Reads
๐ 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
๐ Haven't read yet๐ ๐ ๐ Reading progress๐ Finished reading, liked it๐ Wouldn't recommend๐ Loved it
Business
Businesses / Decisionmaking
๐ Business Adventures Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street๐ Only the Paranoid Survive๐ The Hard Thing About Hard Things Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers๐ The Innovatorโs Dilemma When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail๐ The Lean Startup How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses๐ Zero to One Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future๐ Blitzscaling The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies๐ Invent and Wander The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos๐ Rework๐ Start-up Nation The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle๐ The New Kingmakers How Developers Conquered the World๐ The Year Without Pants WordPress.com and the Future of Work๐ Thinking in Bets Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts๐ Alibaba The House That Jack Ma Built๐ Amazon Unbound Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire๐ Billion Dollar Loser The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork๐ Blue Ocean Strategy How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant๐ Competing Against Luck The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice๐ Good to Great Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't๐ High Growth Handbook Scaling Startups From 10 to 10,000 People๐ The Big Score The Billion Dollar Story of Silicon Valley๐ The Business of Platforms Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation, and Power๐ The Everything Store Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon๐ The Undoing Project A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
Leadership / Management
๐ An Elegant Puzzle Systems of Engineering Management๐ High Output Management๐ The Manager's Path A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change๐ The Phoenix Project A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win๐ On Managing People๐ The Making of a Manager What to Do When Everyone Looks to You๐ Trillion Dollar Coach The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell๐ Turn the Ship Around! A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders๐ Hit Refresh The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone๐ Reboot Leadership and the Art of Growing Up๐ The Effective Executive The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done๐ The Ride of a Lifetime Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
Teamwork
๐ The Five Dysfunctions of a Team A Leadership Fable๐ The Mythical Man-Month Essays on Software Engineering๐ Peopleware Productive Projects and Teams๐ Rapid Development Taming Wild Software Schedules
Marketing / Sales / Negotiation
๐ How to Win Friends & Influence People๐ Crossing the Chasm Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers๐ Positioning The Battle for Your Mind๐ The Win Without Pitching Manifesto
Capital
Economics / Capitalism / Money
๐ A Random Walk Down Wall Street The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing๐ Stubborn Attachments A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals๐ Capital in the Twenty First Century๐ Capitalism, Alone The Future of the System That Rules the World๐ Freakonomics A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything๐ Theory of Games and Economic Behavior๐ VC An American History๐ Why Nations Fail The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Payments / Crypto / DeFi
๐ Payments Systems in the U.S. A Guide for the Payments Professional๐ Bank 4.0 Banking Everywhere, Never at a Bank๐ Electronic Value Exchange Origins of the VISA Electronic Payment System๐ The Anatomy of the Swipe Making Money Move๐ The Internet of Money, Vol I A collection of talks by Andreas M. Antonopoulos๐ The Internet of Money, Vol II A collection of talks by Andreas M. Antonopoulos๐ The Internet of Money, Vol III A collection of talks by Andreas M. Antonopoulos
Software
Development Philosophy
๐ The Pragmatic Programmer From Journeyman to Master๐ Getting Real The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application๐ Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code๐ The Clean Coder A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers๐ Becoming a Technical Leader An Organic Problem-Solving Approach๐ Clean Code A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship๐ Domain-Driven Design Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software
Algorithms
๐ Programming Pearls๐ Hacker's Delight๐ Head First Design Patterns๐ Code Complete A Practical Handbook of Software Construction
AI
Databases / Search
๐ Elasticsearch The Definitive Guide๐ Understanding MySQL Internals๐ NoSQL Distilled A Brief Guide to the Emerging World of Polyglot Persistence
Programming Languages
๐ JavaScript: The Good Parts๐ Programming ElixirFunctional |> Concurrent |> Pragmatic |> Fun๐ Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment๐ Beginning Ruby From Novice to Professional๐ Eloquent JavaScript A Modern Introduction to Programming๐ Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! A Beginner's Guide๐ Learning Python๐ The Art of UNIX Programming
Compilers
๐ CLR via C#๐ Mastering Regular Expressions๐ Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools
Web Performance
๐ High Performance Browser Networking What every web developer should know about networking and web performance๐ Designing for Performance Weighing Aesthetics and Speed๐ Even Faster Web Sites Performance Best Practices for Web Developers๐ High Performance JavaScript Build Faster Web Application Interfaces๐ High Performance Web Sites Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers
Experience / Design
User Experience / Interaction Design / Usability
๐ About Face The Essentials of Interaction Design (3rd edition)๐ Don't Make Me Think A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability๐ The Design of Everyday Things๐ The Inmates Are Running the Asylum Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity๐ Defensive Design for the Web How to improve error messages, help, forms, and other crisis points๐ Lean UX Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience๐ The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Web Design
Product Design
Art / Architecture / Design
๐ The Accidental Masterpiece On the Art of Life and Vice Versa๐ What Are You Looking At? The Surprising, Shocking, and Sometimes Strange Story of 150 Years of Modern Art๐ How Buildings Learn What Happens After They're Built
Broader Interests
On Thinking / Behavioralism / Way of Life
๐ Antifragile Things That Gain from Disorder๐ Man's Search for Meaning๐ Thinking, Fast and Slow๐ Search Inside Yourself The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace)๐ Tao Te Ching๐ The Art of Learning An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance๐ Gรถdel, Escher, Bach An Eternal Golden Braid๐ Letters from a Stoic๐ Meditations๐ Scientific Freedom The Elixir of Civilization๐ The Art of Doing Science and Engineering Learning to Learn๐ The Daily Stoic 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living๐ The Happiness Hypothesis Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom๐ The Upside of Stress Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It
On Writing
๐ The Sense of Style The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century๐ Nicely Said Writing for the Web with Style and Purpose๐ On Writing Well The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
Personalities / Inspiration
๐ Countdown to Zero Day Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon๐ Masters of Doom How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture๐ Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character๐ Elon Musk Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future๐ Empires of Light Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World๐ Ghost in the Wires My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker๐ Nikola Tesla: My Inventions๐ Weaving the Web The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web๐ Chaos Monkeys Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley๐ Dealers of Lightning Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age๐ Outliers The Story of Success๐ The Cathedral & the Bazaar Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary๐ The Dream Machine J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal
Sciences
๐ A Brief History of Time๐ Life's Edge The Search for What It Means to Be Alive๐ The Selfish Gene๐ Sapiens A Brief History of Humankind๐ On the Origin of Species๐ 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 Edinburgh๐ Entangled Life How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures๐ Lifespan The Revolutionary Science of Why We Age โ and Why We Donโt Have To๐ Reality Is Not What It Seems The Journey to Quantum Gravity๐ Why We Sleep Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
Politics / History
๐ SPQR A History of Ancient Rome๐ The Dictator's Handbook Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics๐ The Powerful and the Damned <subPrivate Diaries in Turbulent Times๐ The Wires of War Technology and the Global Struggle for Power
Education / Culture
๐ The Culture Map Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business๐ Difficult Conversations๐ How Children Fail๐ Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships๐ Prepared What Kids Need for a Fulfilled Life