---
aliases: ["Books Q3 2024"]
Is A: Target
Belongs to: "[[24q3]]"
Measure: "[[measure-books-per-month]]"
Goal value: 6
Actual value: 7
Status: Done
---
# Books Target Q3 2024
Target: 6 books in the quarter (2/month).

With the editor onboarded and the newsletter operations running more smoothly, Q3 was an opportunity to recover the reading pace. Summer travel also provided unexpected reading time -- long flights and beach days turned out to be productive for focused reading.

## Progress

- July: completed 3 books -- "Build" by Tony Fadell, "Obviously Awesome" by April Dunford, and "The Design of Everyday Things" by Don Norman. The Fadell book was consumed almost entirely during a 9-hour flight.
- August: completed 2 books -- "Inspired" by Marty Cagan and "Refactoring UI" by Adam Wathan & Steve Schoger. The latter directly influenced thinking about Laputa's design system.
- September: completed 2 books -- "Engineering Management for the Rest of Us" by Sarah Drasner and "Creativity, Inc." by Ed Catmull.
- Exceeded the target with 7 books -- the best reading quarter in the tracking period.

## Notes

- Travel is underrated as reading time. Three of the seven books were read primarily during trips. Worth factoring this into scheduling.
- "Refactoring UI" was a standout -- it changed how [[person-luca-rossi]] thinks about the Laputa UI and led to several design decisions captured in the project spec.
