I enjoy reading and learning about Software Development but if I spend half my day working as a Software Dev and the other half reading about Softw...
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I wasn't even aware of any of those books. They're on my book queue now!
Here's my four non-computer books that I have helped my programming:
I am curious what you learned from AD&D? Good list!
I learned how to work as a team. And to communicate with others in a group, over long periods of time, arguing minutia of ambiguous rules (sometimes genuinely ambiguous, other times merely misunderstood). Without everything devolving into fisticuffs.
Cool cool, sounds about right for DnD! I like how you related it to business teams as Iād never thought of it.
Yeah! I'm also interested
The Goal is a great book!
I've read Donald Norman's Design of Everyday Things too. Plus I've read a lot about the history of the Bell System, or the Internet for that matter. Plus read about Kevin Mitnick and his story.
Thanks for sharing. Iāll add them to my list šš»
Great list. One I always think about is āTo engineer is humanā by Henry Petroski. Itās about sudden catastrophic failures in large engineering projects like bridges or building structures. Generally architecture and civil engineering are overused analogies in computer engineering however this book made me think more about failure, the importance of failures in producing better design and my overall approach to defensive software development. Itās an older book but I read it only in the last few years and I think it is timeless.
Others that might interest you is Midnight in Chernobyl and how the Soviet beauracracy really screwed up. Another good book is called "The Adolescense of P-1"
Code Complete - Robert Martin, probably doesn't count as a "non computer" book, but its most important lesson for me was that there was a "professional" way of being a programmer - the "code" part of the book was secondary.
Thanks for sharing. I have not come across the other books but War of Art - I was so absorbed by the delivery that I finished reading the book in 1 day... I still plan to refer to it again and again.
Just one more book to add to the list:
The 22 Immutable Laws Of Marketing by Al Ries & Jack Trout.
I loved The War of Art, it really made a change on how I see creative work, but still hard to implement. The simplest things are the harder.
I truly recommend you, as I see you are spanish as me, Invicto from Marcos Vazquez. I swear to god man, just go for it.
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Will do, gracias šš»
my list:
Love & Other Demons - Marquez
A Hundred Years of Solitude - Marquez
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
John Steinbeck
J. D. Salinger
The Castle - Kafka
Grass Harp - Truman Capote
The Perfume - Patrick Suskind
Game of Thrones
Lord of Flies - William Golding
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut Jr
Veniss Underground -Jeff VanderMeer
Perdido Street Station - China Mieville (is a trilogy so get the other 2 also if you like the first ā¦)
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
World War Z - Max Brooks
Silo (3 Book Series) - Hugh Howey
A Raven's Shadow (3 Book Series) - Anthony Ryan
A book recently recommended to me which I need to pick up my copy on hold at the library - Algorithms to live by : the computer science of human decisions.
I enjoy Cal Newport's work. I've read/listened to a couple books, Deep Work and Digital Minimalism. I've got A World Without Email (not as drastic as it sounds, about stemming the tide of constant interruption and context switching) in my queue and just borrowed So Good... from my local library. I also highly recommend Cal's Deep Questions podcast.
The other books look really intriguing as well.
Thanks for the suggestions!
@jordienr me too felt the exact same. Thanks for your recommendations. For me personally, this book kick-started a steady career for me "The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)"
by Seth Godin It helped me choose the way I study and the way I chose my career path. Really helped.
The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living by Ryan Holiday & Stephen Hanselman is a wonderful book that you can read a very short chapter each day. It's very insightful. In a similar vain, Aesop's Fables can help raise your emotionall intelligence.
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain gave me a lot clarity on introversion/extroversion. It gives good examples of people tailoring activities and interactions to their personality type and being effective in different contexts.
The Undercover Economist and Freakonomics has made me think more deeply about data analysis and behavioral patterns.
Awesome list! So good they can't ignore you by Cal Newport seems like an interesting read. Thanks for the reco!
I am thinking the exact same thing :)
I enjoyed The War of Art and agree, it needs to be read as a reminder yearly it feels like!
Great list and added to my queue!
Thanks for your awesome list, will try to read all of them,
I read two books from Cal Newport : Deep Work, and Digital Minimalism,
They are also amazing books,
I would add the book by Anton Speraul: Think like a programmer
I was looking for a list of books like this, thank you for this post!
Great list. I loved The War of Art too!
So Good They Can't Ignore You may be my favorite career book of all time... practical and directly applicable to any career.
Nice Iām gonna check these out
Thanks for sharing!
The first one sounds interesting. I will definitely read it. š¤©