Yes, there’s a travel book on the shelf. It’s a small, practical collection of tips for surviving and enjoying long journeys, and it has nothing obvious to do with product, AI or platforms.

It’s here because it doesn’t fit. The thread through everything else on this shelf is that the interesting connections happen at the edges, between business and technology, between strategy and human meaning. You don’t find those edges by only reading inside your own field.

Travel does for the mind what experimentation does for a product. It drops you somewhere unfamiliar and makes you adapt, watch and improvise. A lot of how I approach problems started as travel logic. Pack light, plan the route but expect to reroute, talk to the locals who actually know. I left it on the shelf as an honest signal. I read out of curiosity first, and the usefulness tends to follow.