Politics / SystemsNon-Fic
Seeing Like a State
James C. Scott
WHAT I REMEMBER — Legibility is a state's superpower and its blindspot: reshape the world to be measurable and you lose the parts that mattered.
§ LIBRARY
LIBRARY
Books I actually remember I've read. Hover a card to see what stuck.
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(02)Science / FictionFiction
The MANIAC
Benjamín Labatut
WHAT I REMEMBER — Von Neumann as prophet and accelerant. A quiet warning about intelligence outrunning wisdom.
PREVIOUSLY READ
(05)CognitionNon-Fic
Gödel, Escher, Bach
Douglas Hofstadter
WHAT I REMEMBER — The book that named 'strange loops' — self-reference all the way down.
EngineeringNon-Fic
Skunk Works
Ben Rich
WHAT I REMEMBER — Small teams, hard problems, radical trust, and a lot of chalkboards.
Cities / PowerNon-Fic
The Power Broker
Robert Caro
WHAT I REMEMBER — How one operator with no elected office reshaped a city — and what that costs.
FictionFiction
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy
WHAT I REMEMBER — Violence as gravity. The Judge as an argument I still can't shake.
EconomicsNon-Fic
The Great Transformation
Karl Polanyi
WHAT I REMEMBER — Markets aren't natural — they're engineered. And when they overreach, society engineers back.
COMPLETE COLLECTION
(08)CognitionNon-Fic
Gödel, Escher, Bach
Douglas Hofstadter
What I remember — The book that named 'strange loops' — self-reference all the way down.
EngineeringNon-Fic
Skunk Works
Ben Rich
What I remember — Small teams, hard problems, radical trust, and a lot of chalkboards.
Cities / PowerNon-Fic
The Power Broker
Robert Caro
What I remember — How one operator with no elected office reshaped a city — and what that costs.
FictionFiction
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy
What I remember — Violence as gravity. The Judge as an argument I still can't shake.
EconomicsNon-Fic
The Great Transformation
Karl Polanyi
What I remember — Markets aren't natural — they're engineered. And when they overreach, society engineers back.
EpistemologyNon-Fic
The Beginning of Infinity
David Deutsch
What I remember — Problems are soluble. Explanations are the engine. Optimism as a discipline.
StartupsNon-Fic
Zero to One
Peter Thiel
What I remember — Monopoly is the point. Competition is for people without better ideas.
ArchitectureNon-Fic
The Timeless Way of Building
Christopher Alexander
What I remember — The quality without a name — and why software borrowed his patterns.
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