Reading List
Library
Books I've read — notes, highlights, and reflections
Thinking in Bets, Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts
Making better decisions under uncertainty by adopting a poker player's mindset
The Man from the Future
The Visionary Life of John von Neumann
Beautiful Architecture: Leading Thinkers Reveal the Hidden Beauty in Software Design
A tech by Diomidis Spinellis
Beautiful Testing: Leading Professionals Reveal How They Improve Software
A tech by Tim Riley
Code Simplicity: The Fundamentals of Software
A tech by Max Kanat-Alexander
Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Web Application
A tech by 37 Signals
JavaScript: The Good Parts
A tech by Douglas Crockford
The ThoughtWorks Anthology, Volume 2
A tech by ThoughtWorks Inc.
CoffeeScript Application Development
A tech by Ian Young
Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life
A to-read by Nir Eyal
Mastery
A read by Robert Greene
Pro Node.Js for Developers
A tech by Colin J. Ihrig
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
A to-read by James Clear
Creative Calling: Establish a Daily Practice, Infuse Your World with Meaning, and Succeed in Work + Life
A to-read by Chase Jarvis
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
A to-read by Peter C. Brown
Beyond Fasting, The True Cellular Solution to a New You
A book by Daniel Pompa
Stillness Is the Key
A to-read by Ryan Holiday
The Wedge: Evolution, Consciousness, Stress and the Key to Human Resilience
A to-read by Scott Carney
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
A tech by Robert C. Martin
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
A tech by Martin Kleppmann
The Rust Programming Language
A read by Steve Klabnik
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
A 20191006 by Chris Voss
Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming
A 1 by Brian Lonsdorf
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
A science by Matthew Walker
The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers
A tech by Robert C. Martin
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
A 20180526 by Hans Rosling
You Don't Know JS: Async & Performance
A tech by Kyle Simpson
Boundless: Upgrade Your Brain, Optimize Your Body Defy Aging
A health by Ben Greenfield
The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
A 20180919 by Ryan Holiday
The Little Mongo DB Schema Design Book
A read by Christian Kvalheim
The Richest Man Who Ever Lived: King Solomon's Secrets to Success, Wealth, and Happiness
A 20180208 by Steven K. Scott
Alexander: God of War
A fiction-history by Christian Cameron
Meditations
A philosophy by Marcus Aurelius
Lean from the Trenches
A tech-methodology by Henrik Kniberg
The Mystery Knight (The Tales of Dunk and Egg, #3)
A read by George R.R. Martin
The Time of Contempt (The Witcher, #2)
A 20151204 by Andrzej Sapkowski
Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong
A psychology by Eric Barker
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
A productivity by Cal Newport
How to Win Friends and Influence People
A soft-skills by Dale Carnegie
King of Thorns (The Broken Empire, #2)
A fiction-fantasy by Mark Lawrence
The 48 Laws of Power
A soft-skills by Robert Greene
Apology of Socrates
A philosophy by Plato
The Lady of the Lake (The Witcher, #5)
A fiction-fantasy by Andrzej Sapkowski
Rise of the Horde
A read by Christie Golden
Ego Is the Enemy
A philosophy by Ryan Holiday
The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
A philosophy by Ryan Holiday
Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything
A habits by B.J. Fogg
The End of Mental Illness: How Neuroscience Is Transforming Psychiatry and Helping Prevent or Reverse Mood and Anxiety Disorders, ADHD, Addictions, PTSD, Psychosis, Personality Disorders, and More
A health by Daniel G. Amen
Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy--and How to Make Them Work for You
A 20170703 by Geoffrey G. Parker
The Selfish Gene
A read by Richard Dawkins
A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)
A fiction-fantasy by George R.R. Martin
The Last Wish (The Witcher, #0.5)
A 20150929 by Andrzej Sapkowski
Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day
A 20200709 by Jake Knapp
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
A productivity by Stephen R. Covey
Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware
A tech-methodology by Andy Hunt
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
A behavioural-economics by Dan Ariely
The Providence of Fire (Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne, #2)
A fiction-fantasy by Brian Staveley
Lord of the Clans (WarCraft, #2)
A fiction-fantasy by Christie Golden
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
A habits by Charles Duhigg
You Already Know How to Be Great: A Simple Way to Remove Interference and Unlock Your Greatest Potential
A coaching by Alan Fine
Body by Science: A Research-Based Program for Strength Training, Body Building, and Complete Fitness in 12 Minutes a Week
A health by John Little
The Mindful Geek: Mindfulness Meditation for Secular Skeptics
A mindfulness by Michael Taft
The Sworn Sword (The Tales of Dunk and Egg, #2)
A read by George R.R. Martin
Web Operations: Keeping the Data on Time
A tech-devops by John Allspaw
Antifragile How to Live in a World We Dont Understand
A finance by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
A business by Eric Ries
The Emperor's Blades (Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne, #1)
A fiction-fantasy by Brian Staveley
The Picture of Dorian Gray
A fiction by Oscar Wilde
Skullsworn (Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne)
A fiction-fantasy by Brian Staveley
The Antidote: Happiness for people who can't stand positive thinking
A psychology by Oliver Burkeman
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
A finance by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business
A business by Josh Kaufman
Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids about Money – That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!
