Current read
FictionMostly Harmless
Douglas Adams
Starting the last Hitchhiker's Guide book now. I'm mainly here for the tone and the way Adams makes absurdity feel oddly exact.
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Not a catalog. Just the books that have shaped how I think about software, product decisions, and everything around them.
Usually a mix of fiction and nonfiction. Right now I'm splitting time between these.
Current read
FictionDouglas Adams
Starting the last Hitchhiker's Guide book now. I'm mainly here for the tone and the way Adams makes absurdity feel oddly exact.
Current read
PhilosophyEpictetus
Also starting this in parallel. It feels like the opposite of noise: direct, disciplined, and hard to hide from.
Books that have stayed with me and keep showing up in how I think and work.
Yuval Noah Harari
Useful for thinking about shared narratives and the stories that make systems feel real.
Stephen Hawking
A good reminder of how much sits outside intuition, and why that matters.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Uncomfortable, bitter, and useful for remembering how irrational people can be.
Seneca
A steadying book on attention, discipline, and perspective.
Oscar Wilde
Sharp, elegant, and much darker than its surface.
Albert Camus
Spare, detached, and hard to shake once you're done.
A broader mix across fiction, philosophy, history, and science.
Peter Thiel
I don't agree with all of it, but it's still useful for thinking about conviction, differentiation, and what makes a product actually matter.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
A novel about ambition, self-invention, and the distance between style and substance.
Douglas Adams
Funny, strange, and much smarter than it first lets on.
Douglas Adams
More absurd than the first book, but still sharp about people and systems.
Douglas Adams
Chaos, bureaucracy, and cosmic silliness in equal measure.
Douglas Adams
The same dry, strange precision as the rest of the series, but a little more reflective.
Unknown (Ancient)
Old enough to feel distant, familiar enough to still land.