Reading List

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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Accessibility (1)

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  Ghost Boy
  Martin Pistorius

Artificial Intelligence (1)

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  The Age of AI
  Henry A. Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, Daniel Huttenlocher

Career (5)

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  Staff Engineer
  Will Larson

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  Workplace Poker
  Dan Rust

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  Never Eat Alone
  Keith Ferrazzi, Tahl Raz

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  So Good They Can't Ignore You
  Cal Newport

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  The Manager's Path
  Camille Fournier

Communication (6)

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  Nonviolent Communication
  Marshall B. Rosenberg

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  Difficult Conversations
  Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen

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  Influence
  Robert B. Cialdini

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  Reclaiming Conversation
  Sherry Turkle

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  If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?
  Alan Alda

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  Pitch Anything
  Oren Klaff

Decision Making (2)

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  Thinking in Bets
  Annie Duke

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  The Road Less Stupid
  Keith J. Cunningham

DevOps (1)

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  Accelerate
  Nicole Forsgren PhD, Jez Humble, Gene Kim

Entrepreneurship (3)

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  The E-myth Revisited
  Michael E. Gerber

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  Traction
  Gino Wickman

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  Zero to One
  Peter Thiel

Leadership (6)

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  The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership
  Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman, Kaley Klemp

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  Multipliers
  Liz Wiseman

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  The First 90 Days
  Michael D. Watkins

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  Who Not How
  Dan Sullivan

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  Extreme Ownership
  Jocko Willink, Leif Babin

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  From Start-up to Grown-up
  Alisa Cohn

Management (1)

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  The New One-Minute Manager
  Ken Blanchard, Spencer Johnson

Marketing (2)

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  One Million Followers
  Brendan Kane

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  Trust Me I'm Lying
  Ryan Holiday

Negotiating (2)

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  Negotiating the Impossible
  Deepak Malhotra

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  Getting to Yes
  Roger Fisher, William L. Ury, Bruce Patton

Product Design (1)

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  The Design of Everyday Things
  Don Norman

Productivity (8)

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  Indistractable
  Nir Eyal

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  Deep Work
  Cal Newport

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  The Power of Full Engagement
  Jim Loehr, Tony Schwartz

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  Getting Things Done
  David Allen, James Fallows

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  The Happiness Advantage
  Shawn Achor

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  A World Without Email
  Cal Newport

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  Rest
  Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

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  Shorter
  Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

Programming (2)

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  WebAssembly: The Definitive Guide
  Brian Sletten

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  Programming Rust
  by Jim Blandy, Jason Orendorff, Leonora Tindall

Security (1)

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  Ghost in the Wires
  Kevin Mitnick, William L. Simon

Software Architecture (3)

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  Just Enough Software Architecture
  George H. Fairbanks

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  Building Microservices
  Sam Newman

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  Monolith to Microservices
  Sam Newman

Speaking (1)

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  TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking
  Chris Anderson

Technology (2)

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  Alone Together
  Sherry Turkle

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  The Shallows
  Nicholas Carr