Collections.
Where to start, and which door to go through next.
- 01
Complex systems & failure
Why big systems behave in ways none of their parts intend — and how they break.
- 02
Foundations of computing
From the imaginary machine to the web it eventually built.
- 03
Markets & incentives
Four papers that explain most of the economic behaviour you will see this week.
- 04
Start here: the first five papers
Five papers, five weeks, zero prerequisites. The spine of the whole archive.
- 05
The LLM stack, 1948→2026
The idea lineage of the model you talked to this morning, in reading order.