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Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World

I've been reading this book off and on for months now. Not because it's bad; it's fascinating. But it's dense with ideas that require digestion. Genius Makers chronicles the people building AI, the competition between labs, and the race toward AGI. It's the kind of book where you read a chapter, put it down to think, and pick it up weeks later when you're ready for the next dose of "holy shit, this is actually happening."

Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nassim Taleb's Antifragile isn't just another self-help book about resilience. It's a paradigm shift that challenges everything you think you know about risk, randomness, and thriving in chaos. Some things break under stress. Others survive. But antifragile things actually get stronger.

Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space by Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot transformed how I understand our species. We are not on Earth. We are in space. Earth is a projectile hurling through the void at 620 kilometers per second, and we are passengers who forgot we were traveling. This book returns that knowledge to you.

The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations

The DevOps Handbook isn't just another tech methodology book. It's the definitive guide to why some engineering teams ship fast without breaking everything, while others are stuck in deployment hell. If you've ever wondered how companies like Netflix and Amazon deploy thousands of times per day without catastrophic failures, this book reveals the playbook.

The Steady Work of Freewriting: Flow, Focus, and the Future of Thought

A meditation on the discipline of writing as both practice and ritual, this piece explores creative flow, subconscious mining, and the strange intersection between human thought and emerging machine intelligence. It reflects on the nature of persistence, the future of creativity, and the unfolding evolution of self through the act of showing up.

Mining the Subconscious: Freewriting Through the Fog of Decades, Patterns, and the Slow Unfolding of Human Potential

Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer That Changed Everything by Steven Levy

A Deep Dive into Apple's Revolution. Few products have reshaped the world quite like Apple's Macintosh. In Insanely Great, Steven Levy takes readers inside the creation, culture, and impact of the Mac.

Hackers: The Heroes of the Computer Revolution – A Historical Perspective

Steven Levy’s Hackers: The Heroes of the Computer Revolution is a foundational text in the history of computing, chronicling the evolution of hacke...

The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan’s The Dragons of Eden isn’t just another book on human intelligence—it’s an interdisciplinary fusion of science, philosophy, and speculative inquiry.

Are Humans Natural or Alien? A Philosophical Exploration of Intelligence, Technology, and Evolution