Books I’ve actually finished, and the ones I’m in the middle of.
A short list, kept honest — nothing aspirational sitting here that I haven’t opened.
Reading now
Richard Hamming
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering
Hamming’s Bell Labs lectures, turned into a book about doing work that still matters in thirty years. Less about technique than about choosing which problems deserve your attention in the first place.
Gary John Bishop
Unfuck Yourself
A short, blunt book about the distance between what you tell yourself and what you actually do. Its entire method is changing the sentence you repeat about yourself.
Read
James Clear
Atomic Habits
The habit book everyone cites. The argument is that outcomes follow systems rather than goals, and that a change small enough to seem boring is the only kind that survives a real week.
David Goggins
Can’t Hurt Me
Part memoir, part argument that most people stop at roughly forty per cent of what they are actually capable of. Uncomfortable to read, which is more or less the intention.