2023-01-03: 2022 Books I read 13 “work related” books in 20221. They’re broken up by category below. I …
2021-10-20: Thinking Fast & Slow: Lessons For Managers I recently read Thinking Fast & Slow by Daniel Kahneman, and it was my favorite read of this …
2020-08-22: Better than a wild guess I’m currently reading Doublas Hubbard’s How To Measure Anything and it is driving home a …
2019-07-21: Book Review: Resilient Management Resilient Management by Lara Hogan is a short and useful read for engineering managers who want to …
2019-06-11: Book Review: The Manager's Path Titles in the software engineering world are strange. Without much work, it’s easy to find …
2019-03-08: Book Review: Deep Work & The Common Rule I’m trying something different today. This is a review of 2 books I’ve read recently; …
2019-02-17: Strategic Coding I recently read A Philosophy Of Software Design by John Ousterhout. In an early chapter he paints a …
2019-01-29: Book Review: Info We Trust Sometimes surprises are good. I bought RJ Andrews new book Info We Trust expecting to get some …
2018-12-31: Book Review: Radical Candor Have you ever read a non-fiction book that you just couldn’t put down because you kept hitting …
2018-12-30: Book Review: A Philosophy of Software Design A lot of the software books out there these days are marching towards their expiration dates the day …
2018-07-08: Book Review: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team The nice thing about team books is that they’re talking about a subject that almost everybody …
2018-07-01: Book Review: Atomic Design The Unix philosophy for designing software, “Make each program do one thing well”, is a …
2018-04-10: Book Review: The Inmates Are Running The Asylum For the past few months I’ve been working through a goal of reading 30 books in a year. I made …
2018-03-12: Classic Book Review: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information If you have any interest at all in data visualization, you can’t get very far learning about …
2018-02-13: Book Review: Clean Architecture Clean Architecture by Robert “Uncle Bob” Martin was one of the better books on Software …
2015-06-15: Book Review: Talking with Tech Leads Can we be honest for a moment? Figuring out a career path is hard for software developers. Talking …
2014-07-09: Book Review: Building Backbone Plugins As the saying goes, judging a book by its cover is a dangerous business. A lot of books have titles …
2013-08-12: Book Review: User-Centered Design User-Centered Design by Travis Lowdermilk is a solid overview of the principles and practices of …
2013-01-06: Book Review: Effective Javascript After seeing some positive early reviews, I went to Amazon last week and bought “Effective …