Reads
📚 A list of physical books I own. Includes ratings!
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Books I would like to read but I haven't purchased yet can be found on my Amazon wishlist.
Ratings
🌑 Haven't read yet🌘 🌗 🌖 Reading progress🌕 Finished reading, liked it🌝 Wouldn't recommend🌟 Loved it
Business
Businesses / Decisionmaking
🌟 Business Adventures Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street🌟 Only the Paranoid Survive🌟 The Hard Thing About Hard Things Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers🌟 The Innovator’s Dilemma When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail🌟 The Lean Startup How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses🌟 Zero to One Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future🌕 Blitzscaling The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies🌕 Invent and Wander The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos🌕 Rework🌕 Start-up Nation The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle🌕 The New Kingmakers How Developers Conquered the World🌕 The Year Without Pants WordPress.com and the Future of Work🌕 Thinking in Bets Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts🌑 Alibaba The House That Jack Ma Built🌑 Amazon Unbound Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire🌑 Billion Dollar Loser The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork🌑 Blue Ocean Strategy How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant🌑 Competing Against Luck The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice🌑 Good to Great Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't🌑 High Growth Handbook Scaling Startups From 10 to 10,000 People🌑 The Big Score The Billion Dollar Story of Silicon Valley🌑 The Business of Platforms Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation, and Power🌑 The Everything Store Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon🌑 The Undoing Project A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
Leadership / Management
🌟 An Elegant Puzzle Systems of Engineering Management🌟 High Output Management🌟 The Manager's Path A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change🌟 The Phoenix Project A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win🌕 On Managing People🌕 The Making of a Manager What to Do When Everyone Looks to You🌕 Trillion Dollar Coach The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell🌕 Turn the Ship Around! A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders🌑 Hit Refresh The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone🌑 Reboot Leadership and the Art of Growing Up🌑 The Effective Executive The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done🌑 The Ride of a Lifetime Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
Teamwork
🌟 The Five Dysfunctions of a Team A Leadership Fable🌟 The Mythical Man-Month Essays on Software Engineering🌕 Peopleware Productive Projects and Teams🌑 Rapid Development Taming Wild Software Schedules
Marketing / Sales / Negotiation
🌟 How to Win Friends & Influence People🌕 Crossing the Chasm Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers🌕 Positioning The Battle for Your Mind🌕 The Win Without Pitching Manifesto
Capital
Economics / Capitalism / Money
🌟 A Random Walk Down Wall Street The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing🌟 Stubborn Attachments A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals🌗 Capital in the Twenty First Century🌑 Capitalism, Alone The Future of the System That Rules the World🌑 Freakonomics A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything🌑 Theory of Games and Economic Behavior🌑 VC An American History🌑 Why Nations Fail The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Payments / Crypto / DeFi
🌕 Payments Systems in the U.S. A Guide for the Payments Professional🌑 Bank 4.0 Banking Everywhere, Never at a Bank🌑 Electronic Value Exchange Origins of the VISA Electronic Payment System🌑 The Anatomy of the Swipe Making Money Move🌑 The Internet of Money, Vol I A collection of talks by Andreas M. Antonopoulos🌑 The Internet of Money, Vol II A collection of talks by Andreas M. Antonopoulos🌑 The Internet of Money, Vol III A collection of talks by Andreas M. Antonopoulos
Software
Development Philosophy
🌟 The Pragmatic Programmer From Journeyman to Master🌕 Getting Real The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application🌕 Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code🌕 The Clean Coder A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers🌝 Becoming a Technical Leader An Organic Problem-Solving Approach🌑 Clean Code A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship🌑 Domain-Driven Design Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software
Algorithms
🌟 Programming Pearls🌕 Hacker's Delight🌕 Head First Design Patterns🌗 Code Complete A Practical Handbook of Software Construction
AI
Databases / Search
🌟 Elasticsearch The Definitive Guide🌕 Understanding MySQL Internals🌕 NoSQL Distilled A Brief Guide to the Emerging World of Polyglot Persistence
Programming Languages
🌕 JavaScript: The Good Parts🌕 Programming ElixirFunctional |> Concurrent |> Pragmatic |> Fun🌑 Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment🌑 Beginning Ruby From Novice to Professional🌑 Eloquent JavaScript A Modern Introduction to Programming🌑 Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! A Beginner's Guide🌑 Learning Python🌑 The Art of UNIX Programming
Compilers
Web Performance
🌟 High Performance Browser Networking What every web developer should know about networking and web performance🌑 Designing for Performance Weighing Aesthetics and Speed🌑 Even Faster Web Sites Performance Best Practices for Web Developers🌑 High Performance JavaScript Build Faster Web Application Interfaces🌑 High Performance Web Sites Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers
Experience / Design
User Experience / Interaction Design / Usability
🌟 About Face The Essentials of Interaction Design (3rd edition)🌟 Don't Make Me Think A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability🌟 The Design of Everyday Things🌟 The Inmates Are Running the Asylum Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity🌕 Defensive Design for the Web How to improve error messages, help, forms, and other crisis points🌝 Lean UX Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience🌑 The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Web Design
Product Design
Art / Architecture / Design
🌟 The Accidental Masterpiece On the Art of Life and Vice Versa🌟 What Are You Looking At? The Surprising, Shocking, and Sometimes Strange Story of 150 Years of Modern Art🌕 How Buildings Learn What Happens After They're Built
Broader Interests
On Thinking / Behavioralism / Way of Life
🌟 Antifragile Things That Gain from Disorder🌟 Man's Search for Meaning🌟 Thinking, Fast and Slow🌕 Search Inside Yourself The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace)🌕 Tao Te Ching🌕 The Art of Learning An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance🌗 Gödel, Escher, Bach An Eternal Golden Braid🌑 Letters from a Stoic🌑 Meditations🌑 Scientific Freedom The Elixir of Civilization🌑 The Art of Doing Science and Engineering Learning to Learn🌑 The Daily Stoic 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living🌑 The Happiness Hypothesis Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom🌑 The Upside of Stress Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It
On Writing
🌟 The Sense of Style The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century🌑 Nicely Said Writing for the Web with Style and Purpose🌑 On Writing Well The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
Personalities / Inspiration
🌟 Countdown to Zero Day Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon🌟 Masters of Doom How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture🌟 Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character🌕 Elon Musk Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future🌕 Empires of Light Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World🌕 Ghost in the Wires My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker🌕 Nikola Tesla: My Inventions🌕 Weaving the Web The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web🌑 Chaos Monkeys Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley🌑 Dealers of Lightning Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age🌑 Outliers The Story of Success🌑 The Cathedral & the Bazaar Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary🌑 The Dream Machine J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal
Sciences
🌟 A Brief History of Time🌟 Life's Edge The Search for What It Means to Be Alive🌟 The Selfish Gene🌕 Sapiens A Brief History of Humankind🌗 On the Origin of Species🌑 An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding and Hume's Abstract of A Treatise of Human Nature and A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh🌑 Entangled Life How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures🌑 Lifespan The Revolutionary Science of Why We Age – and Why We Don’t Have To🌑 Reality Is Not What It Seems The Journey to Quantum Gravity🌑 Why We Sleep Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
Politics / History
🌑 SPQR A History of Ancient Rome🌑 The Dictator's Handbook Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics🌑 The Powerful and the Damned <subPrivate Diaries in Turbulent Times🌑 The Wires of War Technology and the Global Struggle for Power
Education / Culture
🌕 The Culture Map Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business🌑 Difficult Conversations🌑 How Children Fail🌑 Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships🌑 Prepared What Kids Need for a Fulfilled Life