reads experiments

reads

blogs

credit card economics

A systems view of cards as payments + lending + distribution.

building a fintech business is not trivial

Execution realities inside early-stage fintech.

How to Do Great Work

A timeless essay on craft and focus.

research papers

Attention Is All You Need

The transformer paper that changed modern AI.

Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key-value Store

Distributed systems fundamentals I keep revisiting.

favorite books

The Hard Thing About Hard Things

Raw and practical lessons on building under pressure.

High Output Management

Operational clarity for scaling teams and systems.

The Mom Test

Best guide I know for honest customer conversations.

Zero to One

Contrarian thinking about creating lasting value.

Poor Charlie's Almanack

Mental models that sharpen decision-making.