Stuff I Keep Coming Back To

Books, podcasts, people, and sites that have shaped how I think

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1984

George Orwell's dystopian novel about a totalitarian society

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Alan Turing

Father of AI, mathematician, and codebreaker.

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Build

Tony Fadell on making things worth making — from iPod to Nest and beyond

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Crime and Punishment

Dostoevsky's psychological thriller about morality and redemption

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Deep Learning

Modern deep learning techniques

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Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Building systems that scale

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Elon Musk

Building SpaceX, Tesla, and Neuralink. Say what you want — the man ships.

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Huberman Lab

Dr. Andrew Huberman discusses neuroscience, health, science, and technology, making complex topics accessible.

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Jim Simons

Founded Renaissance Technologies. Built the best-performing hedge fund in history using math, not Wall Street instincts.

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Kristo Käärmann

Co-founder of Wise. Most customer-centric CEO I know.

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Lex Fridman Podcast

Conversations about science, technology, history, philosophy and the nature of intelligence, consciousness, love, and power.

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Life 3.0

Being human in the age of artificial intelligence

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Principles

Ray Dalio's guide to life and work

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Quantitative Trading

How to build and run a quantitative trading operation from scratch

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SEC

Who doesn't check the SEC filings?

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Taavet Hinrikus

If Tony Stark (aka Iron Man) was Estonian.

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The Black Swan

Impact of the highly improbable

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The Diary of a CEO

Steven Bartlett interviews founders, athletes, and thinkers about what it actually takes to build something.

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The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece about the American Dream in the Jazz Age

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The Idiot

Fyodor Dostoevsky's exploration of a purely good man in a corrupt society

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The Lean Startup

How constant innovation creates radically successful businesses

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War and Peace

Epic novel by Leo Tolstoy following five aristocratic families during the Napoleonic era

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yamg

Learn about the latest ML research

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YC Companies

What are smart people working on these days?

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Zero to One

Notes on startups, or how to build the future

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