• A log of all the books and other long form content I've read since ~2021 in reverse chronological order.
• Italics indicate I only skimmed/partially read.
• Suggestions always welcome.
• Last updated: January 02nd 2026.

Currently Reading

• Good Strategy, Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why it Matters (Richard Rumelt, 2011)

2026

• A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens, 1843)

2025

• BlueDot Biosecurity Course (BlueDot Impact, 2025)
• Why I Write: Essay Collection (George Orwell, 1946)
• The Time Machine (H. G. Wells, 1895)
• Brave New World (Aldous Huxley, 1932)
• The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change The Way You Lead Forever (Michael Bungay Stanier, 2016)
• Animal Farm (George Orwell, 1945)
• The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka, 1915)
• The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1943)
• 1984 (George Orwell, 1949)
• How to Actually Change Your Mind (Eliezer Yudkowsky, 2009)
• Inadequate Equilibria: How and Why Civilizations Get Stuck (Eliezer Yudkowsky, 2017)
• Map and Territory (Eliezer Yudkowsky, 2009)
• Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World (Cal Newport, 2019)
• The Big Score: The Billion Dollar Story of Silicon Valley (Michael S Malone, 1985)
• Quran 30 for 30: Thematic Tasfir (Omar Suleiman & Ismail Kamdar, 2025)
• From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism (Fred Turner, 2008)
• Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Joan Didion, 1968)
• To the Finland Station: A Study in the Writing and Acting of History (Edmund Wilson, 1940)
• Bury the Chains: The British Struggle to Abolish Slavery (Adam Hochschild, 2005)
• How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth (Mark Koyama & Jared Rubin, 2022)
• The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution (Deborah Harkness, 2007)
• The Final Pagan Generation (Edward J. Watts, 2015)
• The Rise of Christianity (Rodney Stark, 1996)
• The Kingdom (Emmanuel Carrère, 2014)
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Thomas Kuhn, 1962)

2024

• Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (Peter Thiel & Blake Masters, 2014) [my summary here]
• Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Eliezer Yudkowsky, 2015)

2022

• Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (Nick Bostrom, 2014)
• Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Decisions (Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths, 2016)
• The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't (Julia Galef, 2021)
• Superforecasting: The Art of Science and Prediction (Philip Tetlock & Dan Gardner, 2015)
• Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control (Stuart Russell, 2019)
• Doing Good Better: Effective Altruism and How You Can Make a Difference (William MacAskill, 2015)

2021

• The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity (Toby Ord, 2020)
• Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams (Matthew Walker, 2017)
• How to Win Friends and Influence People (Dale Carnegie, 1936)