Reading
Books, blogs, writing, and sites I keep coming back to.
Books
The Rosie Project
FavouriteGraeme Simsion
My favourite novel. Funny in a way that sneaks up on you.
Life 3.0
Max Tegmark
The clearest walk through what a post-AGI world could actually look like.
The Singularity Is Near
Ray Kurzweil
Read this one, then its 2024 sequel, back to back.
The Singularity Is Nearer
Ray Kurzweil
Kurzweil checking his own 2005 predictions against what actually happened.
The Beginning of Infinity
David Deutsch
Dense, and worth the slow read. Changed how I think about explanation itself.
Deep Work
Cal Newport
The book behind most of my actual work habits.
Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
Not a hero story. That's what makes it worth reading.
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini
The one novel on this list that isn't here for the ideas in it.
Empire of Pain
Patrick Radden Keefe
How one family turned pain relief into an epidemic, reported without letting anyone off the hook.
Cosmos
Carl Sagan
Still the best writing there is on why any of this is worth understanding.
A Brief History of Intelligence
Max Bennett
Traces intelligence through five evolutionary jumps, and lands on where AI actually sits.