Deep Work: I put a budget on the work that produces nothing The idea that helped was not concentrating harder. It was treating shallow work as an expense with a ceiling, like any other expense in the business. Craft 22 sept 2026
The Tech Resume Inside Out: written for applying, useful for writing proposals A book about engineering resumes that I did not need for any job application, and that left me correcting how I describe past work in the proposals I do send. Craft 24 ago 2026
The Principles of Beautiful Web Design: vocabulary borrowed from an earlier web It teaches composition, colour, texture and typography with the rigour of a graphic design book. The problem is not what it says but when it said it: the web it was written for is not the one we use. Craft 17 ago 2026
The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: six hundred pages of exercises, of which I use three The companion workbook to a famous management book: nearly a hundred pieces by different authors, wildly uneven. Two exercises in that pile still work unchanged in a discovery meeting, thirty years on. Craft Strategy 11 ago 2026
The Definitive Guide to DAX: the model decides the measure Seven hundred and sixty-eight pages on a calculation language that looks like a spreadsheet and is not. The lesson I keep is not about syntax: when the data model is badly built, every measure fights it. Architecture Craft 8 ago 2026
Show Your Work!: showing the process when the result does not exist yet Ten short chapters about sharing work while you are doing it. It reads in an hour, holds two good ideas and one that almost everyone skips, which is the one I needed. Advertising Craft 24 jul 2026
The Definitive Guide to DAX: what a summary cannot give me There is no full reading of this one: what I read is a paid summary with the contents, the ideas per chapter and a quiz. It works as a map and for nothing else. I explain why, because it exposes the limit of the format. Craft 8 jul 2026
The amendment that moved the deadline up and killed the transmission window A month after the previous one came its amendment: the deadline moved from the tenth to the seventh, and the few-day window for transmitting a document disappeared. That second part changes system design, not procedure. Architecture Craft 5 jul 2026
The ruling that put an expiry date on voiding an invoice Five articles that overturn a long-standing habit: voiding an electronic document stopped being something you do when you remember and now has a deadline, a recipient's consent, and cases where it simply cannot be done. Craft 2 jul 2026
Refactoring UI: rules for people who cannot draw and still have to ship screens It does not teach design, it teaches named decisions: start from a feature rather than a layout, cut your options before choosing, emphasise by turning everything else down. The fastest change to what I deliver. Craft 29 jun 2026
Qualitative Research Design: process discovery is qualitative research An academic methods book that describes what happens in a discovery interview better than any consulting manual: data is not collected, it is built between the person asking and the person answering. Craft 23 jun 2026
Python for Data Analysis: the extract stops right before the point The book by the person who wrote the most widely used data library in the language. I only have the extract, and the cut lands before the library appears: worth saying, because it limits what I can claim. Craft 20 jun 2026