Principles
Ray Dalio
A framework for systematic decision-making built from decades of real-world feedback loops. Changed how I think about mistakes and iteration.
Books that shaped how I think about decision-making, systems, risk, and building things. No affiliate links — just recommendations worth your time.
Ray Dalio
A framework for systematic decision-making built from decades of real-world feedback loops. Changed how I think about mistakes and iteration.
Daniel Kahneman
The definitive work on cognitive biases and how they shape judgment under uncertainty. Essential for anyone building systems around human decisions.
Donella H. Meadows
Feedback loops and leverage points that apply equally to codebases, organisations, and economies.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Why rare, high-impact events dominate outcomes and how to position for them. Reshaped my view of risk during my time in finance.
Martin Kleppmann
The reference for how real systems handle scale, consistency, and tradeoffs. Indispensable for anyone working with data at volume.
Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio & Aaron Courville
The theoretical backbone behind the architectures I work with — from gradient mechanics to attention mechanisms.
David Thomas & Andrew Hunt
Habits and attitudes that keep delivery sustainable over years. The mental models here outlast any single language or framework.
Peter Thiel
Building something genuinely new versus copying what exists. A sharp lens for deciding what is worth working on.
Marcus Aurelius
Private reflections on discipline, impermanence, and clear thinking. The kind of book you return to in different seasons of life.
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