Reading List
Books that have shaped how I think about risk, causality, markets, and ideas.
Causal Inference
The Book of Why · Judea Pearl & Dana Mackenzie 2018
Causal Inference and Discovery in Python · Aleksander Molak 2023
Statistics & Probabilistic Methods
Bayesian Analysis with Python · Osvaldo Martin 2022
Practical Guide to Applied Conformal Prediction in Python · Valeriy Manokhin 2023
Modern Time Series Forecasting with Python · Manu Joseph 2022
Random Processes in Physics and Finance · Melvin Lax, Wei Cai & Min Xu 2006
Machine Learning & AI
Mastering Machine Learning Algorithms · Giuseppe Bonaccorso 2018
Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch) · Sebastian Raschka 2024
Human Compatible · Stuart Russell 2019
Empire of AI · Karen Hao 2025
Mathematical Cognition Researcher ·
Introduction to Evolutionary Informatics · Robert J. Marks II, William A. Dembski & Winston Ewert 2017
Neuromorphic & Biological Systems
Neuromorphic Silicon Neuron Circuits ·
Neuromorphic Photonics · Paul R. Prucnal & Bhavin J. Shastri 2017
Risk, Uncertainty & Finance
The Black Swan · Nassim Nicholas Taleb 2007
Against the Gods · Peter L. Bernstein 1996
The Psychology of Money · Morgan Housel 2020
Angrynomics · Eric Lonergan & Mark Blyth 2020
Behavioral Economics & Decision Theory
Thinking, Fast and Slow · Daniel Kahneman 2011
Misbehaving · Richard Thaler 2015
Predictably Irrational · Dan Ariely 2008
Decoded · Phil Barden 2013
Honeybee Democracy · Thomas D. Seeley 2010
Neuroscience & Cognition
Descartes' Error · Antonio Damasio 1994
Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers · Robert M. Sapolsky 2004
Behave · Robert M. Sapolsky 2017
How Emotions Are Made · Lisa Feldman Barrett 2017
The Forgetting Machine · Rodrigo Quian Quiroga 2017
Consciousness and the Brain · Stanislas Dehaene 2014
The Number Sense · Stanislas Dehaene 1997
The Myth of Mirror Neurons · Gregory Hickok 2014
The Emperor's New Mind · Roger Penrose 1989
Language & Meaning
Metaphors We Live By · George Lakoff & Mark Johnson 1980
Models, Metaphor and Meaning · Joe Danielewicz 2020
Philosophy & Critical Theory
Simulacra and Simulation · Jean Baudrillard 1981
Homo Sacer · Giorgio Agamben 1995
Blank Space · W. David Marx 2025
Society, Culture & Technology
The Culture Map · Erin Meyer 2014
Built on Trust · Arky Ciancutti & Thomas L. Steding 2000
Outbreaks · Jerry D. Rose 1982
Societal Codependency · Gerald Radlauer, M.D.
Manufacturing Consent · Noam Chomsky & Edward S. Herman 1988
Enshittification · Cory Doctorow
The Age of Extraction · Tim Wu 2025
The Subtle Art of Folding Space · John Chu 2026