AI Curation · Founder & Chief Architect
100 Great Books
The essential library for a well-read life.
100+
Curated books
7
Categories
Podcast
Companion
The Problem
The canon of great books is locked behind academic gatekeeping or buried under bestseller lists. Most well-meaning readers never start, or start with the wrong ten books.
The AI Architecture
100 Great Books is a curated reading library across seven categories paired with a companion podcast that makes the canon genuinely approachable — the well-read life, productized.
What Aaron Shipped
- 100+ hand-curated essential books across seven categories
- Companion podcast unpacking each book in plain language
- Category paths from Classics to Science to Philosophy
- Designed for the well-read life, not the highbrow shelf
The Outcome
Productizes intellectual seriousness — gives a reader an honest, walkable path through the canon without a PhD or a syllabus.
The architect's edge
400+ pieces of software architected.
Aaron has architected 400+ pieces of software across ventures, agencies, and Fortune 500 transformations. The skills and business acumen behind that volume are unmatched — and they show up in every system below.
Browser layer
React 18 · TypeScript 5 · Tailwind
Declarative UI, compile-time type safety, design-token CSS that flips themes from one variable.
Build layer
Vite · esbuild · SWC · imagetools
Native ES modules in dev (instant reloads) and tree-shaken, code-split, hash-versioned bundles in prod.
Edge & delivery
Global CDN · HTTP/3 · TLS 1.3 · immutable caching
Every byte served from the user's nearest PoP. Long-lived caches because filenames are content-hashed.
Backend layer
PostgreSQL · PostgREST · RLS · JWT auth · Deno edge functions
Your schema is your API. Authorization enforced inside the database. Server code without server ops.
None of this is proprietary magic. It's the modern open web — selected, sequenced, and shipped by an architect who has done it 400+ times. That's the genius: knowing exactly which piece to use, when, and why it pays off three quarters from now.
"I'd been meaning to read 'the greats' for a decade. This is the first list that actually got me reading them, in an order that made sense."
Reader & subscriber
Year one cohort