I enjoy blogs from experts in fields where I have an interest, but don’t have the background to make anything of actual papers, or from the rationalsphere, or the odd specific commentator. These meet your criteria. Some usual suspects of mine are, sorted by frequency:
- Astral Codex Ten (psychiatry, rationalsphere) - OvercomingBias (economics, rationalsphere) - The Scholar’s Stage (history, commentator)
- A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry (history) - InfoProc (physics, genomics) - Dominic Cummings substack (politics, commentator)
The reason I like blog posts is that they not only do the work of summarization, but also are functionally the only venue for capturing important details like a single-person perspective of a field, or first-hand accounts of uncertainty or thought processes.
I enjoy blogs from experts in fields where I have an interest, but don’t have the background to make anything of actual papers, or from the rationalsphere, or the odd specific commentator. These meet your criteria. Some usual suspects of mine are, sorted by frequency:
- Astral Codex Ten (psychiatry, rationalsphere)
- OvercomingBias (economics, rationalsphere)
- The Scholar’s Stage (history, commentator)
- A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry (history)
- InfoProc (physics, genomics)
- Dominic Cummings substack (politics, commentator)
The reason I like blog posts is that they not only do the work of summarization, but also are functionally the only venue for capturing important details like a single-person perspective of a field, or first-hand accounts of uncertainty or thought processes.