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2024
To Hold The Bridge - Garth Nix
The Anxious Generation - Jonathan Haidt
Before the coffee gets cold - Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Domain Modeling Made Functional
The Two Towers
The Fellowship of the Ring
2023
Chip War - Chris Miller
Building Event Driven Microsystems - Adam Bellemare
Data Mesh - Zhamark Dehghani
True North - Bill George
Going Infinite - Michael Lewis
Warren Buffett - Investor and Entrepreneur - Todd Finkle
The Pragmatic Programmer - David Thomas
&
Andrew Hunt
The Ride of a Lifetime - Robert Iger
2022
Team Topologies
Introducing EventStorming
The Chief Data Officer’s Playbook
Crossing The Chasm - Geoffrey Moore
Under The Black Flag - David Cordingly
You Can Be A Stock Market Genius - Joel Greenblatt
The Last Wish - Andrzej Sapkowski
Visualizing Software Architecture - Simon Brown
Software Architecture for Developers - Simon Brown
A Philosophy of Software Design - John Oustehout
Utopia - Thomas More
Richer, Wiser, Happier - William Green
2021
The Remains Of The Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Turn the Ship Around - L. David Marquet
Data Engineering Teams - Jesse Anderson
Shape Up - Ryan Singer
Remote: Office Not Required - Jason Fried and David Heinmeier Hansson
Quality of Earnings - Thornton O’Glove
Designing Data Intensive Applications
The DevOps Handbook
Distributed Systems Design Fundamentals Course - Udi Dahan
Software Architecture Patterns - Mark Richards
Service Oriented Architecture Course - Udi Dahan
A Seat At The Table - Mark Schwartz
DataOps Cookbook
Scrum Practitioner’s Guide
The Future for Investors
Range: Why Generalists Triumph In A Specialized World - David Epstein
2020
Building Analytics Teams - John K. Thompson
The Buccaneers of America - Alexander O. Exquemelin
The Outsiders - William N. Thorndike, Jr
Zero - The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife
Mothers of Data Science - Kate Strachnyi and Kristen Kehrer
Common Sense - The Investor’s Guide to Equality, Opportunity, and Growth - Joel Greenblatt
The Great Crash 1929
An Introduction To Statistical Learning (
ISL
)
Beating the Street - Peter Lynch
The Seven Things Your Team Needs to Hear You Say - David M. Dye
The Man Who Solved The Market: How Jim Simons Launched The Quant Revolution
Algorithms to Live By
Black Swan - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Ethical Algorithm
Never Split The Difference - Chris Voss
Winning The Loser’s Game
2019
Nudge - Richard Thaler
Zero to One - Peter Thiel
The Essays of Warren Buffett - Lawrence Cunningham
Product Leadership - Banfield, Eriksson, Walkinshaw
Prediction Machines
The Servant as Leader - Robert K. Greenleaf
Business Adventures - John Brooks
Peopleware
A Song of Ice and Fire: A Dance with Dragons
How to Lie With Statistics
A Man For All Markets - Edward O. Thorp
A Cloud Guru - Solutions Architect Associate
AWS
Solutions Architect Associate Certificate
Flash Boys - Michael Lewis
A Song of Ice and Fire: A Feast for Crows
Deep Work - Cal Newport
The Manager’s Path - Camille Fournier
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team - Patrick Lencioni
So Good They Can’t Ignore You - Cal Newport
A Song of Ice and Fire: A Storm of Swords
Getting There - Gillian Zoe Segal
A Song of Ice and Fire: A Clash of Kings
2018
A Song of Ice and Fire: A Game of Thrones
How to Measure Anything in Cyber-Security Risk
7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Tufte Data Visualization Course
Big Mistakes: The Best Investors and Their Worst Investments - Michael Batnick
How to Win Friends
&
Influence People - Dale Carnegie
The Checklist Manifesto
Don’t Make Me Think
Data-Driven Security: Analysis, Visualization, and Dashboards
Udacity’s Machine Learning Nano Degree
Measuring and Managing Information Risk
The Snowball - Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
Udacity’s
AI
Nano Degree
2017
Principles - Ray Dalio
More Money Than God
Tap Dancing to Work
The Art of the Deal
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
The Long Tail
Data Science from Scratch (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920033400.do)
Open Intro Statistics (https://www.openintro.org/stat/textbook.php)
Onward
How to get Rich - Felix Dennis (much better than it sounds)
Outliers
Random Walk Down Wall Street
The Dhandho Investor
Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits
Andrew
NG
Coursera Course on Machine Learning (https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning)
The Warren Buffett Way
Influence - Robert Cialdini
Made in America - Sam Walton
A Brief History In Time
Education of a Value Investor
Fooled by Randomness
Margin of Safety
Life is What you make It (Peter Buffett)
Lead Inside The Box