Reading List

Extreme Ownershipdone
Jocko Willink, Leif Babin
Two Navy SEAL officers apply combat leadership lessons to business, arguing that leaders must own every failure on their team without excuses.
Radical Candordone
Kim Scott
A framework for giving feedback that balances caring personally about people with directly challenging them.
How to Win Friends and Influence Peopledone
Dale Carnegie
A classic guide to building genuine rapport and influence through empathy, listening, and honest appreciation.
The Manager's Pathdone
Camille Fournier
A practical walkthrough of the engineering management career ladder, from mentoring your first report to leading an org.
Slaying the Standarddone
Antonio Iozzo
A blunt, execution-focused field manual on raising your standards in business and life, drawn from the author's own hard-won experience.
The Grug Brained Developerdone
Carson Gross
A satirical but sharply practical take on fighting complexity in software, written from the perspective of a simple-minded caveman developer.
Understanding the Odin Programming Languagein progress
Karl Zylinski
A deep dive into the Odin programming language, covering everything from the basics to manual memory management and data-oriented design.
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ckto read
Mark Manson
An argument for caring less about more things, and reserving your energy for what actually matters.
The 5 Levels of Leadershipto read
John C. Maxwell
A model for how leadership authority is earned in stages, from formal position through to respect built over a lifetime.