Favorite Books
The following is a list of books that have had a profound impact on me. I’m always looking out for exceptional reads, so please send them my way.
Software & Engineering
- The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering by Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
- Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams by Tom DeMarco | Goodreads
- The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal
- Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers by Geoffrey A. Moore
- To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design by Henry Petroski
Science & Psychology
- Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick
- The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
- Thinking in Systems by Donella H. Meadows
- The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
- The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick
- The Psychology of the Child by Jean Piaget
Society
- Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman
- The Cult of Information: A Neo-Luddite Treatise on High-Tech, Artificial Intelligence, and the True Art of Thinking by Theodore Roszak
- 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
Business
- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
- The Mind of the Strategist: The Art of Japanese Business by Kenichi Ohmae
- Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco by Bryan Burrough
- Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull