Book Recommendations
In no particular order, here are some of my favorite books that have helped me over the years.
Business
- The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business
- Principles: Life and Work
- Little Red Book of Selling: 12.5 Principles of Sales Greatness
- Little Green Book of Getting Your Way: How to Speak, Write, Present, Persuade, Influence, and Sell Your Point of View to Others
- Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple’s Success
- Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
- Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
- The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done (Harperbusiness Essentials)
- Mastering the Rockefeller Habits: What You Must Do to Increase the Value of Your Growing Firm
- Remote: Office Not Required
- Rework
- The Thank You Economy
Management
Basics
- Managing For Dummies
- Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
- The Manager’s Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change
- Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager
Advanced
- The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age
- Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results
- First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently
Leadership
Basics
- Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
- The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever
Advanced
- Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
- The Dichotomy of Leadership: Balancing the Challenges of Extreme Ownership to Lead and Win
Product Development
- The Design of Everyday Things
- The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
- The Art of Agile Development
- From Concept to Consumer: How to Turn Ideas Into Money
Programming
- The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
- Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests
- Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
- Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
- Design Patterns in Ruby
- Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
- Clean Architecture
- Building Scalable Web Sites
- Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja
DevOps
Personal Finance
- The Way to Wealth
- Investing For Dummies
- The Bogleheads’ Guide to Retirement Planning
- The Intelligent Asset Allocator: How to Build Your Portfolio to Maximize Returns and Minimize Risk
- The Intelligent Investor
Marketing
Psychology
- Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
- The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
- The Gifts of Imperfection
Important reading for management & leadership
- Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
- Thinking, Fast and Slow
- The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
Philosophy
Economics
Biography
- Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story
- Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
Self-help
- The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)
- Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
- How to Win Friends and Influence People
- The Magic of Thinking Big
- The 4-Hour Workweek
- Rich Dad, Poor Dad
- Crush It!: Why Now Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion