Books

I know there’s more good books out there, this is just a list of stuff I’ve read personally and found good advice in

Code / Systems

• Code Complete - Steve McConnell
• Systems Performance - Brendan Gregg
• DTrace - Brendan Gregg and Jim Mauro
• The Art of Unix Programming - Eric S. Raymond
• Programming Pearls - Jon Bentley
• Modern Operating Systems - Andrew S. Tanenbaum

Bash

• Bash Cookbook - Carl Albing

C

• The C Programming Cookbook - Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie

Python

• High Performance Python - Micha Gorelick & Ian Ozsvald

Computer Science / Algorithms

• The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work - William Daniel Hillis
• The Algorithm Design Manual - Steven Skiena

Design

• The Design of Everyday Things - Donald A. Norman
• Don’t Make Me Think - Steve Krug
• Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design - Garr Reynolds

Business

• The Phoenix Project - Gene Kim
• The E-Myth Revisited - Michael E. Gerber

Computer History

• Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe - George Dyson
• Hackers - Steven Levy
• The Cuckoo’s Egg - Clifford Stoll
• Man and the Computer - John G. Kemeny

System Administration

• The Practice of System and Network Administration - Thomas Limoncelli

Life in IT

• Peopleware - Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister
• Mythical Man-Month - Fred Brooks
• Being Geek - Michael Lopp

Productivity

• The Productive Programmer - Neal Ford
• Time Management for System Administrators - Thomas Limoncelli
• Hell Yeah or No - Derek Sivers
• Deep Work - Rules for Focused Success In A Distracted World