Finance / Math
Fortune's Formula
The foundational math of survival: knowing exactly how much to bet when you actually have an edge.
Books I Love
Foundational books on risk, strategy, decision-making, and intelligence.
Risk & Strategy
The Black Swan
The fundamental reminder that in fat-tailed domains, average is a dangerous fiction.
Philosophy
Antifragile
The blueprint for building execution systems that treat volatility as a fuel source rather than a risk factor.
Decision Science
Thinking in Bets
The discipline of decoupling the quality of process from the noise of outcome.
Game Theory / AI
Algorithmic Game Theory
The owner's manual for an economy where the primary actors are no longer human, but adversarial agents.
Political Science / Strategy
The Dictator's Handbook
The operating manual for political survival. It models governance as a cold optimization problem: minimize winning coalition, maximize revenue, and ignore rest.
Geopolitics / Tech
Chip War
Essential context for physical constraints and geopolitical bottlenecks that govern the seemingly infinite world of compute.
Philosophy / Strategy
Finite and Infinite Games
A masterclass in strategic meta-thinking: the goal is not to win the trade, but to ensure you are still in the game tomorrow.
AI Safety
Superintelligence
The definitive case for why the control problem is the only engineering challenge that actually matters in the long run.
AI Safety / Ethics
The Alignment Problem
A sobering look at the technical debt we accrue when we optimize for the wrong proxies.
History / Future
Homo Deus
A necessary map for understanding the transition from human-centric systems to data-centric dominance.
Hard Sci-Fi
Permutation City
A haunting exploration of what happens to the concept of self when consciousness becomes just another substrate for computation.
Hard Sci-Fi / Game Theory
The Three-Body Problem
A staggering work of hard sci-fi that transforms the Fermi paradox into a survival horror. It introduces the 'Dark Forest': a universe where every civilization is a silent hunter, and any signal sent into the void is a suicide note.