Books

CS Must Reads

Really? You haven’t read these as part of your formal software engineering education?

• The Pragmatic Programmer
• The Design of Everyday Things
• Design Patterns
• Working Effectively With Legacy Code
• TCP/IP Sockets in C
• Introduction to Algorithms
• Compiler Construction: Principles and Practice
• Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools
• Concrete Mathematics
• Computational Geometry in C
• Joel on Software
• The Art of Computer Programming

Manager Must Reads

Managers and not-managers should probably read these to think about how all the pieces fit together

• The Mythical Man Month
• Managing Humans
• Radical Candor
• The Managers Path
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
• Drive
• High Output Management
• Punished By Rewards
• The Phoenix Project
• Generalship: Its Diseases and Their Cure

Just Read These

They are not about programming, or management, but our world is a system of systems and wet things and that impacts the work we do.

• Principles
• Normal Accidents
• Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance
• Searching For Safety
• How To Win Friends And Influence People
• Leisure: The Basis of Culture
• Predictably Irrational
• Algorithms to Live By
• Human Error

Like Books, but not

These are things worth reading that are not books, but that are equally great

• Software Lead Weekly - A weekly email for busy people who care about people, culture and leadership.
• MIT Technology Review - An actual paper publicaiton that you can subscribe to.
• IEE Spectrum - An actual paper publicaiton that you can subscribe to.
• Rands in Repose - Software / Management blog
• Eilded Branches - Software / Management blog
• Ed Batista - Leadership blog
• Light Blue Touchpaper - Security blog
• ACM Queue - ACM blog/magazine
• Netflix TechBlog
• The Cloudflare Blog - pick some tags like “Deep Dive” instead of the whole thing
• Code as Craft, Etsy’s Engineering Blog
• Joel on Software