Books

2024

• Elon Musk
• Becoming Steve Jobs
• The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within

2023

• The Team Onion
• Managing Oneself
• The One Minute Manager (re-read)
• The Tao of Coaching
• To Have or To Be?
• Leadership and the One Minute Manager
• Longitude
• The Effective Executive
• The Concise 33 Strategies of War
• Creative Selection
• High Fidelity
• Reach for the Sky

2022

• The Jobs-to-be-Done Handbook
• A Promised Land
• Bravo Two Zero (re-read)
• Takeaway: Stories from a childhood behind the counter
• Good Strategy / Bad Strategy
• Humankind: A Hopeful History
• Coup d’État: A Practical Handbook
• The Plight of Potential

2021

• Promotion of Access to Information Act: A Practical Guide for Social Justice Activists and Organisations
• The Agile Comms Handbook
• Design Patterns in Ruby
• Masters of Doom
• Sixty Million Frenchmen Can’t Be Wrong
• A World Without Email
• The Linz Café
• First Overland: London - Singapore by Land Rover
• Staying Put: Making a Home in a Restless World
• Immediate Action (re-read)
• The Nature of Order Book 4: The Luminous Ground
• The Manual – A Philosopher’s Guide to Life
• The Nature of Order Book 3: A Vision of a Living World

2020

• The Nature of Order Book 2: The Process of Creating Life
• The Nature of Order Book 1: The Phenomenon of Life
• Man’s Search for Meaning
• Meet Me in the Bathroom
• The Solace of Open Spaces
• Competing Against Luck
• The Idea Factory
• Shifting Patterns: Christopher Alexander and the Eishin Campus
• Remote: Office Not Required
• Leonardo Da Vinci
• 256 Bloghacks
• Escape from Freedom

2019

• Becoming (Michelle Obama)
• The Secret Barrister
• Permanent Record
• Kitchen Confidential
• Elegant Objects (Volume 1)
• Shape Up
• The Bottleneck Rules
• Keep Going
• Steal Like An Artist
• The Surfboard: How Using My Hands Helped Unlock My Mind
• Maverick
• Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War
• How to Win Friends and Influence People
• Envisioning Information
• Domain Driven Design (3-Hour Nontechnical Path Through the Book)
• How to Build a Car
• Deep Work (Part 2)
• The Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth: A Struggle between Two World-Systems

2018

• Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby: An Agile Primer
• Finding Flow
• Eloquent Ruby
• The Pragmatic Programmer
• Notes on the Synthesis of Form (Part 1)
• It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work
• Ways to Connect: On Interface and Product Design
• Little Bets: How breakthrough ideas emerge from small discoveries
• The Talent Code: Greatness isn’t born. It's grown.
• Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
• So Good They Can't Ignore You (re-read)
• More Letters of Note (Finished 2019)
• An Introduction to General Systems Thinking (unfinished)
• The Oregon Experiment
• Show Your Work!
• Peopleware
• Blue Ocean Strategy
• The Manager’s Path (Chapters 1-5)
• Turn the Ship Around!

2017

• Steve Jobs
• The Design of Everyday Things
• Fifty cars that changed the world
• Principles
• Community Building on the Web (unfinished)

2016

• Selling the Invisible (re-read)
• So Good They Can't Ignore You
• The Lean Startup
• Maintaining Open Source Projects
• Thinking, Fast and Slow (unfinished)

2015

• A Guide to the Good Life
• Are your lights on
• Mastering Bitcoin (~75%. Got bored)
• The 4 hour workweek
• The Phoenix Project
• Driving Technical Change
• The Passionate Programmer
• The $100 Startup
• Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby (Chapters 1-6)

2014

• Web Operations
• RabbitMQ in Action (unfinished)
• The One Minute Manager

2013

• Devops for Developers
• The Well-Grounded Rubyist (30%)
• User Stories Applied For Agile Software Development
• Deal With It

The Past

• A Practical Guide to Information Architecture
• Agile Web Development with Rails
• CSS Mastery
• Defensive Design for the Web
• Don't Make Me Think
• Foundation Rails 2
• Getting Real
• Getting Things Done
• Information Architecture
• ReWork
• Simple and Usable
• Sinatra: Up and Running
• The Elements of Style