Booklist
My personal list of non-fiction books I am planning to read. All categories are pretty high level and may change anytime.
If you have something to suggest feel free to make a PR.
π is a link to goodreads/amazon/etcβοΈ high-priority books to be read firstβΌοΈ books you do not want to miss
Here is a list of book summary services/websites in case you need it:
Uncategorized
- Lisp Hackers
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β What ifπ - The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets
π - A short history of nearly everything
π - Werner Siemens
π - 33 ΡΡΡΠΏΠ΅Π½ΡΠΊΠΈ Π² Π½Π΅Π±ΠΎ
π - A Mathematicians Miscellany
π - A Little Life
π - Confessions of a Terrible Husband: Lessons Learned From a Lumpy Couch
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Thinking & Decision Making
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β The Logical Thinking Process: A Systems Approach to Complex Problem Solvingπ - A Leaders Framework for Decision Making
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βοΈ The Decision Book: Fifty Models for Strategic Thinkingπ -
βοΈ βΌοΈ The Art of Thinking Clearlyπ -
βοΈ οΈοΈβΌοΈ How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Methodπ -
βοΈ βΌοΈ Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinkingπ - οΈ
βοΈ The 5 Elements of Effective Thinkingπ -
βοΈ Systems Thinking Made Simpleπ - οΈ
βοΈ Thinking in Systems: A Primerπ - Π‘ΠΈΡΡΠ΅ΠΌΠ½ΠΎΠΈΠ½ΠΆΠ΅Π½Π΅ΡΠ½ΠΎΠ΅ ΠΌΡΡΠ»Π΅Π½ΠΈΠ΅
π - Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most
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βοΈ βΌοΈ The Book Of Whyπ
Learning
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βοΈ Make it stick: the Science of Successful Learningπ -
βοΈ βΌοΈ Masteryπ -
βοΈ βΌοΈ Pragmatic Thinkig and Learningπ -
βοΈ Better: A Surgeonβs Notes on Performanceπ -
βοΈ From Novice to Expertπ -
βοΈ The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativityπ
Philosophy
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β The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Wellπ -
β The Little Book of Lykkeπ -
βΌοΈ A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joyπ -
βΌοΈ The Choiceπ -
β Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Lessπ - The Tao of Pooh
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βοΈ οΈοΈ The Tao of Physicsπ -
βοΈ οΈ The Web of Lifeπ -
βοΈ οΈ Meditationsπ - Letters from a Stoic
π - Dialogues and Essays
π - The Myth of Sisyphus
π - The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
π - The Tides of Mind
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βΌοΈ A Little History of Philosophyπ
Mindset Enhancement
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βΌοΈ Learned Optimismπ -
βοΈ οΈοΈβΌοΈ Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapyπ -
βΌοΈ The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Peopleπ -
βΌοΈ The Subtle Art Of Not Giving a Fuckπ -
βΌοΈ Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQπ -
βΌοΈ Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joyπ - Think and Grow Rich
π - ΠΡΠ°ΡΠ½Π°Ρ ΡΠ°Π±Π»Π΅ΡΠΊΠ°
π - Winter Blues
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βοΈ οΈ The Art Of Lovingπ -
βοΈ Search Inside Yourselfπ -
βοΈ οΈοΈβΌοΈ The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happinessπ -
βοΈ Fooled by Randomnessπ - οΈ
βοΈ The Wisdom of Crowdsπ -
βοΈ The Lean Mindsetπ -
βοΈ Overcoming the Obstacles to Psychological Balance and Compassionπ -
βοΈ οΈ Influence: The Psychology of Persuasionπ -
βοΈ Willpower Instinctπ -
βοΈ Mindset: The New Psychology of Successπ -
βοΈ Parenting with Presenceπ -
βοΈ The Secret of Quantum Livingπ -
βοΈ Predictably Irrationalπ -
βοΈ The Handbook of Emotional Intelligenceπ -
βοΈ Habits of a Happy Brainπ -
βοΈ A Short Guide to a Happy Lifeπ -
βοΈ GΓΆdel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braidπ -
βοΈ Are your lights on?π -
βοΈ Games People Playπ -
βοΈ The Selfish Geneπ - An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments
π - The Righteous Mind
π - The Sovereign Individual
π - Mindfulness for Beginners
π - The Defining Decade
π - ΠΠΏΠ³ΡΠ΅ΠΉΠ΄ ΠΎΠ±Π΅Π·ΡΡΠ½Ρ
π - Elite minds
π - The Political Brain
π - Speeches that Changed the World
π - Everything Is Obvious: Once You Know the Answer
π - Coherence: The Secret Science of Brilliant Leadership
π - Mind Power Into the 21st Century
π - The Organized Mind
π - The Art of Possibility
π - Joy Inc.
