Everybody Writes
The reason my sentences got shorter.
The Shelf
Not a curated shelf — the actual one, phone photo and all.
Three stacks, really: how to make things, how to think, and how to sit with the stuff you can't fix.
Shelf is the room. Books that rewired me is the ranking.
Essentialism
Permission to do less, better. I reread it when I overcommit. Often.
The Psychology of Money
Money is behavior, not math. This is the book that made that stick.
On Government
Two thousand years old, still the clearest thing written on power.
How Propaganda Works
How language gets weaponized. Useful in an AI year.
Be Here Now
The counterweight to all the ambition on the other walls.
The Teaching of Buddha
Hotel-drawer wisdom that turned out to be real.
The Road
A father, a boy, the end of everything.
A Long Way Gone
Puts your bad week in perspective. Permanently.
Brain on Fire
How fast the self can go offline. Stayed with me.
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Made me cry on a plane. No notes.
A Life on Our Planet
One man's receipts for a century of loss. Sober, not preachy.