89 book notes

What I read

Notes on the books I read: software craftsmanship, psychology, philosophy and personal development. Each one has the key ideas and what I took from them.

2026

4 books

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius

The Art of Being Happy

Arthur Schopenhauer

Notes from Underground

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Broken Money

Lyn Alden

2025

5 books

Principles of Economics

Saifedean Ammous

The Road to Serfdom

Friedrich A. Hayek

Digital Minimalism

Cal Newport

Criptoria

Alfre Mancera

Bitcoin with Rigor

Jose Sanchis

2024

7 books

Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl

Bitcoin: A Work in Progress

Sjors Provoost

Mastering Bitcoin

Andreas M. Antonopoulos, David A. Harding

The Genesis Book

Aaron van Wirdum

The Phoenix Project

Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford

Radical Candor

Kim Scott

The Lean Startup

Eric Ries

2023

14 books

Invincible

Marcos Vazquez

The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho

Crucial Conversations

Patterson, Grenny, McMillan, Switzler

It's Your Ship

D. Michael Abrashoff

The Day of the Triffids

John Wyndham

The Book Of Satoshi

Phil Champagne

Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

The Blocksize War

Jonathan Bier

Agile Project Management

Jeremy Savell

Effective Remote Work

James Stanier

Accelerate

Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim

21 Lessons

Gigi

Adapt or die

Thomas H. Douglas

The infinite game

Simon Sinek

2022

16 books

Momo

Michael Ende

Recipes for Decoupling

Matthias Noback

The Essential Drucker

Peter F. Drucker

Dare to lead

Brené Brown

Continuous Discovery Habits

Teresa Torres

The Great CEO Within

Matt Mochary

The Starfish and the Spider

Ori Brafman, Rod Beckstrom

Clean Craftsmanship

Robert C. Martin

Modern Software Engineering

David Farley

Bitcoin: Blockchain y su investigación

Félix Brezo, Yaiza Rubio

Docker: SecDevOps

Fran Ramírez, Elías Grande, Rafael Troncoso

Team Topologies

Matthew Skelton, Manuel Pais

The Psychology of Money

Morgan Housel

Modern CTO

Joel Beasley

Leaders Eat Last

Simon Sinek

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Richard Bach

2021

17 books

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

Patrick M. Lencioni

Start with Why

Simon Sinek

Leadership is Language

L. David Marquet

The Bitcoin Standard

Saifedean Ammous

Turn the Ship Around!

L. David Marquet

The Catcher in the Rye

J. D. Salinger

Lord of the Flies

William Golding

Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager

James Stanier

Peopleware

Tom DeMarco

The Art of Leadership

Michael Lopp

97 Things Every Engineering Manager should know

Camille Fournier

Zombie Scrum Survival Guide

Christiaan Verwijs, Johannes Schartau, Barry Overeem

Agile Product Management with Scrum

Roman Pichler

Stock market investing

Mark Atwood

One up on wall street

Peter Lynch

Who moved my cheese?

Spencer Johnson

Rich dad poor dad

Robert T. Kiyosaki

2020

16 books

Principles of package design

Matthias Noback

Animal Farm

George Orwell

Object design style guide

Matthias Noback

Domain-Driven Design Distilled

Vaughn Vernon

Advanced Web Application Architecture

Matthias Noback

Never split the difference

Chris Voss

Scrum

Jeff Sutherland

7 languages in 7 weeks

Bruce Tate

The call of Cthulhu

H. P. Lovecraft

The metamorphosis

Franz Kafka

1984

George Orwell

High Output Management

Andrew S. Grove

The Manager Path

Camille Fournier

Clean Agile

Robert C. Martin

Extreme Programming Explained

Kent Beck

Symfony 5

Fabien Potencier

2019

2 books

Atomic Habits

James Clear

Working Effectively with Legacy Code

Michael Feathers

2018

2 books

The Art of War

Sun Tzu

Clean Architecture

Robert C. Martin

2017

1 book

The Power of Habit

Charles Duhigg

2016

5 books

The Pragmatic Programmer

Andrew Hunt, David Thomas

Sprint

Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, Braden Kowitz

The Clean Coder

Robert C. Martin

97 Things Every Programmer Should Know

Kevlin Henney

Clean Code

Robert C. Martin