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Book backlog

Books

Anyone who keeps learning... stays young. - Henry Ford

Recommendation

• Ackoff's Best: His Classic Writings on Management
• UNIX: A History and a Memoir
• Mythical Man-Month, The: Essays on Software Engineering
• A Philosophy of Software Design
• Data and Reality
• The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

Strategy

• The Art of Strategy: Steps Towards Business Agility
• Cloud Strategy
• Platform Strategy
• Building Software Platforms
• Sooner Safer Happier: Antipatterns and Patterns for Business Agility

Clubs

• https://siguccs.org/wp/book-club-lets-read-together/

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• https://press.stripe.com/

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• Ideas That Created the Future Classic Papers of Computer Science

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Lists

• Computing the Humanexperience
• https://www.edbatista.com/reading-list.html
• https://www.enterpriseintegrationpatterns.com/books1.html
• The Art of Leadership: Purpose and Integrity for Sustainable Success
• Read This Twice
• Books I’ve read
• short summary/review of the books
• http://www.roundcrisis.com/2018/10/04/recommended-history/

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Architecture

• Software Development and Reality Construction
• Enterprise Integration Patterns
• Ways of Worldmaking
• The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn
• THE ART OF SYSTEMS ARCHITECTING
• Regulating Big Tech: Policy Responses to Digital Dominance

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Technical Leadership Masterclass

• Thinking, Fast and Slow

• Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software

• Reed Hastings: Building Netflix

• Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations

• The Unicorn Project

• The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

• The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change

• Eli Goldratt

• Sam Walton: Made In America

• Ultra-Large-Scale Systems The Software Challenge of the Future

• The Customer-Driven Culture: A Microsoft Story

• Lean Enterprise

• Overcoming Organizational Defenses: Facilitating Organizational Learning

• Becoming a Technical Leader: An Organic Problem-Solving Approach

• The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully

• The Psychology of Computer Programming

• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

• How People Harness Their Collective Wisdom And Power to Construct the Future

• An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management

• Deviate: The Science of Seeing Differently

• Principles: Life and Work

• The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life

• The Art of Leadership: Small Things, Done Well

• RESILIENT MANAGEMENT

• Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager

• Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow

• Transforming Nokia: The Power of Paranoid Optimism to Lead Through Colossal Change

• Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

• Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works

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• Database Internals
• Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems
• Streaming Systems: The What, Where, When, and How of Large-Scale Data Processing
• Software Engineering at Google
• A Handbook of Software Studies

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• Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans
• AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
• The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World

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• Engineering a Safer World: Systems Thinking Applied to Safety
• Resilience Engineering: Concepts and Precepts
• The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error'

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• Mark Twain: Preacher, Prophet, and Social Philosopher