My reads

A direct rulebook built from startup lessons, podcast conversations, and personal mistakes. Some ideas are simple, but the examples make you inspect your own habits.

A detailed look at Maharaja Ranjit Singh's world: politics, battles, court culture, art, maps, and the wider feeling of a powerful Sikh empire remembered through history.

A brain-heavy science read about deep ideas of reality. It rewards slow reading, rereading, and sitting with the parts that initially feel impossible to hold at once.

An entertaining physics book that makes the subject visual, playful, and awe-inducing. It reconnects physics with curiosity instead of making it feel like equations first.

A plain-English explanation of what sits behind chatbots, algorithms, jobs, startups, and the current AI wave. Useful for understanding AI without needing code first.

A compact look at Steve Jobs, Apple, product taste, focus, and the operating style behind iconic consumer technology. It is useful for thinking about product judgment.

A funny essay-style math book where doodles become a way to talk about logic, life, uncertainty, and how strange the world can be. Cozy, smart, and low-pressure.

A practical drawing guide that breaks realistic pencil portrait work into clear steps. It feels like a patient teacher, especially compared with scattered video tips.

Stories of India's Para Special Forces operators, told through courage, pressure, sacrifice, and field decisions that feel cinematic without losing the weight of real service.

A human story behind LIGO and gravitational waves, focused on obsession, setbacks, tiny wins, and the scientists who kept pushing until the discovery finally landed.

A reflective, accessible collection about the universe, black holes, and scientific perspective. It is less equation-heavy and more calm, existential, and mind-expanding.

A poetic science classic about who we are inside a giant universe. Some science has aged, but Sagan's calm writing still makes the scale of existence feel personal.

A Punjabi history and leadership read centered on Sikh political identity, memory, and public courage. It sits in the recap as one of the heavier regional-language reads.

A documentary-like history of dinosaurs, from origins to extinction, with modern fossil science and the reminder that birds are living descendants of that lost world.

A fast tour through physics history, from Newton and Maxwell to Einstein, quantum mechanics, and string theory as a possible framework for unifying the forces.

A short, opinionated startup book that is easy to disagree with in places but hard to ignore. It is good fuel for thinking about monopoly, differentiation, and building.