Books and posts about thinking
Buzzwords and Phrases That Make Me Want to Read (or Avoid) a Book
The descriptors book marketers use tell you a lot about who they think you are. These are the ones that pull me in and the ones that send me running.
Goals for 2026 & Defensive Book Quoting
This year I'm setting reading and book goals while trying to stay out of the performance trap.
The Grace of Reading for Transformation, Not Consumption
Reading doesn’t need to be optimized. An essay on escaping reading-as-productivity and rediscovering reading as transformation, not consumption.
Reflections on The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI
My reading notes from this book, gathered across several encounters—ideas that resonated, arguments that stayed with me, moments worth returning to.
Reflections on A System for Writing How an Unconventional Approach to Note-Making Can Help You Capture Ideas Think Wildly and Write Constantly
My reading notes collected across multiple sessions with this book—the parts that made me pause, the concepts that remained, the connections that emerged later.
Reflections on Great Founders Write
Reflections and marginalia from reading this book over time—focusing on what persisted in memory rather than comprehensive summary.