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 reading 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
• Software Architecture: Perspectives on an Emerging Discipline by Mary Shaw, David Garlan

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 reading notes
• Building Microservices by Sam Newman
• IKIGAI by Héctor García
• The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel reading 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
• The Socratic Way of Questioning by Thinknetic reading notes

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
• The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick P. Brooks
• Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams by Tom DeMarco
• Ambient Findability: What We Find Changes Who We Become by Peter Morville
• As the Future Catches You by Juan Enriquez
• To Sell Is Human by Daniel H. Pink