I'm Quang Ton. Read books. Think. Write down.
By day I work in financial advisory. By night I read, write, and build things I care about. Stop & Think is one of them.
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Read to stop. Think to change. Write to remember.
Most books don't need rereading.
Most non-fiction books are 30-page essays stretched into 300 pages. One good idea, one example, repeated 9 different ways. After reading, you remember 1-2 lines, then forget.
A few books are different. They force you to stop. While reading, you stop turning pages — you close the book, look out the window, and ask yourself: "When did I get this so wrong?"
These are the books Stop & Think writes about.
Each week I read 1-2 books. The ones worth stopping for, I write about — not summary, but distillation: core idea, the example that makes it land, the question for application. Over time, this library became a place I return to — not just to remember the books, but to see how I've changed after each one.
People with enough experience to doubt books.
Stop & Think isn't written for beginner readers. I don't summarize self-help into 7 shareable tips. Plenty of channels do that better than I do.
I write for people who've already read some books and started to realize: not every book is worth reading, not every idea is worth remembering. For people who want to filter — and filter sharply.
Recommend a book, or say hi.
Read a good book recently you think I should read? Disagree with one of the analyses here? Message me.