Reading List

Principles

• Principles - Book
• Lifelong Kindergarten
• Managing Oneself
• Start with Why
• The Laws of Simplicity
• Mind Over Muscle
• Grit

Thinking

• Think Again
• Thinking, Fast and Slow

Habits

• Atomic Habits
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Productivity

• Getting Things Done
• The Bullet Journal Method

Mental Models

• The Great Mental Models - General Thinking Concepts
• The Great Mental Models Volume 2 - Physics, Chemistry and Biology
• The Great Mental Models Volume 3 - Systems and Mathematics

Second Brain

• How to Take Smart Notes
• Building a Second Brain
• Digital Zettelkasten

Self Help

• Designing Your Life
• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck
• The Little Book of Ikigai
• How Will You Measure Your Life?

Strategizing

• The Art of War
• Good Strategy, Bad Strategy

Software Design

• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
• The Elements of Computing Systems
• Code, The Hidden Language of Computer
• How to Design Programs
• Domain-Driven Design
• Balancing Coupling in Software Design
• Continuous Architecture in Practice
• Philosophy of Software Design

Software Engineering Principles

• Software Engineering at Google

Algorithms

• Algorithms - Fourth Edition
• Introduction to Algorithms
• Grokking Algorithms
• Algorithms to Live By
• Computer Science Distilled

Code Quality

• Clean Code
• Clean Architecture

Programming Principles

• The Pragmatic Programmer

Functional Programming

• Category Theory for Programmers
• Functional Programming in Scala

Object Oriented Programming

• Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby
• 99 Bottles of OOP

Programming Languages

• The Rust Programming Language
• The C Programming Language
• The C++ Programming Language
• Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!
• Learn You some Erlang for Great Good!
• The Art of Assembly Language

Maths and Physics meets Computer Science

• The Computational Beauty of Nature
• Hacker's Delight
• The Art of Logic in an Illogical World

Management Principles

• Measure What Matters
• Essentialism

Team Culture

• Radical Candor
• Powerful
• No Rules Rules
• Evolvagility

Business Principles

• Good to Great
• Built to Last

Management Guides

• The making of a manager
• The Manager's Path
• Team Topologies

Management Stories

• Managing Humans
• The Phoenix Project
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
• How Google Works

Communication

• TED Talks
• Crucial Conversations
• You're Not Listening
• Nonviolent Communication
• Visual Collaboration
• How to Win Friends and Influence People
• Fierce Conversations
• Difficult Conversations
• Why Are We Yelling?
• No Hard Feelings

Startups

• The Lean Startup
• Zero to One
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things

Startup Stories

• Shoe Dog
• No Filter

User Experience

• Lean UX
• Laws of UX
• Don't Make Me Think
• How to Make Sense of Any Mess

Popularity Principles

• Alchemy
• Hit Makers

Product Design Principles

• Hooked
• The Design of Everyday Things

Product Development

• Empowered
• Inspired
• Loved
• The Mom Test
• The Lean Product Playbook
• Value Proposition Design

Business Model Design

• Business Model Generation
• Testing Business Ideas

Artificial Intelligence

• Life 3.0
• Superintelligence

Science & Mathematics

• Randall Munroe's How To
• The Selfish Gene
• How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog
• Infinite Powers

History

• Sapiens
• Homo Deus
• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
• Guns, Germs and Steel
• From Dictatorship to Democracy
• How Democracies Die
• The God Delusion

Philosophy

• On the Shortness of Life
• Letters from a Stoic
• The Daily Stoic
• The Art of Happiness
• Meditation of First Philosophy
• Thus Spoke Zarathustra
• Aristotle's Posterior Analytics
• The Myth of Sisyphus

Plato's Works

• Plato's Euthyphro
• Plato's Apology
• Plato's Crito
• Plato's Phaedo
• Plato's Republic

Fiction

• Dan Brown's Origin
  • Dan Brown's Inferno
• The Three-Body Problem
  • The Dark Forest
  • Death's End
• Manna
• Franz Kafka's The Trial
• George Orwell's 1984
• The Wandering Earth
• Romance of the Three Kingdoms
• Ender's Game
• Issac Asimov's Foundation
  • Issac Asimov's Second Foundation
  • Issac Asimov's Foundation and Empire
• The Little Prince

Heartwarming

• The Miracles of the Namiya General Store
• แมวยิ้มง่าย ใช่ว่าแตกสลายไม่เป็น
• วันนี้ฉันตัดสินใจจะให้เวลากับตัวเอง
• ร้านไม่สะดวกซื้อของคุณทกโก
• ยังไม่ทันเข้างาน ก็อยากกลับบ้านแล้ว

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