In Praise of Failure
Costica Bradatan
186 highlights
Digital Collection
The Shelf
833 books and 859 articles, accumulated over 13 years. Not a list of things read once and forgotten — a permanent collection of foundational thinking.
Books 833
Articles 859
Categories 9
Browsing Guidance
Start with “Essential Reading” if you want the shortest path into the archive. Start elsewhere if you want to see how the same reading life branches across history, systems, software, catastrophe, philosophy, and security.
01 Collection
Favorites
Manage Your Day-to-Day
Jocelyn K. Glei, 99U
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Do Safety Differently
Sidney Dekker and Todd Conklin
121 highlights
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The Strategy of Antelopes
Jean Hatzfeld
The Strategy of Antelopes
Jean Hatzfeld
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River of the Gods
Candice Millard
80 highlights
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters
Jason Stearns
460 highlights
The Myth of Artificial Intelligence
Erik J. Larson
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A Hacker's Mind
Bruce Schneier
42 highlights
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Do Not Disturb
Michela Wrong
Do Not Disturb
Michela Wrong
159 highlights
The Knowing-Doing Gap
Jeffrey Pfeffer, Robert I. Sutton
77 highlights
Antifragile
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
240 highlights
A Philosophy of Software Design
John Ousterhout
181 highlights
02 Collection
Wisdom
Kitchen Table Wisdom 10th Anniversary
Rachel Naomi Remen
31 highlights
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The Discipline of Intent (Synthesis: Nicieja, Guo, Relocating Rigor)
Kamil Nicieja, Sarah Guo, leaflet.pub
The Discipline of Intent (Synthesis: Nicieja, Guo, Relocating Rigor)
Kamil Nicieja, Sarah Guo, leaflet.pub
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The Search
Osho
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Ergodicity
Luca Dellanna
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Obliquity
John Kay
27 highlights
The Gatekeepers
Dror Moreh, Dennis Ross, and Yael Schonfeld Abel
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Discipline Is Destiny
Ryan Holiday
76 highlights
Crisis in the Red Zone
Richard Preston
319 highlights
Happy Is the One Who Is Nothing
Krishnamurti. Jiddu
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The Sabbath
Abraham Joshua Heschel
53 highlights
There Is No Antimemetics Division
qntm
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The Impulse Society
Paul Roberts
1 highlights
03 Collection
Bigideas Concepts
Maintenance of Everything
Stewart Brand
36 highlights
The History of Money
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44 highlights
Cosmopolis
Don DeLillo
40 highlights
Eichmann in My Hands
Peter Z Malkin, Harry Stein
33 highlights
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Writing Great Specifications
Kamil Nicieja
Writing Great Specifications
Kamil Nicieja
25 highlights
Against the Machine
Paul Kingsnorth
204 highlights
Tomorrow Is Yesterday
Hussein Agha and Robert Malley
8 highlights
Training and Competing With a Continuous Glucose Monitor
Hunter Allen
62 highlights
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Architecture as Code
Neal Ford and Mark Richards
Architecture as Code
Neal Ford and Mark Richards
8 highlights
The Infinite Alphabet
César A. Hidalgo
27 highlights
The Unaccountability Machine
Dan Davies
2 highlights
The Architect of Espionage
Samuel M. Katz
106 highlights
04 Collection
Claude
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Gwern Interview: Insights on Development and Iteration
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Gwern Interview: Insights on Development and Iteration
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Human-AI Corporate Hierarchy
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Human-AI Corporate Hierarchy
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The Serious Use Principle in AI Development
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The Serious Use Principle in AI Development
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The Incremental Nature of AI Progress
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The Incremental Nature of AI Progress
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The Micromanagement Paradigm in Computing
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The Micromanagement Paradigm in Computing
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Code Evaluation in AI Systems
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Code Evaluation in AI Systems
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Insights on Long-term Development and Knowledge Work
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Insights on Long-term Development and Knowledge Work
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The Art of Abstraction: Semantic Coupling in Complex Systems
System Design Blog
The Art of Abstraction: Semantic Coupling in Complex Systems
System Design Blog
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Evolution of AI Group Intelligence
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Evolution of AI Group Intelligence
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1 highlights
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AI Team Evolution and Optimization
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AI Team Evolution and Optimization
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1 highlights
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Evolution of Computational Systems
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Evolution of Computational Systems
None
1 highlights
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Future of Corporate AI: Bottom-Up Transformation
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Future of Corporate AI: Bottom-Up Transformation
None
1 highlights
05 Collection
Critical Insights
The Black Swan
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
63 highlights
AWS Fundamentals
Tobias Schmidt, Alessandro Volpicella
1 highlights
Data Mesh
Zhamak Dehghani
20 highlights
Waging a Good War
Thomas E. Ricks
98 highlights
Identity-Native Infrastructure Access Management
None
48 highlights
There Are No Accidents
Jessie Singer
317 highlights
You'll See This Message When It Is Too Late
Josephine Wolff
62 highlights
Out of the Software Crisis
Baldur Bjarnason
5 highlights
If It's Smart, It's Vulnerable
Mikko Hypponen
14 highlights
The Unthinkable
Amanda Ripley
26 highlights
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Kleppmann, Martin
60 highlights
SQL Cookbook
Anthony Molinaro
2 highlights
06 Collection
Software Design
Working Effectively With Legacy Code
Michael Feathers
8 highlights
Perfect Software and Other Illusions About Testing
Gerald Weinberg
2 highlights
The Score
C. Thi Nguyen
77 highlights
The Art of Noticing
Rob Walker
67 highlights
The Pragmatic Programmer
David Thomas and Andrew Hunt
60 highlights
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Thinking in Promises: Designing Systems for Cooperation
Mark Burgess
Thinking in Promises: Designing Systems for Cooperation
Mark Burgess
28 highlights
07 Collection
Agentic Philosophy Traces
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