================================================================================ READINGS ================================================================================ URL: https://chemaclass.com/readings/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2026-06-21] Meditations /readings/meditations/ The private notebook Marcus Aurelius wrote for himself while running a... [2026-03-15] The Art of Being Happy /readings/the-art-of-being-happy/ Schopenhauer's 50 rules for practical happiness, built on avoiding suf... [2026-02-04] Notes from Underground /readings/notes-from-underground/ A bitter, hyper-conscious man retreats from society to wrestle with fr... [2026-01-17] Broken Money /readings/broken-money/ Lyn Alden traces monetary history through a technological lens, from c... [2025-06-22] Principles of Economics /readings/principles-of-economics/ Saifedean Ammous on why prices rise and money loses value, told throug... [2025-03-31] The Road to Serfdom /readings/the-road-to-serfdom/ A quick and plain-English summary of Hayek's classic take on freedom, ... [2025-02-16] Digital Minimalism /readings/digital-minimalism/ Cal Newport's philosophy is not about rejecting technology but using i... [2025-02-09] Criptoria /readings/criptoria/ From Greece to Bitcoin: the milestones connecting mathematics, cryptog... [2025-01-18] Bitcoin with Rigor /readings/bitcoin-with-rigor/ A detailed analysis of how Bitcoin works, component by component, with... [2024-11-29] Man's Search for Meaning /readings/mans-search-for-meaning/ Frankl shares his experience of the Holocaust and a philosophy about f... [2024-08-02] Bitcoin: A Work in Progress /readings/bitcoin-wip/ They say Bitcoin is old and boring. This book walks through its latest... [2024-07-05] Mastering Bitcoin /readings/mastering-bitcoin/ From the basics to the deepest technical details of how Bitcoin works.... [2024-06-21] The Genesis Book /readings/the-genesis-book/ Bitcoin did not appear out of nowhere. The people and projects that sp... [2024-05-31] The Phoenix Project /readings/the-phoenix-project/ An impossible project, people playing politics, and endless quick patc... [2024-04-17] Radical Candor /readings/radical-candor/ Kim Scott, former Google leader, on being a great manager: empathetic ... [2024-01-26] The Lean Startup /readings/the-lean-startup/ Most startups fail, and many of those failures are preventable. The ap... [2023-12-09] Invincible /readings/invincible/ Marcos Vazquez combines stoic philosophy with modern psychology to tra... [2023-11-07] The Alchemist /readings/the-alchemist/ Santiago, a shepherd boy, journeys towards the pyramids chasing a drea... [2023-10-31] Crucial Conversations /readings/crucial-conversations/ The tools to handle life's hardest conversations: say what is on your ... [2023-09-20] It's Your Ship /readings/its-your-ship/ Michael Abrashoff on how he transformed the performance and culture of... [2023-08-13] The Day of the Triffids /readings/the-day-of-the-triffids/ Frightening and entirely plausible. Real people shaken out of the civi... [2023-07-10] The Book Of Satoshi /readings/the-book-of-satoshi/ Satoshi Nakamoto's emails and forum posts from 2008 to 2010: Bitcoin's... [2023-06-28] Fahrenheit 451 /readings/fahrenheit-451/ Ray Bradbury's dystopia about a fireman whose job is burning books, un... [2023-06-20] The Blocksize War /readings/the-blocksize-war/ Jonathan Bier chronicles the Bitcoin blocksize war of 2015 to 2017: th... [2023-05-31] Agile Project Management /readings/agile-project-management/ Waterfall projects ran over budget and shipped software nobody wanted ... [2023-04-17] Effective Remote Work /readings/effective-remote-work/ An effective remote work environment is about treating everyone as rem... [2023-03-19] Accelerate /readings/accelerate/ The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Per... [2023-03-11] 21 Lessons /readings/21-lessons/ Bitcoin as more than just money: a deep dive into economics, philosoph... [2023-02-26] Adapt or die /readings/adapt-or-die/ Told through the story of People First IT, this book lays out The Algo... [2023-01-29] The infinite game /readings/the-infinite-game/ From the bestselling author of Start With Why and