What I am reading, listening to, and watching.
2026
August
- Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain2nd listen, exceptional audiobookbook
- Tony (2026)film
- The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubinbook
- Pi’s Minimalism Is Its Advantagearticle
July
June
- Loop Engineeringarticle
- Attention Is All You NeedFinally read it lolpaper
- How LLMs Actually Workarticle
- Let's build GPT: from scratch, in code, spelled out.video
- Emotional managementarticle
- Lesson 8: Practical Deep Learning for Coders 2022video
- Lesson 7: Practical Deep Learning for Coders 2022video
- Lesson 6: Practical Deep Learning for Coders 2022video
- Lesson 5: Practical Deep Learning for Coders 2022video
- Lesson 3: Practical Deep Learning for Coders 2022video
May
- Lesson 4: Practical Deep Learning for Coders 2022video
- Lesson 2: Practical Deep Learning for Coders 2022video
- Practical Deep Learning for Coders: Lesson 1video
- Building makemore Part 3: Activations & Gradients, BatchNormvideo
- Building makemore Part 2: MLPvideo
- The Founder (2016)film
- Building Thrive Capital with Josh Kushnerpodcast
- Concentration and Conviction with Josh Kushnerpodcast
- The Wu Tapesarticle
- Dario Amodei — "We are near the end of the exponential"article
April
- Skill Issue: Andrej Karpathy on Code Agents, AutoResearch, and the Loopy Era of AIvideo
- The spelled-out intro to language modeling: building makemorevideo
- The spelled-out intro to neural networks and backpropagation: building microgradvideo
- Hell Yeah or No: what’s worth doing by Derek Siversbook
- If America's So Rich, How'd It Get So Sad?: Or: How the 2020s broke our brainsarticle
- What Async Promised and What it Deliveredarticle
- What is Zig's Comptime?article
- Crimes with Go Genericsarticle
- Hell’s Kitchen: Getting through the day—and night—with a New York chef.article
- Don’t Eat Before Reading Thisarticle
- Claude Code is overkill - Pi is All you Needvideo
- Thoughts on slowing the fuck downarticle
- I've sold outarticle
- A Life in Parts by Bryan Cranstonfinishedbook
- Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?article
- Devon Zuegel is Building a New Townarticle
- Why a ‘Boring’ Life Might Be the Happiest Onearticle
- The Anti-Social Centuryarticle
- The Education of the Broligarchyarticle
- The Monks in the Casinoarticle
- Inside Cursor: Sixty days with the AI coding decacornarticle
- The New World: Joshua Kushner, Thrive Capital, and the American dreamarticle
March
- Seeing like a spreadsheet: How the commercial spreadsheet reshaped Americaarticle
- Only 16 People a Night Can Eat This 17-Course Omakasevideo
- This Deli Turns Into Philadelphia’s Best New Restaurant at Nightvideo
- The #1 Cheesesteak In Philly That Won a Michelin Awardvideo
- Review: Middle Child Clubhouse is an engaging new restaurant balancing familiarity with clever remakesarticle
- The Cognitive Dark Forestarticle
- American Diner Gothicarticle
- The Sentinel Object Patternarticle
- Most Widely Deployed and Used Database Enginearticle
- Your LLM Doesn't Write Correct Code. It Writes Plausible Code.article
February
- 10 Years Building Vertical Software: My Perspective on the Selloffpost
- WTF Happened in 2025?article
- The Mind's A Fieldarticle
- Feynman's Gardenarticle
- AI makes you boringarticle
- Child’s Play: Tech’s new generation and the end of thinkingarticle
- How to make something greatarticle
- Permutation City by Greg Eganfinishedbook
- I Improved 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed.article
- Do Metaprojectsarticle
- Fragments: February 13article
- Breaking the Spell of Vibe Codingarticle
- State of AI in 2026: LLMs, Coding, Scaling Laws, China, Agents, GPUs, AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #490podcast
- how do I stop participating?article
- you have three minutes to escape the perpetual underclassarticle
- George Hotz | Programming | how I actually use agentic coding | Agentic AIvideo
- A Software Library with No Codearticle
- A few random notes from claude coding quite a bit last few weeks.post
January
- Why Elixir/OTP doesn't need an Agent framework: Part 2article
- Why Elixir/OTP doesn't need an Agent framework: Part 1article
- The Soul of Erlang and Elixir • Sasa Juric • GOTO 2019Wow, Elixir is so basedvideo
- Beating the Averagesarticle
- Type Safety Back and Forth
By restricting our past, we gain freedom in the future.
article - Rust at Scale: An Added Layer of Security for WhatsApparticle
- Parse, don’t validatearticle
- Running Claude Code dangerously (safely)article
- Unrolling the Codex agent looparticle
- Protecting your time from predators in large tech companiesarticle
- The Melancholy of Subculture Societyarticle
- Why We've Tried to Replace Developers Every Decade Since 1969article
- Scaling long-running autonomous codingarticle
- Why We Built Our Own Background Agentarticle
- Emergent Behavior: When Skills Combinearticle
- The rise of industrial softwarearticle
- My startup diary: Techstarsarticle
- The Productivity Myth: Oliver Burkeman On Our Broken Relationship With Time, Embracing Our Limitations & Why More Isn’t Always Betterpodcast
- The Dying Art of Being a Bum: On "Useless Humans" in the Age of AIarticle