Sheary Tan

Polymath Founder.

Building things on the internet.

Projects

• Zappd — Build strong circuit foundations in robotics and physical AI faster.
• ByteForm — Typeform alternative, cheaper.
• Hushy (Open Source) - A lightweight macOS menu bar app for voice notes
• Coming soon — Builiding more things, stay tuned

Recent Writing

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Suggested Reading

Research Papers — updated Jul 2026

• Attention Is All You Need — The paper that started it all. Introduced transformers and changed the trajectory of AI forever.
• On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots — A critical look at the risks of large language models, from bias to environmental cost. Essential counterweight reading.
• The Bitter Lesson — Rich Sutton's argument that computation always beats human-engineered knowledge. Short, sharp, and hard to argue with.

Philosophy & Literature — updated Jul 2026

• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius — A Roman emperor's private journal on discipline, mortality, and self-mastery. The original founder's playbook.
• The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus — On finding meaning in a world that offers none. If you build things, you already understand Sisyphus.
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley — More relevant than 1984 today. A world destroyed not by what we fear, but by what we desire.

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