Reading
Books I've finished.
A selective list of books I've completed — mostly software, systems, leadership, and startups, with regular detours into history, economics, and ideas.
Software craft & systems
- 2021Designing Data-Intensive Applications
- 2021Software Engineering at Google
- 2025Site Reliability Engineering
- 2022Accelerate
- 2020The Pragmatic Programmer
- 2020Clean Code
- 2021The Clean Coder
- 2021Clean Architecture
- 2022Thinking in Systems
- 2022The Design of Everyday Things
- 2024The Kubernetes Book
- 2025System Design Interview
Engineering leadership
- 2025The Engineering Executive’s Primer
- 2024An Elegant Puzzle
- 2021Staff Engineer
- 2025The Startup CTO’s Handbook
- 2024The First 90 Days
- 2022The Manager’s Path
- 2024Leading Effective Engineering Teams
- 2026The Phoenix Project
- 2024The Staff Engineer’s Path
- 2021Managing Humans
- 2022The Art of Leadership
- 2022Radical Candor
Startups & business
- 2025Zero to One
- 2025The Hard Thing About Hard Things
- 2025Blitzscaling
- 2025The Startup of You
- 2025Amazon Shareholder Letters
- 2022Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter
Ideas, history & economics
- 2019Sapiens
- 2024Homo Deus
- 2025Predictably Irrational
- 2022Algorithms to Live By
- 2025The Dawn of Everything
- 2024Debt: The First 5,000 Years
- 2022Behavioral Economics: When Psychology and Economics Collide
- 2023Progress and Poverty
- 2019Reality Is Not What It Seems
Fiction & literature
- 2020Half of a Yellow Sun
- 2022Animal Farm
- 2019The Little Prince
Family & parenting
- 2021The Montessori Toddler
- 2020The Expectant Father
- 2021The New Father
- 2020The Happiest Baby on the Block