A finance by Robert T. Kiyosaki
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
A fiction-favorite by Lewis Carroll
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
A productivity by Cal Newport
Prince of Fools (The Red Queen's War, #1)
A fiction-fantasy by Mark Lawrence
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
A 1 by Lewis Carroll
Claim Your Power: A 40-Day Journey to Dissolve the Hidden Blocks That Keep You Stuck and Finally Thrive in Your Life’s Unique Purpose
A read by Mastin Kipp
The Divine Comedy
A classic by Dante Alighieri
Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models
A 20191109 by Gabriel Weinberg
Async JavaScript
A 20130111 by Trevor Burnham
Historias inconscientes (Vidas al límite)
A psychology by Gabriel Rolón
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #1)
A 20130622 by Lewis Carroll
Caos: La creación de una ciencia
A 20140309 by James Gleick
Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career
A learning by Scott H. Young
Beyond Good and Evil
A philosophy by Friedrich Nietzsche
Financial Freedom: A Proven Path to All the Money You Will Ever Need
A finance by Grant Sabatier
Inferno
A classic by Dante Alighieri
Evil by Design: Interaction Design to Lead Us Into Temptation
A tech-design by Chris Nodder
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
A behavioural-economics by Steven D. Levitt
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
A productivity by David Allen
Stop Chasing Carrots: Healing Self-Help Deceptions With a Scientific Philosophy of Life
A personal-development by Chris Masi
The Trickster's Hat: A Mischievous Apprenticeship in Creativity
A creativity by Nick Bantock
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
A behavioural-economics by Steven D. Levitt
Now, Discover Your Strengths: The revolutionary Gallup program that shows you how to develop your unique talents and strengths
A personal-development by Marcus Buckingham
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
A business by Malcolm Gladwell
Radical Focus: Achieving Your Most Important Goals with Objectives and Key Results
A productivity by Christina Wodtke
Seven Languages in Seven Weeks
A tech-lang by Bruce A. Tate
Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength
A 20120813 by Roy F. Baumeister
The Art of War
A classic by Sun Tzu
Self-Intelligence: A New Model for Driving Personal Change Using the Latest in Brain Science
A read by Jane Ransom
Asunder (Dragon Age, #3)
A fiction-fantasy by David Gaider
The Man in the Brown Suit (Colonel Race #1)
A fiction-mistery by Agatha Christie
The Yoga Science of Breath
A health by William Walker Atkinson
The Agile Samurai: How Agile Masters Deliver Great Software
A tech-methodology by Jonathan Rasmusson
The Passionate Programmer
A 20160802 by Chad Fowler
Rework
A business by Jason Fried
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
A personal-development by Mark Manson
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
A finance by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
A psychology by Malcolm Gladwell
Mastering Web Application Development with AngularJS
A 20140226 by Pawel Kozlowski
First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently
A business by Marcus Buckingham
The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life: Before 8AM
A personal-development by Hal Elrod
Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business
A personal-development by Charles Duhigg
What the CEO Wants You to Know: Using Business Acumen to Understand How Your Company Really Works
A business by Ram Charan
The 4-Hour Workweek
A personal-development by Tim Ferriss
Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Dexter, #1)
A fiction-mistery by Jeff Lindsay
Remember Everything You Want and Manage the Rest: Improve your Memory and Learning, Organize Your Brain, and Effectively Manage Your Knowledge
A memory by Helmut Sachs
18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done
A productivity by Peter Bregman
20000 Days and Counting: The Crash Course for Mastering Your Life Right Now
A personal-development by Robert D. Smith
Go in Practice
A tech-lang by Matt Butcher
The Alchemist
A fiction by Paulo Coelho
Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
A finance by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself
A thinking by David McRaney
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
A fiction-mistery by Dan Brown
Prince of Thorns (The Broken Empire, #1)
A fiction-fantasy by Mark Lawrence
Pro React
A tech-lang by Cassio De Sousa Antonio
