// books

Books

Books I'm writing, and books that rearranged how I think — symbolic reasoning, WebAssembly, and utopias re-derived from first principles.

// writing

What I'm writing

Drafting in the open. Equal parts lab notebook and argument.

Cover: The Fixed Point of Thought
in progress

The Fixed Point of Thought

A working book on symbolic reasoning for builders — how logic, recursion, and self-reference become real systems. Equal parts Gödel, Rust, and lab notebook. Drafting in the open.

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upcoming

Utopia, Reimagined

A from-first-principles re-derivation of what a good society could compute. Optimistic nihilism applied to coordination, economics, and freedom.

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// credits

Books I helped ship

Technical reviewing — reading adversarially so the fluent-but-wrong doesn't make it to print.

technical reviewer

Ultimate WebAssembly for High-Performance Apps

Srinivas Shanmugam · 2026

Srinivas Shanmugam's guide to high-performance WebAssembly across browsers, servers, and the edge. I served as one of its technical reviewers — vetting the Rust/Wasm and the claims.

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// reviews & reading

Books worth a shelf

The ones that rearranged how I think — with notes.

reviewed

Gödel, Escher, Bach

Douglas Hofstadter · ★★★★★

The strange loop that rewired me. Self-reference as a feature, not a paradox — and why I keep re-reading it.

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