Book Journal

 Below is a list of the books I have read that I enjoyed enough to recommend.

2024

  • First, Break all the Rules

    A compelling overview of what great managers do. Gallup compiled results from thousands of manager interviews which lends credibility to their findings.

  • Battle Cry of Freedom

    An in-depth history of the Civil War

  • The Phoenix Project

    An overview of how lean management can be applied to development and IT organizations. Entertainingly told through a fictional tale of a struggling business.

  • The Anxious Generation

    Proposes reasons why our younger generations are more anxious than those before, great food for thought for young parents.

  • Python for Data Analysis

    An introduction to Python’s padas library and how to use it to prepare and analyze data.

  • Practical Statistics for Data Scientists

    Presents several Monte Carlo data analysis techniques that are often simpler to explain to readers than traditional mathsy statistics. Includes plenty of code samples.

  • Deep Learning with Python

    An in depth tutorial on how to train deep learning models with Keras. It covers several specific applications, e.g., image processing and generative LLMs.

  • Revenge of the Tipping Point

    Shows how the principles of epidemics apply to social problems, like the opioid epidemic. This was a great look at how a majority value can be upended by a minority of dissenters.

  • Blink

    Blink

    Explores the ways humans make fast subconscious decisions in the first few moments (blinks) of day to day situations. It discusses the surprising times when these split decisions are and are not accurate.

2023

  • Talking to Strangers

  • How to Measure Anything

  • Humans vs Computers

  • The Manager's Path

  • Modern Java in Action

  • Software Engineering at Google

  • Outliers the Story of Success

2022

  • Influence the Psychology of Persuasion

  • Thinking Fast and Slow

  • Resilient Management

  • An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management