Reads
A collection of my favorite reads, in the shape of books or longform articles.
Books
- The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
- An introduction to the theory of constraints, which tought me to remember the bigger picture.
- Getting things done by David Allen
- A bit dated, but the ideas are timeless.
- The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday
- A great introduction to stoicism with bite-sized daily shorts.
- The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy
- A short, beautifully illustrated book about friendship and our lace in the world.
- Salt Fat Acid Heat by Samin Nosrat
- This book changed the way I think about flavor & cooking.
Articles
- Subtract by Derek Sivers
- When encountered with a problem, take a step back and try to solve it by removing something instead of adding.
- Write plain text files by Derek Sivers
- The benefits of writing & keeping human-readable plain text files.
- In Praise of the Gods by Simon Sarris
- If all decisions would be made rationally, our world would be gray.
- De-Atomization is the Secret to Happiness by Nat Eliason
- How our current society is shaping our expectations of happiness the wrong way.
- A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox by Henrik Karlsson
- On the beauty of blogging and the open web.
- Parse, don't validate by Alexis King
- How the right types & data structures keeps your code focussed.
- Functional Programming is not weird: you just need some new patterns by Cameron Price
- Why it's hard to judge a new programming paradigm objectively as we cling onto our roots.
- Small Functions considered Harmful by Cindy Sridharan
- A contrarian take that favors large classes and functions over small.
- Fast Software, the Best Software by Craig Mod
- How fast software gets out of our way.
- Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design by Dave Akin
- Aerospace grade engineering laws that can be applied to any shape of design.
- Introducing Eager Design by Marcello Duarte
- Unfortunately only available as slides, this was a highly influential talk that changed the way I look at large problems.
- The Grug Brained Developer
- A satirical take on how we've taken on so much complexity in modern programming.
This section was inspired by Hans Pagel.