Aggregators

• General Resources for Macroeconomics and Financial Economics
• Brendan Price with resources for PhD students
• Pavel Solís with a wide array of recommended resources
• Shanjun Li with resources for PhD students
• Masayuki Kudamatsu with tips for economists
• Alex Albright with resources focusing on R and data science
• Awesome Economics with a collection of links for economists
• Christine Cai with a collection of links
• Christine's list of lists with an extensive collection of resources
• Nicholas Decker with a curation of datasets
• Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham with an economics literature search tool
• Guillaume Dalle with a collection, mostly in French
• Chris Blattman with a great collection of personal advice
• Econ Grad Advice with a frequently updated list

Mental Health

• Noah Smith with a few thoughts on depression
• Scott Cunningham on struggles of Econ PhD students
• Scott Cunningham on hidden curriculum: mental health and success
• Frank Schilbach on how to protect your mental health
• Teresa Esteban-Casanelles on mental health and the job market

Learning your Production Function

Life Advice

• Paul Graham on how to do great work
• Sahil Bloom with the most powerful life hacks
• CJ Casselli with a Personal Productivity Playbook
• CooperBaggs on how to romanticize your completely ordinary life
• CooperBaggs on 20 habits that make your life feel good on a normal day
• Side quests for building a larger life outside work
• Bryan Johnson on basic longevity habits
• Brandon Luu, MD on building muscle during 100-hour work weeks
• David Perell on Not Killing Time
• Rudyard Kipling with paternal life advice
• Tyler Cowen on his production function
• Pmarca guide to personal productivity
• Lifehacker on how to make time slow down
• Talking Points for Life on how to communicate effectively
• Sahil Bloom on the most powerful asymmetries in life
• Dr. Levin on advice for unconventional thinkers in academia

General Pipeline

• Paul Graham on Maker's schedule vs. Manager's Schedule
• Greg Mankiw on his rules of thumb
• R. W. Hamming on striving for greatness in all you do
• Blair, Ryan, and Schutzenhofer (NASA) on the elements of engineering excellence
• Avinash Dixit on his research system
• Peter Diamond on his general research strategy
• David N. Weil with his pep talk on research
• Paul Niehaus on doing research
• Emerge Lab with an unsolicited guide to good research
• Brendan Price on organizing data for economics research
• Hacker Stations, a collection of sample workspaces
• Alma A. Bezares Calderon with a research guide
• Ricardo Dahis with advice for academic research
• Lasse Pedersen on how to succeed in academia

Grad Life

• Interfluidity on how higher education is right-wing
• Deirdre McCloskey on how to be a good graduate student
• Eric Zwick on the 12-step program for graduate school
• Alex Zentefis on general PhD advice
• Laura Blattner on 15 rules to help you make it through grad school
• Matthew Pearson on how to survive your first year
• Reddit on how to write good emails

Working on Projects

Generating Ideas

• Brendan Price on how to read papers
• Steve Pischke on getting started on research in economics
• Amy Finkelstein on how her most projects fail
• Don Davis on getting started on your thesis
• David Perell on avoiding cliche ideas
• Ben Olken on failed projects

Funding

• Crowdsourced list of small grants
• Matthew O. Jackson & Laura Razzolini on NSF Funding
• Alex Lang with NSF GRFP Examples

Literature Review

• Semantic Scholar, AI-powered research tool
• Connected Papers for exploring in a visual graph
• Shyam Raman on a better lit review workflow
• Elicit on AI-powered searches for papers
• Perlego Books for searching for excerpts

Coding

• Mitchell Peterson on clustering standard errors
• Merely Useful on Research Software Engineering with Python
• Malcolm Wardlaw on Stata programming
• Marco Sammon on using Python for text analysis
• Library of Statistical Techniques for working across languages
• Walter Zhang with an intro to using the cluster at Chicago Booth
• Arthur Turrell with coding for economists
• Stata & R with a side-by-side comparison
• Julian Reif with a Stata coding guide
• fast.ai with Practical Deep Learning for Coders
• The Book of Secret Knowledge with a collection of command-line tools, cheatsheets, and manuals

Data

• Michael Sinkinson on Better 13F Data
• Blog with very useful insights on financial data
• Dataset search enabled by Google
• Search engine for finding papers using specific methods and data
• Historical Data Library by Investor Amnesia
• I3 Open Dataset with datasets on innovation
• Find Economic Articles with Data plus automatic Stata replications
• Pietro Biroli with a list of datasets
• Martin Halla with a list of micro-data
• Lenore Palladino with a economic and policy data dashboard
• Milton Financial Market Research Institute with a Historical Data Vendor List
• Tom Doerr with public real-time datasets

Project Management

• Chris Goodman on project management using Notion
• Jeremy Caplan with 100+ useful tools
• untools.co with tools for better thinking
• Jeremy Caplan with 10 tools for deep work
• Maya Gosztyla on paper management system using Zotero and Notion
• Brandon Zborowski with tips for an efficient workflow

Navigating AI

Using AI in Research

• Ingar Haaland on integrating ChatGPT into your research
• Ethan Mollick on 15 Times to use AI, and 5 Not to
• Isaiah Andrews with some thoughts on AI and research for PhD students
• Frontier Graph with a graph-based tool for surfacing candidate research questions in economics
• AI tools for actuaries

Using AI in Teaching

• AI in Finance with the reading library from my Columbia MBA course

Coding with AI Agents

• Pedro Sant'Anna on his Claude Code workflow
• Claude Code Templates with ready-made agents, commands, and skills for Claude Code

Learning How AI Works

• Andrej Karpathy with a minimal GPT implementation for understanding transformers
• DAIR.AI with a comprehensive prompt engineering guide
• AI Atlas with a self-paced study route through machine learning and AI, with practice exercises

Look & Feel

• Looseleaf with a hand-drawn look for shadcn/ui web components

Writing & Presenting Your Work

Slides

• Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham on presentations in beamer
• Keith Head on regression tables
• Arpit Gupta with some advice on framing the work
• Julie Fu on slide deck design

Attending

• Josh Kaufman on how to ask useful questions

Presenting

• Adam Guren on structuring your talk
• Shengwu Li on how to give an economic theory talk
• Jesse Shapiro on giving an applied micro talk
• Rachael Meager on public speaking for academic economists
• Patrick Winston with one of the best lectures on how to speak
• Conor Neill on how to start a speech
• Itai Yanai on how to give a bad talk
• David Patterson on how to give a bad talk
• Jonathan Shewchuk on giving an academic talk
• Rochelle Terman on building an academic web presence
• Anne M. Burton and Barton Willage with a list of economics conferences
• FAE Conference Tracker for finance, accounting, and economics conference deadlines
• Andrew Lo on home studio setup
• Kjetil Storesletten with ten commandments for how to give a seminar
• Rachael Meager on public speaking for academic economists
• Monika Piazzesi with tips on how to avoid disaster in presentations

Manuscript & Writing

• Keith Head, Don Cox, and David Evans on writing your introduction
• John Cochrane on writing tips for PhD students
• Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz on writing your job market paper
• Michael Kremer on the checklist when writing papers
• Michael Roberts on writing
• Tatyana Deryugina on writing, especially the JMP
• Jesse Shapiro on four steps to an applied micro paper
• Plamen Nikolov on writing tips for economics research
• Jonathan Karpoff with thoughts on writing for financial economists
• Jason Fletcher on framing a paper for a top-five journal

Advisor-Style AI Feedback

• Jesse Shapiro with an LLM prompt distilling his PhD-advising style
• Isaiah Andrews with an AI skill giving research feedback in his style

Figures & Tables

• Eric Zwick on the art of creating graphs
• Jonathan A. Schwabish's AEA article, NBER lecture, and book
• Claus O. Wilke on Fundamentals of Data Visualization
• Nicolas P. Rougier on visualization using Python + Matplotlib
• Franconeri et al. on how to visualize complex data
• Dr. Eamer with a beautiful collection of data visualizations

Marketing & Networking

• Michael Ewens on job market presence and online presence
• Susan Athey on networking
• Curated list of minimalist websites

Online Presence

• The Health Inequality Project by Team Chetty
• Social Capital Atlas by Team Chetty-Jackson-Kuchler-Stroebel
• Opportunity Insights by Team Chetty
• Public Debt Valuation Project by Team Lustig-Van Nieuwerburgh
• The Global Capital Allocation Project by Team Neiman
• Open Source Asset Pricing by Team Chen-Zimmermann
• Realtime Inequality by Team Blanchet-Saez-Zucman
• Global Factor Data by Team Jensen-Kelly-Pedersen
• Diffusion of Disruptive Technologies by Team Bloom
• Economic Policy Uncertainty by Team Baker-Bloom-Davis
• Monetary Policy Statement Database (MPSD) by Team Baird-Benchimol et al.
• Firm-Level Risk by Team Hassan-Hollander-vanLent-Tahoun
• Founding Patents: Young Firm Innovation by Team Ewens-Marx
• Pricing the Calendar by Team Vissing-Jorgensen

Publishing

• Matt Ayres on revising in response to referee comments
• Tatyana Deryugina on how to be a constructive referee
• Alex Edmans on learnings from 1,000 rejections
• Journal Turnaround Times for Economics and Finance
• Tips for Authors from Rene Stulz
• Reply-to-referee template from Paolo Crosetto

Evaluating Other Work

Discussions

• Chris Blattman on the art of discussing
• James Choi on how to give a good paper discussion

Sample Discussions

Macro & Macro Finance

Monika Piazzesi, Daniel Greenwald, Itamar Drechsler, Urban Jermann, John Cochrane, Lawrence Schmidt, Jonathan Parker, Nicolas Crouzet, Amir Kermani, Annette Vissing-Jorgensen, Hanno Lustig, Gabriel Chodorow-Reich,Princeton MMF Reading Group, Fabrice Tourre, Eric Swanson, Wenhao Li, Robert Hall, Anton Korinek, Lars Svensson, Valentin Haddad, Savitar Sundaresan

Financial Intermediation

Juliane Begenau, Konstantin Milbradt, Matteo Crosignani, Thomas Mertens, Kunal Sachdeva

Household / Public Finance

Arpit Gupta, Emil Verner, Christopher Palmer, Anthony DeFusco, Lorenz Kueng, Amir Kermani, Jialan Wang, Sasha Indarte, Kristoph Kleiner, Erica Jiang, Paul Willen, Jonathan Parker

Empirical Asset Pricing / Investments

Kent Daniel, Stefan Nagel, Eben Lazarus, Christian Julliard, Nancy Xu, "J" Jiacui Li, Rohit Allena, Daniele Bianchi, Jon Reuter, Vincent Bogousslavsky, Valentin Haddad, Ehsan Azarmsa, Markus Ibert

International Macro & Trade

Oleg Itskhoki, Nelson Camanho, Tarek Hassan, Dmitry Mukhin, Fabrizio Perri

Corporate Finance

Moqi Groen-Xu, Adair Morse, Shaun William Davies, Isaac Hacamo

Behavioral Finance

David Solomon

Editing

• Preston McAfee on working as an editor

Others

Professional Code

• Anthony Lee Zhang on social norms in US academia
• Ivo Welch on some observations about the PhD Market
• Daniel S. Hamermash on professional etiquette
• Josh Spector with one-sentence Email tips
• Lukas Mergele on bilateral meetings with senior researchers
• Auren Hoffman on how to ask for an introduction the right way
• Auren Hoffman on how to ask for advice without wasting other people's time

Applying for PhD

• Anthony Lee Zhang on math classes for economics/finance PhD
• Econ RA Guide
• Andrew Johnston on optimizing PhD placement (here), deciding where to go (here), and making the most out of grad school (here)
• Mianish Jha on business PhD admission
• Samantha N. Smith on business PhD admission
• Chris Blattman on writing the statement of purpose

Academic Job Market

• Chris Blattman on academic job market advice*
• John Cawley on the academic job market
• Eric Zwick on how he learned to stop worrying and love the job market
• David Laibson with his job market advice
• Adam Guren with his job market advice
• Jonathan Parker with his job market advice
• Andrew Johnston on how to dress for a job market interview
• Sasha Indarte on how to organize the job market information
• Manish Jha with Finance Job Market Advice based on 2020-21 experience
• Martina Pocchiari with phase-by-phase advice based on the 2021-22 marketing job market
• David Schindler on the European job market
• Tatyana Deryugina with a suggested job market timeline
• Alex Albright with details on job market experience
• Kelsi Hobbs with an example job market package
• Duarte Gonçalves on the job market package
• Job market tips and interview prep by Kim Cramer and Kerry Siani
• Antonio Cabrales with a general overview of job market in economics
• David Schindler on interviews and flyouts
• David Schindler on negotiations and offers
• Lizbeth De La Cruz Santana with sample job market prep materials
• Claudia Goldin and Larry Katz on negotiations and offers
• Wenhao Sun on how to be the #1 pick in an R1 faculty search
• Brandon Zborowski with reflections on the finance job market
• Arpit Gupta on real estate job market advice
• Dick Startz with a guide to job market presentations
• Pablo Guzmán with an interactive visualization of 8,000+ PhD placements from 40 top econ departments

PostDoc

• Wei Yang Tham on on guide to postodcs in econ/management

Faculty Life

• Tyler Ransom on tips for new tenure-track professors
• Jesse Shapiro on helping new faculty launch a research agenda
• Chris Blattman on writing recommendation letters
• Brendan Nyhan on navigating academic career
• Google Sheets List of University Salary Websites

Non-Academic Job Market

• Scarlet Chen on her journey from Econ PhD to Tech
• Rose Tan on her journey from Econ PhD to Tech
• Rose Tan with a panel discussion of perspectives from economists in Tech
• AEA Career Development Webinars with useful fireside chats
• Matthew Hom on private sector jobs for Economics PhDs
• Derek Snow with ML and Quant Finance resources
• Giuseppe Paleologo with Buy-Side Quant Job Advice
• r/quantfinance with the ultimate guide to breaking into quant finance
• eFinancialCareers on a day in the life of a trader at Citadel Securities
• Auren Hoffman on how to actually look for a job without wasting everyone's time
• Bear Stearns with a Leveraged Finance Handbook

Teaching Help

• EconGraphs for interactive graphs and explanations
• Susquehanna on option pricing explained with no-arbitrage and financial mathematics
• Roh with a visual guide to Bloomberg terminal usage

Teaching Notes

PhD Notes

• Jesús Fernández-Villaverde on macro, finance, and economic history
• Adrien Matray on empirical corporate finance
• Itay Goldstein on theoretical corporate finance
• Matthieu Gomez on macro finance
• Benjamin Moll on macroeconomics and continuous-time methods
• Luke Taylor on structural estimation in corporate finance
• Ralph Koijen on empirical asset pricing
• Francesco Franzoni on empirical asset pricing
• Amedeo Andriollo on empirical asset pricing and financial econometrics
• Adriano Rampini on financial intermediation theory
• Jun Pan on asset pricing and financial markets
• Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham on applied methods
• Manish Jha with a summary of key finance papers
• Grant McDermott on data science for economists
• Chris Conlon on graduate level IO
• Matt Woerman on topics in advanced econometrics
• Florian Oswald on computational economics using Julia
• Robert A. Miller on structural econometrics
• Wenhao Li on techniques for macro finance
• Annie Liang on information and learning
• Victor Chernozhukov and Ivan Fernandez-Val on graduate-level econometrics
• Paul Söderlind on financial econometrics
• Lasse Heje Pedersen on big data asset pricing
• Matteo Courthoud with a collection of causal inference resources
• Joseph Kalmenovitz on a quick guide to writing empirical corporate finance papers

