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Reading
Books I'm currently reading, have finished, or have put down.
Currently reading
The Gate of the Feral Gods
by Matt Dinniman · started Jun 2026
Book four of the LitRPG Dungeon Crawler Carl series — Carl and Princess Donut descend deeper into the deadly alien dungeon that doubles as the galaxy's most-watched game show.
AI Engineering: Building Applications with Foundation Models
by Chip Huyen · started May 2026
Chip Huyen's end-to-end guide to building real applications on top of foundation models — large language and multimodal.
The StatQuest Illustrated Guide to Machine Learning
by Josh Starmer · started May 2026
Josh Starmer's fully illustrated, one-picture-at-a-time tour of machine learning, from basic statistics through neural networks.
Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch)
by Sebastian Raschka · started Apr 2026
Sebastian Raschka walks through coding a GPT-style LLM in Python and PyTorch from the ground up — data, attention, pretraining, and fine-tuning.
Finished
The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook
by Matt Dinniman · finished Jun 2026
Book three — Carl and Princess Donut navigate the Iron Tangle, a sprawling, deliberately confusing subway-system dungeon floor.
Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
by Ethan Mollick · finished Jun 2026
Wharton professor Ethan Mollick's practical case for treating generative AI as a collaborator — co-worker, tutor, and coach — in work and learning.
Carl's Doomsday Scenario
by Matt Dinniman · finished Jun 2026
Book two — Carl and Princess Donut press on through brutal new floors as Donut becomes an unlikely fan favorite among the galaxy's millions of viewers.
Dungeon Crawler Carl
by Matt Dinniman · finished May 2026
Book one of the LitRPG series — a Coast Guard vet and his ex's cat must survive an alien-built dungeon beneath Earth that's broadcast across the galaxy as a reality show.
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
by Yuval Noah Harari · finished May 2026
Yuval Noah Harari traces information networks from prehistoric storytelling to modern AI, and what the flow of information has done to societies.
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
by John Green · finished Apr 2026
John Green on the history of tuberculosis and why the world's deadliest infection persists, told partly through one patient he met in Sierra Leone.
Absolution: A Southern Reach Novel
by Jeff VanderMeer · finished Mar 2026
Jeff VanderMeer's fourth Southern Reach novel — a prequel-and-sequel returning to the Forgotten Coast and the origins of Area X.
Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI
by Anil Ananthaswamy · finished Feb 2026
Anil Ananthaswamy on the mathematics behind modern AI, from the 1958 perceptron to deep neural networks.
Thinking in Systems: A Primer
by Donella H. Meadows · finished Jan 2026
Donella Meadows' primer on systems thinking — how feedback loops, stocks, and flows drive the behavior of everything from organizations to ecosystems.
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
by Carl Sagan · finished Dec 2025
Carl Sagan's classic case for scientific skepticism and critical thinking as a defense against pseudoscience and superstition.