Data Empire
Roopika Risam
Data is never simply given. Someone chooses what to count, and that choice is where power begins.
Suresh's Deck
I read at least 100 books a year.
This is the shelf, kept in public, and 3 things live on it. The first is the books I finished last month, with the film where I talk them through. The second is the 2 books open on my desk right now. The third is the full catalogue of 2025, all 100 of them, each with its gist in under a minute of reading and its 8 page note free for the asking.
Read what calls to you. Pass on what does not. The right book at the right moment can change a year.
New this year. Where I have written an operator's note, the whole 8 pages come to you on WhatsApp for nothing. Ask by name and it arrives.
01 Last month
In September 2026 I finished 12 books, and here is the film where I talk them through.
Every month I put the finished pile on camera and say what each book actually argues, in plain words, in under 5 minutes. Not summaries read from somewhere else. My own reading, dated, so you can see the practice is alive rather than take my word for it.
The same 12 books are written out in full in the September reading list, so you can read it rather than watch it.
The September 2026 reading list
Easy Discipline
Jia Jiang
Fall in love with the daily action rather than the prize, and hard goals stop feeling like a grind.
Head in the Clouds
Trevor Harley
There is no good or bad weather, only different weather, and you can make every kind work for you.
Imagine That
Cassandra Vieten
Your mind's eye is a skill you can train, and it already shapes your body, your mood and your future.
Lasting Wellbeing
Matt Bloom
Wellbeing is a lifelong journey walked with small proven daily practices, not a quick fix you can buy.
Q
Lani Watson
Questions are a form of power, and asking well is a skill you can rebuild at any age.
Show Up to Win
Kelly O. Kay and Jeff Sanders
Landing a big role is a skill you can learn and work at, not a thing luck hands you.
The Price of Becoming
Ryan Hawk
Excellence is bought with comfort, paid in small daily amounts, and the bill never stops coming.
The Small Stuff
Ian Bogost
Daily joy comes free through your senses, so stop chasing big goals and start noticing small things.
Think Less, Sleep More
Stephanie Romiszewski
Your body already knows how to sleep, so stop trying to fix it and anchor your mornings instead.
You Can Just Do Things
Cate Hall
Most limits on your life are made up, and agency is the learned skill of walking past them.
Young Money
Jack Raines
Your twenties are the one stage you cannot buy back, so spend them on life rather than on status.
02 My current reads
I read 2 books at a time, and these are the 2.
When one finishes it comes off the desk and the next one goes on the same day. If you find the same 2 sitting here in 2 months, write to me and tell me I have stopped reading.
Book one
Agency
Martin E. P. Seligman
Book two
Aligned
Dr Kristen Holmes
03 The Top 100
All 100, in the order they sit on the shelf.
Every one of these was read and catalogued in 2025. The gist is my own reading of the book rather than a summary from somewhere else. Where the 8 page operator's note exists you can ask for it by name, and it reaches you on WhatsApp at no charge.
I read at least 100 books a year and I catalogue every one of them.
This page is the list from 2025. It is here because the reading is part of the work rather than a hobby beside it, and because a founder deciding whether to spend an evening on a book deserves an honest opinion from somebody who finished it.
04 Free · Nothing to sit through
Name a business book. I will send you 8 pages on it.
I read 100 books in 2025 and I wrote an operator's note on each one I could use. Each note runs to 8 pages. I write it myself, from the book itself, for a man running a factory in Ambattur rather than a company in California. There is no charge and there is no call to sit through.
Name it and it comes to you
97 notes written and ready today. The rest are being written. Ask anyway and I will tell you where yours sits.
05 What an operator's note is
It runs to 8 pages, and it is written from the book for a man running a factory.
- 01Pages 1 to 4. What the book actually saysThe key points in plain language, in the order you would use them, with the parts that do not survive contact with your floor left out. And I say plainly what the book is, whether it is a school textbook, a memoir, or a consultant selling his own method.
- 02Page 5. A diagnosis you score yourselfYou answer 10 questions yes or no and you get a score out of 10. It takes about 4 minutes, and it tells you where you actually stand rather than where you hope you do.
- 03Page 6. A sheet you fill from your own numbersThe sheet works on your own figures rather than on the book's examples, and your figures are what make it real.
- 04Page 7. What to do in the next 7 daysOne move, small enough to actually happen, named clearly enough that on Monday morning you know exactly what to do first.
06 One ask
Name a book. That is the whole of it.
Tell me a title from the 100 and the 8 pages come to you on WhatsApp. I will not call you and I will not add you to anything.