books, good articles, interesting podcasts
2026
- Digital Minimalism - Cal Newport
ISBN: 978-0525536512
- Morning Star - Pierce Brown
ISBN: 978-0345539847
- Golden Son - Pierce Brown
ISBN: 978-0345539823
- Red Rising - Pierce Brown
ISBN: 978-0345539786
- How to Win Friends & Influence People - Dale Carnegie
- Could, Should, Might, Don't: How We Think About The Future - Nick Foster
ISBN: 978-0374619350
- The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn - Richard W. Hamming
2025
- Backing up Spotify - annas archive
- Slow Productivity - Cal Newport
ISBN: 978-0593544853
- Learning Patterns - Lydia Hallie, Addy Osmani
- The Pragmatic Programmer - David Thomas & Andrew Hunt
- Say No by Default - 37signals
- The Art of Leadership - Michael Lopp
- The Software Developer's Career Handbook - Michael Lopp
- The Art of Peace - Morihei Ueshiba
- Deep Work - Cal Newport
ISBN: 978-1455586691
- Dante's Inferno - Dante Alighieri
- Tidy First?: A Personal Exercise in Empirical Software Design - Kent Beck
ISBN: 978-1098151249
and beyond
- Philosophy, Social Theory, and The Thought of George Herbet Mead - Mitchell Aboulafia
- Building a Storybrand - Donald Miller
- simplicity: sustainable, humane, and effective software development - Dave Thomas
ISBN: 979-8888651544
- Contract Testing in Action - Marie Crus and Lewis Prescott
- No Hello - @notjosh
- Limitless - Jim Kwik
- Upstream - Dan Heath