Learning

Curated notes and guides for rapidly learning various topics. The focus is on highlighting core concepts and key resources rather than being an exhaustive roundup of all available links.

Topics

• Being a human

Tech

• Laptop setup
• Tools I use
• Electronics
• Kubernetes
• AWS
  • AWS VPC
  • AWS IAM
  • AWS EKS
• Continuous Delivery
• Engineering Productivity

Programming Languages

• Python
• Golang
• Javascript
• Rust

Human Language

• Spanish
• French

Books

Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence - nerdy stuff

• Refactoring
• Accelerate
• Monolith to Microservices
• The DevOps Handbook
• The Phoenix Project
• The Goal
• Release It!
• Explore It!
• Building Microservices
• Rapid Development
• Continuous Delivery
• Working Effectively with Legacy Code
• Software Project Survival Guide
• Test-Driven Development
• The Design of Everyday Things
• How Google Tests Software
• Visible Ops Handbook
• Lessons Learned in Software Testing
• How we test software at Microsoft
• Hadoop Operations
• Wired for War
• Brave new War
• The Mythical Man Month
• Continuous Integration
• Javascript Patterns
• Javascript the Good Parts
• Code Complete
• AI Modern Approach (AIMA)
• Intro to Algorithms

Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Innovation - inspiration for achieving things

• One Minute Manager
• High Output Management
• Managing Humans
• Measure what Matters
• Multipliers
• Debugging Teams
• Radical Candor
• The Manager's Path
• 21 Indispensible Qualities of a Leader
• Rework
• Corporate Entrepreneurship
• Peopleware
• How Google Works
• Strategic Management and Technological Innovation
• Automate This
• Freakonomics
• Outliers
• Tribes
• Principles of Microeconomics
• Open Innovation
• IT Architecture Toolkit
• The E-Myth Revisited
• Wikinomics
• Richard Branson’s Losing my Virginity
• A Sense of Urgency
• Blink
• Don’t Make me think!
• Crush it!
• Good to Great
• The Tipping Point
• Start Something that Matters
• The Checklist Manifesto
• The World is Flat

Personal Development, Philosophy - being a better human

• The Effective Engineer
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
• Knowledge Management
• Crossing the Chasm
• What Minds Can Do
• The 4 Hour Body
• Making Ideas Happen
• On Intelligence
• The Power of Now
• The Way of the Peaceful Warrior
• The 4 Hour Work Week
• The War of Art
• Rich Dad, Poor Dad
• No Meat Athlete
• Man’s Search for Meaning
• The Millionaire Next Door
• Think and Grow Rich
• Five People you Meet in Heaven
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
• The Richest Man in Babylon
• The Alchemist
• The Tao of Pooh
• The Last Lecture
• Tuesdays with Morrie

Science, Environment, Space - the world around us

• Light Eaters
• Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
• An Inconvenient Truth

Classics and Popular Books - everyone should read

• Ender's Game
• Old Man and the Sea
• Jonathan Livingston Seagull
• iRobot
• The Kite Runner
• 1984
• Hunger Games
• Harry Potter (books 1-7)
• The Giver
• Old Yeller
• Island of Blue Dolphins
• Voyage of Doctor Dolittle
• Catcher in the Rye
• Of Mice and Men
• The Book Thief
• Fahrenheit 451
• Slaughterhouse Five
• Chronicles of Narnia
• Animal Farm

Misc

• Writing Better Lyrics
• One Second After
• Jim Cramer’s Real Money
• Lance Armstrong’s autobiography

Courses

• Software Architecture Fundamentals
• I'm a Software Architect, Now What?
• System Design Fundamentals
• Domain-driven Design Distilled
• Principles of Microservices