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An evolving and growing list of the books, podcasts, articles, talks, music, etc., that I often recommend. Filter by medium or topic.
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- Book Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy (trans. Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky)1877
- Book Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel García Márquez1985
- Book The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafón2001
- Book The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro1989
- Book The Godfather Mario Puzo1969
- Book I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan Alan Partridge (Steve Coogan, Armando Iannucci, Rob & Neil Gibbons)2011
- Book The Godfather Papers and Other Confessions Mario Puzo1972
- Book Born a Crime Trevor Noah2016
- Book Moving Mountains Claire Bertschinger2005
- Book An Imperfect Offering James Orbinski2008
- Book A Passage to Africa George Alagiah2001
- Book Line in the Sand Dean Yates2023
- Book Shooting History: A Personal Journey Jon Snow2004
- Book The Zanzibar Chest: A Story of Life, Death, and Foreign Correspondence Aidan Hartley2003
- Book Dreams from My Father Barack Obama1995
- Book The Father and the Son: My Father's Journey into the Monastic Life Matthew J. Murray1999
- Book Spare Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex2023
- Book Tell Me No Lies Edited by John Pilger2004
- Book Bad Blood John Carreyrou2018
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- Book We Are Bellingcat: An Intelligence Agency for the People Eliot Higgins2021
- Book The Spymaster of Baghdad Margaret Coker2021
- Book The Gardener and the Carpenter Alison Gopnik2016
- Book The Philosophical Baby Alison Gopnik2009
- Book What We Cannot Know Marcus du Sautoy2016
- Book The Man from the Future Ananyo Bhattacharya2021
- Book The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn Richard W. Hamming1996
- Book The Innovators Walter Isaacson2014
- Book How Not to Die Michael Greger, MD, with Gene Stone2015
- Book The Anarchy William Dalrymple2019
- Book The Patient Assassin Anita Anand2019
- Book The Golden Road William Dalrymple2024
- Book Legacy of Violence Caroline Elkins2022
- Book Season of the Witch David Talbot2012
- Book Parting the Waters Taylor Branch1988
- Book Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global Laura Spinney2025
- Book The Arabs: A History Eugene Rogan2009
- Book Orientalism Edward W. Said1978
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- Book Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India Shashi Tharoor2016
- Book The Great Moghuls Bamber Gascoigne1971
- Book How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States Daniel Immerwahr2019
- Documentary Summer of Love American Experience (PBS)2007
- Book India Calling Anand Giridharadas2011
- Book Comandante Rory Carroll2013
- Book Hugo Chávez Cristina Marcano & Alberto Barrera Tyszka (trans. Kristina Cordero)2004
- Book The Biggest Ideas in the Universe Sean Carroll2022
- Book From Eternity to Here Sean Carroll2010
- Book Our Mathematical Universe Max Tegmark2014
- Book On Gravity Anthony Zee2018
- Book To Explain the World Steven Weinberg2015
- Book Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics Nancy Forbes & Basil Mahon2014
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- Book About Time Paul Davies1995
- Book A Brief History of Time Stephen Hawking1988
- Book The Black Hole War Leonard Susskind2008
- Book The Cosmological Koans: A Journey to the Heart of Physical Reality Anthony Aguirre2019
- Book The World According to Physics Jim Al-Khalili2020
- Book The Scientist in the Crib Alison Gopnik, Andrew N. Meltzoff & Patricia K. Kuhl1999
- Book Lactivism Courtney Jung2015
- Book The Art of Strategy Avinash K. Dixit & Barry J. Nalebuff2008
- Book The Republic of Beliefs Kaushik Basu2018
- Book The Physics of Finance James Owen Weatherall2013
- Book The Origin of Wealth Eric D. Beinhocker2006
- Book A More Exciting Life The School of Life2020
- Book Range David Epstein2019
- Book The Body Keeps the Score Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.2014
- Book The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture Gabor Maté, MD, with Daniel Maté2022
- Book The Courage to Be Disliked Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga2013
- Book Wired for Love: A Neuroscientist's Journey Through Romance, Loss, and the Essence of Human Connection Stephanie Cacioppo, PhD2022
- Book Visual Intelligence: Sharpen Your Perception, Change Your Life Amy E. Herman2016
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- Book Life 3.0 Max Tegmark2017
- Book The Welch Labs Illustrated Guide to AI Welch Labs2025
- Book AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can't, and How to Tell the Difference Arvind Narayanan & Sayash Kapoor2024
- Book A Brief History of Intelligence Max Bennett2023
- Book Why Machines Learn Anil Ananthaswamy2024
- Book Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths2016
- Book The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values Brian Christian2020
- Book Superintelligence Nick Bostrom2014 The book that put long-term AI risk on the map. Dense, but foundational.