Leaders Eat Last, a ... [2022-12-17] Momo /readings/momo/ Momo is a modern fairytale that shows the fight between good and evil ... [2022-11-28] Recipes for Decoupling /readings/recipes-for-decoupling/ What coupling is and why it hurts. A compilation of strategies to deco... [2022-10-29] The Essential Drucker /readings/the-essential-drucker/ Twenty-six selections from Drucker on management in the organization, ... [2022-09-30] Dare to lead /readings/dare-to-lead/ Leadership is not about titles or power. It is about recognising poten... [2022-08-21] Continuous Discovery Habits /readings/continuous-discovery-habits/ Teresa Torres on a decision-making process that keeps product teams in... [2022-08-01] The Great CEO Within /readings/the-great-ceo-within/ How to scale from startup to company with a system of accountability, ... [2022-07-19] The Starfish and the Spider /readings/the-starfish-and-the-spider/ Cut off a spider's head and it dies. Cut off a starfish's leg and it g... [2022-07-11] Clean Craftsmanship /readings/clean-craftsmanship/ Uncle Bob on the three pillars of craftsmanship: TDD disciplines with ... [2022-06-29] Modern Software Engineering /readings/modern-software-engineering/ Dave Farley presents software development as engineering at every leve... [2022-05-10] Bitcoin: Blockchain y su investigación /readings/bitcoin-la-tecnologia-blockchain-y-su-investigacion/ How is a Bitcoin address created? How do private and public keys becom... [2022-04-29] Docker: SecDevOps /readings/docker-secdevops/ A great book about Docker, from introduction to advanced concepts all ... [2022-03-31] Team Topologies /readings/team-topologies/ Team structures and interaction modes that let teams adapt quickly and... [2022-02-27] The Psychology of Money /readings/the-psychology-of-money/ There is no reason to risk what you have and need for what you don't h... [2022-01-23] Modern CTO /readings/modern-cto/ Joel Beasley maps the jagged transition from developer to CTO: the cha... [2022-01-16] Leaders Eat Last /readings/leaders-eat-last/ A company's real strength is never its products. It is its people, and... [2022-01-08] Jonathan Livingston Seagull /readings/jonathan-livingston-seagull/ A fable in novella form about a seagull who is trying to learn about l... [2021-12-07] The Five Dysfunctions of a Team /readings/the-five-dysfunctions-of-a-team/ A leadership fable about a tech company whose C level cannot agree on ... [2021-11-28] Start with Why /readings/start-with-why/ Why are some organizations more innovative and profitable? Why do so f... [2021-10-22] Leadership is Language /readings/leadership-is-language/ Marquet dives into the sinking of the El Faro and surfaces with new id... [2021-09-20] The Bitcoin Standard /readings/the-bitcoin-standard/ The historical context behind Bitcoin, the economic properties that le... [2021-09-12] Turn the Ship Around! /readings/turn-the-ship-around/ Marquet turned the submarine Santa Fe around by moving from leader-fol... [2021-08-08] The Catcher in the Rye /readings/the-catcher-in-the-rye/ The novel is a deeper reflection of Salinger's own youth, his complica... [2021-07-10] Lord of the Flies /readings/lord-of-the-flies/ A group of British boys stranded on an uninhabited island try to gover... [2021-06-27] Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager /readings/effective-software-em/ A solid compilation for engineering managers: 1:1s, performance review... [2021-05-28] Peopleware /readings/peopleware/ Software development is about people: when, how and where they work be... [2021-04-19] The Art of Leadership /readings/the-art-of-leadership/ Leadership practices are small things done repetitively over time. Man... [2021-04-05] 97 Things Every Engineering Manager should know /readings/97-things-every-em-should-know/ As a manager your work is to create clarity, clarity, and more clarity... [2021-03-01] Zombie Scrum Survival Guide /readings/zombie-scrum-survival-guide/ Zombie Scrum Survival Guide reveals why Scrum runs aground and shows h... [2021-02-22] Agile Product Management with Scrum /readings/agile-product-management-with-scrum/ Understanding the product owner’s role and envisioning the product. [2021-01-31] Stock