Reading List

A list of books, blogs, videos and articles I’ve read and learnt a lot from.

Engineering Management & Leadership

• I Too Had a Dream
• Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
• Radical Candor
• Resilient Management
• An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management
• High Growth Handbook
• The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever
• The Manager’s Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change
• Engineering Management: The Pendulum or the Ladder
• StaffEng: Guides for reaching and succeeding at Staff-plus role
• Being Glue

Learning, habits and mastery

• Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
• Thinking in Systems: A Primer & Systems Thinking resources
• Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
• Badass: Making Users Awesome

Cloud Cost Optimization

• Tooling up for Efficiency

System design & performance

• Laws of Performant Software
• Why are black boxes so hard to reuse?