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Network Warrior is a book that I've seen acclaimed many times despite its huge size.

Network Warrior is a book that I've seen acclaimed many times despite its huge size.

The book is remarkably well-written.

The popular misconception is to think that we think in our minds alone.

Since its initial publication in 1906, The Chicago Manual of Style has become one of the most widely used standards for American English.

There are few books about commonplace books, despite being a key element of successful nonfiction authors.

Discover the main SRS algorithms using illustrated examples and basic rewrites in Python.

As a software developer, I'm not the main audience of this two-volume series.

The book is based on the story of Niklas Luhmann, maybe the most important social theorist of the last century.

This book was written in 1985, the year I was born, and unlike me, it hasn't aged.

"There is a massive potential productivity currently latent in the knowledge sector," declares Cal Newport, "[...]

Information Anxiety is what happens when you are submerged by more information than you can absorb (or think that you must absorb), and as a result, you are afraid to say "I don't know."

eBPF is gaining more and more attention for good reasons. eBPF turns Linux into a "programmable" kernel, improving its observability, networking, and security.

Understanding Linux syscalls is important for developers.

We are literally what we do every day.

I am fortunate to be a parent.

Understand what happens when your program executes a system call.

When too many people focus on how to give feedback, this book chooses the inverse approach by focusing on how to receive feedback, and I profoundly think this makes a HUGE difference.

Ryan Holiday is one of the leading figures on modern stoicism, distilling the lessons from the past for modern lives.

This book was published shortly after the book How Google Works.

Learn about Unicode through puzzlers.

Unicode is what allows me to say hello in over 100 languages—እው ሰላም ነው (Amharic), 你好 (Chinese), γεια (Greek), שלום (Hebrew), नमस्ते (Hindi), こんにちは (Japanese), سلام (Persian),cześć (Polish), Привет (Russian), and Unicode is what allows you to understand the

The book is written from the perspectives of its co-authors, Eric Schmidt, and Jonathan Rosenberg, who occupied various top-level positions at Google, and who, back in 2010, created the first internal class for Google managers.

Writing is difficult.

Learn the inner working of Linux packages by rewriting a minimalist version of APT.

Netflix succeeded where many large corporations—Kodak, Nokia, AOL—failed to adapt to changes in their industry.

Writing clean code is hard, and as important as it is, it must never become an obsession.

If Clean Code is about the obvious, A Philosophy of Software Design is about the subtle.

It's uncommon to question our common sense but ignoring our common sense makes sense.

You want to share your favorite books with your coworkers.

I always tried to bring some humor at work (my coworkers will probably disagree on that).

Most digital applications, including social networks, are not good or bad, but they are for sure dangerous.

Every single page of this book can save a lot of money.

A flat organizational chart has obvious advantages but also non-obvious disadvantages, especially when ignoring the proper communication patterns required for decision-making.

A Big Picture is useless if details are blurry.

I've never read a book like that.

Creating flashcards manually is great to initiate the learning process.

Learning from experience is indispensable but insufficient at the same time.

Why do you must read books to learn from others when your problem is unique and yours.

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Tech companies are working hard to ship products that will delight their customers.

We all know by intuition trying to be the best at everything is a bad strategy.

Complexity is a scary word.

The story is just incredible.

Leading tech companies such as Google are built on great software architecture without any designated architects in their ranks.

I’ve read a lot of books about learning.

Google fills a gap in its SRE book series by integrating security into the reliability equation.

Almost all people I know having “manager” in their job title have learnt management "on the job."