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the bookshelf

Everything I've read worth remembering: books, research papers, and essays, with a takeaway from each.

TitleCategoryMediumRating

Attention Is All You Need

Vaswani et al.

The paper that started everything I work on.

technicalpaper10/10

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

Eric Jorgenson

Specific knowledge compounds. Play long-term games with long-term people.

advicebook9/10

How To Do Great Work

Paul Graham

Work on what you'd choose anyway; curiosity is the engine.

adviceessay9/10

Project Hail Mary

Andy Weir

Science as a survival story. Couldn't put it down.

fictionbook8/10

Segment Anything

Kirillov et al.

Promptable segmentation, the foundation of my pre-labeling work at Perceive.

technicalpaper8/10

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

System 1 runs more of my decisions than I'd like to admit.

nonfictionbook7/10

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