- Book If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All Eliezer Yudkowsky & Nate Soares2025
- Book Gödel, Escher, Bach Douglas R. Hofstadter1979
- Paper Progress measures for grokking via mechanistic interpretability Neel Nanda, Lawrence Chan, Tom Lieberum, Jess Smith & Jacob SteinhardtJanuary 12, 2023
- Paper Grokking: Generalization Beyond Overfitting on Small Algorithmic Datasets Alethea Power, Yuri Burda, Harri Edwards, Igor Babuschkin & Vedant MisraJanuary 6, 2022
- Paper Language Models Use Trigonometry to Do Addition Subhash Kantamneni & Max TegmarkFebruary 2, 2025
- Paper The World Inside Neural Networks Atticus Geiger, Ekdeep Singh Lubana, Thomas Fel, Jack Merullo, Michael Jae Byun, Owen Lewis & Tom McGrath (Goodfire)May 7, 2026
- Paper AI Control: Improving Safety Despite Intentional Subversion Ryan Greenblatt, Buck Shlegeris, Kshitij Sachan & Fabien RogerDecember 12, 2023
- Article The Urgency of Interpretability Dario AmodeiApril 24, 2025
- Article Mech interp is not pre-paradigmatic Lee SharkeyJune 10, 2025
- Article A Pragmatic Vision for Interpretability Neel Nanda et al.December 1, 2025
- Article In Defense of Curiosity David BauDecember 9, 2025
- Article Influence functions—why, what and how Nina PanicksserySeptember 15, 2023
- Article The case for ensuring that powerful AIs are controlled Buck Shlegeris & Ryan GreenblattMay 7, 2024
- Article Three Types of Intelligence Explosion Tom Davidson, Rose Hadshar & William MacAskillMarch 17, 2025
- Article Six milestones for AI automation Ajeya CotraApril 3, 2026
- Article A breakdown of AI capability levels focused on AI R&D labor acceleration Ryan GreenblattDecember 22, 2024
- Article Will AI R&D Automation Cause a Software Intelligence Explosion? Daniel Eth & Tom DavidsonMarch 26, 2025
- Article Does AI Progress Have a Speed Limit? Ajeya Cotra & Arvind NarayananApril 30, 2025
- Article Can AI scaling continue through 2030? Epoch AIAugust 20, 2024
- Article Trends in machine learning hardware Epoch AINovember 9, 2023
- Article The Awful German Language Mark Twain1880
- Video The transformative power of classical music Benjamin ZanderJune 25, 2008
- Video What's Up? Lady GagaNovember 2014
- Video Essence of linear algebra 3Blue1BrownAugust 5, 2016
- Video Chip design from the bottom up Reiner Pope (Dwarkesh Podcast)May 22, 2026
- Video How GPT, Claude, and Gemini are actually trained and served Reiner Pope (Dwarkesh Podcast)April 29, 2026
- Video The Dark Matter of AI [Mechanistic Interpretability] Welch LabsDecember 23, 2024
- Video Interpretability: Understanding how AI models think AnthropicAugust 15, 2025
- Video The most complex model we actually understand Welch LabsDecember 20, 2025
- Video Top-Down Interpretability for AI Safety Andy Zou (FAR.AI Alignment Workshop)December 6, 2024
- Podcast Controlling AI That Wants To Take Over – So We Can Use It Anyway Buck Shlegeris (80,000 Hours Podcast)April 4, 2025
- Podcast AI and the Future of Math Grant Sanderson (Dwarkesh Podcast)June 30, 2026
- Podcast METR Time Horizons David Rein (AXRP)January 3, 2026
- Podcast Empire: The Origin of Numerals and Their Spread Through Europe William Dalrymple & Anita Anand
- Podcast Empire: Liberator of Latin America (Simón Bolívar) William Dalrymple & Anita Anand
- Podcast Empire: The Indian Uprising of 1857 William Dalrymple & Anita Anand
