5 common themes

Here are 6 books I'd buy every engineer who joins my team, if I ran a team. You might like 'em too.

The best engineering books aren't those you read at the start of your career. It's the ones you appreciate 5 years in.

People are starting to cheat in interviews using ChatGPT. It's obvious, doesn't work, and wouldn't even be cheating if you did it right!

Do Hard Things is a recent book from an author of my favorite book about burnout (Peak Performance). It talks about why our traditional view of toughness is wrong.

Realizing I'm statistically halfway through life at 36. Time is the one thing you can't get more of

You can't escape Conway's Law. Might as well use it for good.

everything people say is bad about modern tech interviews is actually good 🤯

Staff Engineer was one of the more impactful books I've read in recent months. Went through the audiobook soon after becoming tech lead so the timing was perfect.

burnout doesn't work the way you think

When I first picked up Software Engineering at Google I thought it was another one of those FAANG books full of lessons that make no sense at human scale. I was surprised, lessons apply to teams as small as 5.

In his book, The Art of Science and Engineering, Richard Hamming says the key to a great career is vision. What does that really look like?

Serverless is the future. New book coming out Mar 31st and it's looking bomb

Ever wondered what it's like to make a physical book? It ain't as easy as shipping code lemme tell ya 😅