This page features a curated collection of books, articles, and talks that I frequently reference.

Articles

• How To Manage Up – Lessons From Scaling Teams at Credit Karma & Lyft – Reforge
• know how your org works (or how to become a more effective engineer) – Cindy Sridharan
• The best career advice I’ve received – Nicholas C. Zakas
• A forty-year career – Will Larson
• Choose Boring Technology – Dan Mckinley
• Don’t Create Chaos – Stay SaaSy
• Three crucial skills that leaders must develop to become executives – Nikhyl Singhal
• How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner – Erik Dietrich
• Sprints, marathons and root canals – Gojko Adzic
• A Career Cold Start Algorithm – Boz
• My Software Estimation Technique – Jacob Kaplan-Moss
• Advice for Engineering Managers Who Want to Climb the Ladder – Charity Majors
• Principles – Bill de hÓra
• Demo-driven development – Jade Rubrick
• You and Your Research – Richard Hamming

Books

Programming

• Programming Pearls ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
• The Little Schemer ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
• Designing Data-Intensive Applications ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
• The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
• The Art of UNIX Programming ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
• A Philosophy of Software Design ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
• Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems – Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff, Niall Richard Murphy

Leadership

• High Output Management
• Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency – Tom DeMarco
• Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders – L. David Marquet
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team – Patrick Lencioni
• The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done – Peter F. Drucker
• The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement – Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox
• Managing Oneself: The Key to Success – Peter F. Drucker
• Thinking In Systems: A Primer – Donella H. Meadows
• Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well – Douglas Stone, Sheila Heen
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers―Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship – Ben Horowitz
• Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win – Jocko Willink, Leif Babin
• The Effective Engineer: How to Leverage Your Efforts In Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impact – Edmond Lau
• Radical Candor: Be a Kick-ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity – Kim Malone Scott
• Measure What Matters – John Doerr
• The Dichotomy of Leadership: Balancing the Challenges of Extreme Ownership to Lead and Win – Jocko Willink, Leif Babin
• The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You – Julie Zhuo

Other

• How Will You Measure Your Life? – Clayton M. Christensen
• The Design of Everyday Things – Donald A. Norman
• The Talent Code: Unlocking the Secret of Skill in Sports, Art, Music, Math, and Just About Everything Else – Daniel Coyle
• Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters – Richard P. Rumelt
• Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur – Derek Sivers
• So Good They Can’t Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love – Cal Newport
• The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business – Erin Meyer
• Storyworthy – Matthew Dicks
• The Psychology of Money – Morgan Housel
• Never Enough: Why You Don’t Want to Be a Billionaire – Andrew Wilkinson

Writing

• On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction – William Zinsser
• Stein on Writing – Sol Stein
• Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose – Constance Hale
• On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft – Stephen King

Talks

• Monitorama PDX 2018 – Aditya Mukerjee – Warning: This Talk Contains Content Known to the State of CA to Reduce Alert Fatigue