Reading

Books I’ve been reading, grouped by year.

2026

Writing to Persuade — Trish Hall
Economical Writing — Deirdre N. McCloskey
Designing Data-Intensive Applications, 2nd Edition — Martin Kleppmann and Chris Riccomini
Crying in H Mart — Michelle Zauner
On the Calculation of Volume, Vol. 1 — Solvej Balle
On the Calculation of Volume, Vol. 2 — Solvej Balle
On the Calculation of Volume, Vol. 3 — Solvej Balle
Turn the Ship Around! — L. David Marquet

Breakneck — Dan Wang
Motores diésel para embarcaciones de recreo — Tim Bartlett
Leadership Is Language — L. David Marquet
Taming Text — Grant S. Ingersoll, Thomas S. Morton, and Andrew L. Farris
Relevant Search — Doug Turnbull and John Berryman
AI-Powered Search — Trey Grainger, Doug Turnbull, and Max Irwin
Deck of Tales: A Speculative Fiction Anthology — various authors. Especially the story by my friend Margaret Lê.
Distancing — L. David Marquet and Michael A. Gillespie
La vela: Iniciación a la navegación y la regata — P. M. Bourdeaux (1971 edition)

Fight Right — Julie Schwartz Gottman and John Gottman
Eight Dates — John Gottman, Julie Schwartz Gottman, Doug Abrams, and Rachel Carlton Abrams
What Made Apollo a Success? — NASA
PostGIS in Action — Regina O. Obe and Leo S. Hsu
pgRouting: A Practical Guide — Regina Obe and Leo Hsu
Wool (Silo, Book 1) — Hugh Howey
Shift (Silo, Book 2) — Hugh Howey
Dust (Silo, Book 3) — Hugh Howey
Foundation — Isaac Asimov
A History of What Comes Next (Take Them to the Stars, Book 1) — Sylvain Neuvel
How High We Go in the Dark — Sequoia Nagamatsu
Recursion — Blake Crouch
Upgrade — Blake Crouch
Dark Matter — Blake Crouch

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself, 2-Volume Collection — Harvard Business Review
Product Design Process — Tiago Franco and Beatriz Costa
Lean UX: Creating Great Products with Agile Teams — Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden
Dune — Frank Herbert
Exhalation — Ted Chiang