# Sites and charts

Date: 2026-08-18

Author: Zhenzhao Tu

An unstructured list. That is the point.

## Websites more people should see

- [ciechanow.ski](https://ciechanow.ski/) — explanations that actually explain.
- [What’s new](https://terrytao.wordpress.com/) — Terence Tao, still the model of a mathematician’s public notebook.
- [John D. Cook](https://www.johndcook.com/blog/) — short, applied, and rarely wasted.
- [Patrick Collison](https://patrickcollison.com/) — a personal site that remained a personal site.
- [Idle Words](https://idlewords.com/) — Maciej Cegłowski, for when the industry needs a cold shower.

## Charts I look at

Not advice. Public series I wander through when I cannot sleep, or when the news has decided to be about “the market” without showing one.

- [FRED](https://fred.stlouisfed.org/)
- [CME FedWatch](https://www.cmegroup.com/markets/interest-rates/cme-fedwatch-tool.html)
- [S&P 500](https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EGSPC/)
- [SSE Composite](https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/000001.SS/)

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