THE EFFECTIVE ENGINEER
How do you measure an engineer’s effectiveness? Is it by the number of hours she works? The amount of effort he applies? The number of tasks she completes? A hard-working engineer who pours his energy into a feature whose schedule slips and no one uses isn’t that effective. The Effective Engineer, written by Edmond Lau […]
HAPPY MONEY: THE SCIENCE OF HAPPIER SPENDING
Two professors, Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton merge attractive and state-of-the-art research in behavioural science to discuss how money can buy happiness only if you practice the five principles of intelligent spending. This book guides individuals seeking financial security and companies that want to create happier employees and offer more suitable products to their customers. […]
PSYCHO-CYBERNETICS
Psycho-Cybernetics is a self-help book written by Maxwell Maltz in 1960. The term “Psycho-Cybernetics” means steering the mind to productive, valuable goals so you can reach the most significant point in the world of peace of mind. Happiness and success are habits, and so are failure and misery. But negative patterns can be changed, and […]
DIGITAL BODY LANGUAGE: HOW TO BUILD TRUST & CONNECTION, NO MATTER THE DISTANCE
Digital Body Language was written by Erica Dhawan and published on May 11th 2021 and discusses how you can create trust and connection regardless of the distance. Humans depend on body language to associate and build trust. Yet, essentially, most of our communication goes on behind the screen. Traditional body language gestures are no longer […]
THE PASSIONATE PROGRAMMER: CREATING A REMARKABLE CAREER IN SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
Success in today’s IT domain requires viewing your career as a business venture. The Passionate Programmer, written by Chad Fowler and published on 28th May 2009, will teach you how to become an entrepreneur, guiding your occupation in the direction of your choice. The book lays out a strategy for planning and creating a radically […]
RELEASE IT! DESIGN AND DEPLOY PRODUCTION-READY SOFTWARE
A simple sloppy software failure can cost an organisation a lot of money, but that can be avoided with easy changes to architecture and design. This new edition of ‘Release It’ was released in January 2018. It illustrates how to design systems that operate longer with limited failures and regain control when things go wrong. […]
