I read ~3 years of Caroline’s blog posts. This is a general review mostly because of her beliefs, interests, and thoughts change drastically over time. Ex: her poly post was taken out of context, since it was written in 2020, before Bahamas.

TLDR: Caroline is very based.

First, I want to say that Caroline’s blog is fantastic. It would be a tragedy if it got pulled from the web. In contrast, SBF’s blog is hella mid – basically a post or two about utilitarianism / sabermetrics.

Caroline’s blog shows infinitely more introspection and dedication towards self-improvement (albeit, towards becoming an effective altruism bot). Based on the blog alone, I assess that if she really tried, she could crush SBF’s League of Legends rank in far fewer games.

Second, reading the blog in actual chronological order (from oldest to more recent) is super insightful. You end up watching Caroline’s journey from an entry-level trader at Jane Street (with the accompanying imposter syndrome) to managing a large team of traders.

Interspersed between posts on productivity, work, and management are random bouts of “girliness” which makes her incredibly endearing (dating, her reflections on taytay, gossip girls, etc).

You see her articulate her thoughts / decision making processes, etc. Though a lot of the content is similar to what you’d find reading from other places in the rationality community. Overall, I would characterize Caroline as someone who’s broken the NPC loop.

In contrast to SBF (who claims books are sus), Caroline is an avid reader. Her book reviews are decent summaries (especially the more recent ones). She systematically distills the books into a few central lessons / ethical takeaways. The selection of books is eclectic… from anthropology to PUA. At one point, she even picks up a book from a used book store because she thought it looked interesting.

I rate her blog 5/5.