a list of wishlists, goodreads profiles, and other reading lists I have found snooping around the internet
The status indicator reflects the current state of the work: - Abandoned: Work that has been discontinued - Notes: Initial collections of thoughts and references - Draft: Early structured version with a central thesis - In Progress: Well-developed work actively being refined - Finished: Completed work with no planned major changes This helps readers understand the maturity and completeness of the content.
The confidence tag expresses how well-supported the content is, or how likely its overall ideas are right. This uses a scale from "impossible" to "certain", based on the Kesselman List of Estimative Words: 1. "certain" 2. "highly likely" 3. "likely" 4. "possible" 5. "unlikely" 6. "highly unlikely" 7. "remote" 8. "impossible" Even ideas that seem unlikely may be worth exploring if their potential impact is significant enough.
The importance rating distinguishes between trivial topics and those which might change your life. Using a scale from 0-10, content is ranked based on its potential impact on: - the reader - the intended audience - the world at large For example, topics about fundamental research or transformative technologies would rank 9-10, while personal reflections or minor experiments might rank 0-1.
This list includes goodreads profiles, personal blog links, amazon wishlists, etc. In the rare cases that someone has typeset their entire reading list in plain text where extensive enough I am likely to have given it it's own page such as Luke Smith's Library. You may notice some big names. You may not notice some small names. Regardless these are being documented here as I find them.
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Yotam, Kris. (Jun 2025). Random Reading Lists. krisyotam.com. https://krisyotam.com/notes/culture/random-reading-lists
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title = "Random Reading Lists",
author = "Yotam, Kris",
journal = "krisyotam.com",
year = "2025",
month = "Jun",
url = "https://krisyotam.com/notes/culture/random-reading-lists"
}