The following is a list of books, talks, and blog posts I’ve read over the years.

The topics mostly focus on programming, economics, and systems thinking. Most of the books are non-fiction. Entries in bold indicate a favorite. This is inspired by Patrick Collison’s Bookshelf.

Books

• _why’s Poignant Guide to Ruby
• Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
• Amusing Ourselves to Death
• Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
• Capital and Ideology
• Capital in the 21st Century
• Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
• Component-based Rails Applications
• The Death and Life of Great American Cities
• The Design of Design
• The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations
• Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software
• Drift into Failure
• Dune
• An Elegant Puzzle
• Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change
• The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
• The Goal
• Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
• Good to Great
• Hard Landing
• Homo Deus
• Implementing Domain Driven Design
• The Intelligent Investor
• Learn You a Haskell
• Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life
• The Little Book of Common Sense Investing
• Lying for Money: How Legendary Frauds Reveal the Workings of Our World
• Measure What Matters
• The Mythical Man Month
• The Next Millionaire Next Door
• A Pattern Language
• The Phoenix Project
• Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby
• The Pragmatic Programmer
• A Random Walk Down Wall Street
• Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
• Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
• The Rise and Fall of American Growth
• Sapiens
• The Score Takes Care of Itself
• Seeing Like a State
• Staff Engineer
• Subprime Attention Crisis
• Thinking: Fast and Slow
• Thinking in Systems: A Primer
• The Three-Body Problem
• Thus Spake Zarathustra
• Turn the Ship Around!
• What Got You Here Won’t Get You There
• Working Effectively with Legacy Code

Talks

• Destroy All Software Screencasts
• Functional Core, Imperative Shell a.k.a. the Boundaries Talk
• Ideology
• Simple Made Easy
• Yes, I Test in Production (And So Do You)

Blog Posts

• How to Write a Git Commit Message
• Professor Frisby’s Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming

Sites

• An Introduction to Elm
• Going Critical
• Guide to the Phoenix Web Framework