Some of my favorites.
Books
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| The Razor’s Edge | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Siddhartha | Hermann Hesse |
| Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance | Robert Pirsig |
| Mere Christianity | C.S. Lewis |
| Poor Charlie’s Almanack | Charlie Munger |
| Thinking in Systems: A Primer | Donella Meadows |
| The Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway |
| The Lean Startup | Eric Ries |
| There is no Antimemetics Division | qntm |
| Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid | Douglas Hofstaetder |
| The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt | Edmund Morris |
| Animal Farm | George Orwell |
| Robot Series | Isaac Asimov |
Essays/Short Stories
- The Inner Ring, by C.S. Lewis
- Coding Machines, by Lawrence Kesteloot
- Lena, by qntm
- Self Reliance, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Blogs/Articles
- The Bitter Lesson
- The Bet On Juniors Just Got Better
- My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file
- If You’re Going to Vibe Code, Why Not Do It in C?
- The New World (Josh Kushner profile)
- The XY Problem
- Sam Altman - The Gentle Singularity
- Geoffrey Huntley - (…) yes, AI is here
- Patrick Collison’s Bookshelf
- Mark Andreessen’s Guide to Career Planning
- Intelligence Arbitrage
- Haskell in Production - Mercury
- Prototyping in Rust
- Horace He - Making Deep Learning Go Brrrr From First Principles
- Horace He - Why PyTorch is an amazing place to work… and Why I’m Joining Thinking Machines
- Farnam Street - Chesterton’s Fence
- Aaron Swartz - HOWTO: Be more productive
- Andrew Gallant - Error Handling in Rust
- Paul Graham’s Essays
