A living archive of books shaping my mental models across AI systems, engineering, history, philosophy, and creative craft. Tracked with live reading progress and key takeaways.
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30% In Progress
Consciousness2026
A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness
By Michael Pollan
Reading Progress30%
A panoptic tour of consciousness—what it is, who has it, and why—across neuroscience, philosophy, psychedelics, plants, and AI. Pollan argues it feels like something to be us, and that machines can do many things without ever being a person.
70% In Progress
History2024
The Writers' Castle: Reporting History at Nuremberg
By Uwe Neumahr
Reading Progress70%
A vivid exploration of history, rivalry, and human conscience through the lens of international writers and reporters stationed at Schloss Faber-Castell during the Nuremberg Trials.
20% In Progress
AI Systems2024
Hands-On Large Language Models
By Jay Alammar & Maarten Grootendorst
Reading Progress20%
The definitive practitioner guide to mastering transformer tokenizers, vector embeddings, fine-tuning, and modern multimodal LLM architectures with PyTorch.
90% In Progress
Philosophy2025
Poems & Prayers
By Matthew McConaughey
Reading Progress90%
An intimate, soulful collection of ditties, confessions, and prayers exploring faith, relationships, gratitude, and navigating life with authentic intention.
1% In Progress
Religion2009
The Evolution of God
By Robert Wright
Reading Progress1%
A naturalistic history of how the idea of God changed across millennia, from hunter-gatherer animism through polytheism to Abrahamic monotheism, read through evolutionary psychology, game theory, and archaeology. Wright argues that moral progress tracks nonzero-sum social dynamics: as interdependence made cooperation pay, gods grew more benevolent.
100% Completed
Game Dev2017
Blood, Sweat, and Pixels
By Jason Schreier
Reading Progress100%
The triumphant, turbulent stories behind how video games are made—a masterclass in navigating engineering bottlenecks, creative vision, and deadline pressure.
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