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Library of Alexandria

From kwharrison13.com

Nearly a third of the World Bank’s reports had never been downloaded, not even once. Only 13% had been downloaded more than 250 times. The report that found this was itself a PDF.
Paraphrasing Christopher Ingraham, The Washington Post, May 2014

Bookshelf295 books readEvery book Kyle has finished since 2014, with his highlights, notes and ratings.Anti-Library3,411 books to readBooks he wants to read, each with a note on where he heard about it.Library of Alexandria593 documentsPapers, reports, specs and charts he keeps a copy of for reference.

A 1900 Tesla essay on harnessing the sun. GCHQ’s slide deck on discrediting people online. An inventory of every human body part in the British Museum. Facebook’s internal culture book, which was never sold. A survey of Oklahoma City after the FAA ran sonic booms over it eight times a day for six months. Perelman’s proof of the Poincaré conjecture, posted to arXiv and never submitted anywhere. A ten-page paper that just repeats “get me off your fucking mailing list,” which a journal accepted.

These are documents Kyle wants to keep, 593 of them, ranked by how many times each was recommended to him. Most are one dead link from disappearing, so each is saved locally and each entry links to the original source.

Collecting isn’t endorsing. A lot of this came from threads asking for the internet’s rarest PDFs, so intelligence files, fringe tracts and corporate ephemera sit side by side on purpose. Keeping a document doesn’t mean agreeing with it. Nothing here is hosted on this site.

Recs	Title	Author	Kind	Year	About
8	Pepsi — "Breathtaking" Brand Identity	Arnell Group	Report	2008	The agency document that justifies the Pepsi circle with the golden ratio, the Earth's magnetic field, gravity and the Mona Lisa. The most-cited PDF…
7	CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5		Report		Recovered from the Wayback Machine after the live host refused scripted clients.
5	Simple Sabotage Field Manual	Office of Strategic Services	Report	1944	The 1944 OSS guide to destroying an organisation from inside by following its own procedures. Reads today as an unintentional description of normal…
4	Valve — Handbook for New Employees	Valve Corporation	Research paper	2012	Valve's flat-hierarchy handbook — 'a fearless adventure in knowing what to do when no one's there telling you what to do'.
3	Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?	Nick Bostrom	Research paper	2003	Bostrom's trilemma: at least one of three propositions about posthuman civilisations and ancestor simulations must be true.
3	Chicken Chicken Chicken: Chicken Chicken	Doug Zongker	Research paper	2006	A complete academic paper — abstract, figures, citations, classification codes — in which every word is 'chicken'.
2	A Mathematician's Lament	Paul Lockhart	Research paper	2002	Lockhart's indictment of mathematics education, opening with a musician's nightmare about mandatory music class.
2	An Option Value Problem from Seinfeld	Avinash Dixit	Research paper	2011	A Princeton economist formalises a sitcom plot as an option-value problem, and publishes it in a real journal.
2	Birds on a Wire	P. L. Krapivsky and S. Redner	Research paper	2022	A statistical-physics paper modelling birds that land on a wire and scare off any neighbours too close, and solving for how densely the wire fills.
2	Common Trees of Los Angeles		Reference		A field guide to the trees actually planted in LA, with size, habit and seedpod for each.
2	Facebook's Little Red Book	Ben Barry (design)	Book	2012	Facebook's internal culture book — printed for employees, never publicly distributed, and the reason "Code wins arguments" left the building.
2	FM 3-05.301: Psychological Operations Process — Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures	Headquarters, Department of the Army	Research paper	2007-08	The US Army's PSYOP field manual — how influence operations are actually planned, targeted and measured.
2	Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List	David Mazières and Eddie Kohler	Research paper	2005	Ten pages repeating one sentence, written as a joke in 2005 — and accepted by a journal in 2014.
2	Harbinger Community, 1967–1969	Donald James Hamrick	Book	2011-05-20	Duplicate of the Harbinger Community card: founder Donald Hamrick's 2011 account of the Harbin Hot Springs commune he ran from 1967 to 1969.
2	IGNITION! An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants	John D. Clark	Research paper	1972	Clark's history of propellant chemistry — funny, first-hand, and written by a man who handled the compounds himself.
2	Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha	Daniel M. Ingram	Research paper	2018	Ingram's 'unusually hardcore dharma book' — meditation attainments described as replicable technical stages.
2	PDF 32000-1:2008 — The PDF Specification	Adobe Systems / ISO	Research paper	2008-07-01	The full ISO specification for PDF 1.7 — 756 pages defining the format this entire collection is made of.
2	Prometheus Rising	Robert Anton Wilson	Research paper	1983	Wilson's guide to reprogramming your own nervous system, built on Leary's eight-circuit model.
2	Psychology of Intelligence Analysis	Richards J. Heuer Jr.	Book	1999	The CIA's own manual on how analysts get things wrong — the best applied treatment of cognitive bias, written for people whose errors have…
2	Startup Engineering — Market Research, Wireframing and Design	Balaji S. Srinivasan	Research paper	2013	Lecture 5 of Balaji's Stanford/Coursera course — going from idea to wireframe to a testable market read.
2	Take Ivy	T. Hayashida, Shosuke Ishizu, Toshiyuki Kurosu, Hajime Hasegawa	Book	1965	Japanese photographers documenting Ivy League campus dress in 1965 — a book that was nearly lost, then became the founding text of a global style.
2	The Art of Revolution	Jonathan Fields	Book	2014	Jonathan Fields's 2014 free manifesto adapting Gene Sharp's theory of nonviolent revolution into an 18-element framework for launching a business,…
2	The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity	Carlo M. Cipolla	Research paper	1976	An economic historian's five laws of stupidity, defining it precisely: harming others while gaining nothing yourself.
2	The Official Preppy Handbook	edited by Lisa Birnbach	Book	1980	A scan of Lisa Birnbach's 1980 bestselling satire, a tongue-in-cheek field guide to the American prep: family, schools, college, clothes, career,…
2	The Parasite Pill		Research paper		An anonymous 181-page health tract arguing that parasites underlie a wide range of chronic illness.
2	The Secret Teachings of All Ages	Manly P. Hall	Book	1928	Manly P. Hall's 1928 encyclopedia of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian symbolism; this copy came from the files the CIA released from…
2	What Do You Need to Know to Learn a Foreign Language?	Paul Nation	Book	2014	Applied linguist Paul Nation's free 2014 guide for adult learners: four principles, time balanced across four strands, and twenty activities to do on…
2	What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory	Ulrich Drepper	Research paper	2007	Ulrich Drepper's 2007 paper on how RAM, CPU caches, TLBs and NUMA systems work, and how programmers should write code that uses them well.
2	What Makes Entrepreneurs Entrepreneurial?	Saras D. Sarasvathy	Research paper	2001	Nine pages introducing effectuation — the finding that expert founders reason from available means toward possible ends, not from goals backward.
1	1000 Useful Things to Make Yourself		Research paper		A compendium of workshop and household projects — the pre-internet version of a maker forum.
1	16 Habits You Should Do Every Day	Clayton Ross Ferguson	Report	2013-09	A junior accountant's self-published manifesto built from a 700-day spreadsheet of his own daily habits.
1	2013 Aguadilla, Puerto Rico — Analysis of an Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon	Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies	Research paper		A 162-page technical analysis of DHS thermal video from Aguadilla — the most rigorously worked UAP case document in circulation.
1	2019 National Drug Threat Assessment	US Drug Enforcement Administration	Research paper	2019	The DEA's annual assessment of drug markets — supply, trafficking routes and pricing.
1	21 CFR Part 139 — Macaroni and Noodle Products	US Food and Drug Administration	Research paper	2011	The federal standards of identity for pasta — what may legally be called macaroni.
1	35C3 — Congress Floor Map	Chaos Computer Club	Reference chart	2018	A one-page floor plan of the Congress Center Leipzig for 35C3, the Chaos Computer Club's December 2018 hacker conference, level by level.
1	3D Printed Egyptian Alphabet Stamps & Clay Cartouche	Holly Randa and Jami Shumate	Research paper		An ORISE middle-school lesson plan: 3D-print hieroglyph stamps, press a cartouche in clay.
1	A Barbarian in the Greenroom: Politics and Aesthetics in the Age of Surkov	Creator:	Research paper		A zine-format essay on Vladislav Surkov, the political technologist who ran Russian politics as theatre.
1	A Complete Collection of State-Trials, Volume 5	Thomas Salmon (ed.)	Book	1730	Volume 5 of the 1730 second edition of the English State Trials: reports of treason, piracy, murder, libel and impeachment proceedings from 1696 to…
1	A Field Guide to Roadside Wildflowers at Full Speed	Chris Helzer	Reference chart	2020	A deadpan parody field guide by prairie ecologist Chris Helzer that identifies Great Plains wildflowers by the blurred streaks of colour they leave…
1	A Guide to the Layout of a Talmud Page	Unknown	Reference chart		A two-page annotated diagram of a Talmud page: Mishnah and Gemara in the centre, Rashi and Tosafot around them, centuries of commentary on one sheet.
1	A Historical Perspective on Anti-Gravity Technology	Amy Eskridge	Research paper	2018-12	A Huntsville talk surveying the history of gravity-modification research, given by a propulsion engineer.
1	A Loafer's Guide to the U.C. Berkeley Campus	Carolyn Dougherty	Research paper		An idiosyncratic walking guide to Berkeley's campus, written by someone who clearly loved the place.
1	A New Approach to Linear Filtering and Prediction Problems	Rudolf E. Kálmán	Research paper	1960	The 1960 paper introducing the Kalman filter — the estimator that flew Apollo and now runs in everything.
1	A New Interpretation of Information Rate	J. L. Kelly Jr.	Research paper	1956	The 1956 Bell Labs paper that introduced the Kelly criterion: how much of your bankroll to bet when you have an edge.
1	A Novel Shell-less Culture System for Chick Embryos Using a Plastic Film as Culture Vessels	Yutaka Tahara and Katsuya Obara	Research paper	2014	A high-school teacher and a vet hatch chicks with no eggshell, using plastic wrap and a calcium supplement, at better than 50% hatchability.
1	A Pattern Language	Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein	Book	1977	253 patterns for building towns and rooms, and the direct ancestor of software design patterns — one of the few books that founded two fields by…
1	A Personal Computer for Children of All Ages	Alan Kay	Research paper	1972	Alan Kay's 1972 Xerox PARC paper describing the Dynabook, a tablet computer for children, decades before tablets existed.
1	A Pixel Is Not A Little Square	Alvy Ray Smith	Research paper	1995-07-17	Microsoft Technical Memo 6 — the correction of a misconception that still generates bugs thirty years on.
1	A Unifying Review of Linear Gaussian Models	Sam Roweis and Zoubin Ghahramani	Research paper	1999	Roweis and Ghahramani's 1999 review showing that factor analysis, PCA, Gaussian mixtures, Kalman filters and hidden Markov models are all versions of…
1	Accidents in Nuclear Ships	Povl Lebeck Ølgaard	Report	1996	A catalogue of every known nuclear-powered vessel accident — the reactor casualties navies do not advertise, assembled in one place.
1	Action, Dialogue, Labour, Utopia, Participation	Uncommon Ground	Research paper		An arts-publication issue organised around five modes of participatory practice.
1	Ad Spec Guidelines	GroundTruth	Spec		GroundTruth's 16-page spec sheet for advertisers on its location-based mobile ad network: banner sizes, landing pages, rich media, pre-roll video,…
1	ADP 3-0: Unified Land Operations	Headquarters, Department of the Army	Research paper	2011-10	The Army's capstone doctrine publication — how it says it thinks about operations.
1	Agent-Based Modeling in Economics and Finance	Robert L. Axtell and J. Doyne Farmer	Research paper	2022	The survey of agent-based modelling by two of its architects — the case for simulating economies from the bottom up instead of assuming equilibrium.
1	Alcoholics Anonymous (The Big Book)	Alcoholics Anonymous	Research paper		The Big Book in the Anonymous Press edition — the text on which the whole twelve-step architecture rests.
1	Algebra, Topology, Differential Calculus, and Optimization Theory for Computer Science and Machine Learning	Jean Gallier and Jocelyn Quaintance	Book		Gallier and Quaintance's free 2,200-page Penn textbook on the mathematics behind machine learning, running from groups and linear algebra to…
1	Almanacco Perpetuo	Rutilio Benincasa, with additions by Ottavio Beltramo	Research paper		An early-modern Italian perpetual almanac — weather prognostication, comets, eclipses, and how to compute Easter.
1	ALT Codes Reference Sheet	Tim Woolfson (UsefulShortcuts.com)	Reference chart	2006	A one-page chart of Windows Alt-key codes for typing symbols, accented letters, Greek letters, currency signs and box-drawing characters from the…
1	Am I Wasting My Time Organizing Email? A Study of Email Refinding	Steve Whittaker, Tara Matthews, Julian Cerruti, Hernan Badenes and John Tang	Research paper	2011	IBM Research tracked 345 users' 85,000 email searches: people who file into folders find things no better than people who just search.
1	Amazon 1997 Letter to Shareholders	Jeff Bezos	Research paper	1997	The first Amazon shareholder letter — 'It's All About the Long Term' — reprinted in every annual report since.
1	America Against America	Wang Huning	Book	1991	Wang Huning's 1991 account of a six-month academic visit to the US in 1988–89, arguing that American society is driven by contradictions that work…
1	An Interview with Michael Rabin (ACM Turing Award Oral History)	Michael Rabin, interviewed by David Harel	Report	2015-11-12	David Harel's 35-page oral history with Michael Rabin, co-recipient of the 1976 Turing Award, recorded in Jerusalem.
1	An Introduction to Measure Theory	Terence Tao	Research paper	2011	Tao's graduate measure-theory text, grown out of his blog and given away.
1	An Introduction to Ray Tracing	edited by Andrew Glassner	Research paper	1989	The standard ray-tracing text, released free after rights reverted from Elsevier in 2019.
1	Anne Pro 2 — User Manual	ObinsLab	Reference		The 25-page English manual for the Anne Pro 2, a 61-key Bluetooth RGB mechanical keyboard, and for ObinsLab Starter, its companion configuration…
1	ATP 7-100.3: Chinese Tactics	Headquarters, Department of the Army	Research paper	2021-08	The US Army's 252-page field manual on how the PLA fights — doctrine, formations, and operational method.
1	Attention Is All You Need	Ashish Vaswani et al.	Research paper	2017	The 2017 Google paper that introduced the Transformer, a network built only on attention with no recurrence, which became the architecture behind…
1	Background to 'Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections'	Office of the Director of National Intelligence	Research paper	2017-01-06	The declassified ICA on Russian interference in 2016, plus its account of how attribution was actually done.
1	Barra United States Equity Risk Model (USE3) Handbook	BARRA	Spec	1998	BARRA's 1998 handbook for its US-E3 equity risk model: the theory of multiple-factor risk models, then the factors, industries and estimation methods.
1	Behavioral Patterns in Smartphone Usage Predict Big Five Personality Traits	Clemens Stachl, Quay Au, Ramona Schoedel and colleagues (LMU Munich)	Research paper	2019	LMU Munich researchers predict personality traits from phone logs alone: calls, app use, music and movement, with no questionnaire.
1	Black Reconstruction in America (selections)	W. E. B. Du Bois	Research paper	1935	Du Bois's 1935 history that overturned the scholarly consensus on Reconstruction — and was ignored for thirty years.
1	BMW 3 Series (E90) Owner's Manual	BMW AG	Reference	2006	BMW's 2006 US-English owner's manual for the 323i, 328i, 328xi and 335i Sedan and Sports Wagon: controls, iDrive, navigation, maintenance and…
1	BOSS Office Products — 2017 Catalog	BOSS Office Products	Reference	2017	A 72-page dealer catalogue of BOSS office chairs, stools and tables, with model numbers, feature bullets, list prices and warranty terms.
1	Brian Tomasik — Collected Writings	Brian Tomasik	Research paper		3,675 pages of one person's essays on suffering, wild-animal welfare and ethics, collected from a lifetime of writing online.
1	Broken Neural Scaling Laws	Ethan Caballero, Kshitij Gupta, Irina Rish and David Krueger	Research paper	2023	An ICLR 2023 paper proposing one curve, a smoothly broken power law, that fits and extrapolates how AI performance changes with scale, bends included.
