What I Read the Week of 2026.08.02

Books This Inevitable Ruin by Matt Dinniman I’ve been in a terrible reading slump so this has been slowly bringing me out of it I hope. I haven’t finished it yet and am only about 10% of the way through, but that was all in one day! DCC books are especially easy to binge. Substack The Dark Night of Mathematics — Ossuary Lost at Sea — Kirwin Hampshire I’ve been scrolling a lot about the flurry of AI math discoveries and what that means for the field and knowledge work/research in general in the face of AI in fields with verifiable rewards! Good to hear someone’s perspective from within math instead of from people already entrenched in the AI space. What’s the point of seeing the world? — Low Resolution — Sarah Davidson I’m someone who doesn’t always love to travel, so it’s always interesting to read different people’s perspectives and bring people back down to earth a little bit about travel and how it isn’t always so glamorous. Talking to Strangers — Jake Gloudemans An article made by…