reading

things i'm currently exploring

i keep a small list of papers, essays, and books that shape how i think about technology, product design, and systems. this page is less about tracking everything i read and more about highlighting ideas that have influenced me.

currently reading

• Gaia2: Benchmarking LLM Agents on Dynamic and Asynchronous Environments evaluating LLM agents in dynamic environments and asynchronous systems
• Breaking and Fixing Defenses Against Control Flow Hijacking in Multi-Agent Systems security vulnerabilities and defenses in multi-agent LLM systems
• Attention Is All You Need transformers and the foundation of modern LLMs
• LLaMA 3 Technical Report open model architecture and scaling insights
• The Bitter Lesson — Rich Sutton why scaling beats clever algorithms

essays

• How to Do Great Work — Paul Graham curiosity, taste, and building meaningful things
• Good Strategy / Bad Strategy Notes clear thinking about strategy and problem solving
• You and Your Research — Richard Hamming how great scientists think about impactful work
• Ideas for Startups — Paul Graham patterns behind interesting startup ideas

books

• Designing Data-Intensive Applications — Martin Kleppmann systems thinking for modern distributed software
• Sapiens — Yuval Noah Harari history of human civilization and collective myths
• The Road — Cormac McCarthy a stark story about survival, humanity, and the bond between father and son
• The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind — William Kamkwamba a story of curiosity and ingenuity in building a wind turbine to power a village
• Refugee — Alan Gratz interwoven stories of young refugees navigating displacement and survival