Reading Log #9

I originally tried publishing my reading logs every week: logs #1 to #4 came out every week, #5 to #8 came out approx every 2 weeks, now with this reading log I have stepped into 3 weeks. Lol, diminishing effect of novelty, huh? I am going to see if I can get the reading logs out every 10 days. So 3 times a month.

With that said, I didn’t get a chance to read a lot of stuff these 3 weeks. I have been traveling (entire weekend in the woods), celebrating (Happy Diwali to you!), and working a lot. So had to steal from my reading time :)

I also came to this weird realization that, “I can’t read all the books on my shelf and all the blog posts in my reader” and I have to be mindful about what I pick. (I bet on my curiosities to help me here)

Here is what I read from 23^rd October to 11^th November 2026.

Blogs

• ⭐ We should be more ambitious with the software we build

  Inspiring! My immediate thought was “Find all things in your Go codebase that forces you to enable CGO and get on the ambitious journey to port them + their internal deps in pure Go with the help of coding agents”. Another useful thing is I took a short detour to learn about Rocq, Lean, and ACL2 while reading this post - my guess we will start seeing more of these

• The Complete Guide to pstack Pt. 1

  Continuing my adventures in learning how others are using AI to build software!

• ⭐ Hunger beats tenure: Advice for junior engineers

  The most liberating thing for me in this post is that anyone who cares about their enterprise can pick a radical idea and ship it or prototype it (really) solo.

• Can you read every book?

  Make the map, then go wild!

• ⭐ Collecting favours

• Mitchell Hashimoto on how the team works at Superlogical

• keep going

• A return to two-pizza culture

  “The cost of a wrong reversible decision is almost always lower than the cost of making that decision slowly.”

• How to write a cold email

• Stage of company, not name of company

• More than just code review

• ⭐ Building without predicting

  I am on the internet to read this kind of stuff.

• ⭐ Protopia

  “LLMs are mere toddlers”

  If you are afraid that AI will take your jobs, then you should read this post. Also, from this point onwards, I consider myself to be a protopian.

• Joy & Curiosity #105

Books

• Digital Minimalism

  (pg 81 - 105)

  I always had the mental model that solitude and loneliness are the same. But the author made me realize the difference and made me realize how much deprived we are of solitude.

• ⭐ ✅ Oliyamayana Ethirkaalam

  (pg 1 - 48)

  It is a small Tamil book containing a speech of Vethathiri Maharishi

  I also managed to write about something that I learned from this book.

• Tools of Titans

  (pg 164 - 168, 170 - 193)

  Learned from Marc Andreessen, Derek Sivers, Arnold - Growing up is realizing that Arnold is more than an actor!

• Super Communicators

  (read a few pages)

  Read the prologue