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.

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