Books
Reading notes, summaries, and what stuck after the last page.
Slow Productivity: reading notes
Cal Newport, 2024. The diagnosis is sharper than the cure: a great name for why knowledge work feels broken, and a quiet silence about who actually gets to fix it.
Mythos: reading notes
Stephen Fry, 2017. I came for the Greek myths and spent the whole book underlining words: the stories never ended, they just turned into our language.
Nineteen Eighty-Four: reading notes
George Orwell, 1949. I expected a novel about being watched. What stayed was the ending: the Party won't kill you until you genuinely believe.
Homo Deus: reading notes
Yuval Noah Harari, 2016. I came for the Sapiens sequel and spent a week arguing with one chapter. Notes on free will, ownership, and who gets to rewrite your algorithm.
Creativity, Inc.: reading notes
Ed Catmull, 2014. A Pixar memoir that turns out to be about entropy: why a creative culture is never finished, only maintained against its own decay.