READINGS
some things i've catalogued.
books
- The Construction of Social Reality — John Searle currently reading
- The Stranger — Albert Camus
- Zero to One — Peter Thiel
- The Algorithm — Jon McNeill
- The Mom Test — Rob Fitzpatrick
- The Namesake — Jhumpa Lahiri
- Beloved — Toni Morrison
- System Design Interview: An Insider's Guide, Second Edition — Alex Xu
papers
- 08/03/26 Batch Normalization: Accelerating Deep Network Training by Reducing Internal Covariate Shift
- 08/03/26 Layer Normalization
- 07/02/26 InSight: Self-Guided Skill Acquisition via Steerable VLAs
- 07/01/26 Multi-Agent Teams Hold Experts Back
- 06/25/26 VoLo: A Physical Orchestrator for Open-Vocabulary Long-Horizon Manipulation
- 06/24/26 SpatialClaw: Rethinking Action Interface for Agentic Spatial Reasoning
- 06/20/26 CaPX: A Framework for Benchmarking and Improving Coding Agents for Robot Manipulation