Ever since high school, I’ve had a personal tradition of sharing the scientific papers I read (in full) with my online community. About a year ago, I started cataloguing my posts and periodically sharing batches of papers here on Substack. So far, I have made 16 Substack posts, each with 5–10 papers and my comments. In total, this has resulted in a compilation of 100 papers and commentaries. Together, these papers represent a massive accumulation of human knowledge, progress, and innovation. Millions more exist out there on the internet. I will acknowledge that there’s a lot wrong with the academic publishing system and that it deserves massive reform. But seeing all of this amazing work at once nonetheless gives me hope that the collective intellect of the human species is capable of great things.

I’ve kept track of the 100 scientific papers that I’ve read in full over the past ~1 year, writing short summaries and posting them on social media. Here is the full compilation!