I love to read, so here’s a dumping ground for the informative books that have informed, taught and inspired me over the years.
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Data Engineering & Dimensional Modelling
- The Data Warehouse Toolkit – Ralph Kimball
- Building the Data Lakehouse – Bill Inmon
- Spark: The Definitive Guide – Bill Chambers and Matei Zaharia
- Data Lakehouse in Action – Pradeep Menon
Business & Consultancy
- The Personal MBA – Josh Kaufman
- The Confident Contractor – Neil Millard
- Entrepeneur Revolution – Daniel Priestley
- The Secrets of Consulting – Gerald Weinberg
- The Freelance Consultant – Richard Newton
- Million Dollar Consulting – Alan Weiss
- The Consulting Bible – Alan Weiss
- The Business of Expertise – David Baker
- The Win Without Pitching Manifesto – Blair Enns
- Profit First – Mike Michalowicz
Data Visualisation & Storytelling
- The Visual Display of Quantitative Information – Edward Tufte
- The Functional Art – Alberto Cairo
- Storytelling with Data – Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic
DevOps & Computer Science
- The Phoenix Project – Gene Kim
- The Mythical Man-Month – Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
- The Pragmatic Programmer – Andrew Hunt and David Thomas
Human Psychology & Behaviour
- Outliers – Malcolm Gladwell
- Make Time – Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky
- 48 Laws of Power – Robert Greene
- The Courage to Be Disliked – Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – Steven R. Covey
- The Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell
- How to Stop Worrying and Start Living – Dale Carnegie
- Make Your Bed – William H. McRaven
- Sapiens – Yuval Noah Harari
- Homo Deus – Yuval Noah Harari
Technical Leadership
- The Making of a Manager – Julie Zhou
- The Manager’s Path – Camille Fournier
Real World Data-Driven Thinking
- Moneyball – Michael Lewis
- The Big Short – Michael Lewis
- The Trading Game – Gary Stephenson
Selected Science Favourites
- Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking
- The Selfish Gene – Richard Dawkins
Selected Fiction Favourites
- The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R Tolkien
- The Expanse Series – James S.A. Corey
- Hail Mary – Andy Weir