Bookshelf

Reading has shaped much of how I think about engineering, leadership, systems, and people. This bookshelf is a small attempt to share that journey.

Books I Recommend

These are books I find myself quoting, gifting, or rereading. Each one left a mark.

• The Pragmatic Programmer by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas
• Deep Work by Cal Newport
• Hooked by Nir Eyal
• The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
• Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann
• Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug  (notes)
• Database Internals by Alex Petrov
• Building Microservices by Sam Newman

Reading Tracker

A broader archive of what I’ve picked up—whether I’m reading it now, finished it, or it's next in the queue.

Currently Reading

• Deep Work by Cal Newport
• AI Engineering by Chip Huyen
• Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
• Kafka: The Definitive Guide by Gwen Shapira

Finished Reading

• The Pragmatic Programmer by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas
• Hooked by Nir Eyal
• The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
• Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann
• Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug  (notes)
• Building Microservices by Sam Newman
• IKIGAI by Héctor García
• The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel  (notes)
• The New Digital Age by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson
• The Upstart by Brad Stone
• The Lean Product Playbook by Dan Olsen
• Mindset by Carol Dweck
• Lean Analytics by Alistair Croll and Ben Yoskovitz

Next in Queue

• The Courage to be Disliked by Brené Brown
• The Phoenix Project by Gerald M. Weinberg
• The High Performance Entrepreneur by Subroto Bagchi
• Good to Great by Jim Collins
• No Rules Rules by Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer
• Zero to One by Peter Thiel
• The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy