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.
March 19, 2026 · 5 min read
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Books
Reading notes, summaries, and what stuck after the last page.
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.
February 10, 2026 · 4 min read
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.
January 1, 2026 · 4 min read
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.
February 3, 2025 · 6 min read
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.
January 1, 2025 · 5 min read