π - Hard Thing About Hard Things
π - First Impressions:
You Donβt Know About How Others See You
π - Quitter: Closing the Gap Between Your Day Job & Your Dream Job
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βοΈ Do The Workπ - Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
π - Do It Tomorrow and Other Secrets of Time Management
π - The 1% Rule
π - Time Warped: Unlocking the Mysteries of Time Perception
π - Developer Hegemony
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βοΈ Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objectiveπ
Social Skills
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βΌοΈ Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Mostπ -
βΌοΈ How to win friends and influence peopleπ -
βοΈ οΈοΈβΌοΈ The Social Skills Guidebookπ -
βοΈ οΈοΈβΌοΈ People Skillsπ -
βοΈ Crucial Conversationsπ -
βοΈ Getting Past Noπ -
β Talking to Crazy: How to Deal with the Irrational and Impossible People in Your Lifeπ - Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time
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β βΌοΈ Non Violent Communicationπ - Dynamic People Skills
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UX & Design
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βΌοΈ Badass: Making Users Awesomeπ -
βΌοΈ Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Productsπ -
βΌοΈ Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiencesπ - Design for Hackers
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βοΈ βΌοΈ The Humane Interfaceπ -
βοΈ βΌοΈ The Design of Everyday Thingsπ -
βοΈ Non-Designer's Design Book, The, 4th Editionπ -
βοΈ Seductive Interaction Designπ - Designing Web Interfaces. Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions
π - UX for Lean Startups
π - Design For business
π - Design: creation of artifacts in society
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Coaching & Teaching
- The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More
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βοΈ HBR Guide to Coaching Employeesπ -
βοΈ βΌοΈ Apprenticeship Patterns: Guidance for the Aspiring Software Craftsmanπ -
βοΈ What Got You Here Won't Get You Thereπ -
βοΈ βΌοΈ Coaching for Performanceπ -
βοΈ Free To Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Lifeπ -
βοΈ The New Educationπ - Open: How Weβll Work, Live and Learn In The Future
π - A Mathematicianβs Lament
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Health
Science
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βοΈ βΌοΈ The Sciences of the Artificial, Third Editionπ -
βοΈ βΌοΈ Geometry of Meaning: Semantics Based on Conceptual Spacesπ - οΈ
βοΈ The art and craft of problem solvingπ - οΈ
βοΈ Conceptual Mathematics: A First Introduction to Categoriesπ -
βοΈ Paradoxes of Growth: Laws of Global Development of Humanityπ -
βοΈ βΌοΈ A New Kind Of Scienceπ -
βοΈ βΌοΈ Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationalityπ - A Brief History of Time
π - Sapiens
π - Alice in Quantumland
π - The annotated Turing
π - Entropy
π - ΠΠΎΠ»ΠΎΡΠΎΠΉ Π±ΠΈΠ»Π΅Ρ. P, NP ΠΈ Π³ΡΠ°Π½ΠΈΡΡ Π²ΠΎΠ·ΠΌΠΎΠΆΠ½ΠΎΠ³ΠΎ
π - Scale
π - Smart Spacetime
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Engineering & Programming
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βοΈ βΌοΈ Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programsπ -
βΌοΈ Release it!π -
βΌοΈ Practical Object-Oriented Desing with Rubyπ - Building Microservices
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βΌοΈ The Passionate Programmerπ -
βΌοΈ Soft Skillsπ -
βΌοΈ οΈClean Codeπ -
βΌοΈ οΈ Head First Design Patternsπ -
βΌοΈ The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Masterπ - Clean Architecture
π - Domain Driven Design Distilled
π - How Many Licks?: Or, How to Estimate Damn Near Anything
π - Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction, Second Edition
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βοΈ The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Winπ -
β βΌοΈ Basic Category Theoryπ -
β βΌοΈ The Art of Doing Science and Engineeringπ -
βοΈ βΌοΈ οΈ Domain Modeling Made Functionalπ -
βοΈ βΌοΈ οΈ High Performance Browser Networkingπ -
β High Performance JavaScriptπ -
βοΈ βΌοΈ οΈ Structured Computer Organizationπ -
βοΈ Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programmingπ -
βοΈ οΈβΌοΈ οΈοΈ Grokking Algorithmsπ -
βοΈ Programming Beyond Practicesπ -
β Thinking Forthπ -
βοΈ βΌοΈ Site Reliability Engineeringπ -
βοΈ βΌοΈ Working Effectively with Legacy Codeπ -
βοΈ βΌοΈ Object-Oriented Software Construction (2nd Edition)π -
βοΈ βΌοΈ Designing Data-Intensive Applicationsπ -
βοΈ The nature of software developmentπ -
βοΈ The Algorithm Design Manual 2nd Editionπ -
βοΈ Functional and Reactive Data Modellingπ -
βοΈ Domain Driven Design Quicklyπ -
βοΈ Software Engineering, 9th editionπ -
βοΈ Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approachπ -
βοΈ SWEBOKπ -
βοΈ Software Estimation: demistifying the black artπ -
βοΈ The Elements of Programming Styleπ -
βοΈ Smalltalk best practicesπ -
βοΈ Type Driven Development with Idrisπ -
βοΈ Growing Object Oriented Software with Testsπ -
βοΈ Production Ready Microservicesπ -
β Reactive Messaging Patterns with the Actor Modelπ -
β 99 Bottles of OOPπ -
βοΈ Designing for Performance: Weighing Aesthetics and Speedπ -
β Practical UML Statecharts in C/C++ -
β Constructing the User Interface with Statechartsπ -
β Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programmingπ -
β Getting Clojureπ - TypeScript Deep Dive
π - How Google Tests Software
π - Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks
π - The Imposter's Handbook
π - Haskell Book
π - Why Programs Fail
π - The Art of Readable Code
π - The Inmates are Running the Asylum
π - Resilient Web Design
π - Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
π - JavaScript: The Good Parts
π - Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
π - Enterprise Integration Patterns
π - Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications
π - Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
π - Programming Pearls (2nd Edition)
π - Purely Functional Data Structures
π - Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition
π - The Art of Readable Code: Simple and Practical Techniques for Writing Better Code
π - Code Simplicity
π - Category Theory
π - Concurrent Programming in ML
π - Feature-Oriented Software Product Lines
π - DevOps Handbook
π - Continuos Delivery
π - Clojure for Brave and True
π - Clojure Reactive Programming
π - Web Development with Clojure
π - Exploratory Software Testing
π - Testing Computer Software
π - Software Architecture For Developers
π - Software Architecture: Perspectives on an Emerging Discipline
π - Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days
π - A Philosophy of Software Design
π - Design it!
π - Building Evolutionary Architectures
π - Programming In Martin LΓΆf's Type Theory: An Introduction
π - The Zen Programmer
π - The Tao of Microservices
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β Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programmingπ - Human Factors for Engineers
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Career, Skill Acquisition, Personal Growth
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βΌοΈ Thinking, Fast and Slowπ -
βΌοΈ Getting Things Done (2015 edition)π -
βΌοΈ Deep Workπ - Make the Most of Your Mind
π - So Good They Can't Ignore You
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βοΈ Work rules!π - ΠΠ°ΠΌΠ°ΡΡΡΡΠ° Π΄Π»Ρ ΠΎΡΠ°ΡΠΎΡΠ°
π - ΠΠ· ΡΠ²ΡΠ·Π΅ΠΉ Π² ΠΊΠ½ΡΠ·ΠΈ
π - How to Do What You Love & Earn What Youβre Worth as a Programmer
π - 80000 hours: Career Guide
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βοΈ Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertiseπ - Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
π - Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
π - ΠΡΠΎΠ³ΡΠ°ΠΌΠΌΠΈΡΠΎΠ²Π°Π½ΠΈΠ΅. Π‘ΡΡΠΏΠ΅Π½ΠΈ ΡΡΠΏΠ΅ΡΠ½ΠΎΠΉ ΠΊΠ°ΡΡΠ΅ΡΡ
π - The 4 Hour Work Week
π - The 48 Laws of Power
π - Fearless salary negotiation
π - The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)
π - Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
π - The First 20 hours
π - Better than Before
π - Drive
π - The Start-up of You
π - The Denial of Death
π - When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing
π - Million Dollar Consulting
π - The Effective Engineer
π - The Professional: A Manifesto for Business in the 21st Century
π - Cracking the PM Interview
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Habits & Lifestyle
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βΌοΈ Mini Habitsπ -
β βΌοΈ Stick With Itπ - Miracle Morning
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βοΈ The Power of Habitπ - οΈ
βοΈ Algorithms to live byπ - οΈ
βοΈ Productivity Handbookπ - 52 Small Changes: One Year to a Happier, Healthier You
π - Daily Rituals
π - Reinvent yourself
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Finance
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βοΈ βΌοΈ Your Money or Your Lifeπ -
βοΈ βΌοΈ If you can: how millenials can get rich slowlyπ -
