Here’s a list of books I’ve picked up and will recommend. For more details on my reading journey, follow me on goodreads. You can also buy me a book
[ 2022 ]
So good they can't ignore you - Cal Newport
Genres: Nonfiction, Self Help, Business
The Psychology of Money - Housel Morgan
Genres: Nonfiction, Economics, Finance, Psychology
21 lessons for the 21st century - Yuval Noah Harari
Genres: Nonfiction, History, Philosophy
Atomic Habits - James Clear
Genres: Nonfiction, psychology
The book explores the science of habits. How to start good habits and lose bad ones. The author described how habits are formed through systems we create to change our behaviors. Rather than simply setting goals, having systems will lead us to our goals and beyond. Some concepts I learned about through the book are:
- Habit stacking
- Principle of least action
- Ulysses pact
- Goldilocks rule
- Aggregation of marginal changes
- Plateau of latent potential
- Temptation bundling - making sure to do things we like only as an incentive to things we need to do.
[ 2021 ]
The midnight library - Matt Haig
Genres: Fiction, Fantasy, Contemporary
A fictional book on the life of Nora Reed – A lady who got an opportunity to explore lives that she could have lived through a library with a book of regrets that let’s her experience all the “what ifs” she could have taken in her life while she’s in a moment between life and death.
Think again - Adam Grant
A promised land - Barack Obama
[ 2020 ]
Art direction on the web - Andy Clarke
Becoming - Michelle Obama
The Intelligent Investor - Benjamin Graham
Essentialism - The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
It doesn't have to be crazy at work - Jason Fried
Refactoring UI
Resilient web design - Jeremy Keith
[ 2019 ]
Rich dad, poor dad
The 21-day financial fast - Michelle Singletary
We're going to need more wine - Gabrielle Union
The last black unicorn - Tiffany Haddish
[ 2016 ]
Why's poignant guide to Ruby
Practical Object Oriented Design Ruby (POODR)
Nice girls don't get rich - Lois P. Frankel
My mom passed down this book to me. While I didn’t see her live by the rules in the book, so far it has helpe me in my marriage to make my wife aware of everything going on in our finances (or at least the core and critical parts).
The Imposter's Handbook - Rob Conery
[ 2015 ]
You don't know JS - Kyle Simpsons
This was a good read to solidify my understanding of JS and to fill some knowledge gaps I had.
Rails 4 in action - Ryan Biggs et al
Into my 2nd year writing code in rails, a lot from rails 4 in action helped me understand the reasoning for how rails came about and how to take advantage of it.
[ 2014 ]
The Design of Everyday Things - Don Norman
RiceTea - Julien McArdle
Genres: Fiction, Computer Hacking
Unfortunately, this book disappeared from the face of earth but it was one of my favorite books at a time when I was fascinated with computer hacking and phreaking. The book is a lot similar to the 1994 movie – Hackers.
Art of Deception - Kevin Mitnick
Art of Intrustion - Kevin Mitnick
Ghost in the wires - Kevin Mitnick
[ Recurring ]
Mathematics for 3D Game Programming and Computer Graphics
Foundation HTML5 Animation with JavaScript
Cracking the coding interview - Gayle Mcdowell
CSS Secrets - Lea Verou
SVG Animations - Sarah Drasner
[ Dump ]
- Shape Up - Stop running in cycles and ship work that matters
- Embodiment of Grace - Grace Festus
- Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
- Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Kon-Tiki - Thor Heyerdahl
- Bossy Pants - Tina Fey
- So you want to talk about race - Ijeoma Oluo
- Factfulness - Hans Rosling
- Computer Science - An Interdisciplinary approach - Robert Sedgewick, Kevin Wayne
- Algorithms 4th Edition - Robert Sedgewick, Kevin Wayne
- Computer Intelligence - Andries P. Engelbrecht
- Concepts of Programming Languages - Robert W. Sebesta
- 99 bottles of OOP
- Open Source Intelligence Techniques - Michael Bazzell
- Don’t shoot the dog - Karen Pryor
- 1984 - George Orwell
- Growing Gills - How to find creative focus when you’re drowning in your daily life
- Personal Kanban - Jim Benson