last updated july 2025 – favorite articles I have read
The Big LLM Architecture Comparison
what math can teach us about how to live
literally just do things
The death of the public intellectual
we have computation because of weaving
compression culture is making you stupid and uninteresting
Decision-Making Got Faster, But Did It Get Smarter?
How To Understand Things
you are worth the mess you make
the delicate decade
The Great Cognitive Divide
The Most Valuable Commodity in the World is Friction
books
Becoming (Michelle Obana )
The Defining Decade (Ken Liu)
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a world desgined for men (Caroline Criado Perez)
The Vanishing Half (Brit Brnnett )
Educated (Tara Westover )
Weapons of Math Destruction(Cathy O'Neil)
The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Economics(Conrad Heilmann and Julian Reiss)
Out of Control(Kevin Kelly )
essays
The ESP Paradox (Wired)
The Poet and the Computer
Athleisure, Barre and Kale: The Tyranny of the Ideal Woman( Jia Tolentino)
Why Is Everything Ugly?
Letter on Culture and Context
A Mathematician’s Lament
The Wisdom of Saint Marshall
How to be a Precious Snowflake
Cool Women (The New Inquiry)
Quora: Why is it so hard to think for ourselves?
Why I Write (Joan Didion)
fav substack reads.
A Good Woman is a Woman Who Suffers
All Boredom Is Not Created the Same
Fascism Thrives on Women’s Self-Doubt
The Scalpel, The Apron, and The Appeal of Certainty
You Are Not Thought Daughter: On Intellectualism, Consumerism, and the Flattening of Identity
Thinking Is Becoming a Luxury
Who’s Afraid of Amber Heard?
The Ethics of AI Development: Where Do We Draw the Line?
Hemorrhage of Self
The Myth of the Magical Twenties