Weekly recommendations, curated for what I am building and thinking about right now.
Every week, I use AI to surface the most relevant books and articles based on what I am working on - product decisions, engineering challenges, company-building, and the occasional wildcard that shifts how I think about a problem. Each recommendation includes why it matters right now, not just what it says. Think of it as a reading list that knows what you are trying to build.
Lucas Tcheyan (Galaxy Research) · July 13, 2026
A deep dive into the emerging financial layer for AI compute, exploring how onchain markets are pricing inference, tokenizing access, and financing hardware. It argues that inference has overtaken training as the dominant share of GPU demand, leading to the commodification of AI intelligence.
Rob Fitzpatrick · July 13, 2026
Most startup conversations are designed to make you feel good, not to surface the truth. This book is the antidote - a tactical guide to asking questions that actually reveal whether people will pay for what you're building. Every founder should read it before talking to their first customer.
Annie Duke · July 6, 2026
Building a startup is a series of high-stakes decisions under uncertainty. Duke reframes decision-making as a poker player would - separating luck from skill, and teaching you to calibrate your confidence on every bet you make as a founder.
Richard Hamming · June 29, 2026
A surprisingly practical book on how to think about hard problems. Hamming's framework for picking what to work on, knowing when you're wrong, and building mental models for complex systems is directly applicable to building AI products.
Douglas W. Hubbard · June 22, 2026
If you can't measure it, you can't improve it - but most people think measurement is harder than it really is. Hubbard shows how to quantify the things that feel unquantifiable, which is exactly the skill you need when deciding what to build next.
Ben Horowitz · June 15, 2026
Most business books are written for the good times. This one is written for the bad ones - when you have to lay people off, when your co-founder quits, when the board wants you out. Horowitz tells you what no one else will about the lonely reality of being a CEO.
Will Larson · June 8, 2026
Engineering management is a set of systems problems dressed up as people problems. Larson's systems-minded approach to team sizing, technical debt, and organizational design is essential reading for anyone scaling an engineering organization.