iAlign #60 - The Books You Tell People You're Reading

The iAlign Podcast with Flint Mitchell · Oct 5, 2026 · 8m · transcript

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I used to lie to people about the books I was reading, not outright, just by naming books I'd started and never finished whenever someone asked what I did with my weekend. What was really going on is that I'd overcommitted to so many things that I never had the time to finish any of them. There was a Saturday in September, a beautiful crisp fall day with the swell starting to roll in, and I spent the whole thing going back and forth between the TV, a video game and my phone, and by five my eyes were bloodshot and I was disappointed in myself. Sitting with that, I realized I…