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What are the books that helped shaping your career?

Valentino Gagliardi on September 04, 2019

Mine are:

  • The Pragmatic Programmer by Andy Hunt
  • Code complete by Steve McConnell
  • Clean Code by Robert Martin
  • Refactoring (and its second ed.) by Martin Fowler

Name your own!

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Paweł Kowalski

Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink
Dont look for excuses, take responsibility.

12 rules for life, an antidote to chaos by Jordan Peterson
Open mind learns faster and achieves bigger things in teams.

Discrimination and disparities by Thomas Sowell
Measure when you can. Statistics are used to manipulate us. Guessing and listening to those who feed us statistics is often worse than doing nothing.

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I've read all of these, and I second the recommendations.

The most "extreme" part of the Extreme Ownership book was when some of Mr. Willinck's people died in an operation for which he was the commander.

He decided in his report to the higher ups that he should be the fall guy, and take full responsibility for their deaths.

It's heavy stuff, and the message for your work is sobering, even chilling. But it's fascinating and easy to read.

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Muhammad • Edited

Development in my opinion is just learning how to use a tool, but learning how to use life is what can really shape careers.

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Valentino Gagliardi

Thanks for sharing!

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Muhammad

Your Welcome, do go through them and let me know, i would love to discuss your findings.

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Bulama Yusuf

The Mythical Man-Month by Fred Brooks

Being Geek by Michael Lopp

The Richest Man in Babylon by George Samuel Clason

Cashflow Quadrant by Robert Kiyosaki

Agile IT Organisation Design by Sriram Narayan

Deep Work by Cal Newport

Principles by Ray Dalio

ReWork by David Heinemeier Hansson and Jason Fried

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Max Ong Zong Bao
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Matt Shirlaw
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Roy Larsen

The Phoenix Project

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Dave van Herten • Edited

Domain Driven Design by Eric Evans as well as all of Vaughn Vernon's followup books have probably had the biggest impact for me. Otherwise I second just about everything on this list, particularly Code Complete.

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Matt Eland

Pragmatic Programmer, code complete, working effectively with legacy code, managing humans, the manager's path, debugging teams, turn the ship around, the Phoenix project, and the advantage all come to mind.

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Valentino Gagliardi

Solid books! I have the Phoenix project myself too!

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Luke Westby

Getting Things Done™️ by David Allen

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Teo Khai Kiong

You Don't Know JS by Kyle Simpson 😁

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kethmars • Edited

Great list, Valentino!

I'd add:

  • The Clean Coder
  • Thinking Fast and Slow(not related to programming but thinking in general)
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Valentino Gagliardi

I actually read Thinking fast and slow!

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Valentino Gagliardi

Just ordered Deep work last week!

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Cesar Aguirre
  • Clean code
  • The Art of Readable code
  • The Art of Unit testing
  • Patterns, principles and practices in C#