Valentino Gagliardi

Posted on Sep 4, 2019

What are the books that helped shaping your career?

#discuss #career

Mine are:

The Pragmatic Programmer by Andy Hunt
Code complete by Steve McConnell
Clean Code by Robert Martin
Refactoring (and its second ed.) by Martin Fowler

Name your own!

Top comments (19)

Paweł Kowalski • Sep 5 '19

Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink
Dont look for excuses, take responsibility.

12 rules for life, an antidote to chaos by Jordan Peterson
Open mind learns faster and achieves bigger things in teams.

Discrimination and disparities by Thomas Sowell
Measure when you can. Statistics are used to manipulate us. Guessing and listening to those who feed us statistics is often worse than doing nothing.

🦄N B🛡 • Nov 19 '20

I've read all of these, and I second the recommendations.

The most "extreme" part of the Extreme Ownership book was when some of Mr. Willinck's people died in an operation for which he was the commander.

He decided in his report to the higher ups that he should be the fall guy, and take full responsibility for their deaths.

It's heavy stuff, and the message for your work is sobering, even chilling. But it's fascinating and easy to read.

Muhammad • Sep 5 '19 • Edited

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

Development in my opinion is just learning how to use a tool, but learning how to use life is what can really shape careers.

Valentino Gagliardi • Sep 5 '19

Thanks for sharing!

Muhammad • Sep 5 '19

Your Welcome, do go through them and let me know, i would love to discuss your findings.

Bulama Yusuf • Sep 9 '19

The Mythical Man-Month by Fred Brooks

Being Geek by Michael Lopp

The Richest Man in Babylon by George Samuel Clason

Cashflow Quadrant by Robert Kiyosaki

Agile IT Organisation Design by Sriram Narayan

Deep Work by Cal Newport

Principles by Ray Dalio

ReWork by David Heinemeier Hansson and Jason Fried

Bruce Axtens • Sep 4 '19 • Edited

Code Complete by Steve McConnell
Notation as a Tool of Thought by Kenneth E. Iverson (inventor of APL)
Starting FORTH by Leo Brodie
The Art of Assembly Language by Randall Hyde
The Book of Informatics by John G. Gammack, Valerie Hobbs, Diarmuid Pigott (I haven't read the book fully. I just know the authors, particularly the last one and so have been hearing aspects of the book from him for some time)

Max Ong Zong Bao • Sep 4 '19

Matt Shirlaw • Sep 4 '19

Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought by Drew Neil 😉

Roy Larsen • Sep 5 '19

The Phoenix Project

Dave van Herten • Sep 4 '19 • Edited

Domain Driven Design by Eric Evans as well as all of Vaughn Vernon's followup books have probably had the biggest impact for me. Otherwise I second just about everything on this list, particularly Code Complete.

Matt Eland • Sep 4 '19

Pragmatic Programmer, code complete, working effectively with legacy code, managing humans, the manager's path, debugging teams, turn the ship around, the Phoenix project, and the advantage all come to mind.