1	Bull Run Hunt — Members' Handbook	Bull Run Hunt	Research paper	2018-09-01	A Virginia foxhunt's handbook: the components of a hunt, the etiquette, and a glossary.
1	Calculus Made Easy	Silvanus P. Thompson	Book	1914	Silvanus P. Thompson's 1914 calculus primer, written to show beginners how easy the easy parts are: "What one fool can do, another can."
1	California Official Voter Information Guide — November 2020	California Secretary of State	Research paper	2020-11-03	The full 112-page state voter guide: every proposition, with arguments for and against and the legislative analyst's read.
1	Carnivore–Ketogenic Diet for Inflammatory Bowel Disease	Nicholas G. Norwitz and Adrian Soto-Mota	Research paper	2024-09-02
1	Categorical Informatics- A Functorial Approach to Data Integration	David I. Spivak	Report	2015	David Spivak's 2015 NSF grant proposal arguing that category theory should be the mathematical foundation for integrating data across databases.
1	Ccru Writings 1997–2003	Cybernetic Culture Research Unit	Research paper	2015	The collected output of Warwick's Cybernetic Culture Research Unit — Nick Land, theory-fiction, accelerationism's origin.
1	CIA — Section IV: ESP and Psychokinesis	Central Intelligence Agency	Research paper	1972-07	A declassified CIA survey of Soviet parapsychology research, including Vasiliev's telepathy experiments.
1	Citrus Problem Diagnosis	University of California Cooperative Extension	Research paper		A diagnostic guide to backyard citrus problems in Southern California — leafminer, honeydew insects, fungal disease.
1	CLOSURE	why the lucky stiff	Book	2013	The 96-page collected final work of _why the lucky stiff, released as printer pages in April 2013 and assembled into one PDF by Steve Klabnik.
1	Codex Seraphinianus	Luigi Serafini	Research paper	1981	An encyclopedia of an imaginary world, written entirely in an undeciphered invented script.
1	Codex Sinaiticus Petropolitanus — The New Testament	Kirsopp Lake	Research paper	1911	The 1911 photographic facsimile of the Sinaiticus New Testament, shot in St Petersburg in 1908.
1	Cognitive Warfare		Research paper		A NATO-adjacent study placing cognitive warfare at the end of a line running from PsyOps through cyber.
1	Cognitive Warfare (NATO Innovation Hub)	François du Cluzel	Research paper	2020-11	The NATO Innovation Hub study that put 'cognitive warfare' into alliance vocabulary.
1	Collective Hallucinations and Inefficient Markets- The British Railway Mania of the 1840s	Andrew Odlyzko	Research paper	2010	Andrew Odlyzko's long study of the 1840s British Railway Mania, arguing public numbers showed the lines could never earn what investors expected.
1	Coloring with Jen Stark	Jen Stark	Book		A 15-page colouring book of line drawings by the artist Jen Stark: concentric rings, starbursts and dripping wave patterns.
1	Community Reactions to Sonic Booms in the Oklahoma City Area	Paul N. Borsky	Report	1965	The social-science record of the 1964 experiment in which the FAA deliberately sonic-boomed a US city eight times a day for six months.
1	COMPUTE! Issue 42, November 1983	COMPUTE! Publications	Research paper	1983-11	A home-computing magazine explaining telecommunications to people who had never been online.
1	Computer Lib / Dream Machines	Ted Nelson	Book	1974	Ted Nelson's 1974 double book — hypertext described in full two decades before the web, by the man who named it.
1	Congressional Record — Tribute to Scott Satterfield	US Senate	Report	2019-12-19	Two pages (S7194–S7195) of the Senate's Congressional Record for December 19, 2019: floor tributes to a football coach, a staffer and WGN-TV, plus a…
1	Consider the Lobster	David Foster Wallace	Research paper	2004-08	Wallace's Gourmet assignment on the Maine Lobster Festival, which becomes an essay on whether the lobster feels pain.
1	Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance	edited by Mihail C. Roco and William Sims Bainbridge	Research paper	2002-06	The NSF's 2002 'NBIC' report — nano, bio, info and cognitive science converging to enhance humans. The founding document of a policy vocabulary.
1	Conversations with God, Book 1	Neale Donald Walsch	Research paper	1995	Walsch's bestselling dialogue with God, in a PDF wrapped in law-of-attraction marketing.
1	Covert Action and Clandestine Activities of the Intelligence Community — Congressional Notification Requirements	Congressional Research Service	Research paper	2019-07-02	CRS R45191: who in Congress must be told what, when an intelligence operation is run.
1	Crazy Sequential Representation: Numbers from 0 to 11111 in Terms of Increasing and Decreasing Orders of 1 to 9	Inder J. Taneja	Research paper	2014	161 pages writing every number from 0 to 11111 using the digits 1 through 9 in order, and in reverse. Only 10958 resists.
1	Creator Survey (Mighty Networks)	Mighty Networks	Report	2021	A Mighty Networks-funded October 2021 survey of 1,624 US creators, arguing that creators should leave social platforms for communities they own.
1	Cross-Cultural Variations in Psychiatrists' Perception of Mental Illness	Multiple authors	Research paper	2016	A survey finding that psychiatrists' judgements of what counts as mental illness vary systematically by culture — seven pages against a large claim.
1	Culture Next — Global Trends Report, Volume 1	Spotify	Research paper	2019	Spotify's trends report on Gen Z and millennials, built on listening data.
1	Demystifying the Title 10 – Title 50 Debate	Andru E. Wall	Research paper	2011	The legal line between military operations, intelligence activities and covert action — and why it is blurrier than the debate assumes.
1	Destruction and Creation	John R. Boyd	Research paper	1976-09-03	John Boyd's only written essay: an eight-page argument that thinking means repeatedly breaking down old concepts and building new ones.
1	Destruction of Nuclear Bombs Using Ultra-High Energy Neutrino Beam	Hirotaka Sugawara, Hiroyuki Hagura, Toshiya Sanami	Research paper	2003-06	A serious proposal to neutralise nuclear warheads anywhere on Earth by firing a neutrino beam through the planet.
1	Dez Blanchfield — Speaker and Advisory Profile	Dez Blanchfield	Report	2022	A 14-slide media kit in which technology commentator Dez Blanchfield sells his social reach, speaking, hosting and writing services to B2B tech…
1	Digital Decay	Bruce Sterling	Report	2001-03-30	Bruce Sterling's keynote at the Guggenheim's 2001 Preserving the Immaterial conference, on why digital art and media rot so fast.
1	Digital Exhaust Opt-Out Guide for Law Enforcement		Research paper		A 354-page operational guide to removing yourself from data brokers, written for police and their families.
1	Divine Conduct, or The Mystery of Providence	John Flavel	Research paper	1678	Flavel's Puritan treatise on reading God's hand in the pattern of one's own life — and keeping a record of it.
1	Do We Ever Really Get Out of Anarchy?	Alfred G. Cuzán	Research paper	1979	Cuzán argues that government never ends anarchy, it only moves it inside the ruling group, so the real question is which kind of anarchy is least…
1	Donna ISD — Contact Card	Donna High School Athletics	Reference		A one-page flyer from Donna High School Athletics in Texas asking people to subscribe to its YouTube channel via a QR code.
1	Ecommerce Landing Page Lookbook (Unbounce)	Unbounce	Reference chart		Unbounce's 37-page gallery of about 30 e-commerce landing pages built on its builder, arguing that dedicated landing pages convert better than store…
1	Economics in One Lesson	Henry Hazlitt	Research paper	1946	Hazlitt's 1946 primer built on a single idea: trace the effects of a policy on everyone, not just the visible beneficiary.
1	Electronic Dance Music Events as Modern-Day Ritual	Audrey Redfield and Marie I. Thouin-Savard	Research paper	2017-09-01	A transpersonal-psychology study treating EDM events as ritual, with the phenomenology taken seriously.
1	Emblems of Exploration — Logos of the NACA and NASA	Joseph R. Chambers and Mark A. Chambers	Book	2015	NASA's 164-page history of its own logos, from the NACA wings to the meatball, the worm and back.
1	Emotional Labor- Regulating Emotions for a Wage	Alicia A. Grandey and Gordon M. Sayre	Research paper	2019	Grandey and Sayre review research on emotional labor: faking emotions at work (surface acting) harms workers, while trying to feel them (deep acting)…
1	Emotions, Muscles and the Cortex: A Physiological Basis for Repression	Douglas J. Tataryn	Research paper	1983	A 1983 University of Manitoba paper proposing that emotional repression is held in specific muscle groups via the hypothalamus.
1	Eurofighter EF2000 DA7 — Flight Manual, Volume 1	Eurofighter / Alenia / BAE Systems / EADS	Research paper	2003	The development-aircraft flight manual for a Eurofighter Typhoon prototype, marked NATO RESTRICTED.
1	Evaluation of the Mexican-American Screwworm Eradication Program in Mexico	USDA	Report		304 pages on the economics of eradicating a flesh-eating parasite from a continent — one of the most successful and least-known public programmes…
1	Evidence-based Software Engineering	Derek M. Jones	Book	2020	Derek M. Jones's free 2020 book collects the publicly available data on software development, analyzes it in R, and shows how little of the field's…
1	Expert Judgment on Markers to Deter Inadvertent Human Intrusion into the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant	Kathleen M. Trauth, Stephen C. Hora and Robert V. Guzowski	Report	1993	Sandia's 1993 report on how to mark a New Mexico nuclear waste site so people 10,000 years from now stay away; the source of "This place is not a…
1	Famine, Affluence, and Morality	Peter Singer	Research paper	1972	Singer's 1972 argument that distance and numbers do not reduce the duty to prevent suffering — the founding text of effective altruism.
1	Fantasy Football Draft Cheat Sheet (BeerSheet)	BeerSheets	Reference chart	2020-09	A one-page BeerSheets fantasy football draft cheat sheet for a 10-team, non-PPR league, updated September 7, 2020.
1	FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit — Las Vegas Review Panel Key Findings	FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit	Research paper	2019	The BAU's findings on the 1 October 2017 Las Vegas shooter — the official answer to a case with no manifesto.
1	FBI Wanted — Alejandro Castillo	Federal Bureau of Investigation	Report	2017-10	A one-page FBI wanted poster from October 2017 for a man sought for unlawful flight to avoid prosecution in a 2016 murder in Charlotte, North…
1	First-Strike Stability and Strategic Defenses	Glenn A. Kent and David E. Thaler	Research paper	1989	RAND R-3918-AF. Part II of a methodology for evaluating strategic forces, extended to missile defence.
1	First-Strike Stability: A Methodology for Evaluating Strategic Forces	Glenn A. Kent and David E. Thaler	Research paper	1989	RAND R-3765-AF. The framework for asking whether a nuclear posture makes striking first rational.
1	Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change	Neil Postman	Report	1998-03-28	Postman's 1998 Denver talk: every technology is a trade-off, its benefits are unevenly shared, it carries a philosophy, it changes everything, and it…
1	Fixing Intel: A Blueprint for Making Intelligence Relevant in Afghanistan	Michael T. Flynn, Matt Pottinger, Paul D. Batchelor	Research paper	2010-01	A serving general's public indictment of his own intelligence apparatus — it was answering the wrong question.
1	Friends With Benefits — Brand Guidelines	Friends With Benefits (FWB)	Research paper	2021	The brand system for FWB, the token-gated social DAO — crypto culture given a design language.
1	From Sundials to Atomic Clocks	James Jespersen and Jane Fitz-Randolph	Book	1999	NIST's book for general readers on time and timekeeping, from sundials and pendulums to atomic clocks, GPS and relativity (Monograph 155, 1999…
1	Fuck Off, Google	The Invisible Committee	Report	2014	A chapter from the Invisible Committee's To Our Friends attacking "smart" technology and cybernetics as a new science of government.
1	Game Developer Magazine, December 2000	Game Developer	Research paper	2000-12	An issue of the trade magazine that documented game development as a craft, from inside it.
1	Gemini PT-1000 II Turntable — Operations Manual	Gemini Sound Products Corp.	Reference		The 19-page manual for Gemini's PT-1000 II direct-drive DJ turntable, in five languages: setup, tonearm balancing, pitch control and specifications.
1	generatingfunctionology	Herbert S. Wilf	Research paper	1994	Wilf's text on generating functions — released free by its author, and the standard introduction.
1	Genocide Waged Against the Black Nation	Mutulu Shakur et al.	Report	1988	A research paper by seven Black prisoners, led by Mutulu Shakur, charging that US prison behaviour-modification programmes are counterinsurgency and…
1	Getting Real	37signals (Basecamp)	Book	2006	37signals' 2006 book on building web software small: fix time and budget, cut scope, skip specs and meetings, build the interface first, launch early…
1	Google Fiber City Checklist (February 2014)	Google Fiber	Spec	2014-02	What Google Fiber asked 34 US cities to prepare before it would build: pole access, conduit maps, permitting timelines.
1	Grid Systems in Graphic Design / Raster Systeme für die visuelle Gestaltung	Josef Müller-Brockmann	Research paper	1981	The Swiss-school manual on grids — the book behind most systematic layout since.
1	Guarded Successor: A Novel Temporal Logic	Ohad Asor	Research paper	2024-07-04	A decidable temporal logic proposed for specifying and verifying systems, from the Tau Net project.
1	Harrison Bergeron	Kurt Vonnegut Jr.	Research paper	1961	Vonnegut's 1961 story of enforced equality — handicaps on the strong, the graceful and the clever.
1	HEX Whitepaper	Richard Heart	Research paper	2019	The HEX token design — staking mechanics, claim schedule, and outsized 'whale claim' provisions.
1	Historical Statistics of the United States, 1789–1945	U.S. Bureau of the Census	Reference	1949	A century and a half of American statistics in one 1949 government volume — the primary source under an enormous amount of casual economic history.
1	How Doctors Die	Ken Murray, M.D.	Article	2013	A physician's essay on why doctors, who have seen futile end-of-life care up close, usually refuse aggressive treatment and choose to die quietly at…
1	How Inflation Swindles the Equity Investor	Warren E. Buffett	Article	1977	Warren Buffett's 1977 Fortune essay: stocks act like perpetual bonds with a roughly 12% return on equity that does not rise with inflation, so…
1	How to Hack Into Bus Stop Advertising Spaces	Subvertisers for London	Reference chart	2016	A one-page illustrated tutorial from Subvertisers for London showing, in ten steps, how to open a bus-shelter ad panel and swap in a poster of your…
1	How to Instill Mental Toughness of a Special Forces Soldier	Bulletproof Home	Report	2015	A 14-page promotional e-book from a preparedness company on the mental habits attributed to special forces.
1	How to Skate a 10k (and Also Half a 10k)	Nils van der Poel	Report	2022	The double Olympic champion's own 62-page training plan, published free after Beijing 2022: huge volume, a fixed weekly rhythm, and full rest days.
1	How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method	George Pólya	Research paper	1945	Pólya's method for attacking a problem you do not know how to solve — understand, plan, execute, look back.
1	How to Succeed in MrBeast Production	Jimmy Donaldson (MrBeast)	Report	2024	MrBeast's 36-page onboarding document for new employees, on retention, thumbnails and how the company decides what to make.
1	How to Swim with Sharks: A Primer	'Voltaire Cousteau'	Research paper	1973	A two-page satire on surviving academic and institutional politics, disguised as marine safety advice.
1	IAB Display & Mobile Advertising Creative Format Guidelines	Interactive Advertising Bureau	Research paper	2015	The 2015 IAB creative specs, updated for HTML5 — the standards the whole ad ecosystem is cut to.
1	Individual Income by ZIP Code Area, 1969 and 1979	Robert A. Wilson and H. Lock Oh	Research paper		An IRS Statistics of Income study using ZIP-level tax data to test the snow-belt-to-sun-belt migration story.
1	Industrial Theft Case Cracked Here	Cleveland Plain Dealer	Research paper	1983-12-09	A 1983 newspaper clipping in CIA files on the theft of engineering drawings routed to the Soviet Union.
1	Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 — Senate Report 117-37	US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence	Research paper	2021-08-10	The committee report accompanying the FY2022 intelligence authorization, with additional views.
