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Readings

Books I’ve read and Courses I’ve taken

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