This page contains a collection of links to external resources that I find interesting, and if you’ve enjoyed any of my writing, you might too.
Books
A collection of books I’ve read, and my rating out of 5 stars. Please suggest more books for me to read.
| The Goal: A Business Graphic Novel | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| How to Win Friends and Influence People | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| Thinking, Fast and Slow | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| Outliers: The Story of Success | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| The Phoenix Project | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| Human Universe | ⭐⭐⭐ |
| Machines that Think | ⭐⭐⭐ |
| Gödel, Escher, Bach | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| The Startup Way | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| The Lean Startup | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| Coders at Work | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| Flow | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
Videos
A collection of great presenters and my favourite of their talks. In many cases it was hard to pick a single favourite, so take a look at their other talks too.
| Joe Armstrong | The How and Why of Fitting Things Together |
| Kent Beck | Explore/ |
| Gary Bernhardt | Boundaries |
| Gilad Bracha | Composing Software |
| Edwin Brady | Type-Driven Development in Idris |
| Bryan Cantrill | Leadership Without Management |
| Doug Engelbart | The Mother of All Demos |
| Richard Feynman | Computer Heuristics |
| Raymond Hettinger | Beyond PEP 8 |
| Rich Hickey | Simple Made Easy |
| Alan Kay | Power of Simplicity |
| Barbara Liskov | The Power of Abstraction |
| Robert C. Martin | SOLID Principles |
| Erik Meijer | Category Theory |
| Sandi Metz | Nothing is Something |
| James Mickens | Life As A Developer |
| Joel Spolsky | Joel on Software |
| Guy Steele | Growing a Language |
| Tekin Süleyman | A Branch in Time (a story about revision histories) |
| Des Traynor | Be Wary of Solving a Small, Rare Problem |
| Bret Victor | The Future of Programming |
These are some great full lecture series. I chose to keep these separate from the above list as they are a much bigger time commitment.
| Abelson and Sussman | Structure and Interpretation |
| Jerry Cain | Programming Paradigms |
| Doug Crockford | Crockford on JavaScript |
| Simon Peyton Jones | Adventures with Types in Haskell |
Papers
A collection of great papers and essays.
| Richard Gabriel | Worse is Better |
| Paul Lockhart | A Mathematician’s Lament |
| Donella Meadows | Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System |
| Ken Thompson | Reflections on Trusting Trust |