1	Interregional Highways (1944)	National Interregional Highway Committee	Report	1944-01-12	The 1944 report Roosevelt sent to Congress that sketched the national highway network, a decade before the Interstate Highway Act.
1	IPCC AR6 WG1 Headline Statements (2021)	IPCC Working Group I	Report	2021-08	The IPCC's two-page list of top-line findings from its 2021 assessment of the physical science of climate change, in four parts: present state,…
1	Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction: The Assessment of the British Government	UK Government	Research paper	2002-09	The September Dossier — the document that made the public case for the Iraq war, and was wrong.
1	Irvine Police — Facial Recognition Records (Volume 1)	City of Irvine	Research paper	2017	520 pages of disclosed municipal records on facial-recognition procurement and vendor marketing.
1	JWT Planning Guide (1974)	J. Walter Thompson London	Report	1974-03	J. Walter Thompson London's March 1974 internal guide to account planning, the discipline the agency helped invent.
1	K-HOLE #3- The K-HOLE Brand Anxiety Matrix	K-HOLE	Report	2013	K-HOLE's 2013 third report, a parody trend forecast that plots brands on a two-axis "anxiety matrix" (chaos/order, legible/illegible) to describe how…
1	Knowing God	J. I. Packer	Research paper	1973	Packer's 1973 work of popular theology — the book that shaped how a generation of evangelicals thought about God.
1	Knowledge and Justification	John L. Pollock	Book	1974	John Pollock's 1974 book arguing that concepts should be analysed by their justification conditions, not truth conditions, then applying that to…
1	Ladyslipper Catalog — Music by Women, Winter 1996–97	Ladyslipper Inc.	Research paper	1996	A mail-order catalogue of music by women, and one of the better surviving records of an independent distribution network.
1	Ladyslipper Catalog (second issue)	Ladyslipper Inc.	Research paper		A second issue of the women's-music mail-order catalogue.
1	LBRY: A Decentralized Digital Content Marketplace	Alex Grintsvayg and Jeremy Kauffman	Research paper		The LBRY protocol spec — blockchain-based publishing and discovery, later the subject of an SEC action.
1	Lead Inspector General — Operation Freedom's Sentinel, January–March 2018	Lead Inspector General for Overseas Contingency Operations	Research paper	2018	The quarterly oversight report to Congress on the Afghanistan mission — the routine accounting nobody reads.
1	Lemurian Time War	Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU)	Report	1999	The CCRU's "hyperstition" text about William S. Burroughs in an occult time war, partly fiction by its own admission.
1	Lexicon for New Ithkuil, version 1.0	John Quijada	Research paper		The full root lexicon of Ithkuil — a constructed language built to express thought with maximum precision and minimum ambiguity.
1	LF1 / LF2 Hi-Fi Speaker — Manual	Altec Lansing	Reference		Altec Lansing's operating instructions for its LF-1 and LF-2 subwoofer systems, a table-style home-audio subwoofer, with wiring diagrams and control…
1	Life Guide	Josh Humi	Book	2026	Josh Humi's free, 107-page personal operating manual for life, built on maximising lifetime happiness, covering values, health, time, money, work,…
1	Liquid Oxygen Augmented Gas Core Nuclear Thermal Rocket	V. Krishnamurthy and A. Vignesh	Research paper	2013	A concept paper that adds a liquid-oxygen afterburner to a gas-core nuclear rocket's nozzle to trade some efficiency for much more thrust.
1	List of Human Remains in the Collection of the British Museum	British Museum	Report	2010-08	116 pages itemising every human body part the British Museum holds — the inventory behind every repatriation argument, published and almost never…
1	Lomita — Shop Local Guide	City of Lomita	Reference		A three-page City of Lomita flyer from the COVID-19 pandemic urging residents to shop locally, followed by a list of about 110 licensed restaurants…
1	Loose Threads- The Advanced Theoretical Physics Working Group	Daniel Elizondo and \"The Hermetic Penetrator\"	Report	2023	A self-published UFO dossier (2023) tracing the 1980s Advanced Theoretical Physics working group and its links to the 2002 Wilson–Davis notes, with…
1	Los Angeles City Clerk — Records Division Directions	City of Los Angeles	Reference		A three-page visitor handout for the LA City Clerk's Records Management Division at Piper Technical Center: opening hours, freeway directions, a bus…
1	Love's Hidden Symmetry: What Makes Love Work in Relationships	Bert Hellinger, Gunthard Weber and Hunter Beaumont	Research paper	1998	The foundational English text of Family Constellations, Hellinger's systemic therapy method.
1	LVMPD Criminal Investigative Report — 1 October Mass Casualty Shooting	Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department	Research paper	2018	The LVMPD Force Investigation Team's 187-page report on the 2017 Las Vegas shooting.
1	Machine Super Intelligence	Shane Legg	Research paper	2008	Shane Legg's doctoral dissertation — a formal definition of machine intelligence, written before he co-founded DeepMind.
1	Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines	Apple Computer	Research paper	1992	Apple's 1992 HIG — the book that taught the industry to write down why an interface behaves as it does.
1	Manifest Destiny	John L. O'Sullivan	Research paper	1839	O'Sullivan's 1839 essay — the argument for American expansion, from the man who named it.
1	Manifest Destiny — Primary Document Worksheet	Stanford History Education Group	Research paper		A classroom worksheet pairing Melish's 1816 map with O'Sullivan's 1839 text — how expansion was argued for at the time.
1	Marantz SR6004 / SR5004 AV Receiver — Manual	Marantz	Reference		Marantz's 96-page English owner's manual for its SR6004 and SR5004 7.1-channel AV surround receivers: connections, on-screen setup, surround modes…
1	Mass Communication and Para-Social Interaction: Observations on Intimacy at a Distance	Donald Horton and R. Richard Wohl	Research paper	1956	The 1956 paper that named parasocial interaction — sixty years before it described everyone's relationship with the internet.
1	MCWP 3-11.3 Scouting and Patrolling		Report		Recovered from the Wayback Machine after the live host refused scripted clients. MCWP 3-11.3 Scouting and Patrolling U.S. Marine Corps Distribution…
1	Metaphors We Live By	George Lakoff and Mark Johnson	Research paper	1980	The book that argued metaphor is not decoration but the structure of thought itself.
1	Method of Swinging on a Swing (US Patent 6,368,227)	Steven Olson	Spec	2002	US Patent 6,368,227 (2002) claims a "new" way to swing: pulling alternately on each chain to move side to side. A 2003 reexamination cancelled all…
1	MIT Guide to Lock Picking	Theodore T. Tool ('Ted the Tool')	Research paper	1991-09-01	The 1991 guide that explained lock picking as a mechanical-tolerance problem rather than a trick.
1	Monarch: The New Phoenix Program	Marshall Thomas	Research paper		A conspiracy text linking the Phoenix Program, MKUltra and human radiation experiments into a single ongoing programme.
1	Monasteries of the Future	Miles G. Bukiet	Research paper	2018-08-01	A Penn positive-psychology capstone asking what secular institutions could borrow from monasteries' centuries of training virtue.
1	Money Creation in the Modern Economy	Michael McLeay, Amar Radia and Ryland Thomas (Bank of England)	Research paper	2014	The Bank of England's 2014 explainer stating plainly that commercial banks create most money by lending, and that the textbook money multiplier is…
1	More Is Different	P. W. Anderson	Research paper	1972-08-04	Philip Anderson's 1972 Science essay arguing that reductionism does not imply constructionism: each level of complexity has its own laws.
1	mov is Turing-complete	Stephen Dolan	Research paper	2013	Four pages proving that a single x86 instruction is enough to compute anything. A joke with a real proof inside it.
1	Myystar — Press Release		Research paper	2021-08-20	The August 2021 announcement of a creator platform launched against OnlyFans' short-lived adult-content ban.
1	NACHA File Specifications — Chase Connect	JPMorgan Chase	Research paper	2019-06	The fixed-width record format for US ACH payments — the plumbing under direct deposit.
1	NASA Graphics Standards Manual (1976)	Danne & Blackburn	Spec	1976	NASA Handbook 1430.2, the standards manual for the 1976 "worm" logotype: colour, reproduction art, stationery, publication grids, signage and vehicle…
1	NASA-STD-5020A: Requirements for Threaded Fastening Systems	NASA Office of the Chief Engineer	Research paper	2018-09-04	NASA's standard for bolts — preload, locking, analysis and verification, at spaceflight tolerances.
1	NATO's Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe	Daniele Ganser	Research paper	2005	Ganser's history of the stay-behind networks — NATO-linked paramilitary cells kept in Western Europe through the Cold War.
1	Never Split the Difference — Summary Cheat Sheet	Yan-David Erlich	Reference chart	2016	A six-page cheat sheet by Yan-David Erlich (2016) condensing Chris Voss's negotiation book Never Split the Difference into tactics: mirroring,…
1	Newton's Principia (1846 English edition)	Isaac Newton, trans. Andrew Motte	Book	1846	The First American Edition (New York, 1846) of Andrew Motte's English translation of Newton's Principia, revised by N. W. Chittenden, with a Life of…
1	Non-Cap Weighted Indexes	Clifford S. Asness	Report	2007	Cliff Asness's slides from the Q-Group's spring 2007 seminar, arguing that fundamental indexing is only a value tilt away from cap-weighting, new in…
1	Nonlinear Static — Explicit and Implicit Analysis Example	Louie L. Yaw	Research paper	2009-05-27	A short worked example contrasting explicit and implicit solution methods in nonlinear structural analysis.
1	NONYMOUS — Launch Strategy for a Faceless Ad Agency		Research paper	2020-01-04	A pitch deck for a decentralised, anonymous advertising agency, with a stated $100 CAC target.
1	Nuclear Wallet Cards	Jagdish K. Tuli, National Nuclear Data Center	Research paper	2005-04	Brookhaven's pocket reference to every known nuclide — half-lives, spins, decay modes.
1	On the Cruelty of Really Teaching Computing Science (EWD1036)	Edsger W. Dijkstra	Research paper	1988	Dijkstra's handwritten 1988 talk arguing that computing is a radical novelty, and that teaching it through analogies to familiar things does students…
1	On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies	Albert Einstein	Research paper	1905	Special relativity, 1905, twenty-three pages, no citations. The most famous paper in physics as it was actually written.
1	On the Rheology of Cats	M. A. Fardin	Research paper	2014	A tongue-in-cheek 2014 Rheology Bulletin letter that uses the Deborah number to ask whether cats are liquids. It won the 2017 Ig Nobel Prize in…
1	Paradise Restored: A Biblical Theology of Dominion	David Chilton	Research paper	1985	A foundational text of Christian Reconstructionism — postmillennial eschatology as a mandate for cultural dominion.
1	Partial Intimations of the Coming Whole- The Chongqing Experiment	Cui Zhiyuan	Research paper	2011	Tsinghua political economist Cui Zhiyuan's 2011 Modern China article reading the Chongqing development model through Henry George, James Meade and…
1	PDF Reference Manual (Version 1.0)	Tim Bienz and Richard Cohn, Adobe Systems	Research paper	1998-11-04	The original 1993-era PDF reference in its Addison-Wesley printing — the format before it was a standard.
1	Perfect Brilliant Stillness	David Carse	Research paper	2006	A first-person account of non-dual awakening, released by its author into the public domain.
1	Pitching Hacks	Venture Hacks (Nivi and Naval Ravikant)	Book	2009	Nivi and Naval Ravikant's short 2009 book on pitching a startup to investors: lead with traction, get warm intros, and boil the story into a one-line…
1	Planning U.S. Strategic Nuclear Forces for the 1980s	Congressional Budget Office	Report	1978	A June 1978 Congressional Budget Office paper on what the US should buy for its nuclear forces as Soviet missiles grew able to destroy Minuteman…
1	PoC\|\|GTFO, Volume 1	Travis Goodspeed et al.	Book	2017	The 2017 No Starch compilation of the first nine issues (0–8) of PoC\|\|GTFO, the hacker journal of working exploits, polyglot files, reverse…
1	Politburo 2.0: Renovation Instead of Dismantling	Minchenko Consulting	Research paper	2017-10-12	The Russian elite mapped as a politburo — who holds what, and how the balance shifted over five years.
1	Political Warfare: Strategies for Combating China's Plan to 'Win Without Fighting'	Kerry K. Gershaneck	Research paper	2020	A Marine Corps University study of Chinese political warfare — influence operations short of armed conflict.
1	Politigram & the Post-left	Joshua Citarella	Report	2018	Artist Joshua Citarella's 2018 field report on "Politigram," teen political meme communities on Instagram, tracing a group of young leftists toward…
1	Pop Magic!	Grant Morrison	Report	2003	Comics writer Grant Morrison's ten-page beginner's guide to chaos magic: concentration, imagination and the ability to laugh at yourself.
1	Port Authority of New York and New Jersey — Board Agenda, February 9, 2023	The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey	Report	2023-02-09	Eight pages in which a bistate agency approves tunnel realignments and union contracts. The genre the Washington Post piece is actually about.
1	Preflop Charts (PokerCoaching)	PokerCoaching.com	Reference chart
1	President's Daily Brief, 6 August 2001	Central Intelligence Agency	Research paper	2001-08-06	'Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US' — the most consequential single page of intelligence in modern American history.
1	President's Daily Brief, 7 August 1965	Central Intelligence Agency	Research paper	1965-08-07	A declassified PDB from the week the Vietnam ground war escalated — the actual document the President read.
1	Pressures Produced When Penguins Pooh- Calculations on Avian Defaecation	Victor Benno Meyer-Rochow and Jozsef Gal	Research paper	2003	A three-page 2003 Polar Biology short note calculating the rectal pressure penguins need to shoot their droppings clear of the nest: roughly 10 to 60…
1	Production of an Original Surface Plate (Engineering Reminiscences, Chapter XXI)	Charles T. Porter	Reference	1908	A 1908 account of making a truly flat plane by hand: scrape three plates against each other until all three agree.
1	Project Backboard — Court Renovation Guide	Project Backboard	Research paper		A practical guide to resurfacing a public basketball court and commissioning artwork on it.
1	Protect Tenants, Prevent Homelessness	National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty	Research paper	2018	A legal-advocacy report arguing eviction prevention is the cheapest homelessness intervention available.
1	PSY Group — Marketing Brochure	PSY Group	Report	2017	The sales brochure of PSY Group, an Israeli "intelligence and influence" firm, published by the Wall Street Journal during its reporting on the firm.
1	Psychopathy and the Cinema: Fact or Fiction?	Samuel J. Leistedt and Paul Linkowski	Research paper	2013	Forensic psychiatrists rate 126 film psychopaths from 400 movies for clinical realism. Anton Chigurh is singled out as one of the most realistic.
1	Pursuit of Growth Turns Outward (PitchBook, 2Q 2019)	PitchBook	Report	2019	PitchBook's June 2019 note on US VC-backed startups acquiring companies and investing in other startups, and how acquisitions line up with their next…
1	Pyramid of Hate	Anti-Defamation League	Research paper		The ADL's one-page model: biased behaviours escalating from casual prejudice to genocide.
1	Reducing Entry Barriers in the Development and Application of AI	Caleb Watney	Report	2018-10	An R Street policy study listing what lowers the cost of building AI: high-skill immigration, open datasets, fair-use training data, and access to…
1	Reflexive Processes and Control	Vladimir Lefebvre and others	Research paper	2002	The Russian school of reflexive control — modelling an adversary who is modelling you — in a journal almost nothing in English cites.
1	Residential Planting Scheme		Research paper	2020-11-15	A one-page garden planting plan. Personal ephemera.
1	Review of the Evidence of Sentience in Cephalopod Molluscs and Decapod Crustaceans	Jonathan Birch, Charlotte Burn, Alexandra Schnell, Heather Browning and Andrew Crump	Report	2021-11	The LSE report commissioned by the UK government that found octopuses, crabs and lobsters sentient, and led to their inclusion in the Animal Welfare…
1	Rick Owens — Interview Excerpt		Research paper		A magazine excerpt on punk, graffiti and how subcultures become the productive centre.
