📑 Tech Professional Reading List - Books for Engineers and Leaders
Bookshelf
Books in my current short-list to read next
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human | Joy Buolamwini |
| Right/Wrong: How Technology Transforms Our Ethics | Juan Enriquez |
| Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor | Virginia Eubanks |
| The Startup CTO's Handbook: Essential skills and insights to lead engineering teams | Zach Goldberg |
| System Design Interview – An insider's guide | Alex Xu |
| Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy | Cathy O'Neil |
| Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow | Yuval Noah Harari |
| The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future | Kevin Kelly |
| Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence | Max Tegmark |
| Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again | Eric Topol |
| The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power | Shoshana Zuboff |
| The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World | Pedro Domingos |
| Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World | Bruce Schneier |
| Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It | Marc Goodman |
| The Fourth Industrial Revolution | Klaus Schwab |
| The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies | Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee |
| Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind | Yuval Noah Harari |
| Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions | Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths |
| Thinking, Fast and Slow | Daniel Kahneman |
| Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think | Hans Rosling |
| Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions | Dan Ariely |
| Outliers: The Story of Success | Malcolm Gladwell |
| How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need | Bill Gates |
| What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions | Randall Munroe |
| Permanent Record | Edward Snowden |
| Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World | Cal Newport |
| So You've Been Publicly Shamed | Jon Ronson |
| The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail – But Some Don't | Nate Silver |
| The Design of Everyday Things | Don Norman |
| The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses | Eric Ries |
| The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail | Clayton M. Christensen |
| Rework | Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson |
| Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us | Daniel H. Pink |
| Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die | Chip Heath, Dan Heath |
| The Art of War | Sun Tzu |
| Thinking in Systems: A Primer | Donella H. Meadows |
| Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking | Susan Cain |
| The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life | Mark Manson |
| Educated | Tara Westover |
| The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma | Bessel A. van der Kolk |
| Finite and Infinite Games | James P. Carse |
| The Midnight Library | Matt Haig |
| Foundation | Isaac Asimov |
| Meditations | Marcus Aurelius |
| Lao Tzu | Tao Te Ching |
| Sapiens:A Brief History of Humankind | Yuval Noah Harari |
| The Better Angels of Our Nature | Steven Pinker |
| MAU: Samoa's struggle against New Zealand oppression | Michael J. Field |
| Capitalism and Freedom | Milton Friedman |
| Gangland: New Zealands Underworld of Organized Crime | Jared Savage |
| Thinking in Systems | Donella H. Meadows |
| Capital | Karl Marx |
| Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies | Nick Bostrom |
| The 48 Laws of Power | Robert Greene |
| Kubernetes Patterns: Reusable Elements for Designing Cloud-Native Applications | Bilgin Ibryam & Roland Hub |
| Terraform Up & Running: Writing Infrastructure as Code | Yevgeniy Brikman |
Finished Reading
Books I've finished reading and ready for review, write-up
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Deep Work | Cal Newport |
| Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence | Max Tegmark |
| The War of Art | Steven Pressfield |
| Who Rules the World? | Noam Chomsky |
| Threat Modeling: Designing for Security | Adam Shostack |
| Shouting Zeros and Ones: Digital Technology, Ethics and Policy in New Zealand | various, edited by Andrew Chen |
| On Anarchism | Noam Chomsky |
| The True Believer: Thought on the nature of mass movements | Eric Hoffer |
| Man's Search for Meaning | Viktor E. Frankl |