bkyoung / reading-list

Books I'm reading or have read recently

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Reading List

• Leadership
• Interpersonal Skills
• Engineering
• Miscellaneous

Recommended

Reading List

Books I'm reading, have read this year, or am excited to read soon that I would recommend.

Leadership

Currently Reading
Recently Read	The Science of Dream Teams, Accelerate, What Got You Here Won't Get You There, Multipliers
In My Queue

Interpersonal Skills

Currently Reading
Recently Read	Influencer, Crucial Conversations, Crucial Accountability, How to Listen With Intention, Read People Like a Book
In My Queue	How to Listen, Hear, and Validate

Engineering

Currently Reading	Event Storming, The Solidbook (again), Learning Functional Programming in Go
Recently Read	The Rust Programming Language Composing Software Solving the Bottom Turtle, Go With the Domain, 100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them, Advanced GraphQL with Apollo and React, Production Ready GraphQL
In My Queue	Software Design for Flexibility

Miscellaneous

Not books, but other documents I've read that were important to my thinking and worth reading.

• A Topology of Organisational Cultures (Dr. Westrum, 2004)
• NIST SP 800-207 - Zero Trust Architecture
• Google Whitepapers about their implementation of Zero Trust Architecture (BeyondCorp)

Recommended

The books I've read which I have found to be influential in my thinking since reading.

2021	Crucial Conversations, What Got You Here Won't Get You There
2020	Clean Architecture
2019	Good Strategy/Bad Strategy
2018	A Philosophy of Software Design
2017	Site Reliability Engineering
2014	A Discussion of the Method
2013	The Phoenix Project, Continuous Delivery
2008	Pulling Strings With Puppet