Book Reports
I read a lot of books and take notes to help the ideas stick. I’ve asked my AI agent to help me tidy those notes and turn them into something easy and enjoyable to read. My hope is that you’ll discover a book that interests you and that it has a positive impact on your life, as many of these books have had on mine.
As we are all tight for time, I've even made it into a podcast for you. You can listen below.
2025
This report distils the most useful ideas, tactics, and principles from twenty standout books on creativity, marketing, personal mastery, and business, turning them into clear, practical takeaways you can actually apply. It focuses on testing ideas before scaling, obsessing over long-term fans, removing friction at every touchpoint, and using story, language, and emotional connection to create memorable experiences. Together, these notes form a concise playbook of principles to help you build products, communicate with your audience, and run your work in a more intentional, human way.
2024 & 2023
This collection turns your 2023 and 2024 reading into a set of clear, working notes that capture what actually matters for how you think and operate day to day. It surfaces patterns around focus, systems, leadership, and designing better experiences, linking ideas across books so they’re easier to remember and act on. Instead of feeling like a list of summaries, it reads as an evolving handbook you can dip into when you need a nudge on strategy, creativity, or how you show up in your work.
2022
This 2022 collection captures notes from a big year of reading across mindset, communication, creativity, sales, investing, and personal growth, turning dozens of titles into clear, usable insights rather than just quotes or highlights. It weaves together themes like discipline, resilience, negotiation, Stoic thinking, and intelligent risk-taking, so ideas from books as different as Meditations, Never Split the Difference, and The Psychology of Money reinforce each other. Read as a whole, it works like a grounded field guide you can dip back into whenever you need a reminder on how to think, decide, and move forward with more courage and clarity.
2021
This 2021 volume presents a set of carefully structured book reports that turn big ideas into clear, practical insights across creativity, strategy, leadership, and personal growth. Each report pulls out the central concepts and most actionable principles, making it easy for readers to grasp the essence of each book and see how the ideas can be applied in real projects and day-to-day decisions.