The shelf.
A hand-picked shelf of things I've loved — what I'm reading now, what I've finished, and what's in my ears. It's a list of likes, not a log: the stuff that didn't land just isn't here.
Reading now
Chip Huyen on building production apps atop foundation models — evaluation, RAG, fine-tuning, and all the engineering that surrounds the model.
Galloway’s blunt, big-hearted field guide to manhood — money, love, and showing up.
A research-backed reset on happiness: less hustle, more connection.
A sharp history of how the West learned to sort Muslims into “good” and “bad.”
Shane Parrish’s four-volume toolkit of thinking frameworks — the mental models that sharpen how you reason.
Read
Heist-fantasy with a magic system so tight it feels engineered. The whole series is a joy.
A locked-ship murder mystery with a whiff of the supernatural. Turton at his twistiest.
A last-island whodunit at the end of the world — high-concept and propulsive.
A woman follows the last Arctic terns across a dying ocean. Gorgeous and gutting.
A remote island, a family, a shipwreck, and the rising sea. McConaghy doesn’t miss.
Wolves loosed back into the Scottish Highlands, and the fierce woman protecting them. Taut and wild.
Sanderson’s sprawling epic — thousand-page tomes you happily disappear into.
On belonging — and why modern life leaves us quietly missing the group.
Michael Lewis on the rise and implosion of Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX — nobody tells a financial story like Lewis.
In my ears
Two friends demolish the airport bestsellers that quietly warped our brains.
Rick Rubin’s wandering, unhurried conversations on art, craft, and creativity.
Cheerfully debunking the junk science of wellness and weight.