Blog & Reading

Notes, essays, and things I've been reading.

Hello, World

10 February 2025

First post — why I'm building this site, and what to expect.

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The paper that started the transformer revolution. Still worth re-reading every few months.

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A short essay arguing that general methods leveraging computation are ultimately the most effective in AI research.

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Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Martin Kleppmann

The best reference for understanding distributed systems, databases, and the infrastructure behind modern applications.

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Empirical scaling laws that shaped how we think about training large language models. Foundational reading for anyone in LLM research.

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The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

Eric Jorgenson

A collection of Naval's wisdom on wealth creation and finding happiness. Short, dense, and endlessly re-readable.