1	Road Trip Songbook		Research paper		A chords-and-lyrics songbook assembled for singing in a car.
1	Robert De Niro's Method- Acting, Authorship and Agency in the New Hollywood (1967–1980)	Richard Colin Tait	Research paper	2013	Richard Colin Tait's 2013 UT Austin PhD dissertation, drawing on De Niro's papers at the Harry Ransom Center to argue his 1970s Method work changed…
1	Russian Active Measures Campaigns and Interference in the 2016 U.S. Election — Volume 2: Russia's Use of Social Media	US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence	Research paper	2019	The Senate Intelligence Committee's volume on the Internet Research Agency and social-media operations.
1	Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition	Charles Eisenstein	Research paper	2011	Eisenstein's argument that interest-bearing money requires endless growth — and what a gift economy would replace it with.
1	Safer Drug Use During the COVID-19 Outbreak	Higher Ground Harm Reduction and Reynolds Health Strategies	Research paper	2020	A two-page harm-reduction guide written in the first weeks of the pandemic for people who use drugs.
1	Salvia apiana (White Sage) — Species Account	USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station	Research paper	2010-09	A technical species account for white sage: ecology, germination, restoration use.
1	SBA Table of Small Business Size Standards	US Small Business Administration	Research paper	2019-08-19	The legal definition of 'small business', industry by industry, matched to NAICS codes.
1	Schematic Storyboarding for Video Visualization and Editing	Dan B Goldman, Brian Curless, David Salesin and Steven M. Seitz	Research paper	2006	A SIGGRAPH 2006 paper that turns a video clip into one static storyboard image, with arrows and outlines showing the motion.
1	Science and Civilisation in China	Joseph Needham	Research paper	1959	Needham's monumental history of Chinese science — this volume covering mathematics and the sciences of the heavens and earth.
1	SEC comment s72922		Report		Recovered from the Wayback Machine after the live host refused scripted clients. Counterfeiting Stock 2.0 Illegal naked shorting and stock…
1	Self-Care — A Memetic Analysis		Research paper	2019	A visual analysis of self-care as an internet meme cluster: anxiety, performance, and the bath-bomb manifesto.
1	Self-Organizing Systems in Planetary Physics: Harmonic Resonances of Planet and Moon Orbits	Markus J. Aschwanden	Research paper	2018	A Lockheed Martin solar physicist argues that the spacing of planets and moons comes from harmonic orbit resonances.
1	Semantic Composition in Visually Grounded Language Models	Rohan Shrirang Pandey	Research paper	2023	Rohan Pandey's 2023 Carnegie Mellon honors thesis on why vision-language AI models fail to compose meaning from word order and relations, with new…
1	ShipIt Journal	Seth Godin	Reference	2010	Seth Godin's fill-in-the-blanks workbook for finishing a project: ship date, one responsible person, what you don't know.
1	Shopify Plus — Merchant Jumpstart Handout	Shopify	Reference		An undated Shopify Plus onboarding slide deck for new enterprise merchants: who to call for support, the partner and community resources, and a tour…
1	Signet SL260 / SL280 Loudspeakers — Brochure	Signet	Reference		The cover of a Signet loudspeaker brochure for the SL260 and SL280 bookshelf speakers, scanned as a single image with no text inside.
1	Simulacra and Simulation	Jean Baudrillard	Research paper	1981	Baudrillard on the map that precedes the territory — the founding text of hyperreality.
1	Situational Awareness: The Decade Ahead	Leopold Aschenbrenner	Report	2024-06	The 2024 essay series arguing AGI by 2027 and a national-security race to follow — the most-argued-over AI document of its year.
1	Ski California — Mountain Safety Guide	Ski California	Reference		Ski California's one-page safety guide for guests at its California and Nevada member resorts: the Responsibility Code, avalanche and tree-well…
1	Space Settlements- A Design Study (NASA SP-413)	NASA / Richard D. Johnson and Charles Holbrow (eds.)	Report	1977	NASA's 1977 report on the 1975 Ames–Stanford summer study that designed the Stanford torus, a rotating colony for 10,000 people at L5, built from…
1	Standard Trail Bridge Plans	USDA Forest Service	Research paper		The Forest Service's standard engineering drawings for trail bridges — log stringer, steel, and suspension.
1	Statement by President Donald J. Trump		Research paper	2022	A political statement on inflation, fuel prices, supply chains and shortages.
1	Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails	Nassim Nicholas Taleb	Book	2020	The technical volume behind the Incerto — what actually breaks when the variance is infinite, with the maths left in.
1	Statistical Physics of Human Cooperation	Matjaž Perc et al.	Research paper	2017	A 2017 review of how Monte Carlo simulation and phase-transition theory from physics explain when cooperation, punishment and reward win or fail in…
1	Stewardship of Global Collective Behavior	Joseph B. Bak-Coleman, Carl T. Bergstrom and 15 co-authors	Research paper	2021-07	A PNAS perspective arguing that social media has rewired how humanity processes information, and that studying it should be a "crisis discipline"…
1	Strategy for Camp David — Brzezinski Memo to President Carter (1978)	Zbigniew Brzezinski	Report	1978-08-31	The national security adviser's five-page brief telling Carter how to run the Camp David summit: take control from the start and make failure costly…
1	Street Tree Seminar Newsletter, March/April 2018	Street Tree Seminar, Inc.	Research paper	2018-03	The newsletter of the Los Angeles/Orange regional urban forest council.
1	Stretching and Flexibility: Everything You Never Wanted to Know	Brad Appleton	Reference	1998-06-10	A 68-page 1990s internet FAQ on the physiology and types of stretching, still one of the most thorough free guides.
1	Suicide: The Forever Decision	Dr. Paul G. Quinnett	Research paper		A clinical psychologist's book written directly to someone considering suicide, given away free by the QPR Institute.
1	Tactical Nuclear Weapons in Southeast Asia (JASON Study S-266)	F. J. Dyson, R. Gomer, S. Weinberg and S. C. Wright	Report	1967-03	The 1967 JASON study, by Freeman Dyson, Steven Weinberg and two colleagues, on whether using tactical nuclear weapons in Vietnam would make military…
1	Taking the Win over COVID-19 — Strategy Memo	Molly Murphy and Brian Stryker (Impact Research)	Research paper	2022-02-24	The February 2022 Democratic polling memo arguing the party should declare the COVID emergency over.
1	Technology and Ideology: The Case of the Telegraph	James W. Carey	Research paper	1983	James Carey's classic essay on how the telegraph separated communication from transportation and changed how people experienced time and markets.
1	Terminorum Musicae Index Septem Linguis Redactus	International Association of Music Libraries	Research paper	1978	A seven-language dictionary of musical terminology, assembled by the international music-library association.
1	The Allegory of the Hawk and Serpent	Christopher R. Cole, CFA	Research paper	2020-01
1	The Art of Computer Designing	Osamu Sato	Research paper	1993	Osamu Sato's cult book of computer-generated pattern work, from the maker of Eastern Mind.
1	The Art of Deception: Training for a New Generation of Online Covert Operations	GCHQ (Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group)	Research paper		The Snowden-disclosed GCHQ deck on online deception, discrediting targets and manipulating discourse.
1	The Art of Worldly Wisdom	Baltasar Gracián, translated by Joseph Jacobs	Research paper	1647	Gracián's 300 maxims on navigating a court — the seventeenth-century Jesuit's manual for operating among people.
1	The Barra US Equity Model (USE4) Methodology Notes	Jose Menchero, D. J. Orr and Jun Wang	Spec	2011	MSCI's August 2011 technical notes on USE4, the multi-factor US equity risk model that replaced USE3, covering factor exposures, factor returns,…
1	The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable and Maintainable Systems	Martin Kleppmann	Research paper		The opening chapters of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, released free as a sampler.
1	The Book of the Farm (Stephens, 4th Edition)	Henry Stephens; fourth edition revised, and in great part rewritten, by James Macdonald	Book	1889	The great Victorian farming encyclopedia — every labour of a Scottish mixed farm, from soils and ploughs to lambing, poultry, bees and crop rotation,…
1	The Butterfly	Emily Brontë	Article	1842	An English translation of Emily Brontë's 1842 Brussels essay: a walker who despairs of a nature built on destruction sees a butterfly and reads it as…
1	The Cook and the Chef- Musk's Secret Sauce (preview)	Tim Urban	Article	2015	The first five pages of Tim Urban's 2015 Wait But Why post that ends his Elon Musk series, opening the 'cook vs. chef' argument with a story about…
1	The Economic Organisation of a P.O.W. Camp	R. A. Radford	Research paper	1945-11	An economist's account of the market that grew up among Allied prisoners in WWII: cigarettes became money, with prices, inflation and middlemen.
1	The Eleven Laws of Showrunning	Javier Grillo-Marxuach	Report	2016-01-20	A TV writer-producer's management manual for running a writers' room, aimed at showrunners who confuse their creative process with the job.
1	The Entrepreneur's Guide to a Biotech Startup	Peter Kolchinsky	Book	2004	Peter Kolchinsky's 2004 free handbook (4th ed.) for scientists starting a biotech, device or diagnostics company, covering patents, people, finance,…
1	The Entropy Formula for the Ricci Flow and Its Geometric Applications	Grigori Perelman	Research paper	2002-11-11	Perelman's first Ricci-flow paper — posted to arXiv, never submitted to a journal, and it proved the Poincaré conjecture.
1	The Evolution of the DECsystem-10	C. Gordon Bell, Alan Kotok, Thomas N. Hastings, Richard Hill	Research paper	1978	DEC's own retrospective on why the PDP-10 lasted — a clean architecture and an address space big enough to be useful.
1	The Facial Expression Coding System (FACES) — User's Guide	Ann M. Kring and Denise Sloan	Research paper		Berkeley's observer-based system for coding facial expression — a cheaper alternative to FACS.
1	The Future of Trash: Waste Containerization Models and Viability in New York City	NYC Department of Sanitation	Research paper	2023-04	DSNY's study of whether New York can get its garbage off the sidewalk and into containers.
1	The Greater Key of Solomon	attributed to Solomon; ed. S. L. MacGregor Mathers	Research paper	1889	The best-known Renaissance grimoire, scanned from BYU's Harold B. Lee Library.
1	The Heart of the Matter		Research paper		A short piece arguing the heart is more than a pump — neurocardiology and the 'heart brain'.
1	The Hemi Network Whitepaper	Hemi Labs	Research paper	2023-08-29	A modular protocol proposing to make Bitcoin state readable from an EVM environment.
1	The Illusion of Reality- The Scientific Proof That Everything Is Energy	Unknown	Article	2018	An unsigned five-page web article claiming quantum physics proves everything is energy and consciousness, ending in a spiritual 'practice' for…
1	The In-Game Economics of Ultima Online	Zachary Booth Simpson	Research paper	1999-04-07	The 1999 GDC talk that first analysed a virtual world as a real economy with real inflation.
1	The Inner Game of Tennis	W. Timothy Gallwey	Research paper	1974	Gallwey's Self 1 and Self 2 — the book that taught a generation that the opponent is largely internal.
1	The Language Crystal: The Complete Solution to Civilization's Oldest Puzzle	Lawrence William Lyons	Research paper		A theory that English conceals an encoded layer — RA as Egyptian sun god and Hebrew word for evil, and outward from there.
1	The Last Question	Isaac Asimov	Research paper	1956	Asimov's own favourite of his stories — entropy, a computer, and trillions of years in nine pages.
1	The Luck Field Manual	Polymath Investor	Reference chart	2026-10-05	Six pages, 33 rules in nine parts for widening your "luck surface area" — take more shots, be visible, meet the right people, protect the downside,…
1	The Matrix Cookbook	Kaare Brandt Petersen and Michael Syskind Pedersen	Reference	2012	Every matrix identity you need and none of the prose. The canonical answer to "most underrated PDF" for anyone who has done the derivations.
1	The Mini-Manual for the Urban Defender	John Spencer	Research paper	2022-04-03	Written in the opening weeks of the invasion of Ukraine, for civilians defending a city.
1	The Mystery Method: How to Get Beautiful Women Into Bed	Erik von Markovik (\"Mystery\")	Research paper	2007	The seduction-community manual behind Neil Strauss's The Game, who wrote its foreword.
1	The National Security Strategy of the United States of America (2002)	The White House	Report	2002-09	The September 2002 Bush National Security Strategy, the document that set out preemption and American primacy after 9/11.
1	The Navy SEAL Physical Fitness Guide	edited by Patricia A. Deuster	Research paper	1997-08	The actual USUHS-authored SEAL fitness manual — exercise physiology, not motivational content.
1	The Order of Nine Angles	Institute for Strategic Dialogue	Research paper	2022-08	ISD's briefing on O9A — a decentralised satanic neo-Nazi network influential among accelerationist groups.
1	The Origins of Logistic Regression	J. S. Cramer	Research paper	2002	J. S. Cramer's 2002 history of the logistic function, from Verhulst's 1830s population curves to Berkson's 'logit' and McFadden's discrete-choice…
1	The Overfitted Brain- Dreams Evolved to Assist Generalization	Erik Hoel	Research paper	2020	Erik Hoel's 2020 hypothesis paper arguing that dreams evolved to stop the brain from overfitting to each day's experience, much as noise injection…
1	The Parabolic-Trigonometric Functions	G. Dattoli, M. Migliorati, M. Quattromini, P. E. Ricci	Research paper	2011-02	An ENEA paper introducing parabolic analogues of the circular and hyperbolic functions.
1	The Part-Time Parliament	Leslie Lamport	Research paper	1998-05	Paxos, disguised as archaeology — the consensus algorithm underneath most distributed systems.
1	The Physics of Baking Good Pizza	Andrey Varlamov, Andreas Glatz and Sergio Grasso	Research paper	2018-06	Physicists work out from heat transfer why a pizzeria's brick oven bakes a pizza in two minutes and a home metal oven can't match it.
1	The Physics of Space War: How Orbital Dynamics Constrain Space-to-Space Engagements	Rebecca Reesman and James R. Wilson (The Aerospace Corporation)	Report	2020-10	An Aerospace Corporation paper explaining why fighting in orbit looks nothing like science fiction: orbital mechanics sets the timing and the tactics.
1	The Planetary Report — September Equinox 2021	The Planetary Society	Research paper	2021-09	The Planetary Society's member magazine on the eve of the James Webb launch.
1	The Playboy Interview- Marshall McLuhan	Marshall McLuhan, interviewed by Eric Norden	Article	1969	McLuhan's March 1969 Playboy interview with Eric Norden on how media reshape the senses and society, lightly edited for a UC Davis technology-ethics…
1	The Problem of Increasing Human Energy	Nikola Tesla	Research paper	1900-06	Tesla's 1900 Century Magazine essay on the three ways to increase human energy, with special reference to harnessing the sun.
1	The Problem of Scale in Anarchism and the Case for Cybernetic Communism	Aurora Apolito	Research paper	2020	An essay that takes seriously the strongest objection to anarchism, that it works only at small scale, and asks whether decentralised computation…
1	The Psychological Foundations of Culture	John Tooby and Leda Cosmides	Research paper	1992	The founding manifesto of evolutionary psychology — the opening chapter of The Adapted Mind.
1	The Rio Scale Applied to Fictional SETI Detections	Seth Shostak and Ivan Almár	Research paper	2002	SETI Institute scientists score movie alien contacts (Contact, Independence Day and others) on the Rio Scale for how seriously a detection claim…
1	The Road to Self-Renewal	John W. Gardner	Research paper	1994-03	Gardner's short essay on staying alive intellectually after the external structure of achievement falls away.
1	The Road to Serfdom in Cartoons	F. A. Hayek / General Motors	Research paper	1945	Hayek's argument compressed into an eighteen-panel cartoon strip and mailed out by General Motors.
1	The Role of Forgetting in Learning	Shaul Markovitch and Paul D. Scott	Research paper	1988	A 1988 machine-learning paper showing that most knowledge a program learned was harmful to it, and that random forgetting improved performance.
1	The Roth Memory Course	David M. Roth	Book	1918	The 1918 correspondence course that taught a generation of American businessmen to memorise — now public domain, and still the clearest version of…
1	The Song Celestial — Bhagavad Gita	translated by Sir Edwin Arnold	Research paper	1885	Arnold's 1885 blank-verse translation of the Gita — the version that reached the English-speaking world first.
1	The Stranger	Albert Camus, translated by Stuart Gilbert	Research paper	1942	Camus's 1942 novel in Gilbert's translation — the one that gave English 'Mother died today.'
