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Clean Coder

This book is a window to a future you, wisened by years or decades of experience. Any time you can find that window, open it.

Conscious Business

This book is completely different from other management books, but also seemingly the same. It builds on concepts you definitely know, simple ones, but presents them in an easy-to-follow and highly tactical fashion, one at a time, then brings it all together into one simple but powerful package.

Dare to Lead

This book is my favorite management book to date. Perhaps it is just me, but this book spoke to me in greater fashion than others. Others had situations that felt familiar, but not exact. This book felt dead on 100% of the time, which made it all the more powerful.

Radical Candor

This book provides what in some organizations may be a radical idea: actually saying what you think. This provides benefits for both recipient and deliverant, even if it increases some awkwardness.

Refactoring

Using key-value stores are all about consistency (as is any database actually, but simple databases are far less forgiving of inconsistencies). This book establishes reasonable, practiced patterns that will help you from making simple mistakes in your data modeling journey.

The DynamoDB Book

Using key-value stores are all about consistency (as is any database actually, but simple databases are far less forgiving of inconsistencies). This book establishes reasonable, practiced patterns that will help you from making simple mistakes in your data modeling journey.

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

This book presents conflict as a cornerstone of healthy teams, and walks through how to create an environment of trust to encourage this behavior, ultimately improving results.

The Manager's Path

This book was extremely helpful in focusing me on what was important in management, and also who I was supposed to be as CTO to all partners, tech and otherwise. This is likely to be true for whatever level you are at as well.