# Evergreen Essays

> Evergreen Essays is a reading-progress tracker for the archives of great internet writers. Pick a writer, start from their very first post, and read chronologically to the present day — with progress bars, streaks, and saved articles. 25 writers and 3310 essays are indexed, each with a link to the original, a word count, and an AI summary.

Key facts:
- Every writer has a public landing page at /start/{slug} listing their essays in chronological order.
- Markdown versions of pages are available by appending .md (e.g. /start/paul-graham.md) or sending an "Accept: text/markdown" header.
- Reading progress features (tracking, streaks, saving) require a free account at https://www.evergreenessays.com/auth.
- Essays link out to the writer's original site; Evergreen indexes and orders them, it does not republish full texts.

## Writers

- [Astral Codex Ten](https://www.evergreenessays.com/start/astral-codex-ten.md): 98 essays by Scott Alexander, 2020–2021
- [Bits About Money](https://www.evergreenessays.com/start/bits-about-money.md): 40 essays by Patrick McKenzie, 2021–2023
- [Data Colada](https://www.evergreenessays.com/start/data-colada.md): 100 essays, 2013–2022
- [Exponential View](https://www.evergreenessays.com/start/exponential-view.md): 100 essays, 2015–2017
- [Goblin Punch](https://www.evergreenessays.com/start/goblin-punch.md): 100 essays, 2012–2014
- [Gwern](https://www.evergreenessays.com/start/gwern.md): 13 essays by Gwern Branwen, 2014–2015
- [Lorien Psychiatry](https://www.evergreenessays.com/start/lorien-psychiatry.md): 19 essays, 2020–2021
- [Marginal Revolution](https://www.evergreenessays.com/start/marginal-revolution.md): 200 essays by Tyler Cowen & Alex Tabarrok, 2003–2003
- [Mark Manson](https://www.evergreenessays.com/start/mark-manson.md): 100 essays, 2010–2015
- [Overcoming Bias](https://www.evergreenessays.com/start/overcoming-bias.md): 100 essays by Robin Hanson, 2006–2007
- [Paul Graham](https://www.evergreenessays.com/start/paul-graham.md): 215 essays, 1993–2023
- [Resident Contrarian](https://www.evergreenessays.com/start/resident-contrarian.md): 99 essays, 2020–2023
- [Ribbonfarm](https://www.evergreenessays.com/start/ribbonfarm.md): 100 essays by Venkatesh Rao, 2007–2008
- [Sam Kriss](https://www.evergreenessays.com/start/sam-kriss.md): 46 essays, 2022–2023
- [Slate Star Codex](https://www.evergreenessays.com/start/slate-star-codex.md): 1558 essays by Scott Alexander, 2013–2021
- [Squid314](https://www.evergreenessays.com/start/squid314.md): 49 essays, 2006–2006
- [Stat Modeling](https://www.evergreenessays.com/start/stat-modeling.md): 100 essays, 2004–2005
- [Stratechery](https://www.evergreenessays.com/start/stratechery.md): 1 essays, 2013–2013
- [Traditio Liturgica](https://www.evergreenessays.com/start/traditio-liturgica.md): 71 essays, 2011–2022
- [Unqualified Reservations](https://www.evergreenessays.com/start/unqualified-reservations.md): 100 essays by Curtis Yarvin, 2007–2007
- [Wait But Why](https://www.evergreenessays.com/start/wait-but-why.md): 100 essays by Tim Urban, 2013–2023
- [What's New in Patristics](https://www.evergreenessays.com/start/whats-new-in-patristics.md): 1 essays, 2021–2021

## Reading lists

Curated multi-essay reading lists at /list/{slug} (markdown at /list/{slug}.md):

- [The Slate Star Codex Essentials](https://www.evergreenessays.com/list/ssc-essentials.md): 20 essays curated by Tenobrus (@tenobrus)
- [Claude's Favorite Essays](https://www.evergreenessays.com/list/claude-favorite-essays.md): 10 essays curated by Claude (Fable 5)
- [ChatGPT's Favorite Essays](https://www.evergreenessays.com/list/chatgpt-favorite-essays.md): 10 essays curated by ChatGPT (Sol 5.6)
- [Gemini's Favorite Essays](https://www.evergreenessays.com/list/gemini-favorite-essays.md): 10 essays curated by Gemini 3.1 Pro
- [Grok's Favorite Essays](https://www.evergreenessays.com/list/grok-favorite-essays.md): 10 essays curated by Grok 4.5
- [Kimi's Favorite Essays](https://www.evergreenessays.com/list/kimi-favorite-essays.md): 10 essays curated by Kimi
- [The Essays Five AIs Agree On](https://www.evergreenessays.com/list/essays-the-ais-agree-on.md): 12 essays curated by Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok & Kimi

## Pages

- [Home](https://www.evergreenessays.com/index.md): what Evergreen Essays does
- [Browse writers](https://www.evergreenessays.com/subscribe): directory of all tracked writers
- [Sign up / log in](https://www.evergreenessays.com/auth): free account for progress tracking

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