Book Reviews: Q1 2025

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★☆☆☆☆ The Great Mental Models

Poorly written, but the core idea of compiling useful tools like Occam’s razor in one book is solid.


★★★★☆ The Tao of Programming

A collection of poems in the style of Tao Te Ching, but about design, development, testing and maintenance. A short read with amusing philosophical references.


★★★★☆ Leadership Is Language

Excellent exploration of its subtitle “The Hidden Power of What You Say and What You Don’t.” Learned a lot. Would’ve been perfect if more concise.


★★★★★ The SaaS Playbook

Learned what makes SaaS great in practice and how to bootstrap it. Net negative churn is powerful stuff - wrote about it in a separate post.


★★★★★ The Art of Happiness

The mind can be trained to be happy. This book attempts to explain how.


★★★★★ Dune Messiah

To me, this is a book about a man with unlimited power who has no choice but to disappear into the desert and dissolve into the infinite universe. A worthy sequel to the original Dune.


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