The Software Developer's Career Handbook
By: Michael Lopp
3.30
Format: 431 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. Stranger in a Strange Land
By: Robert A. Heinlein
3.92
Format: 525 pages, Paperback
NAME: Valentine Michael Smith ANCESTRY: Human ORIGIN: Mars Valentine Michael Smith is a human … read more
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"Secrecy begets tyranny."-Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
"Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness."-Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
"He's an honest politician--he stays bought."-Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
"Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution."-Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
2. The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business
By: Erin Meyer
4.34
Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition
An international business expert helps you understand and navigate cultural differences in this ins… read more
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"Try seeing, feeling, and tasting the water you swim in the way a land animal might perceive it. You may find the experience fascinating -- and mind-expanding."-Erin Meyer, The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business
"This is the philosophy of low - context communication in a nutshell: Tell them what you are going to tell them, then tell them ,then tell them what you’ve told them."-Erin Meyer, The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business
"This is where I learned the traditional American rule for successfully transferring a powerful message to an audience: tell them what you are going to tell them, then tell them, then tell them what y…"-Erin Meyer, The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business
"You may find yourself reacting defensively when you hear what others have said about the culture you call your own. It isn't true: my culture is not a bit like that. At the risk of pouring oil on the…"-Erin Meyer, The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business
3. Walden
By: Henry David Thoreau
2.57
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
Walden, or, Life in the Woods, is an American book written by noted transcendentalist Henry David T… read more
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4. The Design of Everyday Things
By: Donald A. Norman
4.11
Format: 559 pages, Paperback
Anyone who designs anything to be used by humans -- from physical objects to computer programs to c… read more
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5. Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
By: Steven Levy
4.16
Format: 354 pages, Paperback
A mere fifteen years ago, computer nerds were seen as marginal weirdos, outsiders whose world would… read more
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- computer science
- technology
6. The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results
By: Gary Keller , Jay Papasan
3.16
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
The One Thingexplains the success habit to overcome the six lies that block our success, beat the s… read more
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7. The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
By: Dave Thomas , Andy Hunt
3.28
Format: 404 pages, Paperback
-- Ward Cunningham Straight from the programming trenches, The Pragmatic Programmer cuts through th… read more
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8. The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
By: Jon Gertner
4.14
Format: 152 pages,
From its beginnings in the 1920s until its demise in the 1980s, Bell Labs--officially, the research… read more
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9. Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming
By: Peter Seibel
3.44
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Peter Seibel interviews 16 of the most interesting computer programmers alive today in Coders at Wo… read more
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11. So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
By: Cal Newport
3.36
Format: 96 pages, ebook
In this eye-opening account, Cal Newport debunks the long-held belief that "follow your passion" is… read more
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12. The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change
By: Camille Fournier
3.75
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Managing people is difficult wherever you work, but the tech industry as a whole is pretty bad at i… read more
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13. Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)
By: Seanan McGuire
4.09
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Dinosaurs and portals, and a girl who can find both in the latest book in the Hugo and Nebula Award… read more
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"Because all the ways we're not normal are the way our normal homes want us to be."-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)
"We're your penance, silly, the whole chaotic bunch of us, and as part of your penance, I say you're not done suffering us yet."-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)
"If you want a life without terrible surprises, you should always look at the worst possible answer until you understand it all the way down to the bottom. Once you can do that, you'll know what's com…"-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)
"None of us is normal, and we'll either figure out how to pretend we are, or we'll find our doors home, and then we won't have to worry about it anymore, because all the ways we are not normal are the…"-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)
14. Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
By: Charles Duhigg
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780593243916. Who and what are supercommunicators? They're the … read more
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"Strong leaders didn't help people align. In fact, groups with a dominant leader had the least amount of neural synchrony."-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
"To communicate with someone, we must connect with them. When we absorb what someone is saying and they comprehend what we say, it's because our brains have, to some degree, aligned."-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
15. Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.02
Format: 486 pages, Kindle Edition
The modern classic of space opera that began with Children of Time continues in this extraordinary … read more
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"The essential fallacy,' Ghoti picks up, 'is that humans and other biologically evolved, calculating engines feel themselves to be sentient, when sufficient investigation suggests this is not so. And …"-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)
16. Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6)
By: John Scalzi
4.18
Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition
An artificial intelligence on a star-spanning mission explores the farthest horizons of human poten… read more
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17. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
