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
- 10/07/26 The Mathocalypse - Scott Aaronson
- 10/05/26 The complement of true is true, except when it's false - Matthew Taylor
- 10/04/26 How to have a Bad Career in Research/Academia - David A. Patterson
- 10/04/26 Rust's
deriveoften impliesinline- William Woodruff - 10/03/26 Be Careful What You Measure - Ashton Weirsdorf
- 09/24/26 Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names - Patrick McKenzie
- 09/20/26 AI Is an Elite Crime Spree - Matt Stoller
- 09/19/26 Write while learning - Alisa Sireneva
- 09/18/26 We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard - James O'Donnell, Casey Crownhart
- 09/15/26 Parse, don't validate - Alexis King
- 09/15/26 You don't need to work on hard problems - Ben Kuhn
- 09/15/26 Don't Get Distracted - Caleb Hearth
- 09/12/26 Who can afford the next theorem? - Dakshita Khurana
- 09/07/26 Dear researchers: Is AI all you've got? - Austin Henley
- 09/06/26 The revolt of the reader - Bryan Cantrill
- 09/05/26 FLT: Anthropic has beaten me to it - Kevin Buzzard
- 09/04/26 i'm just having fun - Jynn Nelson
- 09/04/26 simple is not small - Jynn Nelson
- 09/02/26 Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12 Million Given to DHH - Brennan Kenneth Brown
- 08/31/26 Front Page - Charalampos Kardaris
- 08/30/26 Bug Blindness - Dan Luu
- 08/29/26 What Makes Art Great? - Nabeel S. Qureshi
- 08/25/26 Reading Code Considered Helpful - Ray Myers
- 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