Books

  • Why Design is Hard

    Scott Berkun recently appeared on the Design Better podcast to chat about the frustrations that designers have working in big companies and how to solve them. I certainly relate to a lot of those frustrations, so picked up Scott and Bryan Zug’s new book Why Design is Hard and devoured it in a couple sittings.…

    Why Design is Hard
  • Top Books of 2020

    You can find a full list of the books I read in 2020 in my reading list.

    Top Books of 2020
  • My Favourite Books From 2018

    I succeeded in maintaining my reading habit in 2018 and ended up reading 25 books. I keep a log of all the books I’ve finished on my website, but wanted to highlight a few of my favourites from 2018. Brief Answers to the Big Questions Stephen Hawking Professor Stephen Hawking has greatly inspired me over the years.…

  • My Favourite Books on Business

    We live in a world where you can go online and watch a talk from pretty much any prominent individual from the past two decades. That’s pretty amazing, but I still find magic in the written word. In this post I wanted to share some of the books I’ve read over the years that have…

  • Onward by Howard Schultz

    I finished reading this earlier this week and thought that I would just write a few words about the book. This book is a very detailed account of Starbucks’ journey back to greatness. Howard Schultz takes you through the challenges that the company and he faced when trying to turn the company around and restore…

  • Latest Book Reviews

    I’ve recently completed my stereotypical geek persona by rediscovering my love for books. I used to read quite a lot when I was younger but I was always a really slow reader (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire took me two years – seriously) and this kind of put me off reading. The other day I decided to…