Bookshelf
Increment: Software Architecture
Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track
Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn
Hidden Games: The Surprising Power of Game Theory to Explain Irrational Human Behavior
The Big Score: The Billion Dollar Story of Silicon Valley
Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)
Thinking In Systems: A Primer
The Martian
Brave New World
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
The Last Lecture
At the Edge of Time: Exploring the Mysteries of Our Universe’s First Seconds (Science Essentials Book 32)
Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Kafka on the Shore
1984
How to Win Friends and Influence People: Updated For the Next Generation of Leaders (Dale Carnegie Books)
Animal Farm
Shoe Dog
The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter—And How to Make the Most of Them Now
Smaller and Smaller Circles
Project Hail Mary
Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers―Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship
Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life
The Lean Startup
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
A Brief History of Time
El Filibusterismo (Noli Me Tangere, #2)
Noli Me Tángere (Touch Me Not)
A Little History of the World
Blogs
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Do things that don't scale

Paul Graham

Staff Archetypes

Will Larson

Six Attributes of Beautiful Systems

Thomas Chau

Exit the haunted forest

John Millikin

A primer on functional architecture

Scott Wlaschin

Idea Generation

Sam Altman

How to be Successful

Sam Altman

Economic Inequality

Paul Graham

Papers
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mHC: Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Connections

Xie et al., 2025

Infinite Retrieval: Attention Enhanced LLMs in Long-Context Processing

Ye et al., 2025

ReFT: Reasoning with Reinforced Fine-Tuning

Luong et al., 2024

SFT Memorizes, RL Generalizes: A Comparative Study of Foundation Model Post-training

Chu et al., 2025

DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning

DeepSeek-AI et al., 2025

Large Concept Models: Language Modeling in a Sentence Representation Space

Meta, 2024

Training Large Language Models to Reason in a Continuous Latent Space

Hao et al., 2024

The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Finding Sparse, Trainable Neural Networks

Frankle and Carbin, 2019

Star Attention: Efficient LLM Inference over Long Sequences

Acharya et al., 2024

100M Token Context Windows — Magic

Magic, 2024