Things I recommend

Graham Weaver on living and working with full intensity: a talk worth revisiting.

Vitalik Buterin on "galaxy brain resistance": how much a way of thinking can be twisted to justify any conclusion, and why that's a useful test for how much to trust an argument.

Dan Luu on why reaching a respectable percentile in most skills doesn't take talent: it takes actually noticing and fixing your basic mistakes, which most people never do.

Paul Graham on how Swiss watchmaking shifted from engineering excellence to brand and status once substantive differences between products vanished, and why it's better to chase interesting problems than brands.

Jeffrey Snover recounts Satya Nadella's blunt advice to newly promoted Microsoft execs: manufacture success with the resources you're given, don't manage decline with excuses.

On holding a finite-game mindset (win now) and an infinite-game mindset (leave things better for the next generation) at the same time.

Addy Osmani on what actually separates thriving engineers: not raw coding skill, but navigating people, priorities, and everything around the code.

Arjun Kocher on nested learning.