1	The Straussian Moment	Peter Thiel	Article	2007	Peter Thiel's 2007 essay arguing that 9/11 exposed the limits of Enlightenment politics, read through Locke, Carl Schmitt, Leo Strauss and René…
1	The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences	Eugene Wigner	Research paper	1960-02	Wigner's 1960 essay on why mathematics invented for its own sake keeps turning out to describe physical reality.
1	The Value of Science	Richard P. Feynman	Article	1955	Feynman's 1955 address on three values of science: power that can be used for good or bad, intellectual wonder, and the freedom to doubt, which he…
1	The Vignelli Canon	Massimo Vignelli	Book	2010	Massimo Vignelli's short book of design principles: intangibles such as semantics, discipline and timelessness, then tangibles such as grids, paper…
1	There's No Such Thing as a Free Watch	Museum of Capitalism	Research paper	2017-08-18	An investigative report tracing a single 'free' promotional watch back through its supply chain.
1	Thermophysical Properties of Matter (Incropera & DeWitt, Appendix A)	Frank P. Incropera and David P. DeWitt	Research paper		The property tables from Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer — the numbers every thermal calculation needs.
1	Thirst: A Short History of Drinking Water	James Salzman	Research paper	2005-12	A Duke law professor's history of how societies have decided who owns drinking water and who pays for it.
1	Thirty Years of Technology Investing (Fundamental Edge)	Brett Caughran / Fundamental Edge	Book	2026-10-18	A 180-page year-by-year history of US tech stock returns, 1996 to October 2026, written as a CIO teaching a junior analyst to tell which kind of year…
1	Three Doors to Other Worlds	Andrew Crompton	Research paper	2001	A Manchester architect's essay on three anonymous places that resist description and seem to be doorways out of the world.
1	Towards Virtual Reality Infinite Walking: Dynamic Saccadic Redirection	Qi Sun, Anjul Patney, Li-Yi Wei, Omer Shapira, Jingwan Lu, Paul Asente, Suwen Zhu, Morgan McGuire, David Luebke and Arie Kaufman	Research paper	2018-08	NVIDIA and Adobe research that rotates a VR world during the instant you are blind mid-saccade, so a small room can feel endless.
1	True Prep: It's a Whole New Old World	Lisa Birnbach with Chip Kidd	Research paper	2010	Birnbach's 2010 sequel to The Official Preppy Handbook, designed by Chip Kidd. 'Wake up, Muffy. We're back.'
1	U&lc: Upper and Lower Case, Vol. 20 No. 4	International Typeface Corporation	Research paper	1994	ITC's typography journal — the trade publication that taught a generation of designers to see type.
1	Understanding the Chinese Communist Party's Approach to Cyber-Enabled Economic Warfare	Zack Cooper	Research paper	2018-09	An FDD study of Chinese cyber operations aimed at economic rather than military advantage.
1	US Patent 713,795 — Filamentous Cracker (Shredded Wheat)	Henry D. Perky	Research paper	1902-11-18	Perky's 1902 patent for the shredded wheat biscuit — the document behind a landmark trademark case.
1	US VC Manager Style Drift (PitchBook, 2021)	PitchBook (Joshua Chao)	Report	2021-06	PitchBook's June 2021 note tracking how US VC firms shifted between generalist, targeted and specialist styles across 2006–2020.
1	Verus Vision	Michael J. Toutonghi et al.	Report	2018	The June 2018 vision paper for Verus, a privacy cryptocurrency forked from Komodo: plans for autochains, private identities, polls and lotteries,…
1	Visual Communication Design Terminology	Unknown	Reference chart	2016	A 15-page illustrated glossary of design elements and principles (point, line, shape, form, contrast, hierarchy) with examples of each.
1	Visualisation and Cognition — Drawing Things Together (Bruno Latour)	Bruno Latour	Research paper		Bruno Latour's essay arguing that science's power comes from inscriptions (maps, diagrams, tables) that can travel unchanged and be combined.
1	Walking Through Walls Training System (US Patent Application 2006-0014125)	John St. Clair	Spec	2006	A 2006 US patent application claiming a training method, timed strides along a printed footprint banner, to gather "hyperspace energy" and walk…
1	Warranted Christian Belief	Alvin Plantinga	Research paper	2000	Plantinga's argument that Christian belief can be rational without evidential argument — the third Warrant volume.
1	Watts — Neighborhood Council Urban Forest Summary	City of Los Angeles	Research paper		A two-page street-tree inventory for Watts: what is planted, in what numbers.
1	What Is Mindfulness?	Shinzen Young	Report	2016-06	A meditation teacher's 76-page attempt to define mindful awareness precisely, built around the noting practice.
1	What Is Typography? — Letter Anatomy		Research paper		A typography course handout on letterform anatomy — the vocabulary for seeing type.
1	What You Should Know About Megaprojects, and Why	Bent Flyvbjerg	Research paper	2014	Why big projects overrun, by the researcher who assembled the dataset — nine out of ten go over budget, and the reasons are structural.
1	Who Will Be Eaten First?	Howard Hallis	Research paper	2004	Hallis's 2004 illustrated satire — a Cthulhu-mythos pamphlet in the format of a religious tract.
1	Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men	Lundy Bancroft	Research paper	2002	Bancroft's study of abusive men, drawn from fifteen years running court-mandated programmes for batterers.
1	Why Restaurants Fail	H. G. Parsa, John T. Self, David Njite and Tiffany King	Research paper	2005	The Cornell Quarterly study that debunked the "90% of restaurants fail in year one" myth: the real figure was about 26%.
1	William S. Farish and Standard Oil's Wartime Dealings		Research paper		An account of Standard Oil of New Jersey's 1942 no-contest plea over its cartel agreements with IG Farben.
1	WSL US Open of Surfing 2021 — Men's Heat Draw	World Surf League	Reference chart	2021-09	The one-page men's heat draw for the World Surf League's Challenger Series US Open of Surfing at Huntington Beach, 20–26 September 2021.
1	You and Your Research	Richard Hamming	Talk	1986	Hamming's 1986 Bell Labs talk on why capable people mostly do not do important work — sixteen pages, and unusually blunt about it.
1	Youth Mode- A Report on Freedom	K-HOLE	Report	2013	K-HOLE and Box 1824's October 2013 trend report arguing youth is a mode anyone can enter, and naming "Normcore": belonging found by opting in to…
1	Zankou Chicken — Menu		Reference		An undated one-page takeout menu for Zankou Chicken, the Los Angeles rotisserie chain: chicken plates, kabobs, wraps, family meals, sides and its…
	'My Tiny, Ugly World': The Confession of Rabbi Yitzhak Nahum Twersky of Shpikov	David Assaf	Research paper	2006-10	A historian presents and translates a 1910 letter in which a young heir to a Hasidic dynasty confessed his despair with, and hatred of, the Hasidic…
	5 Worst Businesses to Start in 2024 (transcript)	Unattributed video transcript	Article	2024	A transcript of a YouTube video on the 'five worst businesses to start or buy' — ATM routes, Amazon FBA, retail, restaurants and hotels — with a…
	A Cyborg Manifesto - Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century	Donna J. Haraway	Article	1985	Haraway's 1985 essay proposing the cyborg — part machine, part organism — as an ironic political myth for socialist-feminism in an age of information…
	A History of USOs: Unidentified Submerged Objects, Volume 1: From the Beginning to 1969	Richard Dolan	Book	2025-03	UFO author Richard Dolan's self-published catalogue of reported sightings of unidentified objects in or under the sea, from Columbus to 1969.
	A Message to Garcia	Elbert Hubbard	Article	1899	Elbert Hubbard's 1899 essay praising Lt. Rowan, who carried a letter to a Cuban rebel leader without asking questions, as the model of initiative and…
	A New Decade for Private Markets — McKinsey Global Private Markets Review 2020	McKinsey & Company	Report	2020-02	McKinsey's annual review of private-markets fundraising, assets, deals and performance, February 2020 edition.
	A Research Roadmap - Replacing Brain Cells to Combat Brain Aging	Rohan N. Krajeski, Kyle M. Loh, Jean M. Hébert, Alexander Dityatev, Tyson Ruetz, Timothy J. Gardner, Nicole G. Coufal, Xin Jin, Alex Colville, Raiany S. Romanni, Joanne Z. Peng, James Fickel	Report	2023-11	An Amaranth Foundation white paper (2023) from a neuroscience workshop, setting out moonshot research directions for replacing aged brain cells.
	A Scattered Look at Harassment Architecture	Mike Ma	Book	2019	Mike Ma's self-published 2019 book of fragmentary far-right fiction and rants, mixing nihilistic humour with fantasies of violence against modern…
	A Treatise on Cancer, and Its Treatment	J. Weldon Fell	Book	1857	An 1857 London treatise by American doctor J. Weldon Fell describing his method of treating tumours with a bloodroot-and-zinc-chloride paste.
	A-ha! Positioning (Cunningham Collective Seminar, 2015)	Becky Bausman, Cunningham Collective	Talk	2015-10-08	Slide deck from a 2015 startup seminar arguing that positioning is strategy: a precise, fact-based statement of what you do, for whom, and why it…
	Above the Crowd — Bill Gurley (compiled by Kevin G.)	Bill Gurley; compiled by Kevin G.	Book	2019	A 652-page compilation of Bill Gurley's Above the Crowd posts from 1994 to 2019.
	Abundance (Klein and Thompson)	Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson	Book	2025-03	Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson argue that American liberalism made it too hard to build housing, energy and infrastructure, and call for a politics…
	Advertising and its Discontents	Renaud Fossard, Robbie Gillett and Emilie Tricarico (The Subvertisers' International)	Report	2022-06	A 2022 activist report from the Subvertisers' International arguing that corporate advertising drives overconsumption and climate harm, with…
	Against Method	Paul Feyerabend	Book	1975	Feyerabend's argument that science has no single method and that progress often comes from breaking the rules: "anything goes." Third edition, Verso,…
	Airborne LiDAR, Archaeology, and the Ancient Maya Landscape at Caracol, Belize	Arlen F. Chase, Diane Z. Chase, John F. Weishampel, Jason B. Drake, Ramesh L. Shrestha, K. Clint Slatton, Jaime J. Awe, William E. Carter	Research paper	2011-02	The 2011 paper showing that airborne LiDAR could map an entire Maya city under rainforest canopy, revealing Caracol's causeways, terraces and…
	Airport Planning Manual — Embraer ERJ 145	Embraer — Empresa Brasileira de Aeronáutica S.A.	Spec	2007-01-29	Embraer's airport planning manual for the ERJ 145 regional jet (APM-145/1100, Revision N, 2007): dimensions, turning radii, ground servicing and…
	America's Industrial Reboot — A Massive Tech Opportunity (Coatue)	Sri Viswanath; Armin Kohan (Coatue)	Report	2025-02-26	Coatue's 2025 deck arguing that a consolidated, cost-plus US defense industry has stagnated, and that startups in drones, autonomy, space and nuclear…
	An American Engineer in China	Wm. Barclay Parsons	Book	1900	William Barclay Parsons's 1900 account of surveying a railway route through Hunan for American investors, and his view of China's prospects for…
	An Encyclopaedia of Cottage, Farm, and Villa Architecture and Furniture	J. C. Loudon	Book	1833	J. C. Loudon's huge 1833 pattern book of designs for cottages, farm buildings, inns, villas and their furniture; this copy is the 1846 edition.
	An Explosive Decompression Accident	J. C. Giertsen, E. Sandstad, I. Morild, G. Bang, A. J. Bjersand, S. Eidsvik	Research paper	1988	The forensic pathology report on the 1983 Byford Dolphin diving-bell accident, in which four divers died when their chamber decompressed suddenly.
	An Introduction to Archetypal Astrology	Richard Tarnas	Article		Richard Tarnas's short primer on reading a birth chart and transits in the 'archetypal astrology' tradition he associates with depth psychology.
	Analysis of the Personality of Adolph Hitler	Henry A. Murray, M.D., Harvard Psychological Clinic (for the Office of Strategic Services)	Report	1943-10	Harvard psychologist Henry Murray's 1943 OSS profile of Hitler, with predictions of his behaviour (including suicide in defeat) and advice on dealing…
	Anatomy of the Psyche: Alchemical Symbolism in Psychotherapy	Edward F. Edinger	Book	1985	A Jungian analyst reads the stages of Western alchemy as images of psychological transformation in psychotherapy.
	AppleDesign: The Work of the Apple Industrial Design Group	Paul Kunkel; photographs by Rick English	Book	1997	A 1997 illustrated history of Apple's Industrial Design Group, from the Apple II through the mid-1990s, with photographs by Rick English.
	Areas of Interest in the UFO Community and Their Significance	Unknown	Reference		An unsigned table of some 170+ government, military and corporate sites that UFO believers associate with crashed craft, alien bodies and secret…
	Atomic Habits — Chapter 1 Excerpt	James Clear	Book	2018	The publisher's 20-page excerpt of chapter 1 of Atomic Habits.
	Authority and American Usage	David Foster Wallace	Article	2005	Wallace's long essay on usage dictionaries, prescriptivism versus descriptivism, and what he calls the politics of Standard Written English, framed…
	Avalon: ASR for Human–AI Interaction	Jack McIntire, Finnian Brown (Aqua Voice)	Spec	2025-08	The model card for Avalon, Aqua Voice's speech-recognition model tuned for people talking to computers and AI, especially about software and code.
	Bell Laboratories Record, June 1965 (No. 1 ESS issue)	Bell Telephone Laboratories	Article	1965-06	A special issue of Bell Labs' house magazine on the No. 1 Electronic Switching System, the first stored-program telephone exchange, put into service…
	Big Data Market Outlook and Forecasts 2021–2028	Mind Commerce Publishing	Report	2021	A 320-page commercial market-research report from Mind Commerce on big data technology, uses by industry, and market forecasts for 2021–2028.
	Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch	Henry Miller	Book	1957	Henry Miller's 1957 memoir of his years living on the Big Sur coast of California, its neighbors and visitors, and the simple life he found there.
	Bitcoin Compilation (compiled by Kevin G.)	Various; compiled by Kevin G.	Book	2020	A reader's anthology of essays on Bitcoin, listed on the compiler's site as "Intro to Bitcoin".
	Blue Chip Stamps, 1978–1982 (Charlie Munger; compiled by Kevin G.)	Charlie Munger; compiled by Kevin G.	Report		A compilation titled Blue Chip Stamps, 1978–1982, listed under Charlie Munger in a reader's series of investor compilations.
	BNT162b2 Module 3 FDA Query Responses (November 2020)	Pfizer / BioNTech	Report	2020-11-20	Pfizer-BioNTech regulatory sections, carrying Pfizer's internal-use markings, on manufacturing the mRNA drug substance for the BNT162b2 COVID-19…
	Boy Scouts Handbook: The First Edition, 1911	Boy Scouts of America	Book	1911	The first official handbook of the Boy Scouts of America (1911), covering scoutcraft, woodcraft, camping, first aid, chivalry and citizenship.
	Brain-Washing - A Synthesis of the Russian Textbook on Psychopolitics	Attributed to L. Ron Hubbard (disputed)	Book		A Cold War tract claiming to be a secret Soviet manual on 'psychopolitics' — conquering nations through mental health care — now generally regarded…
	Business Book Summaries — 40 Books		Book		A 197-page compilation of five-page summaries of 40 business books.
	Business Ethics and the Origins of Contemporary Capitalism: Economics and Ethics in the Work of Adam Smith and Herbert Spencer	Patricia H. Werhane	Research paper	2000	Patricia Werhane argues that Herbert Spencer, not Adam Smith, is the true individualist and 'night watchman' theorist behind modern ideas of…
	Catastrophic Failure: Blindfolding America in the Face of Jihad	Stephen Coughlin	Book	2015-04	Stephen Coughlin's 2015 book arguing that US national-security institutions misread the Islamist threat because of political correctness and outreach…
	China - Domestic Change and Foreign Policy	Michael D. Swaine with Donald P. Henry	Report	1995	A 1995 RAND study for the Pentagon on how China's domestic politics, military, society and economy were likely to shape its foreign policy over the…
	Chinese Philosemitism and Historical Statecraft: Incorporating Jews and Israel into Contemporary Chinese Civilizationism	Mary J. Ainslie	Research paper	2020-04	Mary Ainslie argues that China's idealisation of Jews and Israel serves as soft power and as part of a civilizationist narrative that places China at…
	City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles	Mike Davis	Book	1990	Mike Davis's 1990 history of Los Angeles as a city built by boosters, developers and police power, read through its myths, politics and land.
