Here's a fun format: get a big white board, and write the years of the 21st century. Write a category; something that has many variations come out every year. Next, write your picks or favourites. Now invite everyone attending to replace a year's pick if they want and replace it with something they like. This was a rolling game played last month at Lighthaven. I put up “Best blog post of every year” when the opportunity arose. 2000 My pick: Painless Software Schedules This Joel SPolsky piece is applicable to far more than software. It's been the foundation or ancestor of all my good project management. Crowd pick: Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us Billy Joy writes with foresight about new technologies and their ethical dimensions. 2001 My pick: Suck in the Middle with Bruce A stream of conciousness, half manic fever dream, half calculatingly ruthless ode to victory. Don’t worry about the Magic: The Gathering details, they don’t matter. Crowd pick: 2002 My pick: Taste for Makers Paul Graham had not yet learned brevity, but he had learned design. This is a beachhead of aesthetic - perhaps just the legible outcrop into software engineering. Crowd pick: 2003 My [...] ---Outline:(00:39) 2000(00:42) My pick: Painless Software Schedules(00:56) Crowd pick: Why the Future Doesn't Need Us(01:07) 2001(01:10) My pick: Suck in the Middle with Bruce(01:27) Crowd pick:(01:30) 2002(01:34) My pick: Taste for Makers(01:49) Crowd pick:(01:52) 2003(01:56) My pick: Welcome To The Site(02:13) Crowd pick:(02:16) 2004(02:20) My pick: What You Can't Say(02:33) Crowd pick: Mind the Gap(02:53) 2005(02:57) My pick: Fable of the Dragon Tyrant(03:11) Crowd pick:(03:14) 2006(03:18) My pick: The Martial Art of Rationality(03:33) Crowd pick:(03:36) 2007(03:40) My pick: Policy Tug of War(03:54) Crowd pick: The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel(04:10) 2008(04:13) My pick: Security Mindset(04:29) Crowd pick: 37 Ways Words Can Be Wrong(04:40) 2009(04:43) My pick: Descent: The Game That Ruined Me(05:01) Crowd pick:(05:04) 2010(05:08) My pick: Ureshiku Naritai(05:26) Crowd pick:(05:30) 2011(05:33) My pick: Hack Away At The Edges(05:47) Crowd pick: The Alouside Boytmend(05:56) 2012(06:00) My pick: Participation in the LW Community Associated With Less Bias(06:22) Crowd pick: Salary Negotiation: Get paid more, be more valued(06:47) 2013(06:50) My pick: The Lottery of Fascinations(07:05) Crowd pick:(07:08) 2014(07:11) My pick: The Control Group Is Out Of Control(07:29) Crowd pick: Meditations on MOloch(07:44) 2015(07:47) My pick: Not Because You Should(08:01) Crowd pick: The Value Of A Life(08:23) 2016(08:26) My pick: The Pyramid and the Garden(08:40) Crowd pick: A Possible Way To Achieve All Your Goals(08:50) 2017(08:54) My pick: Melting Gold, and Organizational Capacity(09:08) Crowd pick: The Face Of The Ice(09:28) 2018(09:31) My pick: Write a Thousand Roads To Rome(09:46) Crowd pick:(09:49) 2019(09:53) My pick: Asymetric Justice(10:08) Crowd pick:(10:11) 2020(10:15) My pick:(10:18) Crowd pick: Pain is Not the Unit of Effort(10:32) 2021(10:36) My pick: Self Integrity and the Drowning Child(10:49) Crowd pick: Willingness to Look Stupid(11:06) 2022(11:10) My pick: Sazen(11:25) Crowd pick:(11:28) 2023(11:32) My pick: Things I Learned By Spending Five Thousand Hours In Non-EA Charities(11:51) Crowd pick:(11:54) 2024(11:58) My pick: Situational Awareness(12:17) Crowd pick: No Good Along(12:47) 2025(12:50) My pick: On Priesthoods(13:02) Crowd pick: An upcoming post by one of Inkhaven Residents ---
First published:
November 30th, 2025

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6xa372sg77jL5gWti/a-blogger-s-guide-to-the-21st-century-1
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