8 episodes
- 322. Indian Uprising 1857: The Mutiny (Part 1)
- 323. Indian Uprising 1857: The Rebels March On Delhi (Part 2)
- 324. Indian Uprising 1857: Massacre and Revenge in Kanpur (Part 3)
- 325. Indian Uprising 1857: The Siege of Lucknow (Part 4)
- 326. Indian Uprising 1857: India's Joan of Arc – Rani of Jhansi (Part 5)
- 327. Indian Uprising 1857: The British Strike Back (Part 6)
- 328. Indian Uprising 1857: The Reign of Terror (Part 7)
- 329. Indian Uprising 1857: The British Raj is Born (Part 8)
- Podcast Empire: Rudyard Kipling William Dalrymple & Anita Anand
- Podcast Empire: George Orwell William Dalrymple & Anita Anand
- Podcast Empire: The History of Gaza William Dalrymple & Anita Anand
11 episodes
- 291. Ancient Gaza: The Philistines (Part 1)
- 292. Ancient Gaza: From The Assyrians to The Romans (Part 2)
- 293. The Gaza Erotic Literature Festival: Byzantine Gaza (Part 3)
- 294. Gaza & The Islamic Conquest (Part 4)
- 295. Crusader Gaza: Saladin & Richard The Lionheart (Part 5)
- 296. Ottoman Gaza: Gunpowder Conquests & Rising Nationalism (Part 6)
- 297. Gaza in WW1: A Rematch For Gallipoli (Part 7)
- 298. Gaza: The British Occupation of Palestine (Part 8)
- 299. Gaza: The Palestinian Revolt, The Black and Tans, & Bomber Harris (Part 9)
- 300. Gaza: The 1948 War (Part 10)
- 301. Gaza: The First Arab-Israeli War & The Creation of The Gaza Strip (Part 11)
- Podcast Empire: The Arab-Israeli Wars William Dalrymple & Anita Anand
8 episodes
- 346. From Suez To The Palestinian Liberation Organisation (Part 1)
- 347. The Six Day War (Part 2)
- 348. How 1967 Changed The Middle East Forever (Part 3)
- 349. Occupation of The West Bank (Part 4)
- 350. 1973: The Yom Kippur War & The First Oil Crisis (Part 5)
- 351. Camp David: The Day Israel & Egypt Made Peace (Part 6)
- 352. Israel's 1982 Invasion of Lebanon (Part 7)
- 353. Hezbollah, Hostages, & Exploding Pagers (Part 8)
- Podcast Empire: The Partition of India William Dalrymple & Anita Anand
6 episodes
- 278. Partition: India's Break With Burma (Part 1)
- 279. Partition: How Dubai Almost Became Part of India (Part 2)
- 280. Partition: The Creation of Pakistan (Part 3)
- 281. Partition: Why Was India Split In Two? (Part 4)
- 282. Partition: The Birth of The Kashmir Conflict (Part 5)
- 283. Partition: East Pakistan Becomes Bangladesh (Ep 6)
- Podcast Empire: The Mughals William Dalrymple & Anita Anand
16 episodes
- 204. Babur: The First Mughal Emperor (Ep 1)
- 205. Babur: The Taking of Delhi (Ep 2)
- 206. Babur: Guns, Gardens & Diamonds (Ep 3)
- 207. The Stargazing Hippie vs The Lion King (Ep 1)
- 208. Humayun Reconquers India (Ep 2)
- 209. Akbar the Great (Ep 1)
- 210. Akbar the Great: Revolutionising Religious Tolerance (Ep 2)
- 211. A Beautiful World: The Art of Akbar (Ep 3)
- 215. Jahangir: A World of Light And Darkness (Ep 1)
- 216. Seeds of British India: England's First Ambassador to the Mughal Court (Ep 2)
- 217. Zebras and Zodiacs: Jahangir's Art Revolution (Ep 3)
- 218. Creator of The Taj Mahal: Shah Jahan's Rise to Power (Ep 1)
- 219. Building The Taj Mahal: Love, Loss, & Splendour (Ep 2)
- 220. Battle of Brothers: The Puritan vs The Mystic (Ep 1)
- 221. War of Succession: The Battle That Shook India (Ep 2)
- 222. The Downfall of the Mughals (Ep 3)
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