	Co-Creative Evolution: An Evolutionary Model of Consciousness	Aminom	Article	2023	A short self-published essay that maps conscious creativity onto evolution: questions as variation, choices as selection, actions as reproduction.
	Coatue EMW 2025 — Keynote	Coatue	Report	2025-06-17	Coatue's 2025 East Meets West keynote: a bullish read on AI as the next tech wave, the risks to it, why top companies stay private, and its…
	Company Officer's Handbook of the German Army	Military Intelligence Division, U.S. War Department	Reference	1944-03-31	A 1944 U.S. Army intelligence handbook briefing American company officers on how the German army organised, fought and defended.
	Comparative Mythology	Jaan Puhvel	Book	1987	Jaan Puhvel's 1987 survey of the myths of the Indo-European peoples and what comparing them suggests about a shared inherited tradition.
	Connection Theory: The Current Evidence	Geoff Anders	Research paper	2011-09-21	Geoff Anders's 2011 draft setting out the evidence for and against Connection Theory, his model of human psychology developed at Leverage Research.
	Cowboy Ventures 2023 Unicorn Analysis — Sector Deep Dives	Cowboy Ventures	Report	2023-12	A 20-slide Cowboy Ventures deck breaking 2023's unicorns into 19 sectors, with a chart and short commentary on the most valuable companies in each.
	Creating Shared Value (Porter & Kramer, HBR 2011)	Michael E. Porter; Mark R. Kramer	Research paper	2011-01	The Harvard Business Review article that introduced "shared value".
	Creation of Artificial Ionospheric Layers Using High-Power HF Waves	T. Pedersen, B. Gustavsson, E. Mishin, E. Kendall, T. Mills, H. C. Carlson and A. L. Snyder	Research paper	2010	A 2010 Geophysical Research Letters paper reporting the first evidence that the HAARP transmitter in Alaska produced artificial plasma layers dense…
	Cutting Crime and Restoring Order: What America Can Learn from New York's Finest	William J. Bratton	Talk	1996-10-15	Heritage Lecture No. 573, in which former NYPD commissioner Bill Bratton explains how New York cut serious crime by about a third in 1994–96 and what…
	Dark Energy and the Symbiosis Between Micro-physics and Cosmology (Naturally)	C. P. Burgess	Research paper	2025-08-31	Lecture notes by physicist C. P. Burgess using the puzzle of dark energy to show how particle physics and cosmology now depend on each other, with a…
	Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed	Ray Bradbury	Book	1949	Ray Bradbury's short story about an Earth family stranded on Mars who are slowly, irresistibly transformed into Martians.
	Databricks — Series A Pitch Deck (May 30, 2013)	Databricks	Report	2013-05-30	Databricks' 36-slide May 2013 Series A deck: Spark beats Hadoop, a hosted analytics service, an open-source strategy, and a budget assuming a $10M…
	Datadog S-1 (2019)	Datadog, Inc.	Report	2019-08-23	Datadog's registration statement for its 2019 IPO.
	Deceit, Desire, and the Novel - Self and Other in Literary Structure	René Girard; translated by Yvonne Freccero	Book	1961	Girard's first book: reading Cervantes, Stendhal, Flaubert, Proust and Dostoevsky, he argues that desire is borrowed from a model — the origin of his…
	Deng's Finale: The Southern Journey, 1992	Ezra F. Vogel	Book	2011	Chapter 23 of Ezra Vogel's Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China: Deng's 1992 southern tour, which restarted market reform after Tiananmen.
	Drone Swarming Tactics Using Reinforcement Learning and Policy Optimization	Midshipman 1/C Elizabeth K. Gergal, USN (United States Naval Academy)	Research paper	2021	A 2021 Naval Academy Trident Scholar report that trains simulated fixed-wing drone swarms with reinforcement learning to see what tactics emerge.
	Druuna: Morbus Gravis	Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri	Book	1985	The first album of Serpieri's erotic science-fiction comic Druuna, set in a decaying city whose people are succumbing to a mutating disease. French…
	DTV	Michael Moritz	Book	2020	Michael Moritz's privately circulated portrait of Sequoia founder Don Valentine and the firm's first chapter, from 1972 to 1996.
	Effect of Acupressure at the BL67 Spot on the Spontaneous Rotation of Fetus with Breech Presentation	Azam Hamidzadeh, Zeinab Tavakol, Maryam Maleki, Sakineh Kolahdozan, Ahmad Khosravi, Mahdieh Kiani, Mojtaba Vaismoradi	Research paper	2022	An Iranian randomised trial (138 women) reporting that daily acupressure at the BL67 point on the little toe turned far more breech babies head-down…
	Eighth Grade Examination for Bullitt County Schools, November 1912	Bullitt County Schools, Kentucky	Reference	1912-11	The 1912 Kentucky county exam eighth-graders took to finish school: spelling, arithmetic, grammar, geography, physiology, civil government and…
	Energy and Civilization: A History	Vaclav Smil	Book	2017	Vaclav Smil's history of humanity told through energy: from human and animal muscle and biomass to coal, oil and electricity, and what each…
	Engineer Memoirs: Major General William E. Potter, USA, Retired	William E. Potter, interviewed by Martin Reuss (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)	Book	1983-07	Oral-history memoir (EP 870-1-12) of Army engineer "Joe" Potter: Corps of Engineers, Panama Canal Zone governor, 1964 World's Fair and the building…
	Eric Schmidt Inc.	Bull Moose Project (per Fox News coverage; no author named in the document)	Report	2023-06	An advocacy group's report mapping Eric Schmidt's investments, foundations and political ties and arguing they amount to an influence network over US…
	Erik Jan Hanussen: Hitler's Jewish Clairvoyant	Mel Gordon	Book	2001	Mel Gordon's biography of Hanussen, a Jewish-born stage mentalist who became a celebrity seer in Weimar Berlin and was murdered in 1933.
	Euryphysics: A (Somewhat) New Conceptual Model of Mind, Reality and Psi	Ben Goertzel	Research paper	2017	Ben Goertzel's speculative model of a wider, mind-like reality (the "eurycosm") offered as an explanation of consciousness and psi phenomena such as…
	Explosion of Sun	Alexander Bolonkin, Joseph Friedlander	Research paper	2013-07	A speculative 2013 paper claiming the Sun could explode through a runaway nuclear reaction, published in a journal from the disputed SCIRP publisher.
	Explosives Engineering	Paul W. Cooper	Book	1996	Paul W. Cooper's university-level engineering textbook on the physics and chemistry of explosives: thermochemistry, shock waves and detonation theory.
	Falcon 9 Launch Vehicle Payload User's Guide, Rev 2	SpaceX	Spec	2015-10-21	SpaceX's 2015 guide for satellite customers: Falcon 9's vehicle, performance to orbit, payload environments, interfaces, pricing and launch…
	Fangs of the Lone Wolf - Chechen Tactics in the Russian-Chechen Wars 1994-2009	Dodge Billingsley with Lester W. Grau	Book	2012	A U.S. Army FMSO study retelling the Chechen wars from the guerrillas' side: about 30 small-unit combat vignettes, built from interviews with Chechen…
	Feasibility of Rocket Propellant Production on Mars	R. L. Ash, W. L. Dowler, G. Varsi	Research paper	1978	A 1978 JPL study showing that making methane and oxygen propellant on Mars from atmospheric CO2 and soil water could cut the mass a return mission…
	Federal Decree-Law No. (40) of 2023 on Mediation and Conciliation in Civil and Commercial Disputes	United Arab Emirates (issued by President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan)	Spec	2023-09-28	The UAE's 2023 federal law consolidating the rules for mediation and court-linked conciliation in civil and commercial disputes.
	Form and Event: Principles for an Interpretation of the Greek World	Carlo Diano; translated by Timothy C. Campbell and Lia Turtas; introduction by Jacques Lezra	Book	1952	Italian classicist Carlo Diano's 1952 essay reading Greek thought through two categories, "form" and "event"; the 2020 Fordham University Press…
	Futurist Aristocracy, No. 1 (1923)	N. L. Castelli (ed.)	Article	1923-04	The single English-language issue of Nanni Leone Castelli's New York Futurist magazine, April 1923: manifestos, poems and images celebrating speed…
	Gandalf × Girard — Peter Thiel (compiled by Kevin G.)	Peter Thiel; compiled by Kevin G.	Book		A reader's compilation of Peter Thiel's writing and talks.
	Geospatial Technology (AGC Partners, January 2019)	AGC Partners	Report	2019-01	AGC Partners' sector report on geospatial technology.
	Give War a Chance	Edward N. Luttwak	Article	1999-07	Luttwak's 1999 Foreign Affairs essay arguing that premature cease-fires and humanitarian intervention prolong wars that would otherwise end in…
	Grimoire for the Apprentice Wizard	Oberon Zell-Ravenheart	Book	2004	A 2004 illustrated handbook of 'wizardry' for young readers by neo-pagan leader Oberon Zell-Ravenheart, mixing magic lore, nature study, mythology…
	HAARP Imaging Riometer Diagnostic	T. J. Rosenberg (Advanced Power Technologies, Inc.)	Report	1997-07-16	A 1997 Air Force contractor report on a prototype imaging riometer built at the HAARP site in Alaska to map radio absorption in the ionosphere.
	Highway to Hitler	Nico Voigtländer and Hans-Joachim Voth	Research paper	2014-05	An NBER paper finding that Autobahn construction in Nazi Germany raised support for the regime, because propaganda tied the roads to economic…
	Hitler Youth, 1922–1945: An Illustrated History	Jean-Denis G. G. Lepage	Book	2009	An illustrated history of the Nazi youth organisation from its founding to 1945, by military-history illustrator Jean-Denis Lepage (McFarland, 2009).
	Hodong — The Value Investor in Venture, Ho Nam (compiled by Kevin G.)	Ho Nam; compiled by Kevin G.	Book		A reader's compilation of writing by Ho Nam of Altos Ventures.
	Hopi Dictionary: Hopìikwa Lavàytutuveni	The Hopi Dictionary Project (Kenneth C. Hill, editor-in-chief)	Reference	1998	The first full dictionary of the Hopi language (Third Mesa dialect), about 30,000 entries with an English–Hopi finder list and a sketch of Hopi…
	How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions?	Paul Gompers, William Gornall, Steven N. Kaplan, Ilya A. Strebulaev	Research paper	2016-09	NBER Working Paper 22587: a survey of how venture capitalists source, select, value and support investments.
	How Girls Can Help Their Country: The 1913 Handbook for Girl Scouts	W. J. Hoxie	Book	1913	The first American Girl Scout handbook (1913): practical guidance on camping, nature study, first aid, home skills and citizenship for girls.
	How the Pre-Hitler German Universities Were Run	Ernst H. Kantorowicz	Talk	1945-11-10	Historian Ernst Kantorowicz's 1945 address to the Western College Association on how German universities were governed before 1933.
	How to Bomb the U.S. Gov't	Sam Hyde / Million Dollar Extreme	Book	2017	A dark-comedy illustrated book from Sam Hyde's sketch group Million Dollar Extreme; despite the title it is a joke book, not a manual.
	How to Start Your Own Country	Erwin S. Strauss	Book	1979	Erwin S. Strauss's survey of attempts to found new countries, with five approaches compared and dozens of case histories from Sealand to artificial…
	Humans to Mars: Fifty Years of Mission Planning, 1950–2000	David S. F. Portree	Book	2001-02	A NASA History Division monograph tracing half a century of plans to send people to Mars, from von Braun's 1950s armada to the 1990s Mars Direct and…
	Improving Human Rights and Genocide Studies in the American High School Classroom	Timothy J. Walz	Research paper	2001-12	Tim Walz's 2001 master's paper at Minnesota State, Mankato, arguing that the Holocaust should be taught within a wider study of genocide and human…
	In Plane Sight: Wildlife Trafficking in the Air Transport Sector	Mary Utermohlen and Patrick Baine (C4ADS, for the USAID ROUTES Partnership)	Report	2018	A 2018 C4ADS study of nine years of seizure data showing how ivory, rhino horn, pangolins, reptiles, birds and other wildlife are smuggled through…
	Influence of Ultraviolet Irradiation upon Excretion of Sex Hormones in the Male	Abraham Myerson and Rudolph Neustadt	Research paper	1939-07	A 1939 Endocrinology paper reporting that ultraviolet irradiation raised urinary androsterone in a handful of male psychiatric patients, most when…
	Inside the Space Ships	George Adamski	Book	1955	George Adamski's 1955 sequel to Flying Saucers Have Landed, narrating his claimed trips aboard spaceships and talks with Venusian and other 'space…
	Interstellar Travel: The Wait Calculation and the Incentive Trap of Progress	Andrew Kennedy	Research paper	2006-07	A JBIS paper modelling when an interstellar voyage should leave, given that later ships will be faster, and finding a departure date that beats…
	Introduction to The Philosophy of History	G. W. F. Hegel; translated with an introduction by Leo Rauch	Book	1988	Leo Rauch's translation of the introduction to Hegel's lectures on world history, which presents history as the progress of the consciousness of…
	Investment Principles & Checklists		Report		A 148-page compilation of investing principles and checklists drawn from well-known investors.
	Is the Modern Psyche Undergoing a Rite of Passage?	Richard Tarnas	Article		Richard Tarnas's essay arguing that the modern West's rival stories of progress and decline are both partial, and that our era is better read as a…
	Jacobin, Issue 59 (Fall 2025): Borders	Jacobin (Daniel Finn, Nika Soon-Shiong, David Broder, Oliver Eagleton and others)	Article	2025	The Fall 2025 issue of the socialist magazine Jacobin, themed on borders, migration and deportation politics.
	Jeff Bezos — Always Day One (compiled by Kevin G.)	Jeff Bezos; compiled by Kevin G.	Book		A reader's compilation of Jeff Bezos's letters, transcripts and articles.
	John Michell: A Modern Merlin	Fortean Times (Bob Rickard, John Nicholson, Patrick Harpur, Allan Brown and others)	Article	2009	A Fortean Times tribute feature marking 40 years of John Michell's 'The View Over Atlantis', the 1969 book that popularised ley lines and sacred…
	Jury Nullification: The Evolution of a Doctrine	Clay S. Conrad	Book	1998	Houston lawyer Clay Conrad's history of the jury's power to acquit against the law, from Bushell's Case and colonial trials to modern courts. Cato…
	Know Your Communist Enemy: International Communism, Its Teachings, Aims, and Methods	Office of Armed Forces Information and Education, US Department of Defense	Report	1954-12	The first pamphlet in a 1950s Defense Department series for US servicemen explaining communist doctrine, aims and methods from a Cold War viewpoint.