By: Cal Newport
3.73
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. From the New York Times bestsellin… read more
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"What are we really doing here?"-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?"-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured."-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"The pandemic didn’t introduce this trend so much as push its worst excesses beyond the threshold of tolerability."-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
18. Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
By: Michael Lewis
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 best-selling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the story of FTX’s spectacular col… read more
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19. The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change
By: Tanya Reilly
4.40
Format: 335 pages, Paperback
For years, companies have rewarded their most effective engineers with management positions. But tr… read more
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- computer science
- software
- technology
"What will Future You wish that Present You had done?"-Tanya Reilly, The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change
"Yes, you can be an introvert. No, you can't be a jerk."-Tanya Reilly, The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change
20. A Philosophy of Software Design
By: John Ousterhout
4.21
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
This book addresses the topic of software how to decompose complex software systems into modules (… read more
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- computer science
- software
- technology
21. Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos
By: Jeff Bezos
3.85
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In this collection of Jeff Bezos’s writings—his unique and strikingly original annual shareholder l… read more
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- technology
"You can invent your way to a better place."-Jeff Bezos, Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos
"It's time to go back to the moon, this time to stay."-Jeff Bezos, Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos
22. Million Dollar Weekend: The Surprisingly Simple Way to Launch a 7-Figure Business in 48 Hours
By: Noah Kagan
4.20
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The founder and CEO of AppSumo.com, Noah Kagan, knows how to launch a seven-figure business in a si… read more
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23. An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management
By: Will Larson
4.10
Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition
There’s a saying that people don’t leave companies, they leave managers. Management is a key part o… read more
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- software
- technology
24. Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time
By: Titus Winters
4.20
Format: 599 pages, Paperback
The approach to and understanding of software engineering at Google is unlike any other company. Wi… read more
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"Sometimes, the best thing you can do is just say, “I don’t know."-Titus Winters, Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time
"Google and Stack Overflow are great sources of opinions and information, but they’re no substitute for actual human experience."-Titus Winters, Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time
"Programming is the immediate act of producing code. Software engineering is the set of policies, practices, and tools that are necessary to make that code useful for as long as it needs to be used an…"-Titus Winters, Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time
"Making good engineering decisions is all about weighing all of the available inputs and making informed decisions about the trade-offs. Sometimes, those decisions are based on instinct or accepted be…"-Titus Winters, Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time
25. Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track
By: Will Larson
4.07
Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition
At most technology companies, you’ll reach Senior Software Engineer, the career level for software … read more
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- software
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26. Software Architecture: The Hard Parts: Modern Trade-Off Analyses for Distributed Architectures
By: Neal Ford
4.28
Format: 459 pages, Paperback
There are no easy decisions in software architecture. Instead, there are many hard parts--difficult… read more
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- software
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27. Tidy First?: A Personal Exercise in Empirical Software Design
By: Kent Beck
3.95
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
Messy code is a nuisance. "Tidying" code, to make it more readable, requires breaking it up into ma… read more
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- software
- technology
28. The Engineering Executive's Primer: Impactful Technical Leadership
By: Will Larson
4.32
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
As an engineering manager, you almost always have someone in your company to turn to for a peer on… read more
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29. Technology Strategy Patterns: Architecture as Strategy
By: Eben Hewitt
4.04
Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition
Technologists who want their ideas heard, understood, and funded are often told to speak the langua… read more
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"In 1966, Derrida delivered a paper entitled “Structure Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences"-Eben Hewitt, Technology Strategy Patterns: Architecture as Strategy
"There are two jobs in the world that people want to do the most while knowing the least about: architect and strategist."-Eben Hewitt, Technology Strategy Patterns: Architecture as Strategy
"One of my favorite books, and one that changed how I think about software and the evolution of ideas, was A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander (Oxford University Press)."-Eben Hewitt, Technology Strategy Patterns: Architecture as Strategy
"I borrow from the world of philosophy, having studied and fallen in love with it in graduate school, and finding its rigors and explosive power very helpful in my 20-year career in tech."-Eben Hewitt, Technology Strategy Patterns: Architecture as Strategy
30. The Software Developer's Career Handbook
By: Michael Lopp
3.30
Format: 431 pages, Kindle Edition
At some point in your career, you'll realize there's more to being a software engineer than dealing… read more
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31. Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter
By: Kate Conger
4.32
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Rising star New York Times technology reporters, Kate Conger and Ryan Mac, tell for the first time … read more
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