Julien Sobczak | Blog

Google is unique and few companies have to address engineering problems at Google scale.

I have seen this book quoted so many times and I now understand why.

There are many books to learn how to write computer programs.

Numerous academic studies show that a company's people should be treated as an asset.

Make it simple is probably the most useless advice in practice.

The subject of expertise attracts much attention and numerous books and articles are published on the subject every year.

What to say about The Goal that has not already been said.

The book reveals the secrets of great corporations to understand why great performers can't excel in the vast majority of today's corporations, and how we can solve the mismatch.

Meik Wiking’s books are always a pleasure to read.

I was really excited about the publication of Clean Agile but the book left me somewhat disappointed.

We hear the word burnout more and more.

Stillness: “To be steady while the world spins around you.

Sadly, bad practices in the workspace often spread and stop being challenged.

A good book, the first one in the author’s trilogy, but probably the less mind opening.

It so common to hear that we, humans, are the bigger threat in security.

Metaphors are everywhere.

Routines are key to many things in life, and I was more than happy to find an entire book dedicated to unveiling the routines behind the most brilliant human beings that Earth has ever known.

Start with Why quickly became a must-read for any serious leader.

OKRs were introduced at Intel by Andy Grove in the 70's, and are now used by an ever increasing number of companies, especially the most innovative ones -- Google, Amazon, Adobe, Linkedin, Microsoft, Facebook.

I never hesitate too long before reading Austin Kleon's books.

To be honest, I found the first part not very interesting.

"Follow your passion" is dangerous advice.

Learn about common strategies to name your project using OSS projects and tech companies as inspiration.

When searching for a system administration book, there is a strong likelihood of finding this book and the other classic UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook.

Learn everything you need to know when working with floating-point numbers.

I worked for a company where new managers were encouraged to read this book.

What do you do when you need to learn something new?

These last years, we have seen a proliferation of new job titles to describe the same, unchanged activity -- making lines of code come alive.

Using a mix of famous and contemporary biographies, Robert Greene delivers a perfectly executed book.

Books and e-readers have advantages and inconvenients.

Flashcards make easy to store an information in our long-term memory, and make sure that it will stay here for a long time.

“A mindshift is a deep change in life that occurs thanks to learning.”

With famine, plague, and war behind us, what we are going to do in the 21st century?

When people ask me for book recommendations, I cannot resist to speak about some of the books that I have particularly enjoyed.

I use flashcards a lot.

I have an addiction.

This book is not about deciphering the working of existing protocols.

Embark for a crazy journey on a bus, travelling across the United States, with a TV presenter and his masterful meditation teacher, to uncover the beliefs that prevent normal people -- students, cops, housewives, prisoners -- to meditate, or at least, to…

It’s almost impossible to miss this widely acclaimed book, which stands firmly at the top of the nonfiction literature charts since its publication.

Like Pixar movies, Creativity Inc. is a masterpiece.

If Quiet if the Bible of introversion, Hiding in the Bathroom is the story of one of its disciple.

Compared to author's previous book, The Little Book of Hygge, this one is more profound, more personal, more diversified.

Great technical books all share the same ingredients: A good presentation to introduce the technology, its origin and motivations, and most important, why do we need it?

To be honest, I didn’t understand everything.

Written by an extroverted consultant, speaker, trainer, coach with an exhaustive career helping thousands of introvert leaders, The Introvert Leader condenses an endless experience and countless interviews in a short book, full of practical advices.

Few books can boast of having opened a new branch in the computer science literature.

Adding "evolvability" to the list of system quality attributes was inevitable and I was pleased to see O'Reilly published a book on the subject.

If like me, you regularly fail to obtain the recommended eight hours of nightly sleep, I advice you to not wait any longer to read this book.

You probably don't need to know the underlying implementation details to use relational and distributed databases, but as data volume increases, using the right product in the right way could really make the difference.

I find the book title How Linux Works very misleading.