Recommendations you can check.
by Richard Hamming
Who uses, recommends or left You and Your Research, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.
3 people
Richard Hamming gave this talk in March of 1986. [1] It's one of the best talks I've ever read and has long impacted how I think about spending my time.
He reposted the full text of Hamming's 1986 Bell Labs talk on his own blog, with this note at the top.
2014-06-29·blog.samaltman.com ↗
Chris comment: This is a great question. See also Hamming's famous "You and Your Research" talk.
Chris Olah's blog post 'Research Taste Exercises', commenting on Andy Matuschak's suggested exercise.
2021-01-09·colah.github.io ↗
In his famous essay You and Your Research (which I recommend to anyone ambitious, no matter what they're working on), Richard Hamming
Essay 'Good and Bad Procrastination' (dated December 2005, no day given).
2005-12-01·paulgraham.com ↗
Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.
The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.
A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.
The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.
The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.
What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:
Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.