Tmux 2: Productive Mouse-Free Development
A tech by Brian P. Hogan
Inferno (Robert Langdon, #4)
A fiction-mistery by Dan Brown
Node.Js the Right Way: Practical, Server-Side JavaScript That Scales
A tech-lang by Jim R. Wilson
The Start-Up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career
A 20121229 by Reid Hoffman
The Calling (Dragon Age, #2)
A fiction-fantasy by David Gaider
Getting Grit: The Evidence-Based Approach to Cultivating Passion, Perseverance, and Purpose
A psychology by Caroline Adams Miller
Learning Javascript Design Patterns
A tech-lang by Addy Osmani
Decisiones, Incertidumbre y el Cerebro: La Ciencia de la Neuroeconomia = Decisions, Uncertainty and the Brain
A science by Paul W. Glimcher
Making a Good Brain Great: The Amen Clinic Program for Achieving and Sustaining Optimal Mental Performance
A health by Daniel G. Amen
The Motivation Myth: How High Achievers Really Set Themselves Up to Win
A personal-development by Jeff Haden
Mindfire: Big Ideas for Curious Minds
A thinking by Scott Berkun
The Prince
A classic by Niccolò Machiavelli
The Undercover Economist
A behavioural-economics by Tim Harford
Be Slightly Evil: A Playbook for Sociopaths (Ribbonfarm Roughs)
A philosophy by Venkatesh G. Rao
Managing Startups: Best Blog Posts
A business by Thomas Eisenmann
The Power Of Less: The Fine Art of Limiting Yourself to the Essential
A productivity by Leo Babauta
Calm, Cool, Collected: How to Demolish Stress, Master Anxiety, and Live Your Life
A personal-development by David De Las Morenas
Moriarty (Horowitz's Holmes, #2)
A fiction-mistery by Anthony Horowitz
Programming Groovy 2
A 0 by Venkat Subramaniam
A Study in Sherlock (Stories Inspired by the Holmes Canon, #1)
A 20140530 by Laurie R. King
The Urban Monk: Eastern Wisdom and Modern Hacks to Stop Time and Find Success, Happiness, and Peace
A personal-development by Pedram Shojai
The Art of Capacity Planning: Scaling Web Resources
A tech-devops by John Allspaw
The Healthy Programmer
A tech by Joe Kutner
How Javascript Works
A tech-lang by Douglas Crockford
House and Philosophy: Everybody Lies
A philosophy by Henry Jacoby
The Memory Palace - Learn Anything and Everything (Starting With Shakespeare and Dickens)
A memory by Lewis Smile
Start You Up: Rock Star Secrets to Unleash Your Personal Brand and Set Your Career on Fire
A personal-development by Steve Jones
Be Bad First: Get Good at Things Fast to Stay Ready for the Future
A personal-development by Erika Andersen
Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
A business by Antonio García Martínez
Slipstream Time Hacking: How to Cheat Time, Live More, And Enhance Happiness
A read by Benjamin P. Hardy
DevOps with Kubernetes: Accelerating software delivery with container orchestrators
A tech-devops by Hideto Saito
The Stolen Throne (Dragon Age, #1)
A fiction-fantasy by David Gaider
12 Essential Skills for Software Architects
A tech by Dave Hendricksen
Design It! : Pragmatic Programmers: From Programmer to Software Architect
A read by Michael Keeling
Functional Reactive Programming
A tech-lang by Stephen Blackheath
Find Your Why: A Practical Guide to Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team
A personal-development by Simon Sinek
Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World
A learning by Benny Lewis
97 Things Every Programmer Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts
A 20160802 by Kevlin Henney
Ace the Programming Interview: 160 Questions and Answers for Success
A tech-interview by Edward Guiness
Seven More Languages in Seven Weeks
A 20160909 by Bruce A. Tate
No Sweat: How the Simple Science of Motivation Can Bring You a Lifetime of Fitness
A habits by Michelle Segar
Shadow's Son (Shadow Saga, #1)
A fiction-fantasy by Jon Sprunk
The Way of the Cockroach: How not to be there when the lights come on and nine other lessons on how to survive in business
A business by Craig Hovey
Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes
A soft-skills by Maria Konnikova
The Point Is: Making Sense of Birth, Death, and Everything in Between
A philosophy by Lee Eisenberg
WebGL: Up and Running
A tech by Tony Parisi
The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything...Fast
A learning by Josh Kaufman
Mastering Rust: Advanced concurrency, macros, and safe database
A read by Vesa Kaihlavirta
Smarter: The New Science of Building Brain Power
A learning by Dan Hurley
You Can Read Anyone: Never Be Fooled, Lied To, or Taken Advantage of Again
A soft-skills by David J. Lieberman
The Developer's Code: What Real Programmers Do
