This is an ongoing list of book recommendations
Nonfiction
- Can’t Hurt Me – David Goggins
- Great story and great message about fortifying the mind
- Extreme Ownership – Jocko Willink & Leif Babin
- Great view of how to manage in business. Well written tying business back to principles learned in the Seals
- 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos – Jordan Peterson
- Modern work of philosophy about how to carry yourself in life
- Despite a lot of controversy around Peterson this is a solid unbiased read of his own opinions on how to live life
- The Happiness Project – Gretchen Rubin
- Journey of Gretchen trying to find happiness with new experiments every month for 12 months
- Very practical view of habits you can try out to make your own life happier
- Sapiens: A brief History of Humankind – Yuav Noah Harari
- Great book outlining where we came from tying some of it to who we really are today
- The War of Art – Steven Pressfield
- An exploration of what it takes to be creative specifically focusing on how to create content
- Great exploration of how to overcome tricks of the mind and think about becoming more creative
- Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work
- Great view of the pursuit of flow state
- Traverses everything from meditation to psychedelics
- Own the Day, Own Your Life – Aubrey Marcus
- Thesis: if you can create 1 perfect day you can repeat it to live an amazing life
- Goes into tactical detail about what a perfect day might look like
- Backed up with science and studies
- Tribe – Sebastian Junger
- Dives into the nature of tribes in our evolution, and the potential impact on things like PTSD
- The 4-Hour Workweek – Tim Ferris
- Want to work only 4 hours a week? This can help you achieve that
- Beyond the title objective there is a lot of practical advice on how to shape your life
- This book is often credited with starting the genre of “lifestyle design”
- The Phoenix Project – Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford
- Story about how DevOps and Agile principles save a company on the brink of disaster
- Great for beginners to Agile or DevOps who want to learn in an interesting way
- Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
- Deep discussion about how to organize and deliver software with modern DevOps principles
- Only good for those who want to understand the topic in depth