---
aliases: ["Books Q2 2025"]
Is A: Target
Belongs to: "[[25q2]]"
Measure: "[[measure-books-per-month]]"
Goal value: 6
Actual value: 7
Status: Done
---
# Books Target Q2 2025
Target: 6 books in the quarter (2/month).

With Laputa v1 shipped and the business running more smoothly, Q2 was expected to be a recovery quarter for reading. [[person-luca-rossi]] also started an informal book club with [[person-sara-ricci]] and [[person-matteo-cellini]], which provided external accountability and made it easier to stay on pace.

## Progress

- April: completed 2 books -- "Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman (finished from Q1) and "The Psychology of Money" by Morgan Housel.
- May: completed 3 books -- "Influence" by Robert Cialdini, "Writing Down the Bones" by Natalie Goldberg, and "The Art of Doing Science and Engineering" by Richard Hamming. A long weekend trip provided extended uninterrupted reading time.
- June: completed 2 books -- "Measure What Matters" by John Doerr and "The Courage to Be Disliked" by Ichiro Kishimi.
- Exceeded target with 7 books -- matching Q3 2024 as the best quarter.

## Notes

- The informal book club works well as an accountability mechanism. Having a discussion partner makes it easier to commit to finishing books rather than abandoning them midway.
- "Measure What Matters" directly informed a rethink of how targets and goals are structured in the personal knowledge system -- the very system that Laputa is designed to manage.
