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Kashish Grover

Tinkerer

Aug 23, 2017

What books related to a Developer's life would you recommend one to read?

I am looking to find inspiration. Do talk about your own reading experience. :)

Arpit Mohan

CTO @ Appsmith

Some of the books that I was influenced by:

The Pragmatic Programmer: I read this fairly early in my career and it shaped a lot of my views on software, technology and personal development. Must read!
Rework: Since I've almost always worked in an office so this book was an interesting read describing an alternate universe. Haven't tried remote work yet but some of the tenets in the book (especially about communication) are universal.
The Manager's Path by Camille Fournier: The title is misleading. Do read it even if you're not a manager. In the past, I've been skeptical about books on management. But this book changed that world-view. I've learnt a lot about managing a team from her. One of the few books where I had to sit with a pen & paper to jot down my thoughts and notes.

Arpit Mohan

CTO @ Appsmith

Himanshu Mishra This has no context or bearing on the question or my answer.

Syed Fazle Rahman This looks like spam to me. Is there a way for a user to mark comments or messages as such?

Arpit Mohan Yes, I have removed it. We will be adding report button to the replies in our next deployment.

Siddarthan Sarumathi Pandian

Full Stack Dev at Agentdesks | Ex Hashnode | Ex Shippable | Ex Altair Engineering

I think the books I am going to recommend are not entirely related to development, but very very relatable to developers.

Hatching Twitter by Nick Bilton: Reading this book can help you understand how to build a company from scratch. You also get a peek inside the amazing minds of Jack Dorsey, Ev Williams, Noah Glass and Dick Costolo.
Zero to One: "Very few ideas are both contrarian and correct. And, yet, finding that combination is critical to successful investing, entrepreneurship, or even career development. " Peter Theil has written this wonderful book on entrepreneurship. There's this line in this book which changed my life: "What is something you think is true, but that most people disagree with you on."

Theofanis Despoudis

Senior Software Engineer @teckro, Experienced mentor @codeinstitute, Technical Writer @fixate.io. Tweet me at @nerdokto

Ben Buchanan (200ok)

I make some bits of the web.

Michael Lopp - Being Geek, Managing Humans

David Marquet - Turn the Ship Around (not specific to dev life but well worth it)