What I've read/been reading
Since July, 2026
I read so much mystery and sci-fi before this (All of Sherlock Holmes, everything by Agatha Christie, The Expanse, Dune, whatever); alas, it is not recorded here.
This formatting implies it was formative, typically reserved for non-academic works
All my reviews are here, or you can find individual ones linked below as well.
Books
Reading
- Commons in Design by Christine Schranz (and many others)
- The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning by Maggie Nelson
- Quantum error correction and fault tolerance: A comprehensive tutorial
Completed
- 08/06/26 Don't Believe Everything You Think by Joseph Nguyen (review)
- 07/29/26 The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson (review)
- 07/18/26 When Einstein Walked With Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought by Jim Holt (review)
- 06/??/26 Longitude by Dava Sobel (review)
- 10/??/25 33 Artists in 3 Acts by Sarah Thornton
- 07/??/25 7 Days in the Art World by Sarah Thornton (review)
Articles
- 08/22/26 Unfortunately you sometimes need to do the thing - Griffin Berlstein
- 08/21/26 the gen z resilience drought - @Voyeurism on Substack
- 08/20/26 Using LLMs at Oxide - Bryan Cantrill
- 08/20/26 I like 'em thick - Adam Mastroianni
- 08/19/26 Why you need a "WTF Notebook" - Nat Bennett
- 08/19/26 I'm an American software developer and the "broligarchs" don't speak for me - Dave Gauer
- 08/16/26 How to write and why you should - Cadence Loh
- 08/16/26 The Thinking Person's Guide to Not Getting Dumber with AI - Maria Weaver
- 08/16/26 What Should the Human Part of Science Become? - Kishor Bharti
- 08/15/26 Guilt-Driven Development - Markus Eliasson
- 08/15/26 A long division story - Novak Kaluđerović
- 08/??/26 Blogging can just be stating the obvious - Jim Nielsen
- 08/??/26 It's about being, not having - Derek Sivers
- 08/??/26 Don't Take the Black Pill - Andrew Kelley
- 08/14/26 Computing Graph Dominators - Evan Martin
- 08/12/26 Compression is Prediction - Annie Sexton
- 08/11/26 AI-Native PhD Students - Etyan Adar
- 07/31/26 AI Mania is Eviscerating Global Decision Making - Nikhil Suresh
- 07/25/26 The Most Valuable Commodity in the World is Friction - Kyla Scanlon
- 06/20/26 Extinction-Level Capitalism - Matthew Butterick
- 06/07/26 Revenge of the Business Idiot - Ed Zitron
- 09/19/25 How to Find Research Problems - Jason Eisner
- 10/29/24 Understanding the differences: traditional interpreter, JIT compiler, JIT interpreter and AOT compiler
- 06/10/24 Flattening ASTs (and Other Compiler Data Structures) - Adrian Sampson
- 06/06/24 PyTorch Internals - Edward Z. Yang