For the second year in the row, we kick started our year with a book club event in which everyone brought in their favorite text/audio and discussed it. What was really interesting is that there were more podcasts than books this year, but technical books still held strongly.
We have composed a list of worthy entries (as deemed by the January attendees) for anyone’s 2019 reading/listening resolutions. The entries are as follows, in no particular order:
Books:
- Bounce - Matthew Syek (Book)
- Mindset: Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential - Dr Carol Dweck (Book)
- Outliers: The Story of Success - Malcolm Gladwell (Book)
- The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World - Michael Lewis (Book)
- The Bottleneck Rules: How To Get More Done at Work, Without Working Harder - Clarke Ching (Book)
- The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement - Eliyahu M. Goldratt (Book)
- Dollars and Sense: How We Misthink Money and How to Spend Smarter - Dr Dan Ariely, Jeff Kreisler (Book)
- Ends.: Why we overlook endings for humans, products, services and digital. And why we shouldn’t - Joe Macleod (Book)
- Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think - Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund (Book)
- ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever - David Heinemeier Hansson and Jason Fried (Book)
- It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work -Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson (Book)
- The Phoenix Project: A Novel about It, Devops, and Helping Your Business Win - Gene Kim and Kevin Behr (Book)
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism - Robin DiAngelo (Book)
- This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor - Adam Kay (Book)
- Working - Harvey Pekar’s adaptation of Studs Terkel’s book,
Code Technical Books:
- Working Effectively with Legacy Code - Michael Feathers (Book)
- Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship - Robert C. Martin (Book)
- Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code - Martin Fowler (Book)
- Infrastructure as Code: Managing Servers in the Cloud - Kief Morris (Book)
- Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns - Kent Beck (Book)
- Test Driven Development: By Example (The Addison-Wesley Signature Series) - Kent Beck (Book)
Podcasts:
- Syntax Fm (Podcast)
- Soft skills engineering (Podcast)
- Futility Closet (Podcast)
- Answer Me This! (Podcast)
- No Such Thing As A Fish (Podcast)
- The Bike Shed (Podcast)
- Griefcast (Podcast)
- The Infinite Monkey Cage (Podcast)
- Dr Death (Podcast)
- How I Built This (Podcast)
- Coding Blocks (Podcast)
- UI Breakfast (Podcast)
Other
- Toyota Improvement Kata (Various Resources)
- Learning from failure. Why feel like the fool? - Gillian Carmichael (Blogpost)