I believe this it the year I start buying more books in the vain attempt to satisfy myself and dream about Nil looking at them one day.
Kindle
Be Slightly Evil: A Playbook for Sociopaths (Ribbonfarm Roughs 1) by Venkatesh Roa
Venkatesh is my shepherd in this corporate world but he himself lacks experience at some point.
The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
Who does not dream to be next Machiavelli? This dude is not.
Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War
Drunken, grumpy fighter pilot who is also genius. Archieved under the books made me feel lazy.
Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
Following a wonderful conversation with Daren, I got this book but Lale is not Corey.
When They Win, You Win: Being a Great Manager Is Simpler Than You Think
I am a sucker for bad management book. Still, I have hope..
Gideon the Ninth, Harrow the Ninth and Nona the Ninth by Muir Tamsyn
What a wonderful, brilliant series. Aferin basak.
The One Minute Manager
see above
Hardcover
Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century by Bradford DeLong
Another heavy holiday read, which I will remember hopefully 10%. Trying to understand the
systemand where it might go.Surrounded by Idiots
Just bought it to be display it on my shelf for it has the exact title of my imaginary future autobiography : ). Useless book used by many to distinguish people into categories and conquer them. Berkay would love it.
Organization Man: The Book That Defined a Generation
This book and I, our paths have crossed too many times so I ended up buying it. Extremely outdated but more fun to read compared to modern organisation books. And man, most people stole from this dude!
*Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life As Play and Possibility
Super short book to help me think about systems and games we are playing.
No Hard Feelings: Emotions at Work and How They Help Us Succeed
This book helped Gizem far more than I could have helped me. I guess I am trying to handle my feelings at work but this book was a waste of money.
Ezbere Yasayanlar by Emras Safa Gurkan
I like the man. He talks fast, he thinks fast and does not too much shit about what it is happening with him. I guess this is his attempt to use his fame to make contribution on some of the issues he complain constantly. A good effort.
The Daily Stoic
Stoicism has a place in me next to Friends, Metallica and Matrix.
The Boy Who Would Be King
Yes I am buying somebooks in the likely case/hope of Nil picking one up in the future and ending up liking them. No, I am not desperate.
Music: A Subversive History by Ted Gioia
I have watched this smart dude talking in one of the few youtube channel I follow and he was really good. The book is a bit too much though.
A Psalm for the Wild-Built (A Monk and Robot Book)
Daren’s recommendation. Love short books that deliver.
Seeking SRE: Conversations about running production systems at scale and Seeking SRE: Conversations about running production systems at scale
The feeling of not having enough knowledge on topics as much as I think I should have hunts me.
The Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han
The book Lale cannot stop speaking about :)
Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
The privileged winners are lousy teachers.
The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth
I believe Psychological Safety, as the product being sold to corporation is nothing but a hoax. I have day-dreams where I am a investigative journalist, proving this was a marketing blog post going viral during the hiring wars.
The Messy Middle: Finding Your Way Through the Hardest and Most Crucial Part of Any Bold Venture byu Scott Belsky
I loved this one becuase it ackknowledges at least the hardest part of any endeavour. Got a lot of one time advices that applies only to states, and in some cases 2010’s but a good read.
The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time by Karl Polanyi
What a hard book to read! I’ve decided to come back to this one once I have more understanding of what I am reading.
Erdoğan
Fantastic and scary how much of that horrible story I’ve forgotten, which otherwise called my 20’s
Software Architecture: The Hard Parts: Modern Tradeoff Analysis for Distributed Architectures by Neal Ford
What a primitive book! Pointing to the hard parts is not the hard part, is it Neal?
Kill It with Fire: Manage Aging Computer Systems (and Future Proof Modern Ones)
Mike still has not returned my book
Are Your Lights On?: How to Figure Out What the Problem Really is Donal Gause
An old book about system thinking. The first book I saw teaching what I consider common sense. excellent…
Audible
Honestly, this is the year I have ended my subscription to Audible and got bunch of credit left. Bought most this the last day, hoping to listen one day….
Team of Teams
How do we still allow army people to give advice on management? How can this still be a thing? In which universe you can compare my infrastructure team to your Intelligence officers? How many generals can just quite and go to the rival army? How many generals dream of retiring early, by founding a great army and fought one war?
- Winning Now, Winning Later
- Quiet by Susan Cain
- The Fifth Season by Jemisin
- My Heart is Chainsaw
- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
The Bomber Mafia by Malcolm Gladwell
Interesting take on WWII, by going after the bombers and its tech. Not sure if I can finish this one.