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FreePublisher
Career & Professional Optimization

Four One Insights

Research and commentary on hiring, skills and the labour market from Four One Insights, free to read.

From the site: Explore thought leadership on workforce trends, emerging technologies, and skills development with FourOne Insights. Stay informed on the latest industry insights.

Why I recommend it: Analysis from a firm that sells into hiring teams, so read the recommendations with that in mind.

#analysis#career#free-reading#hiring#insights#job markets#job-search#labor-market#research#trends#workforce
FourOne InsightsAdded Sep 17, 20260 opens
FreeBlog
Entrepreneurship & Free Tools

Creem Blog

Free posts on selling software online as a small operator — payments, taxes, compliance and launch write-ups aimed at solo founders.

From the site: Creem Blog - Get to know Creem Team and our latest updates

Why I recommend it: The reading is free. Their payment product takes a cut per sale, so treat the posts as useful advice from an interested party.

#compliance#entrepreneurship#free-reading#indie-hacking#launch#online-business#payments#regulation#saas#solo-founder#taxes
CreemAdded Sep 17, 20260 opens
FreeCommunity
Technology & Ethics

Hacker News — newest submissions

The raw feed of everything just posted to Hacker News: launches, job posts, essays and outages, hours before it reaches the front page.

Why I recommend it: Skim it once a day rather than reading it all. Great for spotting new tools and hiring threads early.

#ai#community#discussion#free-reading#hiring#industry#job markets#news#open-source#startups#technology
news.ycombinator.comAdded Sep 17, 20260 opens
FreePublisher
Technology & Ethics

IBM Think

IBM's free tech publication — explainers, news and market analysis aimed at people working in and around technology.

From the site: Experience an integrated media property for tech workers—latest news, explainers and market insights to help stay ahead of the curve.

Why I recommend it: Clear explainers, but it is a vendor publication — the conclusion usually favors enterprise software.

#technology#ai#explainers#news#enterprise-tech#analysis#free-reading#research#industry#careers
ibm.comAdded Sep 17, 20260 opens
FreeOrganization
Community & Government Resources

Independent Institute

A research institute publishing free books, articles and policy analysis on economics, technology and civil liberties from a market-liberal perspective.

From the site: Explore Independent Institute’s latest research, articles, and insights on policy, liberty, and economics. Stay informed with expert analysis and innovative solutions.

Why I recommend it: Openly ideological — read it alongside sources that argue the other side.

#ai ethics#analysis#civil-liberties#economics#ethics#free-reading#policy#publications#regulation#research#technology-policy#think-tank
Independent InstituteAdded Sep 17, 20260 opens
FreeOrganization
Entrepreneurship & Free Tools

Founders Fund

The San Francisco venture firm's site and essays on what it funds and why — a free window into how investors actually think about startups.

From the site: Founders Fund is a San Francisco based venture capital firm investing in companies building revolutionary technologies.

Why I recommend it: Read their essays before pitching anyone. It tells you what investors are listening for.

#entrepreneurship#venture-capital#startups#fundraising#investors#essays#founders#tech-industry#strategy#free-reading
Founders FundAdded Sep 17, 20260 opens
FreeBook
Technology & Ethics

Rationality: From AI to Zombies

Eliezer Yudkowsky's collected essays on reasoning, bias and AI risk, free to read online in full.

From the site: Between 2006 and 2009, senior MIRI researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky wrote several hundred essays for the blogs Overcoming Bias and Less Wrong, collectively called

Why I recommend it: Long, opinionated and free. Read it for the thinking habits, not as settled fact.

#ai#ai ethics#ai-safety#bias#decision-making#essays#ethics#free-reading#philosophy#rationality#reasoning
Machine Intelligence Research InstituteAdded Sep 17, 20260 opens
FreePublisher
Technology & Ethics

News from Google (The Keyword)

Google's official blog — product launches, AI announcements and policy posts, straight from the company.

From the site: Get the latest news and stories about Google products, technology and innovation on News from Google, Google's official blog.

Why I recommend it: Primary source for what Google is shipping. Marketing language included — read the "what changed" parts.

#ai#announcements#explainers#free-reading#google#industry#policy#product-news#regulation#research#technology
blog.googleAdded Sep 17, 20260 opens
FreeNewsletterNewsletter
AI & Assistive Tools

Very Sane AI Newsletter

A free newsletter explaining ideas in AI in plain English — mostly what and why, a little how.

From the site: Ideas in AI, preferably in English. Mostly what and why, a little how. Click to read Very Sane AI Newsletter, by SE Gyges, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

Why I recommend it: A good weekly read if you want to understand AI without the hype or the math.

#ai#newsletter#explainers#plain-english#llm#free-reading#ai-industry#learning#analysis#technology
verysane.aiAdded Sep 17, 20260 opens
FreeNewsletter
Technology & Ethics

Overcoming Bias (Robin Hanson)

Robin Hanson's long-running blog on why we believe and do what we do, and what our descendants might do — free to read.

From the site: This is a blog on why we believe and do what we do, why we pretend otherwise, how we might do better, and what our descendants might do, if they don't all die. Click to read Overcoming Bias, by Robin Hanson, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

Why I recommend it: Deliberately contrarian. Useful for pressure-testing your own assumptions.

#ai#ai ethics#bias#decision-making#economics#essays#ethics#free-reading#future#philosophy#reasoning
overcomingbias.comAdded Sep 17, 20260 opens
FreeWebsite
Community & Government Resources

Effective Altruism

The central free hub for effective altruism — essays, career guidance and research on how to do the most good with your time and money.

From the site: Effective altruism is a philosophy and a movement that asks the question: how can we do the most good with our time, money, and resources?

Why I recommend it: useful career thinking here, and a movement with real critics — read both.

#ai ethics#ai-safety#career#community#decision-making#ethics#free-reading#giving#impact#philosophy#research
Effective AltruismAdded Sep 17, 20260 opens