utkarshhe/himupdated aug 27, 2026

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.

Currently Reading

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Thinking in Systems

Thinking in Systems

Donella H. Meadows

★★★★

Key takeaway

The structure creates the behavior.

Finished Books

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The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

Eric Jorgenson

★★★★★

The Midnight Library

The Midnight Library

Matt Haig

★★★★★

Million Dollar Weekend

Million Dollar Weekend

Noah Kagan

★★★★

Kafka on the Shore

Kafka on the Shore

Haruki Murakami

★★★★★

Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Martin Kleppmann

★★★★★

Man's Search for Meaning

Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl

★★★★★

The God of Small Things

The God of Small Things

Arundhati Roy

★★★★

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

Mark Manson

★★★★

Sapiens

Sapiens

Yuval Noah Harari

★★★★★

The Courage to Be Disliked

The Courage to Be Disliked

Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga

★★★★★

To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

★★★★★

Papers

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  • Attention Is All You NeedVaswani et al., 2017
  • DeepSeek-R1DeepSeek, 2025
  • Gemini 2.5 Technical ReportGoogle DeepMind, 2025
  • Chain-of-Thought PromptingWei et al., 2022