~ Early Web Links ~

Josh Thompson's personal scratch pad digs into urban economics, zoning laws, land use policy, and walkable city design, drawing on works like Marie-Agnes and Alain Bertaud's 'Order Without Design' and Christopher Alexander's 'A Pattern Language'. The site blends thoughtful analysis of city planning failures with street-level illustrations of pedestrian path patterns, making dense policy topics surprisingly approachable.

Julia Wise's blog explores effective altruism, charitable giving, and the ethics of balancing personal life with pursuing global impact. Posts range from practical giving advice and GiveWell recommendations to thoughtful reflections on how to live a values-driven life without burning out.

A portal dedicated to the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, centered on their concept of the rhizome and works like Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus. Part of the blebNet web community, it collects links to D+G resources, related nodes, and online texts for theorists and philosophy enthusiasts.

Grognor's blog 'Seeing into the True Nature' is a rationalist-adjacent personal blog exploring ethics, philosophy, and ideas through essays, dialogues, and anecdotes. Posts range from trolley problem thought experiments to reflections on logic and moral philosophy, with links to other rationalist blogs like Slate Star Codex and Overcoming Bias.

Ferocious Truth is the blog of J Thomas Moros, exploring rationality, artificial intelligence, epistemology, and the philosophy of mind through long-form reviews and essays. Engaging with works by thinkers like Max Tegmark, Nick Bostrom, and the LessWrong rationality community, the site offers thoughtful critical analysis aimed at readers interested in the intersection of reason and emerging technology.

Niplav's sprawling intellectual website covers forecasting, AI alignment, existential risk, mathematics, philosophy, and quantified self experiments in long-form essays that resist the blog format entirely. The site reads like a personal research compendium, with best-of lists, translations, transcriptions, media consumption logs, and original analysis across a wide range of rationalist and effective-altruism-adjacent topics.

The Orphan Wilde is a philosophically dense blog written with a self-described "particular brand of misanthropy," exploring topics like epistemology, models of reality, and libertarian political thought. Posts dive into map-territory relations, the nature of scientific models, and homesteading life, making it a provocative read for those who enjoy rigorous skeptical thinking.

A critical analysis project examining intellectual property law, copyright, patents, and trademarks through a skeptical lens, inspired by Mark Getty's provocative quote framing IP as the 'oil of the 21st century.' The site explores conflicts around digital rights management, the war on piracy, and corporate control of information with philosophical depth and sharp wit.

Built by Douglas Boynton Quine, this comprehensive tribute to philosopher and mathematician Willard Van Orman Quine (1908-2000) covers his books, essays, articles, awards, students, and even his cultural footprint in stamps, cartoons, and word games. With over 317 links and decades of accumulated material, it serves as the definitive online archive for anyone researching one of the 20th century's most influential analytic philosophers.

The Dallas Philosophers Forum is a community organization in Dallas, Texas dedicated to philosophical lectures, group discussions, and study sessions open to the public. It serves as a hub for philosophy enthusiasts in the Dallas area to engage with serious ideas in a structured yet accessible setting.