Interesting Sites to Browse

• Reddit - Hacker News - Daring Fireball - Kottke

• Investing: CNBC - Marketwatch - Bogleheads forum - Biztoc - AI summaries of quarterly reports - Hedge Fund Database - EuroNews - Finance Charts - Tikr - BNN bloomberg - Stockhouse (Canada) - TDW (Asia) - TIPS Watch - 13f - Bloomberg - Planet Money - Finviz - A Wealth of Common Sense

• Economics:  Noahpinion - Calculated Risk - Marginal Revolution - Managerial Econ - r/economics - Tim Harford - Econ Life  - EconLog -- USA Economic data: nowcasts inflation - Atlanta Fed GDP - NY Fed GDP - Fed rate change odds - USA Recession Probabilities historical data: Engaging Data - inflation - GDP - employment

• Technology: Mac Rummors - 9 to 5 Mac - Techmeme - 404 - 9 to 5 Google - The Markup - Six Colors - Cult of Mac - Mac Stories - Rest of World - Techdirt - Ars Technica - Nextweb - Product Hunt
• Science and Engineering: ZME Science - Interesting Engineering - Quanta Magazine - Frontiers - Micronutrient Information Center

• Reading: Reasons to be Cheerful - Atlas Obscura - Big Think - Reason - Lit Hub - We the Builders - Now I Know - Works in Progress - Damn Interesting - Cloud Hiker - Marginalia Search - ooh directory - Ben Evans - Mental Floss

• News (largely open access): The Guardian - CBC lite (world news from Canada) - Axios - NPR - The Conversation - Press Progress (Canada) - ProPublica - lite CNN - Sherwood - AP News - Context - Wikipedia News - Good News - Politico - Reuters

• News site with more paywalls, anti-user actions etc.: Chanel News Asia (Singapore) - BBC News - Ground News - DW (world news from Germany) - Straits Times - The Diplomat (Asia) - South China Morning Post - The Economist - Investors Business Daily - Upstract
• More news: 68k - Vulcan Post (Singapore) - Venture Beat - kr-asia - TechCircle (India) - Tech Gist Africa - AVC - Beautiful News - Capital (Ethiopia)

• Fun: Messy Nessy - Colossal - Offline.kids - Free Rice - Whimsical Web - zoom earth - xkcd - Laughing Squid
• Useful: Highlights of terms of service (avoid bad companies find good companies) - public.work (images) - European alternatives for digital products - Online Document Translator - Notary Geek - Apple Rankings - Watchduty

• Watch: TV Garden (global) - The Kid Should SeeThis - Vlogbrothers, PBS Eons, TED, Journey to the Microcosmos, Vox 

• Podcasts: Marketplace - BBC In Our Time - 99% Invisible, Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend, The Money Guy
• Lectures: Oxford, World Science Festival, Google Tech Talks
• Management Quotes - The Commonwealth Fund (health care)

 

 Useful Sites

• Travel: Seat Guru - seat61 (trains)
• Travel apps: AllTrails - Open Signal (find cell signal) - Campendium
• Personal Finance: Reddit wiki
• Digital Public Library of America - Wirecutter (reviews)
• Offline: Five Books, Worlds Without End, Charity Navigator, Global Giving

 

• Covid19 charts: NYT tracker (USA) - USA dashboard by state - covid19 excess deaths by country