Books

AI & Alignment

• Human Compatible
  Stuart Russell
  The clearest argument I've read for why the current paradigm is wrong at its foundations.
• The Alignment Problem
  Brian Christian
  Good for showing how deep the problem runs — it's not a missing feature, it's everywhere.
• Superintelligence
  Nick Bostrom
  Dated in places but the core argument still hasn't been answered satisfactorily.

Science & Thinking

• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
  Thomas Kuhn
  Changed how I think about what "progress" in a field actually means.
• Thinking, Fast and Slow
  Daniel Kahneman
  Useful less as a how-to and more as a catalog of ways reasoning goes wrong.

Everything Else

• The Third Door
  Alex Banayan
  The frame I've actually used. When the front door is blocked, there's always a third door. I tested it outside Paramount HQ at 7 AM.
• The Master and His Emissary
  Iain McGilchrist
  Dense and occasionally overstated, but genuinely shifted something in how I see attention and culture.
• Meditations
  Marcus Aurelius
  Not inspiring in the self-help sense. More like a corrective.