I've decided to write some book reviews.
To kick it off, I added a Book Reviews section to the site to do some reviews of books I've enjoyed and found useful. It'll take me some time to do them all, but I'm hoping I can do 1-2 per week for a little while. I'll also aim to do a more of a deep dive post along-side these.
My first reviews cover Mythical Man-Month and The Culture Code, both books that have been hugely influential for me professionally.
Topics
Leadership and Team Dynamics
- The Truth About Burnout by Christina Maslach and Michael P. Leiter
- Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
- The Fast Forward MBA in Project Management by Eric Verzuh
- Team of Teams by Gen. Stanley McChrystal
Digital Transformation, Agile, and DevOps
- Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren PhD, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim
- Agile Software Development with Scrum by Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle
- Agile Project Management with Scrum by Ken Schwaber
- Test Driven Development by Kent Beck
Architecture and Systems Engineering
- Fundamentals of Software Architecture by Mark Richards and Neal Ford
- Thinking in Systems by Donella H. Meadows
- Space Systems Failures by David M. Harland and Ralph Lorenz
- Architecting Spacecraft with SysML by Sanford Friedenthal and Christopher Oster
Mathematics
- Humble Pi by Matt Parker
- Basic Training in Mathematics by R. Shankar
- Heavenly Mathematics by Glen Van Brummelen
- Spherical Trigonometry by I. Todhunter
- A First Course in Graph Theory by Gary Chartrand and Ping Zhang
Software Engineering & Computer Science
- Cracking the Coding Interview by Gayle Laakmann McDowell
- Fundamentals of Python Data Structures by Kenneth Lambert
- Introduction to Machine Learning with Python by Andreas C. Müller and Sarah Guido
- High Performance Python by Micha Gorelick and Ian Ozsvald
- Eloquent Javascript by by Marijn Haverbeke
- You Don't Know JS (or the second edition, You Don't Know JS Yet) by Kyle Simpson
- Head First Design Patterns by Eric Freeman and Elisabeth Robson
- Modern Cryptography by Chuck Easttom
- Refactoring by Martin Fowler
General STEM
- Drawing Physics by Don S. Lemons
- Physics Made Simple by Christopher De Pree
- Longitude by Dava Sobel
- The Lost Art of Finding our Way by John Edward Huth
- Failure is Not an Option by Gene Kranz
- Breaking the Chains of Gravity by Amy Shira Teitel