Books
A taste graph for books that shape the work.
This shelf is scaffolded like a Stripe Press-inspired reading surface: books get notes, takeaways, related thesis claims, and links back to projects.
Shelf
Books with durable takeaways.
Martin Kleppmann
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Most recommended / strong
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Good systems are built by understanding reliability, scalability, maintainability, and the tradeoffs hiding underneath abstractions.
David Deutsch
The Beginning of Infinity
Changed my mind / selective
The Beginning of Infinity
Good explanations compound. A useful thesis should be revisable, testable, and connected to what it helps build.
Andrew Chen
The Cold Start Problem
Currently reading / in progress
The Cold Start Problem
Networks, communities, and marketplaces need careful bootstrapping before scale means anything.
Beyond books
Articles, papers, and other source streams.
Books
Long-form ideas worth sitting with
Books that shape taste, strategy, technical intuition, markets thinking, and personal operating systems.
Articles
Useful essays and field notes
Articles, posts, and references that are worth saving because they change how a product, market, or decision is viewed.
Papers
Technical reading
Research papers and technical writeups that connect AI, agents, search, infrastructure, and software craft.