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Reading
Notes on books that intersect programming, craft, and ideas worth returning to alongside the main blog.
Reading shelf
Practical lessons, personal reflections, and honest reactions from self-help, novels, and meaningful reads.
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Non-fiction
Old-fashioned personal finance wrapped in ancient Babylonian parables. Dated in tone, evergreen in substance. Still the simplest money book I would hand to a teenager.
May 2026
Non-fiction
Brian Tracy's short book on prioritisation and beating procrastination. Some of it has not aged well, but the ABCDE method and the core metaphor still earn a place on the productivity shelf.
May 2026
Non-fiction
Morgan Housel's essay collection on how behaviour, not math, decides your financial life. The best book on money I have read in years, and the one I wish I had found first.
May 2026
Non-fiction
A book I picked up half-defensively and ended up genuinely grateful for. Reframed solitude as a skill, not a symptom.
May 2026
Non-fiction
A short, punchy set of life lessons from SEAL training. More useful than its length suggests, even if you will never go near a boat.
May 2026
Non-fiction
Robin Sharma's case for waking up at 5am, wrapped in a long fable. I am not a morning person. Here is what I took from the book anyway, and what I would cut.
May 2026
Non-fiction
A psychiatrist's breakdown of why abundance is the new addiction, and what she actually prescribes for it. Changed how I think about my phone.
May 2026
Fiction
A short novella about a lonely dreamer and four St. Petersburg nights. Feels like it was written specifically for people who live too much inside their own head.
Apr 2026
Fiction
A novel about the lives you could have lived and the one you actually did. Lighter than it sounds, quietly devastating in places.
Apr 2026
Non-fiction
Ancient monastic ideas repackaged for tired knowledge workers. Lighter than it pretends to be, but better than I expected.
Apr 2026
