BOOKS
A curated list of what I've read, by year. Highlighted ones left a mark.
2026
- * Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future — Dan Wang
- The Proof in the Code: How a Truth Machine Is Transforming Math and AI — Kevin Hartnett
- The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, Deep Mind and the Quest for Superintelligence — Sebastian Mallaby
- The Soul of A New Machine — Tracy Kidder
- Stormlight Archive — Brandon Sanderson
2025
- There Is No Antimemetics Division — qntm
- Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach us about Rising Children — Michaeleen Doucleff
- Source Code: My Beginnings — Bill Gates
- The Fabric of Reality: Towards a Theory of Everything — David Deutsch
2024
- Bobiverse (series) — Dennis Taylor
- Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology — Chris Miller
- Bravery: Chasing Dreams, Befriending Pain, and Other Big Ideas — Alexi Pappas
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A novel — Gabrielle Zevin
2023
- The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations that Transform The World — David Deutsch
- Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Thinking in Systems — Donella Meadows
2022
- Novelist as a Vocation: An exploration of a writer's life — Haruki Murakami
- Worth the Candle — Alexander Wales
- The Expanse (series) — James Corey
- Stories of Your Life and Others — Ted Chiang
2021
- The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity — David Graeber
- The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't — Julia Galef
- The Science of Can and Can't — Chiara Marletto
2020
- Exhalation — Ted Chiang
- A Brief History Series — Yuval Noah Harari
2019
- A Wild Sheep Chase — Haruki Murakami
- The Vital Question: Why is life the way it is? — Nick Lane
- The Order of Time — Carlo Rovelli
- Rationality: From AI to Zombies — Eliezer Judkowsky
- Der Teil und das Ganze: Gespraeche im Umkreis der Atomphysik — Werner Heisenberg
- Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! — Richard P. Feynman
- Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour — Neil deGrasse Tyson
2018
- Gravitational Waves: How Einstein's spacetime ripples reveal the secrets of the universe — Brian Clegg
- The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life — Robin Hanson
- Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life — Marshall Rosenberg
- Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind — Andy Clark
- Einstein: His Life and the Universe — Walter Isaacson
< 2018
- The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan — Robert Kanigel
- How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed — Ray Kurzweil
- Thinking, Fast and Slow — Daniel Kahneman
- Fermant's Last Theorem — Simon Singh
- The Kingkiller Chronicle — Patrick Rothfuss
- Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution — Steven Levy
- Masters of Doom — David Kushner
- On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft — Stephen King
- Wheel of Time — Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson
- The Selfish Gene — Richard Dawkins
- The Rational Optimist — Matt Ridely
- The Red Queen — Matt Ridely
- Art & Fear: Obeservations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking — David Bayles, Ted Orland