career
writings
Intent surfaces, concurrent React, and MCP-powered agents reshaping the front-end.
Gwern & Rickard case studies on accidental Turing completeness and AI-friendly language design.
Versioning GraphQL schemas, Hasura metadata, and SpecBundles so agents stay auditable.
books & reading list
The Beginning of Infinity
by David Deutsch
An exploration of why good explanations drive open-ended human progress.
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
by Martin Kleppmann
Foundations of scalable, fault‑tolerant data systems in the real world.
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
by H. Abelson & G. J. Sussman
The classic 'Wizard Book' on abstraction, metalinguistic recursion and Scheme.
The Feynman Lectures on Physics
by R. P. Feynman et al.
Timeless, intuitive exposition of mechanics, EM and quantum theory.
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
by Charles Petzold
From Morse to microprocessors—how information becomes computation.
Gödel’s Proof
by E. Nagel & J. R. Newman
Accessible guide to Gödel’s incompleteness theorems and implications.
The C Programming Language
by B. W. Kernighan & D. M. Ritchie
The definitive, concise tutorial and reference from C’s creators.
Thinking in Systems: A Primer
by Donella H. Meadows
Feedback loops, leverage points and mental models for complex systems.
Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking
by Daniel C. Dennett
Thought‑experiments that clarify minds, evolution and AI.
Rationality: From AI to Zombies
by Eliezer Yudkowsky
Clear thinking, cognitive bias and Bayesian reasoning—LessWrong's greatest hits.
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
by Yuval Noah Harari
A sweeping narrative of human history from the Stone Age to today.
The Big Picture
by Sean Carroll
Origins of life, meaning and the universe from a physicist's perspective.
Gödel, Escher, Bach
by Douglas Hofstadter
Interwoven explorations of math, art and music around self-reference and meaning.
Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
by A. Doxiadis & C. Papadimitriou
Graphic novel on Russell's quest for the foundations of mathematics.
A Cultural History of Physics
by Károly Simonyi
How physics shaped—and was shaped by—culture across centuries.
UNSONG
by Scott Alexander
Jewish mysticism, puns and a world running on divine names.
Crafting Interpreters
by Robert Nystrom
Hands-on guide to building a language: tree-walk and bytecode VM.
The Black Swan
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
On rare, high-impact events and our narratives after the fact.
Inadequate Equilibria
by Eliezer Yudkowsky
Why good ideas languish and how institutions get stuck.
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