A 20120813 by Ka Wai Cheung
Professional NoSQL
A tech-database by Shashank Tiwari
Rock Breaks Scissors: A Practical Guide to Outguessing and Outwitting Almost Everybody
A thinking by William Poundstone
Brain Candy: Science, Paradoxes, Puzzles, Logic, and Illogic to Nourish Your Neurons
A thinking by Garth Sundem
Sherlock Holmes and the Ghosts of Bly: And Other New Adventures of the Great Detective
A fiction-mistery by Donald Serrell Thomas
What Would Machiavelli Do?: The Ends Justify the Meanness
A philosophy by Stanley Bing
Beginning Html5 Games with Createjs
A tech-lang by Brad Manderscheid
The Zen of Zombie: Better Living Through the Undead
A mindfulness by Scott Kenemore
The Busy Body
A health by Penny Ingham
Dr. House - Guia para a Vida
A philosophy by Toni de la Torre
Self Discipline: How I Went from Lazy to Productive by Changing from Within
A read by Isaac Berglind
Bursts: The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do
A science by Albert-László Barabási
Please, Mr. Einstein
A fiction by Jean-Claude Carrière
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
A fiction-mistery by Arthur Conan Doyle
J.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
A fiction-fantasy by J.R.R. Tolkien
A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)
A fiction-fantasy by George R.R. Martin
A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)
A fiction-fantasy by George R.R. Martin
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
A fiction-fantasy by George R.R. Martin
The Hobbit
A fiction-fantasy by Chuck Dixon
A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)
A fiction-fantasy by George R.R. Martin
The Wheel of Osheim (The Red Queen's War, #3)
A fiction-fantasy by Mark Lawrence
Baptism of Fire (The Witcher, #3)
A fiction-fantasy by Andrzej Sapkowski
Sword of Destiny (The Witcher, #0.7)
A 20151010 by Andrzej Sapkowski
The Tower of Swallows (The Witcher, #4)
A fiction-fantasy by Andrzej Sapkowski
Emperor of Thorns (The Broken Empire, #3)
A fiction-fantasy by Mark Lawrence
The Hedge Knight (The Tales of Dunk and Egg, #1)
A fiction-fantasy by George R.R. Martin
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
A fiction-fantasy by J.R.R. Tolkien
Blood of Elves (The Witcher, #1)
A 20151121 by Andrzej Sapkowski
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
A read by James Nestor
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
A fiction-mistery by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Liar's Key (The Red Queen's War, #2)
A fiction-fantasy by Mark Lawrence
How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method
A to-read by George Pólya
Thinking in Systems: A Primer
A to-read by Donella H. Meadows
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
A to-read by Douglas R. Hofstadter
How to Think about Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age
A to-read by Theodore Schick Jr.
Where Good Ideas Come from: The Natural History of Innovation
A read by Steven Johnson
How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers
A 1 by Sönke Ahrens
Man's Search for Meaning
A 20210219 by Viktor E. Frankl
In Search of Wisdom: A Monk, a Philosopher, and a Psychiatrist on What Matters Most
A to-read by Matthieu Ricard
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
A currently-reading-2-business-13-finance-7-nonfiction-3-personal-development-19-productivity by Eric Jorgenson
The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind, #1)
A read by Terry Pratchett
The Power of Writing It Down: A Simple Habit to Unlock Your Brain and Reimagine Your Life
A nonfiction-personal-development-writing by Allison Fallon
Thinking, Fast and Slow
A currently-reading-1-behavioural-economics-5-nonfiction-2-science-6-psychology by Daniel Kahneman
Small Talk hacks: How to Talk to People, Improve Your Charisma, Social Skills, Conversation Starters & Lessen Social Anxiety
A 2 by Lisa Din
The Pariah
A fiction-fantasy by Anthony Ryan
The Wheel of Time: The Eye of the World
A fantasy by Robert Jordan
The Wheel of Time: The Great Hunt
A fantasy by Robert Jordan
The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery
A selfhelp by Brianna Wiest
Dopamina Nation
A book by Anna Lembke
Instinct: Rewire Your Brain With Science-Backed Solutions to Increase Productivity and Achieve Success
A nonfiction by Rebecca Heiss
Weight Lifting Is a Waste of Time
A health-fitness by John Jaquish
Mistborn: The Final Empire
A fiction-fantasy by Brandon Sanderson
Effortless: Make It Easy to Get the Right Things Done
A nonfiction-selfhelp-productivity by Greg McKeown