I do a lot of reading, and when I find books that are particularly good, I write them down so I can recommend them to others. This reading list is made up of my current favorite books and are organized by category. I consider these books “must-read” for their category as they will help you learn and grow in your career.
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Ghost Boy
Martin Pistorius
The Age of AI
Henry A. Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, Daniel Huttenlocher
Staff Engineer
Will Larson
Workplace Poker
Dan Rust
Never Eat Alone
Keith Ferrazzi, Tahl Raz
So Good They Can't Ignore You
Cal Newport
The Manager's Path
Camille Fournier
Coaching for Performance
Sir John Whitmore
The Coaching Habit
Michael Bungay Stanier
Nonviolent Communication
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Difficult Conversations
Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen
Influence
Robert B. Cialdini
Reclaiming Conversation
Sherry Turkle
If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?
Alan Alda
Pitch Anything
Oren Klaff
Thinking in Bets
Annie Duke
The Road Less Stupid
Keith J. Cunningham
Quit
Annie Duke
Accelerate
Nicole Forsgren PhD, Jez Humble, Gene Kim
The E-myth Revisited
Michael E. Gerber
Traction
Gino Wickman
Zero to One
Peter Thiel
The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership
Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman, Kaley Klemp
Multipliers
Liz Wiseman
The First 90 Days
Michael D. Watkins
Who Not How
Dan Sullivan
Extreme Ownership
Jocko Willink, Leif Babin
From Start-up to Grown-up
Alisa Cohn
The New One-Minute Manager
Ken Blanchard, Spencer Johnson
One Million Followers
Brendan Kane
Trust Me I'm Lying
Ryan Holiday
Negotiating the Impossible
Deepak Malhotra
Getting to Yes
Roger Fisher, William L. Ury, Bruce Patton
The Design of Everyday Things
Don Norman
Indistractable
Nir Eyal
Deep Work
Cal Newport
The Power of Full Engagement
Jim Loehr, Tony Schwartz
Getting Things Done
David Allen, James Fallows
The Happiness Advantage
Shawn Achor
A World Without Email
Cal Newport
Rest
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
Shorter
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
The 6 Types of Working Genius
Patrick M. Lencioni
Slow Productivity
Cal Newport
WebAssembly: The Definitive Guide
Brian Sletten
Programming Rust
Jim Blandy, Jason Orendorff, Leonora Tindall
Tidy First?
Kent Beck
Ghost in the Wires
Kevin Mitnick, William L. Simon
Just Enough Software Architecture
George H. Fairbanks
Building Microservices
Sam Newman
Monolith to Microservices
Sam Newman
TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking
Chris Anderson
Speak Like Churchill, Stand Like Lincoln
James C. Humes
Alone Together
Sherry Turkle
The Shallows
Nicholas Carr
