Books I've Read

Below are various books that I have read divided into primary categories (no endorsement implied).

Biography

A Promised Land by Barack Obama
All About Me! My Remarkable Life in Show Business by Mel Brooks
Disrupting the Game: From the Bronx to the Top of Nintendo by Reggie Fils-Aimé
iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon by Steve Wozniak
Making It So by Patrick Stewart
Riding the Elephant: A Memoir of Altercations, Humiliations, Hallucinations, and Observations by Craig Ferguson
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

Business & Leadership

7 Rules for Positive, Productive Change: Micro Shifts, Macro Results by Esther Derby
Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performance Technology Organizations by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, & Gene Kim
Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity by Frank Slootman
An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management by Will Larson
Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making by Tony Fadell
Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers by Geoffrey A. Moore
Crucial Accountability: Tools for Resolving Violated Expectations, Broken Commitments, and Bad Behavior by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, David Maxfield, Ron McMillan, & Al Switzler
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, & Al Switzler
Digital Body Language: How to Build Trust and Connection, No Matter the Distance by Erica Dhawan
Engineering Management for the Rest of Us by Sarah Drasner
Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work and in Life One Conversation at a Time by Susan Scott
Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success by Adam Grant
How Full Is Your Bucket? by Tom Rath & Donald O. Clifton
Inclusify: The Power of Uniqueness and Belonging to Build Innovative Teams by Stefanie K. Johnson
Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change by Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson, David Maxfield, Ron McMillan, & Al Switzler
Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love by Marty Cagan
Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t by Simon Sinek
Leadership is Language: The Hidden Power of What You Say – and What You Don’t by L. David Marquet
Leading Effective Engineering Teams: Lessons for Individual Contributors and Managers from 10 Years at Google by Addy Osmani
Measure What Matters: OKRs - The Simple Idea that Drives 10x Growth by John Doerr
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It by Chris Voss
Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams by Tom DeMarco & Timothy Lister
Primal Leadership: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, & Anne McKee
Project to Product: How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework by Mik Kersten
Radical Candor: Be a Kick-A$$ Boss Without Losing Your Humanity by Kim Scott
Rework by Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek
Strengths Based Leadership: Great Leaders, Teams, and Why People Follow by Tom Rath & Barry Conchie
StrengthsFinder 2.0 by Tom Rath
- Top 5: Learner, Arranger, Restorative, Achiever, & Analytical
Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World by Stanley McChrystal, Chris Fussell, Tantum Collins, & David Silverman
Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow by Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais
Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well by Douglas Stone & Sheila Heen
The Art of Leadership: Small Things, Done Well by Michael Lopp
The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business by Erin Meyer
The Delicate Art of Bureaucracy: Digital Transformation with the Monkey, the Razor, and the Sumo Wrestler by Mark Schwartz
The Effective Manager by Mark Horstman
The Engineering Executive’s Primer: Impactful Technical Leadership by Will Larson
The Engineering Leader: Strategies for Scaling Teams and Yourself by Cate Huston
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni
The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek
The Manager’s Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change by Camille Fournier
The Service Organization: How to Deliver and Lead Successful Services, Sustainably by Kate Tarling
Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization by Dave Logan, John King, & Halee Fischer-Wright
Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon by Colin Bryar & Bill Carr

Climate & Environment

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need by Bill Gates
The End of Eden: Wild Nature in the Age of Climate Breakdown by Adam Welz
The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration by Jake Bittle
Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future by Oliver Franklin-Wallis

Design

100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People by Susan Weinschenk
Creative Selection: Inside Apple’s Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs by Ken Kocienda
Customers Know You Suck: Actionable CX Strategies to Better Understand, Attract, and Retain Customers by Debbie Levitt
Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design by Kat Holmes
The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play by Cliff Kuang & Robert Fabricant

Economics

Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream by Megan Greenwell
Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America by Eyal Press
Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism by George Monbiot & Peter Hutchison
Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond
Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail by Ray Dalio
Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity by Yoni Appelbaum
Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis
The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization by Peter Zeihan
Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace by Matthew C. Klein & Michael Pettis
Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom by Grace Blakeley

Education

A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door: The Dismantling of Public Education and the Future of School by Jack Schneider & Jennifer Berkshire
The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education by Diane Ravitch
The Teacher Wars: A History of America’s Most Embattled Profession by Dana Goldstein

Healthcare

An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back by Elisabeth Rosenthal
Delay, Deny, Defend: Why Insurance Companies Don’t Pay Claims and What You Can Do About It by Jay M. Feinman
Ultra-Processed People: Why We Can’t Stop Eating Food That Isn’t Food by Chris van Tulleken

History

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

Political Science

Autocracy, Inc. by Anne Applebaum
Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future by Jason F. Stanley
Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America by Kurt Andersen
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future by Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt
How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them by Jason F. Stanley
On Freedom by Timothy Snyder
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
The Originalism Trap: How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take It Back by Madiba K. Dennie
Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point by Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt
Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress―and How to Bring It Back by Marc J. Dunkelman
Why We’re Polarized by Ezra Klein

Psychology

Clean Language: Revealing Metaphors and Opening Minds by Wendy Sullivan and Judy Rees
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts by Carol Tavris & Elliot Aronson
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know by Adam Grant
Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella H. Meadows
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

Self Improvement

Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by Travis Bradberry & Jean Greaves
How to Listen with Intention: The Foundation of True Connection, Communication, and Relationships by Patrick King
People Skills for Analytical Thinkers: Boost Your Communication and Advance Your Career - and Life by Gilbert Eijkelenboom
Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us about the Art of Persuasion by Jay Heinrichs
The Tools of Argument: How the Best Lawyers Think, Argue, and Win by Joel P. Trachtman
Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements by Tom Rath & James K. Harter

Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism by Harsha Walia
Migrating to Prison: America’s Obsession With Locking Up Immigrants by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández
On Critical Race Theory: Why It Matters & Why You Should Care by Victor Ray
Profit and Punishment: How America Criminalizes the Poor in the Name of Justice by Tony Messenger
Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces by Radley Balko
The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

Sociology

21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics by Elle Reeve
End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin
Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How it Affects Us All by Laura Bates
Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy by Katherine Stewart
No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us by Rachel Louise Snyder
One Nation Under Guns: How Gun Culture Distorts Our History and Threatens Our Democracy by Dominic Erdozain
The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism by Katherine Stewart
Who’s Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler

Software & Development

A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms by Jay Wengrow
API Design Patterns by JJ Geewax
A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout
Advanced Apple Debugging & Reverse Engineering by Derek Selander
Building Event-Driven Microservices: Leveraging Organizational Data at Scale by Adam Bellemare
Building Micro-Frontends: Scaling Teams and Projects, Empowering Developers by Luca Mezzalira
Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems by Sam Newman
Building Mobile Apps at Scale: 39 Engineering Challenges by Gergely Orosz
Building Secure and Reliable Systems: Best Practices for Designing, Implementing, and Maintaining Systems by Heather Adkins, Betsy Beyer, Paul Blankinship, Piotr Lewandowski, Ana Oprea, & Adam Stubblefield
CFHipsterRef: Low-Level Programming on iOS and Mac OS X by Mattt Thompson
Clean Architecture: A Craftsman’s Guide to Software Structure and Design by Robert Martin
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert Martin
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold
Continuous API Management: Making the Right Decisions in an Evolving Landscape by Mehdi Medjaoui, Erik Wilde, Ronnie Mitra, & Mike Amundsen
Continuous Deployment: Enable Faster Feedback, Safer Releases, and More Reliable Software by Valentina Servile
Design Patterns for Cloud Native Applications: Patterns in Practice Using APIs, Data, Events, and Streams by Kasun Indrasiri & Sriskandarajah Suhothayan
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, & John Vlissides
Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems by Martin Kleppmann
Docs for Developers: An Engineer’s Field Guide to Technical Writing by Jared Bhatti, Zachary Sarah Corleissen, Jen Lambourne, David Núñez, & Heidi Waterhouse
Effective Objective-C 2.0: 52 Specific Ways to Improve Your iOS and OS X Programs by Matt Galloway
Facilitating Software Architecture: Empowering Teams to Make Architectural Decisions by Andrew Harmel-Law
Foundations of Scalable Systems by Ian Gorton
Fundamentals of Enterprise Architecture: Proven Frameworks for Effective Architecture Decisions by Tanusree McCabe
Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach by Mark Richards & Neal Ford
Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash by Mary Poppendieck & Tom Poppendieck
Infrastructure as Code: Dynamic Systems for the Cloud Age by Kief Morris
iPhone Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide by Joe Conway & Aaron Hillegass
Kill It with Fire: Manage Aging Computer Systems (and Future Proof Modern Ones) by Marianne Bellotti
Learning Domain-Driven Design: Aligning Software Architecture and Business Strategy by Vladik Khononov
Mastering API Architecture: Design, Operate, and Evolve API-Based Systems by James Gough, Daniel Bryant, & Matthew Auburn
Modern Software Engineering: Doing What Works to Build Better Software Faster by David Farley
NSHipster: Obscure Topics in Cocoa and Objective-C by Mattt Thompson
Programming in Objective-C by Stephen G. Kochan
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler
Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software by Michael T. Nygard
Soft Skills: The Software Developer’s Life Manual by John Sonmez
Software Architecture in Practice by Len Bass, Paul Clements, & Rick Kazman
Software Development Pearls: Lessons from Fifty Years of Software Experience by Karl Wiegers
Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time by Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck, & Hyrum Wright
Software Estimation Without Guessing: Effective Planning in an Imperfect World by George Dinwiddie
Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track by Will Larson
System Design Interview – An Insider’s Guide by Alex Xu
System Design Interview – An Insider’s Guide: Volume 2 by Alex Xu & Sahn Lam
The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers by Robert Martin
The Effective Engineer: How to Leverage Your Efforts In Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impact by Edmond Lau
The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development by Chad Fowler
The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, & George Spafford
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master by Andrew Hunt & David Thomas
The Programmer’s Brain by Felienne Hermans
The Software Engineer’s Guidebook: Navigating senior, tech lead, and staff engineer positions at tech companies and startups by Gergely Orosz
The Unicorn Project: A Novel about Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Data by Gene Kim
Tidy First?: A Personal Exercise in Empirical Software Design by Kent Beck
Understanding Distributed Systems: What every developer should know about large distributed applications by Roberto Vitillo
Web Application Security: Exploitation and Countermeasures for Modern Web Applications by Andrew Hoffman
Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers
Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software by Nadia Eghbal

Technology

Androids: The Team That Built the Android Operating System by Chet Haase
Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley by Emily Chang
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams
Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter by Kate Conger & Ryan Mac
Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms by Hannah Fry
Inside Apple: How America’s Most Admired–and Secretive–Company Really Works by Adam Lashinsky
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code by Ruha Benjamin
Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better by Jennifer Pahlka
Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech by Sara Wachter-Boettcher
The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI by Ray Kurzweil
Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age by Brad Smith & Carol Ann Browne