"Notes to a Software Team Leader" - on Audible, is an older version of my print book "Elastic Leadership": https://www.audible.com/pd/Notes-to-a-Software-Team-Leader-A...
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#32The Goal
Novel by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
A business fiction book that describes "The Theory of Constraints" a process initially applied in manufacturing that deals with optimizing production line systems.
I found the sections on identifying a bottle neck in a system, focusing on optimizing the system around this point and re-evaluating system performance afterwards very applicable to software engineering.
Everything from CICD pipelines, the flow of work through your team to or performance optimizing a service oriented architecture.
Very much a fore father to books like Phoenix Project mentioned by others here.
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#33I enjoyed the audiobook versions (while following along with or having already read the written version) of Grokking Algorithms and Classic Computer Science Problems with Python
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#34I agree that it’s tough to truly grok technical material in purely audio format. With that said, I think you can learn a ton by learning about the history, trends, and other software companies. Here are some of my favorites:
The Dream Machine
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer a Revolution
How the Internet Happened
The Soul of a New Machine
AI Superpowers
Platform Revolution
The Everything Store
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#35The Goal Novel by Eliyahu M. Goldratt A business fiction book that describes "The Theory of Constraints" a process initially applied in manufacturing that deals with optimizing production line systems. I found the sections on identifying a bottle neck in a system, focusing on optimizing the system around this point and re-evaluating system performance afterwards very applicable to software engineering. Everything fro…
Having recently listened to The Goal on Audible, it may be worth noting that it has multiple voice actors as well as ambient background sounds. Definitely adds some color to an already impressive novel.
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#36"Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions" by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths is an interesting listen on Audible. Surprised that nobody has mentioned it here yet. It is a perfect candidate for an audiobook because of lack of code snippets and formulae.
2nded. Amazing and engaging book
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#39I would check out https://www.sumizeit.com. They have great nonfiction book summaries that you can read or listen to.
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#40"Organon" and "Metaphysics" by Aristotle. I've found that the more I think in Aristotelian terms, the easier it is to design and model my systems.
Really!? My undergraduate degree was in philosophy. I spent a lot of time studying Aristotle’s “Metaphysics” (which isn’t about metaphysics). How does it apply to software development? Nichomachean Ethics are very helpful. But don't read Aristotle's actual work unless you have a philosophy background. Way too dense and complicated. Try "Aristotle For Everyone" by Mortimer J. Adler, and then "Aristotle" by David Ross.
System modeling is frequently the task of sorting the universal from particular, the substance from the accidents, etc. This is especially true in the object-oriented world. Functional programming and system integration are essentially answering the questions "what causes this?" and "what ought to cause this?"
I'm not a fan of the Nichomachean Ethics. I'm of the Augustinian school.