What I’m studying

• Science, Strategy and War: The Strategic Theory of John Boyd by Frans Osinga
  • Reading this very slowly/deeply by using it as a jumping off point for making dozens of deep research reports & loads of flashcards
• Introduction to AI Safety, Ethics, and Society by Dan Hendrycks
  • Really really great primer. I’m reading it slowly and making a bunch of flashcards.
• Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella Meadows
  • As described, a really great primer !!

Deep research reports

• Folder here
• It’s so insanely useful for quick primers and jumping off points. Feels truly revolutionary

What I’m dipping into

• Awakening From the Meaning Crisis: Part One: Origins (John Vervaeke)
  • Really excited that they’ve made a book out of the 50 hour lecture series, much easier to learn from IMO

For fun (not studying, reading in a chill paperback way)

• Paperback in the evening: Alex’s Adventures in Numberland: Dispatches from the Wonderful World of Mathematics
  • I heard that this is a great book for getting interested in maths and it’s true, it’s pretty great so far.

Paused

• Hubert Dreyfus’ “Being-in-the-World” Heidegger primer. Shifted to Vervaeke instead. I do love Dreyfus though

Finished kinda recently

• The AI Does Not Hate You by Tom Chivers
• The John Boyd biography by Robert Coram
• Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke (non-fiction)
• Malcolm X’s autobiography!! So good
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt (fiction, thank you Charlie Rose interview for introducing me to her)
• There Is No Antimetics Division (fiction, freaky!!! really good)
• Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon (sci-fi)
• The Ciderhouse Rules by John Irving (fiction, gorgeous)

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