market investing /readings/stock-market-for-beginners/ Stock market basics & essentials. [2021-01-22] One up on wall street /readings/one-up-on-wall-street/ Peter Lynch on how average investors can beat the pros by using what t... [2021-01-16] Who moved my cheese? /readings/who-moved-my-cheese/ This book presents a tale inside the main story that consists of 4 cha... [2021-01-15] Rich dad poor dad /readings/rich-dad-poor-dad/ Explodes the myth that you need to earn a high income to become rich. [2020-11-12] Principles of package design /readings/packaging-design/ Package design principles for classes ready to be reused: the right ba... [2020-11-02] Animal Farm /readings/animal-farm/ Orwell's political allegory about a farmyard rebellion that descends i... [2020-10-10] Object design style guide /readings/object-design-style-guide/ Matthias Noback's practical guide to flexible, readable object-oriente... [2020-09-10] Domain-Driven Design Distilled /readings/domain-driven-design-distilled/ Vaughn Vernon brings DDD down to earth, so developers, consultants and... [2020-08-16] Advanced Web Application Architecture /readings/advance-web-application-architecture/ Matthias Noback on levelling up your coding and architecture: modern P... [2020-06-12] Never split the difference /readings/never-split-the-difference/ Chris Voss, former FBI lead kidnapping negotiator, on negotiation tech... [2020-06-10] Scrum /readings/scrum-the-art-of-doing-twice/ Sutherland on Scrum: how to define what you are trying to achieve, set... [2020-05-21] 7 languages in 7 weeks /readings/7-languages-in-7-weeks/ A hands-on tour of Clojure, Haskell, Io, Prolog, Scala, Erlang and Rub... [2020-05-18] The call of Cthulhu /readings/call-of-cthulhu/ Lovecraft's foundational cosmic horror tale about the discovery of an ... [2020-05-16] The metamorphosis /readings/metamorphosis/ Kafka's novella on alienation and identity. Gregor Samsa wakes as an i... [2020-05-13] 1984 /readings/1984/ One of Britain's most popular novels, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-... [2020-04-03] High Output Management /readings/high-output-management/ Andy Grove's Intel classic on managerial leverage, meetings, decisions... [2020-03-26] The Manager Path /readings/the-manager-path/ Camille Fournier maps the path from engineer to CTO: 1:1s, mentoring, ... [2020-03-12] Clean Agile /readings/clean-agile/ Back to basics on Agile: what it was, what motivated it, and what has ... [2020-03-05] Extreme Programming Explained /readings/extreme-programming-explained/ Kent Beck on XP, the most specific agile framework about engineering p... [2020-02-20] Symfony 5 /readings/symfony-5/ Fabien Potencier's official guide to building web applications with Sy... [2019-11-12] Atomic Habits /readings/atomic-habits/ You do not need to think big to change your life. James Clear shows th... [2019-07-01] Working Effectively with Legacy Code /readings/working-effectively-with-legacy-code/ Michael Feathers on adding tests to untested code, breaking dependenci... [2018-08-10] The Art of War /readings/the-art-of-war/ Sun Tzu's ancient treatise on strategy, and how its lessons on conflic... [2018-06-04] Clean Architecture /readings/clean-architecture/ Uncle Bob on SOLID, component design and the architectural boundaries ... [2017-03-20] The Power of Habit /readings/the-power-of-habits/ Charles Duhigg on the science of habit: how habits form, why they exis... [2016-10-01] The Pragmatic Programmer /readings/the-pragmatic-programmer/ Key takeaways from Hunt and Thomas: DRY, the pragmatic mindset, and ho... [2016-09-01] Sprint /readings/sprint/ A five-day formula for going from idea to prototype to decision, savin... [2016-08-01] The Clean Coder /readings/the-clean-coder/ Uncle Bob on professional behaviour in software: time management, hand... [2016-07-15] 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know /readings/97-things-every-programmer-should-know/ 97 short, practical tips from experts on what every programmer should ... [2016-05-01] Clean Code /readings/clean-code/ Bad code works, but it drags a whole organization down. Uncle Bob on w... ================================================================================