reading is how i figure out what i actually think. these are the ones i'm inside right now, the ones i keep returning to, and the papers that shaped how i see the field.

Thinking in Systems
Donella H. Meadows
★★★★★
Key takeaway
“The structure creates the behavior.”

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
Eric Jorgenson
★★★★★

The Midnight Library
Matt Haig
★★★★★

Million Dollar Weekend
Noah Kagan
★★★★★

Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami
★★★★★

Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Martin Kleppmann
★★★★★

Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
★★★★★

The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy
★★★★★

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
Mark Manson
★★★★★

Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
★★★★★

The Courage to Be Disliked
Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga
★★★★★

To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
★★★★★