Streamline the Hiring Process | Alexandra Ham | Article | Harvard Business Review | July 20th, 2022 |
| The state of learning loss: 7 takeaways from the latest data | Matt Barnum | Article | Chalkbeat | July 20th, 2022 |
| Cities Aren’t Built for Kids | Stephanie H. Murray | Essay | The Atlantic | July 20th, 2022 |
| Keepers of the Secrets | James Somers | Article | The Village Voice | July 22nd, 2022 |
| What I Miss About Working at Stripe | Brie Wolfson | Essay | Every | July 22nd, 2022 |
| Dear Airbnb | Joe Gebbia | Public Letter | joegebbia.com | July 22nd, 2022 |
| The Moods of Ernest Hemingway | Lillian Ross | Article | The New Yorker | July 22nd, 2022 |
| The Thinking Path | Steven Johnson | Essay | Adjacent Possible | July 23rd, 2022 |
| The Friendship That Made Google Huge | James Somers | Article | The New Yorker | July 23rd, 2022 |
| Cocomelon and Balance Bikes | Emily Oster | Essay | Parent Data | July 24th, 2022 |
| Why Simple is Smart | Derek Thompson | Essay | The Atlantic | July 24th, 2022 |
| The Maintenance Race (chapter one, draft) | Stewart Brand | Article / Book | Works in Progress | July 24th, 2022 |
| Edison’s Infamous Questions | Dan Gardner | Essay | Past Present Future | July 24th, 2022 |
| On Writing | Stephen King | Memoir | August 2022 | |
| Revival | Stephen King | Novel | August 2022 | |
| How We Will Fight Climate Change | Noah Smith | August 2022 | ||
| David Sedaris’s Perfect Summer | David Sedaris | August 2022 | ||
| Before Air-Conditioning | Arthur Miller | August 2022 | ||
| Why Your House Was So Expensive | Derek Thompson | August 2022 | ||
| Carrie | Stephen King | Novel | August 2022 | |
| The Big Sleep | Raymond Chandler | Novel | August 2022 | |
| Hyperion | Dan Simmons | Novel | September 2022 | |
| The Lottery | Shirley Jackson | Short Story | September 2022 | |
| Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? | Joyce Carol Oates | Short Story | September 2022 | |
| The Specialist’s Hat | Kelly Link | Short Story | September 2022 | |
| Killers | Susan Steinberg | Short Story | https://americanshortfiction.org/killers/ | September 2022 |
| A. V. Laider | Max Beerhohm | Short Story | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/761 | October 2022 |
| The Other Wife | Colette | Short Story | https://www.101bananas.com/library2/otherwife.html | October 2022 |
| Did Hans Niemann Cheat? | zwischenzug | Article | https://zwischenzug.substack.com/p/did-hans-niemann-cheat?r=av0j7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web | October 2022 |
| Are Experts Real? | Alvaro de Menard | Essay | https://fantasticanachronism.com/2021/01/11/are-experts-real/ | October 2022 |
| Why We Forget Most of the Books We Read | Julie Beck | Article | The Atlantic | October 2022 |
| 20th Century Ghosts | Joe Hill | Short Story Collection | October 2022 | |
| See Randomness | Paul Graham | Essay | November 2022 | |
| Language, Loneliness, and AI | Kyla Scanlon | Essay | https://kyla.substack.com/p/language-loneliness-and-ai | December 2022 |
| Libraries are launching their own local streaming platforms | Claire Woodcock | Article | Vice | December 2022 |
| The Man Who Would Teach Machines to Think | James Somers | Essay | The Atlantic | December 2022 |
| Grow the Puzzle Around You | Jessica Livingston | Essay | December 2022 | |
| Generative AI: Autocomplete for Everything | Noah Smith + roon | Essay | December 2022 |
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