Ovi's Digital Library

Communication

  1. Unleash the Power of Storytelling: Win Hearts, Change Minds, Get Results by Rob Biesenbach.

Computer architecture

  1. What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory by Ulrich Drepper.

Concurrency

  1. Race conditions deep dive by Steve Gibson: https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-970-Notes.pdf.

Data applications

  1. Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann.

Design

  1. The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman.

Economics

  1. Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail, by Ray Dalio.

Effectiveness

  1. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones, by James Clear.
  2. Principles: Life and Work, by Ray Dalio.

Health

  1. Life Time: The New Science of the Body Clock, and How It Can Revolutionize Your Sleep and Health, by Russell Foster.

Leadership

  1. Rise: 3 Practical Steps for Advancing Your Career, Standing Out as a Leader, and Liking Your Life, by Patty Azzarello, Keith Ferrazzi.
  2. Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t by Simon Sinek.
  3. Turn The Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders by L. David Marquet, Stephen R Covey.
  4. No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention, by Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer.

Personal finance

  1. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness, by Eric Jorgenson.
  2. The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness, by Morgan Housel.
  3. The Simple Path to Wealth: Your Road Map to Financial Independence and a Rich, Free Life, by JL Collins.

Psychology

  1. Man’s Search For Meaning by Viktor E Frankl.
  2. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman.

Project management and planning

  1. Shape Up - Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters, by Ryan Singer.
  2. The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering by Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
  3. Lean Software Systems Engineering for Developers: Managing Requirements, Complexity, Teams, and Change Like a Champ by Doug Durham, Chad Michel.

Software engineering

  1. Accelerate - The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations, by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim.
  2. Joel on Software: And on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of Interest to Software Developers, Designers, and Managers, and to Those Who, Whether by Good Fortune or Ill Luck, Work with Them in Some Capacity, by Joel Spolsky.
  3. Release It! Second Edition - Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software, by Michael Nygard.
  4. The Pragmatic Programmer, 20th Anniversary Edition - your journey to mastery, by David Thomas, Andrew Hunt.
  5. Elements of Programming by Alexander Stepanov, Paul McJones.
  6. Debugging: The 9 Indispensable Rules for Finding Even the Most Elusive Software and Hardware Problems, by David J. Agans.

Statistics and machine learning

  1. An Introduction to Statistical Learning by Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani.

Storage systems

  1. S3: https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2023/07/building-and-operating-a-pretty-big-storage-system.html.

Strategy

  1. The Art of War by Sun Tzu.

Tools

  1. Practical Vim, Second Edition - Edit Text at the Speed of Thought, by Drew Neil.
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