https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revol...
I love this one more though (much shorter, but makes you think, and once you start thinking about it seriously...): https://waitbutwhy.com/2016/10/100-blocks-day.html
Reading this in middle management at a bank was illuminating.
The fact that those stand the test of time and resonate with so many people working in large organizations really helps with perspective.
Gwern is an independent researcher who studies... a lot of things. He's documented some of the history of the dark web, blogs about his nootropics experience and, perhaps most notably, predicted that bitcoin might reach $10,000... in 2011.
https://thelastpsychiatrist.com
The blogs that aspire to follow in TLP's footsteps are legion.
Then the rest of the best-of: https://slatestarcodex.com/about/
Lately I've been obsessed with Samzdat on Seeing Like a State: https://samzdat.com/2017/05/22/man-as-a-rationalist-animal/
Watching Tesla show the faults in the SV way of doing things has been really fascinating, for example.