Reading

Blogs, channels, and books that have shaped how I think about engineering, leadership, history, and music.

Links

Sites and blogs I follow

Simon Willison

AI, Python, open source, and building tools. One of the best technical blogs going.

r/LocalLLaMA & r/LocalLLM

Reddit communities for running LLMs locally. Good for keeping up with new models, hardware benchmarks, and quantisation.

Books

Books that have influenced how I think

Practical Electronics for Inventors

Practical Electronics for Inventors

Paul Scherz & Simon Monk

 LLM Engineer's Handbook

LLM Engineer's Handbook

Paul Iusztin & Maxime Labonne

 Why Machines Learn

Why Machines Learn

Anil Ananthaswamy

 Never Split the Difference

Never Split the Difference

Chris Voss

Watching

YouTube channels and podcasts

ThePrimeagen

ThePrimeagen

Software engineering, Vim, Rust, and strong opinions on tech.

 Nate B Jones

Nate B Jones

AI strategy, frameworks, and workflows for builders and execs.
The Rest is History

The Rest is History

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook on the stories behind history.

 History for GRANITE

History for GRANITE

Exploring the pyramids of Ancient Egypt with new evidence and archaeological analysis.

Coming soon.