Books & Articles

This is a running list of some of my favorite books and articles.

What would a map of your career look like?
Tom Critchlow
How Emotions Affect Perceived Productivity
Abi Noda
The Tail End
Tim Urban
How to build a Growth Engineering Team that WINS
Elana Verna
The Scoop #53: Google Domains to shut down
Gergely Orosz
What if every SaaS app had an LLM?
Tomasz Tunguz
Did Airbnb just kill Product Management role? + Introducing 'Cost of Validation' (CoV)
Ethan Kaplan
The Work
Ethan Kaplan
Breaking the inertia of mediocrity
David Heinemeir Hansson
RethinkDB: why we failed
Slava Akhmechet
Greenlights
Matthew McConaughey
The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change
Camille Fournier
Extreme Ownership
Jocko Willink
Pro MERN Stack: Full Stack Web App Development with Mongo, Express, React, and Node
Vasan Subramanian
Can't Hurt Me
David Goggins
Power of Habit
Charles Duhigg
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides
Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction
Ben Shneiderman, Catherine Plaisant, Maxine Cohen, Steven Jacobs, Niklas Elmqvist, Nicholas Diakopoulos
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (2nd Edition)
Martin Fowler
iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide
Christian Keur & Aaron Hillegass
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
Robert C. Martin
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Ben Horowitz
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Peter Thiel
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
Mark Manson
Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World
Gary Vaynerchuk
Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success
Napolean Hill
How to win friends & influence people
Dale Carnegie
7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen R Covey