	KONA BLUE - DHS Prospective Special Access Program Records	U.S. Department of Homeland Security; released by the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO)	Report	2024-02-05	Declassified DHS records on KONA BLUE, a proposed 2011 special access program to study claimed recovered "advanced aerospace" technology; it was…
	La Sierra High School Physical Education - Concepts, Philosophy	La Sierra High School Physical Education Department, San Juan Unified School District	Reference	1966-01	A 1966 handbook from La Sierra High School in Carmichael, California, laying out the philosophy, colour-ranking system and fitness tests of its…
	Large emissions from floodplain trees close the Amazon methane budget	Sunitha R. Pangala, Alex Enrich-Prast, Luana S. Basso, et al., Vincent Gauci	Research paper	2017-12	A Nature letter showing that the stems of Amazon floodplain trees vent enough methane to account for the gap between measured and estimated emissions…
	Laws of Media: The New Science	Marshall McLuhan and Eric McLuhan	Book	1988	McLuhan's posthumous last book, completed by his son, setting out the 'tetrad': four questions about what any medium enhances, obsolesces, retrieves…
	Lecture 1: Knowledge Shall Be Increased	Kshitij Kulkarni (notes on a lecture by Peter Thiel)	Talk	2025-09	An attendee's notes on the first of Peter Thiel's 2025 lectures on the Antichrist, on Daniel's prophecy, the stalling of science and apocalyptic fear…
	Life at Low Reynolds Number	E. M. Purcell	Talk	1977	Physicist E. M. Purcell's famous talk on how bacteria swim in a world where viscosity dominates and inertia is irrelevant, so ordinary swimming…
	Lifting the Veil: An Investigative History of the United States Pathocracy	Timothy M. Silver	Book	2014-03-12	A self-published 2014 book linking documented US intelligence programs (MK-ULTRA, Gladio, COINTELPRO) to claims of elite child abuse rings and mind…
	Liturgical Cosmology: The Theological and Sacramental Dimensions of Creation in the Ethiopian Liturgy	Mebratu Kiros Gebru	Research paper	2012	A 2012 Toronto School of Theology PhD thesis building a theology of creation from the prayers and sacraments of the Ethiopian Orthodox Täwaḥədo…
	Live Players (8Ball Report, Pt. 1)	Sean Monahan (8Ball)	Report	2023-11	A 2023 trend-forecasting report from 8Ball arguing that a shifting social order makes everyone a 'live player', and that money has become the era's…
	Macro-Engineering: A Challenge for the Future	Viorel Badescu, Richard B. Cathcart and Roelof D. Schuiling (eds.)	Book	2006	A 2006 Springer edited volume on planet-scale engineering schemes: geoengineering, CO2 sequestration, space solar power, space towers, orbiting…
	Margin of Safety (Seth Klarman) — Full Text	Seth A. Klarman	Book	1991	Seth Klarman's out-of-print book on risk-averse value investing.
	Marketwise — Danny Rimer (compiled by Kevin G.)	Danny Rimer; compiled by Kevin G.	Book		A reader's compilation of Danny Rimer's "Marketwise" and "In Your Space" columns.
	Mathematical Manuscripts of Karl Marx	Karl Marx	Book	1968	Marx's notes and drafts on the foundations of differential calculus from the 1870s and 1880s, first published in 1968; this is the 1983 English…
	MBA Mondays — Fred Wilson (compiled by Kevin G.)	Fred Wilson; compiled by Kevin G.	Book		A compilation of Fred Wilson's MBA Mondays series from his blog AVC.
	Memoirs of Heinrich Schliemann: A Documentary Portrait Drawn from His Autobiographical Writings, Letters, and Excavation Reports	Leo Deuel	Book	1977	Leo Deuel's life of Heinrich Schliemann, excavator of Troy and Mycenae, told largely through Schliemann's own memoirs, letters and dig reports.
	Memories: A Personal History of Bell Telephone Laboratories	A. Michael Noll	Book	2015	A former Bell Labs researcher's memoir of the Murray Hill laboratory in the 1960s: its buildings, people, culture and way of doing research.
	Meritech 2024 Market Update (AGM Market Section, External)	Alex Clayton (Meritech Capital)	Report	2024	Meritech's 2024 annual-meeting market deck: public SaaS is cheap and slow, late-stage funding is back but exits are scarce, and AI could make…
	Miaphysite Christology: An Ethiopian Perspective	Mebratu Kiros Gebru	Book	2010	A short scholarly book explaining the Ethiopian Orthodox teaching on the one united nature of Christ, its history in Ethiopia and its key Ge'ez terms.
	Narratives of War: Ukrainian Memetic Warfare on Twitter	Yelena Mejova, Arthur Capozzi, Corrado Monti, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales	Research paper	2023-09	A study of memes posted by official Ukrainian accounts and meme pages after Russia's 2022 invasion, finding that 'victim' narratives drew about twice…
	Netskope S-1 Breakdown (Meritech)	Alex Clayton; Austin Wang (Meritech Capital)	Report	2025	Meritech's slide teardown of Netskope's August 2025 IPO filing: $707M ARR growing 33%, still burning cash, with an illustrative $7-9B valuation range.
	New World Vistas: Air and Space Power for the 21st Century — Directed Energy Volume	USAF Scientific Advisory Board	Report	1995	The directed-energy volume of the US Air Force's 1995 New World Vistas forecast, projecting laser and microwave weapons over 10, 20 and 30 years.
	Nihilism: The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age	Fr. Seraphim Rose	Book	1994	An Orthodox Christian critique of modern thought, tracing a line from liberalism through realism and vitalism to a 'nihilism of destruction' behind…
	Oaktree — Memos from Our Chairman, 1990 – July 2011 (Howard Marks)	Howard Marks	Book	1990–2011	Howard Marks's client memos collected in one file.
	On Pins and Needles With Leslie Wexner	Julie Baumgold	Article	1985-08-05	A 1985 New York magazine profile of The Limited's founder Leslie Wexner, built around the restless 'dybbuk' he said drove him.
	On the Reception and Detection of Pseudo-Profound Bullshit	Gordon Pennycook, James Allan Cheyne, Nathaniel Barr, Derek J. Koehler, Jonathan A. Fugelsang	Research paper	2015-11	Four studies showing that people who rate randomly generated buzzword sentences as profound also tend toward intuitive thinking and supernatural…
	On the Ten Major Relationships	Mao Tsetung	Talk	1956-04-25	Mao's April 1956 speech to the Politburo on ten tensions in building socialism, starting with heavy industry versus light industry and agriculture,…
	On the Thugs	An officer in the service of His Highness the Nizam (anonymous)	Article	1833-07	An 1833 magazine account, sent by an officer in the Nizam of Hyderabad's service, describing the Thugs, bands in India who befriended and strangled…
	Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word	Walter J. Ong	Book	1982	Walter Ong's 1982 classic on how writing and print changed human thought, contrasting oral cultures with literate ones and extending the analysis to…
	Original Draft of Dedicatory Prayer of the St. George Temple	Erastus Snow (delivered); unofficial family transcription	Reference	1877-01-01	A two-page rough transcription of Erastus Snow's prayer at the partial dedication of the St. George Temple on January 1, 1877.
	Perspective on McKinsey (PDF copy)	Marvin Bower	Book	1979	Marvin Bower's internal account of how McKinsey & Company was built, its professional values and its staffing and management philosophy, written for…
	Persuasion and Rhetoric	Carlo Michelstaedter; translated by Russell Scott Valentino, Cinzia Sartini Blum and David J. Depew	Book	1913	The Italian philosopher Michelstaedter's 1910 thesis contrasting 'persuasion', a life fully possessed in the present, with 'rhetoric', the comforting…
	Petro White Paper (Beta Financial Proposal 0.9)	Government of Venezuela	Spec	2018-01-30	Venezuela's 2018 white paper for the Petro, a state-issued cryptocurrency said to be backed by the country's oil reserves.
	Police Crowd Control (Zine)	tom nom(A)d	Article		An anarchist zine explaining U.S. police and military crowd-control doctrine (from Army manual FM 3-19.15) to protesters, so they can anticipate…
	Possibility of Experimental Study of Properties of Time	N. A. Kozyrev	Research paper		Soviet astronomer Nikolai Kozyrev's English-translated paper proposing that time is an active physical force and describing torsion-balance and…
	Predictive Validity in Drug Discovery: What It Is, Why It Matters and How to Improve It	Jack W. Scannell, James Bosley, John A. Hickman, Gerard R. Dawson, Hubert Truebel, Guilherme S. Ferreira, Duncan Richards and J. Mark Treherne	Research paper	2022-10-04	A Nature Reviews Drug Discovery Perspective arguing that drug R&D productivity depends heavily on how well screens and disease models predict…
	Principles and Techniques for Designing Precision Machines	Layton Carter Hale	Research paper	1999-02	An MIT PhD thesis, issued as a Lawrence Livermore report, setting out the principles of precision engineering and how to design machines that are…
	PRISM Vol. 8, No. 3: Singularity	National Defense University (Michael Miklaucic, editor in chief)	Report	2019	A 2019 issue of the National Defense University's security journal on emerging military technology: cyber-physical systems, directed energy,…
	Project MKULTRA, the CIA's Program of Research in Behavioral Modification	U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research	Report	1977-08-03	The record of the August 1977 Senate hearing on MKULTRA, the CIA's secret 1950s–60s program of drug and behavior-modification research, including…
	Proofs and Refutations: The Logic of Mathematical Discovery	Imre Lakatos; edited by John Worrall and Elie Zahar	Book	1976	Lakatos's dialogue, set in an imaginary classroom, showing mathematics growing through conjectures, proofs and counterexamples rather than by pure…
	Proust - A Collection of Critical Essays	René Girard (editor)	Book	1962	A 1962 anthology of criticism on Proust edited by René Girard for Prentice-Hall's Twentieth Century Views, with essays by Poulet, Spitzer, Brée and…
	Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy	Alejandro Jodorowsky	Book	2004	Filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky's interviews and essays on 'psychomagic', staged symbolic acts he prescribes as therapy, drawing on theatre, dreams…
	Public Scrutiny, Police Behavior, and Crime Consequences: Evidence from High-Profile Police Killings	Deepak Premkumar	Research paper	2025-04	A national study finding that high-profile police killings reduce arrests for low-level offenses and are followed by rises in murders and robberies.
	Questions of Political Theology (German 266 Syllabus)	Russell A. Berman	Reference	2023	The Winter 2023 Stanford syllabus for German 266, a seminar on the latent theology underneath politics, family, economics and culture, with readings…
	Reaction and Restoration	Panagiotis Kondylis; English translation by the Carlsbad 1819 blog (Nulle Terre Sans Seigneur)	Article	1984	A rough English translation of Kondylis's encyclopedia entry tracing how the political concepts 'reaction' and 'restoration' arose and changed in…
	Regulatory Hacking — Introduction and Chapters 1–2 (advance sample)	Evan Burfield	Book	2018	Advance sample pages of Regulatory Hacking: the introduction and first two chapters.
	Reich of the Black Sun: Nazi Secret Weapons and the Cold War Allied Legend	Joseph P. Farrell	Book	2004	Joseph Farrell's speculative book claiming Nazi Germany secretly tested an atomic bomb and that the Allies covered up its secret-weapons programmes.
	Requiem Aeternam (Introit)	Gregorian chant; typeset by Stefano Ferri	Reference		One-page square-note score of the Gregorian introit 'Requiem aeternam' from the Mass for the Dead, with its psalm verses.
	Ressentiment	Max Scheler; translated by Lewis A. Coser	Book	1912	Scheler's answer to Nietzsche: ressentiment did not create Christian ethics, he argues, but it does lie at the root of modern bourgeois and…
	Roger Williams to John Winthrop, August 1636	Roger Williams	Article	1636-08	Roger Williams's 1636 letter asking John Winthrop's advice on how to govern the new settlement of Providence, with the two covenants he proposed for…
	Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Wittgenstein and the Philosophical Investigations (Excerpt)	Marie McGinn	Book	1997	A phone scan of the first chapters of Marie McGinn's guide to Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations: method, the critique of Augustine and…
	Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals	Saul D. Alinsky	Book	1971	Alinsky's 1971 manual of community organizing: how 'have-nots' can build power, on means and ends, tactics, and the role of the organizer.
	Rules of Offensive Influence	Jennifer Counter	Article	2021-04-08	Sixteen rules for running influence campaigns against an adversary, written by a strategic-communications practitioner and republished by Columbia…
	SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccine (BNT162, PF-07302048): 2.6.4 Summary of Pharmacokinetic Studies (Japanese Regulatory Filing)	Pfizer	Report		The Japanese-language pharmacokinetics summary (CTD section 2.6.4) from Pfizer's application for its COVID-19 mRNA vaccine, covering absorption,…
	Saya de Malha Expedition, March 2002	SUN & SEA e.V. and Global Coral Reef Alliance (Wolf Hilbertz, Thomas Goreau, et al.)	Report	2002-08	The report of a March 2002 expedition to the Saya de Malha Bank in the Indian Ocean: travel log, a mineral-accretion 'coral ark', and surveys of…
	Second AIAA-NASA-USAF Symposium on Automation, Robotics and Advanced Computing for the National Space Program	American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (compiled papers)	Report	1987-03	Papers from a March 1987 symposium in Arlington, Virginia on AI, robotics and computing for the space program, from NASA, the Navy, the Army and…
	Secret, Don't Tell: The Encyclopedia of Hypnotism	Carla Emery	Book	1998	A 550-page, self-published popular encyclopedia of hypnotism, covering induction, history, research and alleged mind-control programmes.
	Seduction	Jean Baudrillard (translated by Brian Singer)	Book	1979	Baudrillard's 1979 essay that sets seduction, a play of appearances and signs, against production, sex and psychoanalysis as ways of thinking about…
	Sequoia's YouTube Investment Memo (2005)	Roelof Botha (signed RFB), Sequoia Capital	Report	2005-09-02	Roelof Botha's September 2005 memo recommending Sequoia's $1M seed investment in YouTube, made public as an exhibit in Viacom v. YouTube.
	Short-term rental bans and the hotel industry: Evidence from New York City	Sebastian C. Anastasi, Alexander Marsella, Vitor Melo, E. Frank Stephenson, Gary A. Wagner	Research paper	2025-07	A political-economy paper finding that hotels lobbied for New York City's short-term rental ban and gained $2.1–2.9 billion in revenue in its first…
	Smoking. The Cancer Controversy: Some Attempts to Assess the Evidence	Sir Ronald A. Fisher	Book	1959	R. A. Fisher's 1959 pamphlet collecting his letters and lectures disputing that the statistical association between smoking and lung cancer proved…
	Square — Shareholder Letters (Jack Dorsey; compiled by Kevin G.)	Jack Dorsey; compiled by Kevin G.	Report		A compilation that opens with Square's Q4 2015 shareholder letter, from a reader's series of executive and investor compilations.
	State Socialism and the Rural Household: How Women's Handloom Weaving (and Pig-Raising, Firewood-Gathering, Food-Scavenging) Subsidized Chinese Accumulation	Jacob Eyferth	Research paper	2022-02	A historian argues that Maoist China's rapid capital accumulation was quietly subsidised by rural women's unpaid household work such as weaving cloth.
	Stimulation of Breast Growth by Hypnosis	James E. Williams	Research paper	1973-05	A 1973 master's thesis in clinical psychology at North Texas State University testing whether hypnotic suggestion could enlarge women's breasts.
	Strategic Computing - DARPA and the Quest for Machine Intelligence, 1983-1993	Alex Roland with Philip Shiman	Book	2002	A history of DARPA's Strategic Computing Initiative, the 1983–93 programme that spent about $1 billion trying to build machine intelligence, and why…
	Student Retention at the Community College: Meeting Students' Needs	Jill Jacobs-Biden	Research paper	2006	Jill Biden's 2006 University of Delaware Ed.D. dissertation on retaining students in a pre-technical program at Delaware Technical & Community…
	Suicide Note	Mitchell Heisman	Book	2010	A 1,905-page philosophical treatise on nihilism, religion and technology, released by its author shortly before he took his own life in 2010.
	Terrain Contour Matching (TERCOM): A Cruise Missile Guidance Aid	Joe P. Golden (Joint Cruise Missiles Project Office)	Research paper	1980	A 1980 SPIE conference paper from the US Joint Cruise Missiles Project Office giving a short history and overview of TERCOM, the terrain-matching aid…
	The 10,000 Year Explosion - How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution	Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending	Book	2009	Cochran and Harpending argue that human evolution sped up, not stopped, after agriculture, and that recent genetic change helped shape history.
	The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith	Unsigned (Race, Institute of Race Relations)	Article		A short late-1960s profile of the ADL in the journal Race: its 1913 founding, aims, divisions and programmes, including a University of California…
	The Art of the One-on-One Meeting (Fellow.app)	Fellow.app	Report		Fellow.app's guide to running one-on-one meetings, with a foreword by Lara Hogan.
	The Backwoods Blueprint: Unlock the Secrets to Finding and Buying Off Grid Land for Your Homestead Dream	Shawn Mills	Book		A short paid e-guide from Hack My Homestead on choosing and buying raw land for an off-grid homestead: must-haves, climate, evaluating listings,…
	The Base Rate Book (Mauboussin, Callahan & Majd)	Michael J. Mauboussin; Dan Callahan; Darius Majd	Report	2016-09-26	Credit Suisse's 2016 reference of historical base rates for corporate results, from sales growth to CFROI, and for what stocks did after sharp moves.
