BOOKS

Reading desk.

Slow notes from books, systems, law, business, AI, design, history, and tools. Text-only cards keep the shelf free of cover-image copyright risk.

8 titles · current reading and long shelf

Personal Operating Manual

Personal archive

A working manual for attention, projects, public artifacts, and review rituals.Notes Open

Quiet Interface

Personal archive

Design notes for calm, dense, repeatable tools.Reading

Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Martin Kleppmann

Systems, reliability, and data models as a long-term interface discipline.

Personal Operating Manual

Personal archive

A working manual for attention, projects, public artifacts, and review rituals.Learning · Systems

Tools for Thinking in Public

Personal archive

A bilingual notebook on turning private learning into visible trails.Writing · Tools

Quiet Interface

Personal archive

Design notes for calm, dense, repeatable tools.Design · Interface

把小网站做扎实

Personal archive

A Chinese guide to making a small personal website sturdy and maintainable.Web · Craft

Learning Ledger

Personal archive

A lightweight tracker for books, excerpts, and deliberate practice.Learning · Reading

Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Martin Kleppmann

Systems, reliability, and data models as a long-term interface discipline.Systems · AI

The Beginning of Infinity

David Deutsch

A long-shelf book for explanations, progress, and the structure of knowledge.Learning · History

Seeing Like a State

James C. Scott

Useful for legal systems, governance, planning, and the failure modes of legibility.Law · History

Notes Index

Reading notes, kept as working evidence.

Notes OpenPersonal Operating ManualLearning · Systems FinishedTools for Thinking in PublicWriting · Tools Notes OpenQuiet InterfaceDesign · Interface Finished把小网站做扎实Web · CraftQueuedLearning LedgerLearning · Reading