I/O
in, out, and in between
Memos
coming soon — maybe
Monos
I occasionally write digestible, somewhat technical monographs on various subjects of interest, aiming to recapture the feeling of working through an especially illuminating textbook example or chapter. LLM coauthorship has made this easier!
- AlphaFold for physicists (prepared for a workshop at the Aspen Center for Physics, Summer 2026)
- A stochastic guide to personal finance
- Reproducing Rosalind Franklin's proof of the DNA double helix
- Patent law for scientists
Bookshelf
Now
reacquainting myself with Indian intellectualism
- S. Radhakrishnan (Translations of the Upanishads and Dhammapada, Eastern Religion and Western Thought, Library of Living Philosophers)
- J. Krishnamurti (The First and Last Freedom, Freedom from the Known)
- Gitanjali, Rabindranath Tagore
- The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie
Always
- Finite and Infinite Games, James Carse
- The Making of the Atom Bomb, Richard Rhodes
- Gödel, Escher, Bach, Douglas Hofstadter
- Mountains Beyond Mountains, Tracy Kidder: doing good need not be scalable to be right
- Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
- Blindness, José Saramago
- Principles of Quantum Mechanics, Paul Dirac: it pissed me off that my undergraduate physics degree didn't teach me what a photon was, so I chunked through this book during the first year of Sora. Now I know!
Someday
- In Search of Lost Time, Proust: I would love to spend a year reading this with a few friends (text me if you would, too!)
- Modern Classical Physics, Kip Thorne and Roger Blandford