10 Books Every Effective Engineer Should Read
This is from the The Effective Engineer - Gingko App notes I’m taking.
- Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
- From 1987, going to take it with a grain of salt.
- Team Geek: A software developer’s guide to working well with others
- High output management
- GTD (already read)
- The 4-hour work week
- Main takeaways:
- what’s possible if you relentlessly prioritize your work
- the importance of creating stainable systems with low maintenance.
- Main takeaways:
- The seven habits of highly effective people.
- Apparently, the author is not a massive fan of the writing style.
- Conscious business: how to build value through values. It seems like this is about how to approach difficult conversations with others.
- Your brain at work: strategies for overcoming distraction, regaining focus, and working smarter all day long. Main takeaways:
- because prioritization is a problematic but high-leverage activity that requires substantial cognitive effort, it’s best done at the beginning of the day.
- Flow 202207051324: the psychology of optimal experience. How to feel fulfilled and motivated:
- Quick feedback loop, an appropriate level of challenge, and absence of interruptions.
- Succeed: How we can reach our goals. Frameworks for thinking about goals and how to best frame a plan to increase our chances of success.
- Is it better to be optimistic vs. pessimistic? Etc.
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