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28 Jan 2025—28 Jan 2026
Overview
Are you a software engineer and you want to level up? Working towards that next promotion? Here are books that have had a big influence on my career, and I think could help!
Level Up Reading List
5 participants (4 books)
STARTS: 28 Jan 2025ENDS: 28 Jan 2026
Overview
Are you a software engineer and you want to level up? Working towards that next promotion? Here are books that have had a big influence on my career, and I think could help!
Challenge Books
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Carol S. Dweck
Build that growth mindset to help out with success (and hopefully squash that impostor syndrome)
Working Effectively with Legacy Code
Michael C. Feathers
As an engineer, you are going to work with old code. Learn how to work with it better.
The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide For Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change
Tanya Reilly
At senior level (or other) but want to know more about Staff engineering? Already a Staff engineer and want to know what you should actually be doing? This book has GOT you!
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Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby
Sandi Metz
The GOAT of all Ruby programming books! Don't program in Ruby? This will make you want to.
The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook: A Proven Way to Accept Yourself, Build Inner Strength, and Thrive
Kristin Neff, Christopher Germer
Work on yourself, and work on being kind towards yourself, bonus: having self-compassion can help out with burnout too!
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
Trust me, this will get you bonus points with most groups of techy people (aka engineers, devs, programers, designers...) and you will too know "Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything" and why people use 42 as an example so much.