Fresh reads
You finished 50 books last year and can't remember what was in any of them. Mortimer Adler diagnosed this problem in 1940 and his four-level method is still the best fix I've found.
Stolen Focus is everywhere. The phone-shaming summary is everywhere too. They're not the same book - and the difference matters more than the discourse admits.
Gabriel Wyner cracked language learning with spaced repetition and a sound-first approach. The same two levers work for almost any skill you're trying to pick up in 2026.
Carl Sagan wrote a critical-thinking checklist in 1995 that holds up better than 90% of media literacy content written this decade. Here are the nine questions, updated for AI content and productivity grifts.
I loved The Alchemist at 22. I rolled my eyes at it at 32. I picked it up again at 40 and found a third book hiding inside the first two.
Jonathan Birch built a framework for thinking about beings on the edge of sentience. I keep accidentally applying it to my Claude tab - and the question it raises about trust is one we'll all have to answer.
Browse the shelves
Seven shelves into the catalog. Pick the one closest to what you're working through.
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The machinery of running a one-person business. And surviving inside someone else's.
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What survives a real week. And what was always a marketing campaign in disguise.
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Honest reviews. Not summaries. Not five-star inflation. Just what the book actually argued.
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Frameworks that survive contact with reality. And the limits they don't advertise.
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Reviews from someone who runs a one-person business and gets nothing for the endorsement.
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Financial advice for people whose paycheck doesn't show up on the 1st.
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Writing, making, publishing. The unglamorous parts and the strategic ones.
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Sleep, stress, energy, burnout. The body running the business everyone else manages with a team.
Hub · Freelancing
The chicken-and-egg of needing work to get work is fake. Here's how to build a freelance portfolio with no experience, using projects you make for yourself.
Hub · Productivity
Most breathing advice is wellness branding. James Nestor's research isn't. Here's the one thing from Breath that actually shifted how I focus during work.
Hub · Books
A dying neurosurgeon wrote a book about how he spent the last year of his life. I read it twice and rewrote my calendar both times.
Hub · Thinking
Ousman Umar walked from Ghana to Spain at thirteen. Reading his story changed how I think about the word 'risk' - and what most of us actually mean when we use it.
