The Library
What's shaping how I think.
📚 Bookshelf
The Score
by C. Thi Nguyen
"A sharp examination of how metrics and gamification reshape what we value. Nguyen's concept of value capture is an essential mental model."
The Information
by James Gleick
"Gleick traces information from African drums to quantum computing and makes the throughline feel inevitable. Dense but rewarding — changes how you think about signal, noise, and what counts as knowledge."
The Demon Haunted World
by Carl Sagan
"Sagan's case for scientific literacy as self-defense. Written in 1995, reads like it was written last week."
Shantaram
by Gregory David Roberts
"Sprawling, flawed, and impossible to put down. Roberts writes Bombay like someone who owes it everything. The plot meanders but the prose and characters carry it."
The Siren's Call
by Chris Hayes
"The clearest map of the attention economy I've read. Hayes traces how the infrastructure of distraction was built and who profits from it."
🎧 Heavy Rotation
Future Soul
by Tedeschi Trucks Band
"Twelve people playing like one organism. Tightest, driving, and soulful from one of the best bands out there. "
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