Book recommendations

A list of books I read and recommend reading. Plus, blogs and podcasts I follow below.

Software development

• The Pragmatic Programmer by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas
• The Clean Code by Robert C. Martin

Habits

• Atomic Habits by James Clear
• The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy
• The 5AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life by Robin Sharma

Business

• The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
• Good to Great by Jim Collins
• Start with Why by Simon Sinek
• The Highoutput Management by Andrew S. Grove
• The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen
• Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
• The Unfair Advantage by Ash Ali and Hasan Kubba

Finance

• The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason
• Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki
• Poor Charlie’s Almanack by Peter D. Kaufman

Fiction

• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• I Robot by Isaac Asimov
• Dune by Frank Herbert

Random

• Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
• The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson
• Shogun by James Clavell

Blogs

The web is full of great content. A list of some.

• Paul Graham
• Martin Fowler
• Joel On Software by Joel Spolsky
• Dave Farley
• Harvard Business Review
• Farnam Street by Shane Parrish
• Derek Sivers
• Collabfund
• Software Design: Tidy First? by Kent Beck
• The Pragmatic Engineer by Gergely Orosz
• Kevlin Henney

Podcasts

• The a16z Podcast by Andreessen Horowitz
• Huberman Lab by Andrew Huberman
• Founders Podcast by David Senra
• Continuous Delivery by Dave Farley