good articles

Here, I put the awesome articles that give me great insights. I usually share these with my friends / students I mentor, and I hope this can be helpful for you as well.

mindset

• July 2023, “How to Do Great Work” by Paul Graham

research

• March 2026, “How to Win a Best Paper Award” by Nicholas Carlini
• Jan 2021, “Research Taste Exercises” by Chris Olah
• April 2025, “Impact, Agency, and Taste” by Ben Kuhn
• Jan 2020, “An Opinionated Guide to ML Research” by John Schulman

future x AI

• July 2023, “How AI will change work” by Ben Evans

perspectives about machine learning

• March 2023, “We May be Surprised Again: Why I take LLMs seriously.” by Ferenc Huszár
• Aug 2023, “An observation on generalization” by Ilya Sutskever
• Dec 2025, “Reformist Reinforcement Learning” by Ben Recht: a minimalist view of RL