Books Turned Into Decision Systems
These are not conventional book reviews. Each note extracts models, disagreements and actions that can be applied to engineering, investing and independent work.
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My Investments Turned Negative, but I Couldn't Sell: Rereading Hayek's The Road to Serfdom
My investments turned negative and I struggled to sell. An AI agent developer trained in computer science and finance revisits Hayek on planning, freedom and fallible judgment.
I No Longer Write Book Reviews: How a Programmer Turned Reading into a Decision System
I No Longer Write Book Reviews: A programmer's journey from simply finishing books to building a decision-making framework.
Revisiting 'Hackers & Painters' in the AI Era: The Logic of Asset-Based Survival for Full-Stack Developers
Revisit Hackers & Painters in the AI era through problem selection, product judgment, iteration, taste, coding leverage, and independent ownership.
Charlie Munger's Investment Philosophy: Latticework Thinking, Multidisciplinary Audits, and the Engineer's Decision System
A practical reread of Poor Charlie's Almanack focused on mental models, inversion, incentives, falsification, and decision review rather than quote collection.
The Great Game Revisited: Wall Street History, AI Bubbles, and Digital Assets
A reading guide to The Great Game that connects three centuries of Wall Street history with financial bubbles, technology narratives, the 2026 AI boom, and digital-asset cycles.
The Naval Experiment: How Programmers Can Use Code and Media Leverage to Achieve Social Mobility in 2026
Read The Almanack of Naval Ravikant as a developer: test code and media leverage, document decisions and separate insight from results.
Revisiting Principles: Debugging Your Life System Like Code
Use Ray Dalio's Principles as a decision-review system with explicit rules, reality checks, error logs and iterative improvement.
Antifragility System Experiment: Volatility Gain Algorithms and Survival Audits for Full-Stack Engineers in 2026
Antifragile reading notes as a decision-system experiment: test barbell strategy, optionality, downside control, redundancy, and volatility exposure against real decisions.
