I love reading and learning. I’m putting this page together to keep track of all my knowledge sources.

2020

Currently reading in progress

• The Happiness Hypothesis
• Black Box Thinking
• Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models

Completed books below

Business

• Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
• What you do is who you are

Psychology

• Mindset: The Psychology of Success

Philosophy

• The Art of Power

Productivity

• Atomic Habits
• Start Finishing: How to go from an idea to Done

2019

Business / Leadership

• What got you here won’t get you there
• Daring Greatly
• Dare To Lead
• The Dichotomy of Leadership: Balancing the Challenges of Extreme Ownership to Lead and Win
• The Manager’s Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change

Entrepreneurship

• The Dip

Self-Development

• Re-read The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
• Un-F*ck yourself
• Getting Things Done
• StrengthsFinder 2.0
• Stillness is the key

Philosophy

• In my own way
• Out of Your Mind
• Discourses: Complete Books 1-4

Psychology

• Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard
• Introducing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
• Indistractable

Technology

Architecture

• Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation
• Clean Architecture
• Enterprise Integration Patterns
• Domain Driven Design

2018

Business / Leadership

• Drive – The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
• Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t
• So Good They Can’t Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
• It’s Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy
• The 5 Levels of Leadership: Proven Steps to Maximize Your Potential
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
• Lead Your Tribe, Love Your Work: An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Creating a Culture that Matters
• Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager

Communication

• Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High

Philosophy

• The Tao of Seneca: Practical Letters from a Stoic Master, Volume 1

Programming / Computing

• Learning OpenCV3
• Linux Networking Cookbook
• Computer Networks 5th By Andrew S. Tanenbaum
• SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition
• Practical Linux Security Cookbook

Psychology

• Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Science Fiction

• Brave New World
• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

2017

Business / Leadership

• Extreme Ownership – How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
• 48 Laws of Power
• Start with Why
• The Tipping Point
• Algorithms to Live By – The Computer Science of Human Decisions
• The Art of Possibility – Transforming Professional and Personal Life
• High Performance Habits – How Extraordinary People Become That Way
• How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big
• Who Moved My Cheese

Self-Development

• The War of Art – Winning the Inner Creative Battle
• Deep Work – Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
• How to Be an Imperfectionist: The New Way to Self-Acceptance, Fearless Living, and Freedom from Perfectionism
• The Gifts of Imperfection
• You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life

Philosophy

I’ve recently found stoicism to hold some powerful truths in my life. I highly suggest any take a read into this philosophy because it has influenced me so much in this last year.

• Meditations – journal readings of Marcus Aurelius
• The Obstacle Is the Way – The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
• The Daily Stoic 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

Programming / Computing

• Programming Pheonix
• Metaprogramming Elixir
• The Little Elixir & OTP Guidebook
• Learn You Some Erlang For Great Good – Fred Hebert

Psychology / Human Nature

• Tribes – We Need You To Lead Us
• Peak Performance
• Quiet – The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking

2016

Business / Leadership

• Smarter Faster Better – The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business
• The Art of War (Chiron Academic Press – The Original Authoritative Edition)

Communication

• The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent’s Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over
• Comedy Writing Secrets: The Best-Selling Guide to Writing Funny and Getting Paid for It

Programming / Computing

• Elixir in Action
• Erlang and OTP in Action

Self Development

• Ego Is the Enemy
• The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire
• The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem

Social Science

• Outliers: The Story of Success

Psychology

• The Power of Habit – Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
• Grit – The Power of Passion and Perseverance

Programming / Computing

• Programming Elixir
• Programming Pheonix
• The Little Elixir & OTP Guidebook

2015 and earlier

Communication

• Models: Attract Women Through Honesty

Design

• The Design of Every Day Things – Donald Norman

Product Development

• Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You – John Warrillow
• Hooked: How to Build Habit-forming Products – Nir Eyal
• Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor Frankl
• How to Win Friends and Influence People – Dale Carnegie
• How to Stop Worrying and Start Living – Dale Carnegie
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – Stephen R. Covey
• Leadership and Self-Deception – The Arbinger Institute
• A Whole New Mind – Daniel Pink
• Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand
• Failing Forward – John Maxwell
• Man and His Symbols – Carl Jung

Psychology

• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

Medical

• Athletic Body in Balance

Technical Books

• Programming Elixir
• Programming Phoenix
• Exercises for programmers
• Ruby on Rails 4.0 Guide – Stefan Wintermeyer
• You Dont Know JavaScript – Kyle Simpson
• CSS and Documents – Eric Mayer
• The Little Redis Book – Karl Seguin
• CouchDB – The Definitive Guide – Chris Anderson, Jan Lehnardt, Noah Slater
• Practices of an Agile Developer – Venkat Subramaniam and Andy Hunt
• Ship It – Jared Richardson, Will Gwaltney, Jr
• Red Book, Readings in Database Systems
• Distributed systems for fun and profit
• Instant Nginx Starter
• Nginx
• Elixir Cookbook
• Postgres 9 Administration Cookbook
• Pro Puppet

Financials

• The Tao of Warren Buffet – Mary Buffet
• Winning: The Ultimate Business How-To – Jack Welch
• Learn to Earn: A Beginner’s Guide to the Basics of Investing and Business – Peter Lynch
• Rich Dad Poor Dad – Robert Kiyosaki
• The Richest Man in Babylon – George Clason
• Think and Grow Rich! – Napoleon Hill

Learning Web Sites

I read quite a bit, as well as watching screen or web casts, instructional videos, or just interesting talks usually from TED or Ignite.

Sites

• RailsCasts (I miss Ryan Bates. If you see him, tell him I still think he’s awesome.)
• Ruby Tapas
• Code School
• Ruby5
• Go By Example
• Codeschool
• ElixirSchool

TED Talks

Find my TED profile here.

Etc