Thoughtful Web
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ThoughtfulWeb
Places on the web where you can find thoughtful, artful, and mindful content. An oasis of good taste for the soul. Content you want to be influenced by.
Related Potential name TastefulWeb, CuratedWeb, ArtfulWeb. Related idea: CuratedWorld
See Also: commentaries • products • foodslist • pureland
“Canon”: Curated Reading/ Watching Lists 2
Great Writing style / Beautifully Written Books 6
People/Groups with wonderful taste 6
More General Oases of Joy and Good Taste 7
Profound or Thought Provoking Works 8
For people delving down the philosophy path 8
Existential crisis reading materials 8
Wholesome and thought-provoking, though not super artistic 9
Inbox (to process):
NPR
“Canon”: Curated Reading / Watching Lists
Things that you think everyone, or many people, would benefit from reading
- Jack’s Favorite Media list Section of jacksonjesionowski.com
- Movies/TV • Books • YouTube Gems • Articles
Jacob’s Canon
- The Revolution Will Not Be Psychologized - The Emerald | Podcast on Spotify — https://spotify.link/LWqzJ52RaDb #podcast #vibe #ref #curate @thoughtfulweb #theupdate
- http://bookslist.jacobcole.net/ http://quotes.jacobcole.net/
- 6 Min: Giraffe Language and Jackal Language | Nonviolent Communication explained by Marshall Rosenberg - YouTube — https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xov5z_GJ9Zs #nvc
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To add: #read nobel laureates in literature • #Awakeninglab #awakeninglibrary #curate
Longer Term Sources
Feeds
Micha Benoliel – polymath, crypto https://www.facebook.com/micha.benoliel
Communities
https://www.are.na/ (arena
http://systemicchange.jacobcole.net/ (Bobby Fishkin) https://www.crowddoing.world/
Writing
Short Stories
The Egg by Andy Weir
News
WorldPost https://www.huffpost.com/author/the-worldpost https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/theworldpost/wp/2018/01/?arc404=true – Anything by Nicolas Berggruen
Publications
Public Intellectuals
Reid Hoffman
Neil Degrasse Tyson
Ted Nelson (extremely thoughtful, occasionally grumpy)
Hasan Piker
Joi Ito
Ray Peat -- science-based, intuition-affirming nutrition for healing & consciousness-expansion
Up and Coming #thoughtfulfriends
Tom Currier
Matt Bell
Max Song
Misc
Art
Digital
Project Dogwaffle / the dogwaffler of the moment blog https://www.thebest3d.com/dogwaffle/dotm/rohi/index.html
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https://www.thebest3d.com/dogwaffle/dotm/rohi/rohi-boar.html
https://www.thebest3d.com/dogwaffle/dotm/rohi/rohi-lastglow.html
http://www.dogwaffle.info/dogwaffle/newsletter/122-Fathers-Day/index.html
https://www.thebest3d.com/dogwaffle/dotm/
https://www.pinterest.com/lesterdodds/project-dogwaffle/
How Aaron Sorkin Creates Musical Dialogue In ‘The Social Network’ | 10 Minutes Of Perfection How screenwriter Aaron Sorkin Creates Musical Dialogue In ‘The Social Network’ | 10 Minutes Of Perfection. It’s really wonderful to see how artful and classic concepts like iambic pentameter make it into film
Everything is Connected Video on everything from interesting math explanations to opening your chakras as taught in Avatar. Very thoughtful comment thread as well
Learning how to source concept art
It’s important to look at disparate sources where possible. Instead of looking the work of other designers, look at what THEY were looking at. (Ultimately, everything goes back to nature.) But also look at man-made works outside your industry, or adjacent to it. It’s key for preventing design incest!
Tumbling through disparate images is like a form of brain training: It prompts more metaphorical thinking, and helps to build up a personal image library for design language and other elements which create style. For this reason, I keep topic folders relatively broad, such that when scrolling through many thumbnails, I can make leaps of insight (similarity bridges between otherwise unlike images). This is harder to do if they are too homogenous.
Reference for Concept Art (top level) - Sten
https://www.pinterest.com/kirstenzirngibl/
Most images on the above Pinterest account were scraped for use as an offline inspiration library, ~6 years ago.
