Library
Systems, product, science, and biography: the books that keep shaping how I think about software and work.
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Martin Kleppmann 2017
If you build with data, this is your scripture.
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
Eric Jorgenson, Naval Ravikant 2020
A compact field guide to wealth, judgment, and living on your own terms.
A Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking 1988
A beautiful attempt to make the universe feel almost graspable.
Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson 2011
A portrait of taste, intensity, contradiction, and product obsession.
Shoe Dog
Phil Knight 2016
A founder story with mud on its shoes and momentum in every chapter.
Database Internals
Alex Petrov Reading now
The machinery beneath storage engines, indexes, transactions, and distributed data.