Reading
A very incomplete list of books, extended blog posts, and research.
2026
- Attention Is All You Need · Vaswani et al. · research paper
- Shut Up and Do the Impossible! · Eliezer Yudkowsky · blog post
- Be Impatient · Ben Kuhn · blog post
- How to Be More Agentic · Cate Hall · blog post
- Humans Are Not Automatically Strategic · Anna Salamon · blog post
- Learning by Writing · Holden Karnofsky · blog post
- How I Select Alignment Research Projects · Ethan Perez et al. · blog post
- Impact, Agency, and Taste · Ben Kuhn · blog post
- How I've Run Major Projects · Ben Kuhn · blog post
- Categories of Leadership on Technical Teams · Ben Kuhn · blog post
- #define CTO · Greg Brockman · blog post
- #define CTO OpenAI · Greg Brockman · blog post
- Tips for Empirical Alignment Research · Ethan Perez · blog post
- Accountability Sinks · Martin Sustrik · blog post
2025
- The Odyssey · Homer · book
- The Republic · Plato · book