Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
A bracing time-management book that begins with the fact you cannot manage time enough to escape being human.
Jul 2026
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Book reviews
Notes on books that intersect programming, craft, and ideas worth returning to alongside the main blog.
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Notes from books that stay with you
Practical lessons, personal reflections, and honest reactions from self-help, novels, and meaningful reads.
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Essentialism by Greg McKeown
A calm and practical case for doing fewer things better, especially useful when your calendar keeps filling with other people's priorities.
Jul 2026
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson
A blunt, funny, sometimes overconfident book about values, limits, and choosing better problems instead of chasing constant positivity.
Jul 2026
My Top 5 Books of the First Half of 2026
A personal ranking of the five books that stayed with me most in the first half of 2026, plus ten more reviews added to the shelf.
Jun 2026
Non-fiction
Quiet by Susan Cain
A patient, research-driven argument that the modern world has built itself around extroversion, and that half of us have been paying a hidden tax for it.
Jun 2026
Non-fiction
Mindset by Carol S. Dweck
The book that put a name on something most of us have been doing wrong for years. Not flashy, not new now, still essential.
Jun 2026
Fiction
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
A short fable about following the work you were meant to do. I came to it late and was surprised by how much it earned its reputation.
Jun 2026
Non-fiction
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
A young neurosurgeon writes about dying while still trying to figure out how to live. Quiet, exact, devastating.
Jun 2026
Non-fiction
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
A short, sharp book that argues meaning is the thing worth organising your life around. Forged in the worst conditions imaginable, written with the gentleness of a clinician.
Jun 2026
Non-fiction
The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga
A pair of Japanese writers translate Adlerian psychology into a long, patient dialogue. The most quietly liberating book I read this year.
May 2026