They can all be downloaded here: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/1xlu7c6bgoz8486bz8wrt/AHqw_5cXXvq5smBeUVyC1xc?rlkey=76vw96qckrxc2z8bt32iuf5by&dl=0
Favorite Dataviz Images ~ Sten
https://i.pinimg.com/564x/4d/3f/fc/4d3ffceb135bafb20f3cdc9b93b6eae1.jpg
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Cute
http://justsomething.co/32-adorable-animals/
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Baby beavers
Harp seals
Mostropi and Hatch Facebook stickers
Blogs
Podcasts
Meditation / Wisdom
Jack Kornfield Heart Wisdom Podcast https://jackkornfield.com/podcasts-dharma-talks/
A16z Podcast
Lex Friedman Podcast (has interesting speakers, so-so questions)
Youtube Channels
Veritasium
Weatherbox -- the tasteful, well-designed weather narratives you’re searching for when you watch the Weather Channel
Great Professors
Helen Vendler Poetry Lectures Harvard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DucRj1wvD04
Nemirov Art History Stanford
Poetry
(offline) Stanford Spoken Word Collective
(offline) Guy who spoke at Stanford FACES in 2013
Great Writing style / Beautifully Written Books
Related List: Excellent Books List (Jacob)
Will Zeng’s “Public Library” Google Doc
Patrick Rothfuss – Name of the Wind, wise man's fear, the slow regard of Silent things
Casual / Fiction:
The Immoralist by Andre Gide
Casual / Nonfiction:
Turing’s Cathedral by George Dyson
Dense / Fiction:
Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
Dense / Nonfiction:
Being and Nothingness by Sartre
Steven Pu’s Book Recs
Casual / Fiction:
Casual / Nonfiction:
Dense / Fiction:
Dense / Nonfiction:
Plato’s Republic
People/Groups with wonderful taste
Nicolas Berggruen / Nathan Gardels / Berggruen Institute
Technology
Brewster Kahle/the Open Library Project/The Internet Archive
Doug Engelbart #existential
Ted Nelson
Tim Berners-Lee
The Long Now Foundation
Reid Hoffman
Embodied Trauma Recovery
Tai Chi, Yoga, Meditation
Desikachar http://yogalist.jacobcole.net/
Wolfe Lowenthal Tai Chi https://www.amazon.com/There-Are-No-Secrets-Professor/dp/1556431120
http://ubiquitizingmeditativepractices.connectordocs.com/
Friends
Tom Alden
Holden Lee https://holdenlee.github.io/ #blog
Victoria Zhuang
Yatharth
Marcel Williams - Extends to food, music, and many things (sharp cheddar with Cracked Pepper Triscuits!)
Chris McNally
Ethan Sherbondy
Todd Welch – Trusttour.org
More General Oases of Joy and Good Taste
Learning Materials
Math www.3blue1brown.com ( Grant Sanderson)
Zandra Vinegar / Brilliant
Educational Games
Pen Tool Game https://bezier.method.ac/
Webflow CSS FlexBox Game https://www.flexboxgame.com/
Algorithms – USACO Training https://train.usaco.org/
Learn NodeJS, javascript, and more http://nodeschool.io/
http://robocode.jacobcole.net/
Videos
Frank Hatsis: From No Where to Now Here (Intro Rope Dart)
Cody Hegenroeder’s YouTube Playlists
Misc
Neopets.com
Wiki of why various things are awesome http://whyisitawesome.jacobcole.net/
Profound or Thought Provoking Works
For people delving down the philosophy path
Steps to an ecology of mind Bateson and mead
Bradford keany
No bad drugs by andrew weill
Cheng man Ching There are no secrets
Moonwalking w Einstein
Autobiography of a Yogi
The art of mindful living #Book
Zen mind beginners mind
Augmenting Human Cognition ~Doug Engelbart
what is life ~Schrodinger – Atman Brahman
Essays by Emerson
Good and real by Garry Drescher
the structure of scientific revolutions ~kuhn
The bicameral mind
Your Body Is Your Subconscious Mind -Book by Candace Pert
The no-religion religion
Rationalist Fiction with tremendous energy
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Unsong
Existential crisis reading materials
#todo Start existential crisis Wiki/support group? Share mit talk?
the concept of the highly sensitive person
Positive disintegration / dabrowski
Desikachar – Religiousness in yoga First six pages
The Value of Existential Crises talk slides
ideaflowbackground - Esp. Doug Engelbart Guiding Philosophy
Maimonides’ The Guide for the Perplexed
Audio Content
Wholesome and thought-provoking, though not super artistic
Make Your Bed Little Things That Can Change Your Life…And Maybe the World
– Admiral Mcraven https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA8dTigYKX8 “A heroic passive listen to start your week resiliently!”
Calvin’s Classics List (Mainly Latin/Rome)
The Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilizations
AVAILABLE TEXTS | Dickinson College Commentaries
Category:Projects - The Digital Classicist Wiki
Oxford Classical Dictionary, 4th Edition Abbreviations List
How to Read a Latin Dictionary
TLL Open Access - Thesaurus linguae Latinae
Archaeological Atlas of Antiquity - Vici.org
ToposText – a Reference Tool for Greek Civilization
Latin Resources for Latin Students at the Centre for Medieval Studies University of Toronto
PHI Latin Texts - List of Authors
LacusCurtius • A Gateway to Ancient Rome
Sasha Trubetskoy – My freshest maps and writing.
Allen and Greenough / Latin Grammar
Electronic Resources for Classicists
A Brief History of the Romans Student Resources
Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric
Related
Excellent Books #curatedlist #connector doc
ethicaldilemmas (Under construction)
Intellectual Sales Pitch Sign Up List
Source: http://Thoughtfulweb.jacobcole.net
Google Doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1t15UIk_nqj0LWyf6__rCW-JuDLisx9nPgoXh_vSlQ7E
Scraped: 2026-01-30