Reading
Books that have shaped how I think about intelligence, agency, and the long arc of ideas.
The Three-Body Problem
Liu Cixin
Strategy under radical uncertainty: what intelligence is worth when the game is civilizational and information is adversarial.
The Cheese and the Worms
Carlo Ginzburg
A 16th-century miller assembles his own cosmology from stray books — how a mind builds a world model from scarce, noisy evidence.
Pax Britannica Trilogy
Jan Morris
How a global system is built, run, and let go — institutions as long-horizon agents, seen from inside.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Edward Gibbon
The longest horizon: how robust systems degrade, and how slowly the failure becomes visible.