	The Bear Went Over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan	Lester W. Grau (translator and editor); introduction by David M. Glantz	Book	1996	A translation of a Soviet Frunze Military Academy study of small-unit combat in Afghanistan, with commentary from U.S. Army analysts on what went…
	The Best of &amp, Issues 001–014	Writers of 4chan's /lit/ board; compiled and edited by 'Ari'	Book	2024-11	An unofficial anthology of the best stories, poems and art from &amp, an anonymous amateur literary magazine made by 4chan's /lit/ board in 2020–22.
	The Biblical Canon of the Orthodoks Täwaḥədo Church of Ethiopia and Eritrea	Tedros Abraha	Research paper		A scholarly study of which books make up the Bible of the Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Churches, and how the canon has been defined over…
	The Book of est	Luke Rhinehart	Book	1976	Luke Rhinehart's 1976 book recreating, in semi-fictional form, a weekend of Werner Erhard's est training, the human-potential seminar of the 1970s.
	The Californian Ideology	Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron	Article	1995	Barbrook and Cameron's 1995 essay arguing that Silicon Valley fused hippie counterculture with free-market libertarianism into a new orthodoxy for…
	The Case for Colonialism	Bruce Gilley	Research paper	2017	Bruce Gilley's withdrawn 2017 Third World Quarterly essay arguing colonial rule was often beneficial, as republished in Academic Questions in 2018.
	The Case for Mars Terraforming Research	Erika Alden DeBenedictis, Edwin S. Kite, Robin D. Wordsworth, Nina L. Lanza, Charles S. Cockell, Pamela A. Silver, Ramses M. Ramirez, John Cumbers, Hooman Mohseni, Christopher E. Mason, Woodward W. Fischer and Christopher P. McKay	Research paper	2025-05	A 2025 Nature Astronomy perspective arguing that new science and launch capability justify serious research into whether and how Mars could be warmed.
	The Celestial Hunter	Roberto Calasso; translated by Richard Dixon	Book	2016	Calasso's book on the archaic world in which humans, animals and gods shaded into one another, moving from the age of hunting through Greek myth,…
	The Center of International Insecurity - Biden Administration, CNAS and WestExec	Dan Steinbock	Article	2022-06	A 2022 opinion piece arguing that the think tank CNAS, the consultancy WestExec and defense contractors steered Biden-era China policy through…
	The CIA's Secret Weapons Systems	Andrew Stark (pseudonym)	Article		A short exposé-style article, under a pseudonym, alleging a CIA arsenal of assassination and sabotage devices, mixing documented cases with rumour.
	The Compass of the Wise	Adam Michael Birkholz; translated by Adam McLean	Book	1782	An 18th-century German esoteric text describing the inner constitution of a Rosicrucian-style "genuine and true Freemasonry," in Adam McLean's…
	The Conservative Revolution in the Weimar Republic	Roger Woods	Book	1996	Roger Woods' 1996 study of the Weimar-era 'Conservative Revolution' writers, Jünger, Spengler and others, and the tensions in their anti-democratic…
	The Council of Seven Lights	George W. Van Tassel	Book	1958	A 1958 book by the UFO contactee George Van Tassel presenting messages he said he received telepathically from beings in space.
	The Counter-Reformation, Science, and Long-Term Growth: A Black Legend?	Matías Cabello	Research paper	2023-09-05	A working paper using data on scientists in European cities to argue that the Counter-Reformation's intellectual controls caused a long-lasting…
	The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception	Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno	Book	1944	The chapter of Dialectic of Enlightenment arguing that film, radio and magazines form an industrial system that produces sameness and conformity…
	The Datacenter as a Computer: Designing Warehouse-Scale Machines (Third Edition)	Luiz André Barroso, Urs Hölzle, and Parthasarathy Ranganathan	Book	2018	Google engineers' textbook on treating a whole warehouse-scale datacenter as one computer: hardware, software, power, cooling, cost and failures.
	The Design of the Connection Machine	Tamiko Thiel	Article	1994	The designer of Thinking Machines' CM-1 and CM-2 supercomputers explains how their cube-shaped casing was meant to make the machine's parallel…
	The Early Upaniṣads: Annotated Text and Translation	Patrick Olivelle	Book	1998	Patrick Olivelle's scholarly edition of the twelve early Upanishads: Sanskrit text facing his English translation, with introduction and notes.
	The Era of Megaphonics - On the Productivity of Loud Sound, 1880-1930	Timothy Hecker	Research paper	2014	Tim Hecker's McGill PhD thesis on the turn-of-the-century fascination with loud sound as a force: the world's loudest pipe organ, coastal fog signals…
	The Evolution of the Human Trophic Level During the Pleistocene	Miki Ben-Dor; Raphael Sirtoli; Ran Barkai	Research paper	2021	A review arguing humans were high-trophic-level carnivores for most of the Pleistocene.
	The Extraterrestrial Species Almanac	Craig Campobasso	Book	2021	A 2021 illustrated 'field guide' to 82 alien species drawn from channelled sources, abduction lore and myth, published with the Mutual UFO Network…
	The Ghost-Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890 (Excerpt)	James Mooney; abridged with an introduction by Anthony F. C. Wallace	Article	1896	A 15-page excerpt from James Mooney's classic ethnography of the Ghost Dance — the chapter on its doctrine of a coming reunion of all Native people…
	The Great Preset: Remote Teams & Operational Art	Daniel A. Friedman and Richard J. Cordes (eds.), Cognitive Security & Education Forum (COGSEC)	Book	2020	A 2020 COGSEC volume on how distributed and remote teams can organise for complex threats, drawing on military operational art, game theory and…
	The Green Book	Muammar al-Qaddafi	Book	1975	Libyan ruler Muammar al-Qaddafi's political manifesto, the "Third Universal Theory": direct democracy by people's committees, a socialist economy,…
	The Holy Rule of St. Benedict	Saint Benedict of Nursia; translated by Rev. Boniface Verheyen	Book		The sixth-century rule for monastic life written by Benedict of Nursia, in Boniface Verheyen's public-domain translation from the Christian Classics…
	The Hunt for Zero Point	Nick Cook	Book	2001	Jane's aviation journalist Nick Cook's 2001 investigation into rumoured anti-gravity research, from Nazi-era wonder weapons to classified US…
	The Idiot's Guide to Looting Public Procurement to Get Rich Quick	Open Contracting Partnership	Report	2018	A satirical leaflet from the Open Contracting Partnership that explains procurement fraud as mock advice to corrupt officials, to argue for open…
	The Machiavellians	James Burnham	Book	1943	James Burnham's 1943 study of Machiavelli, Mosca, Sorel, Michels and Pareto, arguing that politics is always the rule of an elite and that freedom…
	The Merchant Bankers	Joseph Wechsberg; foreword by Christopher Kobrak	Book	1966	Joseph Wechsberg's 1966 portraits of the great private and merchant banking houses — Rothschild, Warburg, Lehman, Hambro and others — and the people…
	The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect	Roger Williams	Book	1994	Roger Williams's novel about an AI bound by Asimov-style laws that takes over the universe and abolishes death, and the people who must live with it.
	The Mixed Multitude: Jacob Frank and the Frankist Movement, 1755–1816	Paweł Maciejko	Book	2011	A scholarly history of Jacob Frank, the eighteenth-century Polish-Jewish messianic leader whose followers moved from Sabbateanism to mass conversion…
	The Mystery of Larry Wachowski	Peter Wilkinson	Article	2006-01-12	A 2006 magazine feature on the co-director of The Matrix (now Lana Wachowski), reporting rumours and gossip about her private life years before she…
	The Nazi Primer: Official Handbook for Schooling the Hitler Youth	Hitler Youth (Fritz Brennecke, ed.); English translation by Harwood L. Childs	Book	1938	A 1938 English translation of the official Nazi indoctrination handbook for Hitler Youth leaders, setting out the regime's race doctrine, history and…
	The New Chinese Working Class in Struggle	Ngai Pun	Research paper	2019-08-01	Sociologist Pun Ngai argues that China's rural migrants and urban workers form a new working class, and traces the strikes and labour action it has…
	The New York Times Company — Analyst Research, 2019–2020	Guggenheim Securities, Ford Equity Research, Zacks Investment Research	Report	2020	Five sell-side research notes on the New York Times Company from October 2019 to May 2020, with two financials spreadsheets.
	The Nomos of the Earth in the International Law of the Jus Publicum Europaeum	Carl Schmitt; translated and annotated by G. L. Ulmen	Book	1950	Schmitt's history of the European order of international law, which he argues rested on the division of land and the bracketing of war among…
	The Open: Man and Animal	Giorgio Agamben (translated by Kevin Attell)	Book	2002	Agamben's short book on how Western thought separates the human from the animal, which he calls the "anthropological machine".
	The Orgone Accumulator Handbook	James DeMeo, with a foreword by Eva Reich	Book		A handbook by James DeMeo on building and using Wilhelm Reich's "orgone accumulator", a box Reich claimed concentrated a life energy.
	The Origins of English Individualism: Some Surprises	Alan Macfarlane	Research paper	1978-09	Alan Macfarlane's 1978 Theory and Society article arguing that English individualism in property and family long predates the Reformation and…
	The Perennial Philosophy	Aldous Huxley	Book	1945	Huxley's anthology-essay arguing that mystics across religions describe one shared truth: a divine Ground that can be known by direct experience.
	The Psychology of Human Misjudgment (Charlie Munger, 2005 revision, with Tren Griffin quotes)	Charlie Munger	Report	2005	Munger's combined and revised talk on the standard causes of human misjudgment.
	The Redemption of an African Warlord	Joshua Blahyi	Book		The conversion memoir of Joshua Blahyi, the Liberian warlord known as "General Butt Naked", told as a Saul-to-Paul story of a tribal priest turned…
	The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America	Eric P. Kaufmann	Book	2004	Eric Kaufmann's history of how WASP ethnic dominance in the United States rose and then declined, driven largely by liberal and cosmopolitan currents…
	The Rise and Fall of the Zaibatsu - Japan's Industrial and Economic Modernization	David A. C. Addicott	Research paper	2017	A Pepperdine student paper tracing Japan's zaibatsu — Mitsui, Mitsubishi and the other family conglomerates — from the Meiji Restoration to their…
	The Ruin of Kasch	Roberto Calasso; translated by William Weaver and Stephen Sartarelli	Book	1983	Calasso's fragmentary meditation on legitimacy, sacrifice and modernity, built around Talleyrand and an African legend of a kingdom that ritually…
	The Saucers Speak!	George H. Williamson and Alfred C. Bailey	Book	1954	A 1954 contactee book whose authors claim to have exchanged radio messages with beings from Mars and other planets in 1952–53.
	The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025	Dwarkesh Patel with Gavin Leech	Book	2025	Dwarkesh Patel's 2025 Stripe Press book that edits his podcast interviews with AI researchers and executives into a themed oral history of the…
	The Survival of the Pagan Gods	Jean Seznec; translated by Barbara F. Sessions	Book	1940	Jean Seznec's classic study of how the gods of antiquity survived through the Middle Ages, in historical, moral, physical and encyclopedic…
	The Sword of Christ: Christianity from the Right, or, The Christian Question	Giles Corey (pseudonym); preface by Kevin MacDonald	Book	2020	A pseudonymous 2020 white-nationalist tract presenting Christianity as a racial and antisemitic creed, with a preface by Kevin MacDonald.
	The Taste of Luxury: Bernard Arnault and the Moët-Hennessy Louis Vuitton Story	Nadège Forestier and Nazanine Ravaï	Book	1990	A journalistic account of how Bernard Arnault took control of Dior and then won the 1988–90 battle for Moët-Hennessy Louis Vuitton.
	The Value of Conspiracy Theory	Ed White	Research paper	2002	Literary scholar Ed White argues that historians wrongly dismiss early American conspiracy theories as paranoia, when they were often serious…
	The Visual Display of Quantitative Information	Edward R. Tufte	Book	1983	Edward Tufte's classic on statistical graphics: maximise data-ink, cut "chartjunk," and show the data. Second edition, Graphics Press, 2001.
	The Walt Disney Company — Letters to Shareholders (Bob Iger; compiled by Kevin G.)	Bob Iger; compiled by Kevin G.	Report		A compilation that opens with Bob Iger's first letter to Disney shareholders, from a reader's series of executive and investor compilations.
	Tips on Staying Sane & Calm While Being Arrested & Sitting in a Jail Cell Alone	Anonymous (a licensed mental health counselor)	Article	2020	A two-page activist zine from 2020 by an anonymous counselor, with grounding and breathing techniques for staying calm while arrested and held in a…
	Tonight We Are Young (Sam Bankman-Fried, 2019)	Sam Bankman-Fried	Article	2019	An excerpt of Sam Bankman-Fried's 2019 first-person account of a BitMEX after-party in Taipei, mingling with crypto figures as Alameda and FTX were…
	Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Side-by-Side-by-Side Edition)	Ludwig Wittgenstein; edited by Kevin C. Klement	Book	1922	Wittgenstein's 1922 Tractatus with the German original and both standard English translations in parallel columns, plus Russell's introduction.
	Trees Are Major Conduits for Methane Egress from Tropical Forested Wetlands	Sunitha R. Pangala, Sam Moore, Edward R. C. Hornibrook, Vincent Gauci	Research paper	2012-12	Field measurements in a Borneo peat swamp showing that tree stems emitted 62–87% of the ecosystem's methane, a pathway standard surface-chamber…
	Twitter v. Musk — Redacted Exhibits A–J (Discovery Letters, 2022)	Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan; et al. (court filing)	Reference	2022-09-29	Redacted exhibits filed in Delaware Chancery in Twitter v. Musk (2022): lawyers' letters fighting over gaps in Musk's and Jared Birchall's…
	Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man	Marshall McLuhan	Book	1964	Marshall McLuhan's 1964 classic arguing that media are extensions of human senses and that a medium's form shapes society more than its content: "the…
	US Internet — America Runs on eCommerce, A Playbook for Today, Part III (Bernstein)	Mark Shmulik, Nikhil Devnani (Bernstein)	Report	2020-04-24	A Bernstein research note on US e-commerce during the first weeks of COVID-19.
	Use of Nuclear Explosives for Excavation of a Sea-Level Canal Across the Negev Desert	H. D. MacCabee (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)	Report	1965-07	A short 1965 Livermore memo sketching a 160-mile sea-level canal across Israel's Negev, from the Mediterranean to the Gulf of Aqaba, dug with nuclear…
	We Want to Live	Aajonus Vonderplanitz	Book		Aajonus Vonderplanitz's raw-food manifesto (2005 revised edition): his own story and a 'Primal Diet' of raw meat, raw milk and raw eggs presented as…
	Weapons Systems and Political Stability: A History	Carroll Quigley	Book	1983	Quigley's posthumous history of how the dominant weapons of each era shaped security, power and political participation, from early civilizations…
	Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025	Col Tamzy J. House, Lt Col James B. Near Jr., LTC William B. Shields, Maj Ronald J. Celentano, Maj David M. Husband, Maj Ann E. Mercer, Maj James E. Pugh	Report	1996-08	A 1996 Air Force 2025 student research paper imagining how the US military might modify weather for combat advantage by 2025.
	Were-Creatures of the Eurasian Ecumene: Variations on a Theme	David Gordon White	Research paper	2020	A religious-studies article asking what becomes of werewolves in lands without wolves, tracing shape-shifting sorceress traditions across Eurasia.
	When the Old Left Was Young: Student Radicals and America's First Mass Student Movement, 1929-1941	Robert Cohen	Book	1993	Historian Robert Cohen's 1993 account of the 1930s American student movement, its anti-war and left-wing politics and its collapse by 1941.
	WolfeThoughts — Josh Wolfe (compiled by Kevin G.)	Josh Wolfe; compiled by Kevin G.	Book		A reader's compilation of material from Josh Wolfe of Lux Capital.
	WolfeThoughts, Volume 2 — Selected TweetStorms (compiled by Kevin G.)	Josh Wolfe; compiled by Kevin G.	Book		The second Josh Wolfe compilation: selected tweetstorms sorted by theme.
	Your Jury Rights: True or False?	Fully Informed Jury Association	Reference		A two-page advocacy brochure from the Fully Informed Jury Association telling prospective jurors about jury nullification, their power to acquit when…

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