Here are some of the books and podcasts we recommend. They're divided up first by topic, and then by medium (books / podcasts / blogs). An asterisk (*) indicates a particular favourite. Drop us an email if you picked any of these up and enjoyed them!

☁️ Philosophy

📖 Books

• The Precipice by Toby Ord *
• Reasons and Persons by Derek Parfit *
• Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter *
• Doing Good Better by William MacAskill
• Natural Justice by Ken Binmore
• Practical Ethics by Peter Singer
• Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn
• The Conscious Mind by David Chalmers
• Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom

📝 Blogs

• Eric Schwitzgebel's The Splintered Mind
• Maria Popova's Brain Pickings
• Scott Alexander's Astral Codex Ten (formerly Slate Star Codex)

🎙 Podcasts

• 80,000 Hours *
• Very Bad Wizards
• Philosophize This
• Philosophy Bites

💸 Economics

📖 Books

• Poor Economics by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo *
• Worldly Philosophers by Robert L. Heilbroner
• Economics: The User's Guide by Ha-Joon Change
• Good Economics for Hard Times by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo
• Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoğlu and James A. Robinson
• Global Inequality by Branko Milanović
• Radical Markets by Eric A. Posner and E. Glen Weyl
• Mostly Harmless Econometrics by Joshua D. Angrist and Jörn-Steffen Pischke

📝 Blogs

• Kevin Bryan's A Fine Theorem *
• Noah Smith's Noahopinion *
• Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok's Marginal Revolution
• Diane Coyle's The Enlightened Economist
• Robin Hanson's Overcoming Bias

🎙 Podcasts

• Brad DeLong and Noah Smith's Hexapodia *
• Tyler Cowen's Conversations with Tyler *
• Russ Roberts' Econ Talk

🧠 Social Sciences and Psychology

📖 Books

• Superforecasting by Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner *
• Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker *
• The Righetous Mind by Jonathan Haidt
• The Elephant in the Brain by Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson
• Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
• The Passions and the Interests by Albert Hirschman

🧪 Maths and Science

📖 Books

• The Alignment Problem by Brian Christian *
• Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control by Stuart Russell
• The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
• Behave by Robert M. Sapolsky
• What is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics by Adam Becker
• Scale by Geoffrey B. West
• The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

🎙 Podcasts

• Sean Carroll's Mindscape
• Lex Fridman's Artificial Intelligence

🎥 Videos

• 3Blue1Brown
• Primer
• Two Minute Papers

👾 Miscellaneous

• Ezra Klein Show 🎙
• Contrapoints 🎥
• CGP Grey 🎥
• Extra History 🎥
• Dan Carlin's Hardcore History 🎙
• Algorithms to Live By by Brian Christian 📖

😊 Friends of the Podcast

• 80,000 Hours Podcast 🎙
• Ben and Vaden's Increments Podcast 🎙
• Richard Fisher's The Longtermist's Field Guide 📝
• Isabelle Boemeke's Isodope 📝
• Luke Robert Mason's Futures Podcast 🎙
• Exploring Economics 📝
• Neel Nanda's Blog 📝

We are planning on setting up a collection of your recommendations — if you want to submit one, please email recs@hearthisidea.com!