I always ask people what they read
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I ask at conferences. I ask in job interviews, on both sides of the table. I ask over dinner, and I force myself not to ask it on the streets. It’s the fastest way I know to understand someone. Job titles tell you what a person does. Shelves tell you who they are.
I’ve decided my love of books deserves a home.
readsthis is a series of mini-interviews with professionals: engineers, founders, writers, people who build things. Each post is 4-5 questions about who they are and what they read. Fiction, non-fiction, the books they re-read, the books that found them at the right moment, the books that changed how they work.
No summaries, no “10 books every leader must read” lists. Just real people and their real shelves.
The first interviews land in October. Subscribe and they’ll arrive in your inbox: short enough to read with a coffee, and you’ll walk away with at least one book you hadn’t considered and one person worth knowing.
Until then, I’m posting one book a day in Notes (along with my other tech and personal rants). One book, it’s rating and its best and worst reviews.
Want to be interviewed? Write to post@readsthis.org. Nothing formal: I’ll send you a handful of questions, you answer the ones you like, any length. You get to talk about books you love, and yes, you can link to whatever you’re building.
I hope you are reading. Especially in this day and age, I think that still matters.
Love,
Nune