Books

In today's competitive knowledge economy, you always need to keep learning —and fast. But most information and apps get in the way. This book describes 7 principles for selecting, processing and mastering knowledge using potent Mac apps.

This book is an anthology of posts on people and project management from 2008 to 2010, when the author was a manager and was roaming between management training sessions. It started as a blog, Management Bits and Tips: Reflections on Software Engineering and Software Technical Support Management, which now survives as a Facebook page, ManagementBits. When the author returned to engineering after management in 2009, he wanted to publish a book with the original title, Management Bits: An Anthology from Reductionist Manager. Around 2015, he changed its title to Critique of Management Reason: Management Bits and Tips from Can't and added a few more bits as late as 2017.

Before the dawn of AI, Software Development was a constant growth career. It still is, but the tools changed over night! Now it's not just your knowledge that needs to grow, but also your skill with the tools! While video courses can be great, nothing beats practice! This book collects 10 simple exercises to hone your agentic development and context engineering. How far can you get in 10 Days?

Fuck Your Feelings isn't here to comfort you; it's here to rip your excuses apart and force-feed you reality. Get ready for the brutal truth because nobody cares how you feel, only what you do about it.

You've set up your agent and taught it your name. With this book you teach it your patterns, your triggers, and the version of yourself you're working towards. 24 chapters. All prompts, no code.

The Windows 11 Field Guide is a full-length e-book about the latest version of Microsoft Windows, aimed at those users who will upgrade from Windows 10 or acquire Windows 11 with a new PC.

We need leaders, and eventually we want to become a really good one. Often times it is confusing still. What distinguishes a manager from a leader? What distinguishes a leader from a technical one in today tech world?  This book walks through what makes or breaks a good technical leader - in a very opinionated manner.

Many developers have above average intelligence and skills, yet, their soft-skills don't let them move forward in their career. In this book, you can read my personal experience on becoming more self-aware, more present, and as a side-effect, becoming more charismatic. Going through these experiences help you become emotionally and socially free.

A personalized guide to developing the qualities that make a successful technical leader, with practical steps for developing those qualities.

New to research? This is the one book you should read. It's got everything. It'll take you from choosing your project and starting out in a lab, through designing experiments, acquiring data and performing the appropriate analysis, and all the way on to writing up your work for publication, and presenting your work at conferences.

You already know how to work hard. The question is whether you know when to stop.Most frameworks optimize effort. The Ishi Spiral governs it. It is a discipline of self-governance that sustains performance under pressure without drifting into burnout or grinding past the point where continuation is still justified. The Guide is the Companion to 'Ishi: the Discipline of Determined Intent'.

Discover the timeless wisdom of Stoicism in a modern context with "The Stoic Mind," an enlightening visual guide by GoLimitless and Addy Osmani. 

No One is Coming to Save You is your no-fluff guide to thriving in chaos. Forget trends and templates—this book delivers the essential human skills (“Power-Ups”) you need to survive and grow in an uncertain world. Straight talk, real stories, and practical tools from two people who’ve failed forward so you don’t have to.

This book will not teach you anything you did not know, but may remind you of the things you have forgotten.