βοΈ The Little Book of Common Sense Investingπ -
βοΈ All about Asset Allocationπ -
βοΈ Debunking Economicsπ - The intelligent investor
π - The Intelligent Asset Allocator
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βοΈ The Four Pillars of Investingπ - ΠΠ°ΡΠΈ Π΄Π΅Π½ΡΠ³ΠΈ Π΄ΠΎΠ»ΠΆΠ½Ρ ΡΠ°Π±ΠΎΡΠ°ΡΡ
π - The Undercover Economist
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βοΈ How to Think About Moneyπ
Manliness
- The Way Of The Superior Man
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βοΈ βΌοΈ No More Mr. Nice Guyπ - οΈModels
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βοΈ Man's search for meaningπ - Tao Te Ching
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Marketing & Sales
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βοΈ Positioning: The Battle for Your Mindπ -
βοΈ On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfictionπ -
βοΈ ΠΠΈΡΠΈ, Π‘ΠΎΠΊΡΠ°ΡΠ°ΠΉπ -
βοΈ How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Sellingπ - The Burned-Out Blogger's Guide to PR
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βΌοΈ Crossing the Chasmπ -
βΌοΈ Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Dieπ -
βοΈ βΌοΈ The Professional Marketerπ -
βοΈ οΈοΈ 15 invaluable laws of growthπ -
βοΈ οΈοΈ The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketingπ -
βοΈ The Differenceπ - Purple Cow: Transform Your Business By Being Remarkable
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Management, Entrepreneurship, Strategy
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βΌοΈ The Secrets of Consultingπ - The Lean Startup
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βοΈ βΌοΈ Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startupπ -
βοΈ The 100$ Startupπ -
βοΈ βΌοΈ E-myth revisitedπ -
βοΈ The ten day MBAπ - The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
π - ΠΠ΅ ΠΌΠ΅ΡΠ°ΠΉΡΠ΅ ΠΌΠ½Π΅ ΡΠ°Π±ΠΎΡΠ°ΡΡ
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β Good to Greatπ -
β Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Cultureπ -
β βΌοΈ The art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Lifeπ -
βοΈ βΌοΈ Five languages of appreciationπ -
βοΈ The Advantageπ -
βοΈ The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbableπ -
βοΈ οΈοΈβΌοΈ Antifragileπ -
βοΈ More Fearless Changeπ -
βοΈ Flawless Consultingπ -
βοΈ Peoplewareπ -
βοΈ The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturerπ -
βοΈ The Deadlineπ -
βοΈ First, Break All the Rulesπ -
βοΈ Essential Scrum: A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Processπ -
βοΈ Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Timeπ -
βοΈ The Richest Man in Babylonπ -
βοΈ The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversationπ -
βοΈ Extreme Programming Explainedπ -
βοΈ Professional Software Developmentπ - Rework
π - Agile and Iterative Development: A Manager's Guide
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β The Manager's Pathπ - Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager
π - Balancing Agility and Discipline: A Guide for the Perplexed
π - ΠΠΎΠ½ΡΠ΅Π½Ρ-ΡΠ΅Ρ
Π½ΠΎΠ»ΠΎΠ³ΠΈΡ: ΠΊΠ°ΠΊ, Π³Π΄Π΅ ΠΈ ΠΎ ΡΠ΅ΠΌ Π³ΠΎΠ²ΠΎΡΠΈΡΡ Ρ ΠΊΠ»ΠΈΠ΅Π½ΡΠ°ΠΌΠΈ
π - The War for Talent
π - Playing to win
π - Zero to One
π - Software Engineering Economics
π - The Mythical Man-Month
π - Tribal Leadership
π - The Innovator's Dilemma
π - The Innovator's DNA
π - Your Strategy Needs a Strategy
π - The Four Steps to the Epiphany
π - The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development
π - Customers for Life
π - Async Remote
π - Decisive
π - The Goal
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βοΈ Theory of Constraintsπ -
βοΈ Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporationπ - Velocity: Combining Lean, Six Sigma and Theory of Constraints to Achieve Breakthrough Performance
π - What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School: Notes from a Street-Smart Executive
π - Creating a Software Engineering Culture
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β The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow Youπ - Software, Faster
π - Better Software Faster
π - The 4 Disciplines of Execution
π - The Princilples of Product Development Flow
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β Mind of the Strategist: Business Planning for Competitive Advantageπ - Triad Power
π - The Geek Leader's Handbook
π - The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork
π - NoEstimates
π - Agile Estimating and Planning
π - Radical Candor
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