Master's Notes

• Julien Pénasse on macro and international finance
• Kevin Sheppard on MFE Financial Econometrics
• Daniele Bianchi on financial machine learning (slides, notes, and Python notebooks)

Undergrad Notes

• Saki Bigio on monetary and financial architectures

General Notes

Economics

• IMF Back to Basics
• Page One Economics
• History of Economic Thought
• Flossbach von Storch with a constructive critique of the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level
• Carlos Chavez on the history of causal inference

Literature Review

• Perspectives in sustainable equity investing by Guillaume Coqueret
• Machine Learning for Factor Investing by Guillaume Coqueret

Quantitative Finance

• J. A. Dobelman with notes on quantitative finance and statistics

Recommendations

Newsletters

• OMI Research Newsletter for latest quant research

Econ & Finance Books

• Financial Times: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015
• Bloomberg: 2019, 2018, 2017a, 2017b
• The Economist: 2018
• Andrew Lo on the best finance books
• The Pequod with reviews of best fiction and non-fiction

Investing

• Phillip Ordway with investment principles and checklists
• Terminal Value with a curated index of investing tools

Research Digests

• NBER Digest featuring non-technical summaries
• Chicago Booth Review
• VOX, CEPR's Policy Portal
• AEA Research Highlights
• Economic Synopses
• Poverty Action Lab with Policy Insights

Productivity Tools

• Reddit List of useful known websites
• Compilation of tasks that AI can do today
• Paleologo Tutor as an AI tutor for interactive learning
• Marcus Chua with a list of productivity apps
• Max Yung with a curated list of productivity apps

Essays

• Paul Graham, American computer scientist and writer
• Gwern Branwen, a pseudonymous independent researcher
• Zhengdong Wang, a research engineer
• Great Memos, an archive of history's best business and investment memos
• Billion Dollar PDF, an index of documents that introduced a new mental model and changed how billions of dollars of capital flowed

Other Subjects

• The best tacit knowledge videos on every subject
• The best textbooks on every subject
• The best reference works on every subject

Cool Stuff

• Food timeline that makes food history fun
• Musical time machine that makes discovering music fun
• Musclewiki for simplifying workouts
• 1000 best tools vetted and maintained by humans
• Curated Supply for browsing well-designed brands and products
• Area vibes for finding the best places to live
• Close City to search based on distance to amenities
• Closeness to Things for evaluating an address by travel times to the places you care about
• Standard Ebooks for better formatted e-books
• 50 simple things for a minimalist life
• Vetted for summaries of trustworthy reviews
• Relationship advice from 500 years
• Numbeo for comparing the cost of living
• Nifty Calendar for printing out an entire year on one page
• Library of Short Stories for reading and downloading public short stories
• The Infatuation for better food and restaurant guides
• Custom computer screens for taking strategic breaks
• Same Energy for finding images with similar energy
• How Products Are Made for details behind the manufacturing process of a wide variety of products
• Muscle Wiki for your workout information
• Exploding Topics to surface rapidly growing topics before they take off
• Learn About by Google to study any topic you want to learn
• DrawingNow for free drawing lessons
• WFH NYC for best remote work spots in NYC
• Workabout NYC for finding good places to work around the city
• Travel tips from a veteran traveler
• Flighty Airports for airport guides and tips
• US National Park Finder for browsing parks by month and seasonal conditions
• Ask Nature for nature's solutions to various challenges
• movyzen to help decide which country to move to in Europe
• Backtrack for a list of classical concerts
• Twitter Viewer for viewing Twitter anonymously
• SideProjectors for promoting side projects
• WikiCommute for tailored Wikipedia reading paths based on how much time you have
• Cultural Atlas for understanding the cultural backgrounds of people from around the world
• Movie Scene Map for browsing 15,000+ filming locations of films, shows, games, and anime on a world map

Killing Time

• Directory of weirdest Wikipedia entries on every subject