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
Joseph Nguyen's hundred-page book with one core idea: your thoughts are not reality. Short, a little repetitive, and surprisingly hard to shake after you finish it.
Apr 2026
Fiction
Elif Shafak's braided novel about Rumi, Shams of Tabriz, and a modern American housewife reading their story. A rich historical thread, a thinner modern one, and forty rules worth arguing with.
Apr 2026
Spencer Johnson's ninety-page parable about adapting to change. A useful image, one genuinely good line, and a blind spot about power that I think is worth talking about.
Apr 2026
Non-fiction
The Obstacle is the way by Ryan Holiday is based on the school of philosophy known as Stoicism which helps to lay the foundation of overcoming the obstacles and turning them into opportunity.
Jan 2022
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