Reviews
Longer pieces on books and articles worth your time, including where I disagree. For quick takeaways, see my reading notes.
2026
- Deep Work, read as a lead engineerLeadership · Review3 min read
Cal Newport's Deep Work argues that focus is getting rarer just as it becomes more valuable. Three ideas I'm taking from it, and the tension it doesn't resolve for anyone who leads a team.
- Being right is not the jobLeadership · Review2 min read
Cong Wang's essay on why he stopped arguing, a 2,500-year-old line from Lao Tzu, and what changes when you're the one who has to make technical decisions stick.