Reading Lists
Books, papers and assorted bits I've made it through and are useful.
💡 denotes a uniquely helpful read. In no order in particular.
Books
Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The difference and why it matters — Richard Ruemelt
The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Edition — Donald G. Rienertsen
High-Performance Web Sites — Steve Souders
💡 High-performance browser networking — Illya Grigorik
💡 Drift into Failure — Sidney Dekker
Linux iptables Pocket Reference — Gregor N. Purdy
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team — Patrick Lencioni
Six Simple Rules — Yves Morieux, Peter Tollman
💡 Thinking in Systems — Donella Meadows
Systems Thinking for Social Change — David Peter Stroh
Building Microservices — Sam Newman
💡 Accelerate — Nichol Forsgren, Jes Humble and Gene Kim
The Pheonix Project — Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford
Grit: The power of passion and perseverance — Angela Duckworth
💡 The Go Programming language — Alana A. A. Donovan, Brian W. Kernighan
Infrastructure as Code — Kief Morris
Work Rules — Laslo Bock
How Google Works — Eric Schmidt & Jonathan Rosenberg
💡 Site Reliability Engineering — Betsey Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff, Niall Richard Murphy
The Manager Path — Camille Fornier
The 5th Discipline — Peter M. Senge
The Unicorn Project — Gene Kim
Attacking Network Protocols — James Forshaw
The Site Reliability Workbook — Betsey Beyer, Niall Richard Murphy, David K. Rensin, Kent Kawahara & Stephen Thorne
💡 Working Backwards; Insights, Stories & Secrets from Inside Amazon — Colin Brayar, Bill Carr
Continuous delivery — Jez Humble, David Farley
💡 Thinking in Bets — Anne Duke
The Culture Map — Erin Meyer
Useful to understand how different perspectives around the world can help implicitly shape understandings, and lead to quite different views on the same communication.Scarcity — Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir
Useful to provide good models of how resource-poor people (e.g. time, money, etc) bias themselves in a way that systematically leads to poor outcomes.