285 books.
A decade of reading. Leadership, philosophy, neuroscience, economics, fiction — and a lot of margin in between. Click any title to open the full review on Substack, or browse the two original Medium round-ups linked at the bottom of the page.
- 285Books logged
- 100Part I (2023)
- 182Part II (2024–2025)
- 3Part III (2026)
- 10+Years of reading
The Orrery · 285 books in orbit Launch ✦ Hover a star to read its spine
Recurring authors · 24 appear 2+ times Show cloudClick any author to filter ↓
What shaped the advisory.
A curated starter path through the 285-book shelf. 6 themes, two to three books each — the ones that recur most in advisory work across GTM, operating-model, data, and decision-making engagements.
Building the team, cadence, and operating system that turn a plan into repeatable execution.
The terrain advisory work runs on — chip stacks, data narratives, alignment problems.



- Pt I
Read Write Own



















- Pt I
The Best American Essays 2023
- Pt I
Fast Forward

- Pt I
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023




- Pt I
The Best American Essays 2022


- Pt I
The Ego Is Your Enemy






- Pt I
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
- Pt I
Interdependence
- Pt I
Ancient Secrets of a Master Healer




- Pt I
Neoliberalism, Management and Religion























- Pt I
Animal Farm + 1984





















- Pt I
Eye and Brain

































- Pt II
The 4-Hour Workweek






- Pt II
How Brands Grow




- Pt II
Into the Impossible
- Pt II
Losing the Nobel Prize





- Pt II
Journey







- Pt II
A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century



- Pt II
Know Thyself







- Pt II
Aries































- Pt II
Progress







- Pt II
Earth in Human Hands























- Pt II
Modern Man In Search Of A Soul

- Pt II
Play, Dreams & Imitation in Childhood


































- Pt II
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
- Pt II
The Experience Machine






- Pt II
It Takes What It Takes



- Pt II
Five Generations at Work
- Pt II
I, Enoch
- Pt III
Everything You Want Is on the Other Side of Hard


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The full Medium round-ups.
This page condenses two long-form Medium articles into a single searchable bookshelf. The originals — written for friends asking for the list — include reading order suggestions and the occasional digression. Worth a click if you like that sort of thing.
From shelf to advisory surface.
Each shelf maps to a live advisory surface — strategy + GTM → Audit, decision-making → method, AI/data → Data Collaboration + Building, operator mindset → Org Design.