Knowledge · Reading Notes
Books that continue to shape the work.
Not a favourites list. A small, evolving selection of books I keep returning to — each with a one-sentence reflection and a key takeaway. Longer notes follow when the reading has settled.
- Reading note
The Design of Everyday Things
Don Norman
"The book that taught me craft and empathy are the same discipline, wearing different clothes."
Key takeaway
If the user has to think about the object, the designer stopped thinking too early.
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High Output Management
Andy Grove
"The management book most product leaders under-read — and the one that quietly makes their teams sane."
Key takeaway
Leverage isn't in the decisions you make; it's in the systems that let others decide well without you.
Longer note · Coming Soon - Reading note
The Uses of Disorder
Richard Sennett
"On institutions that can still be surprised — and why the best organisations refuse to over-plan themselves into fragility."
Key takeaway
Certainty is expensive. Adaptability is what actually compounds.
Longer note · Coming Soon - Reading note
The Second Mountain
David Brooks
"On what a mid-career practice is actually for, once ambition stops being the loudest voice in the room."
Key takeaway
The first mountain builds a résumé. The second one builds a life worth continuing.
Longer note · Coming Soon
Reader list
New reading notes, occasionally.
A quiet email when a new note is published. Nothing else.