ChemaclassBook summaries and notes from my reading journey across software craftsmanship, psychology, philosophy, and personal development. Each entry includes key takeaways and my own reflections. If you're looking for your next book or want the essential ideas without the full read, start here.
This book is fantastic and frightening, but entirely plausible. It doesn't just seem scientifically possible, but its characters are living people shaken out of the civilization they know into the horror of a world dominated by triffids.
The Collected Writings of Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto
A compilation of Satoshi Nakamoto's emails, forum posts, and writings from 2008-2010 that detail Bitcoin's creation, design decisions, and the vision behind the protocol.
A classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before.
Ray Bradbury's dystopian masterpiece about a fireman whose job is to burn books, until a chance encounter makes him question everything about his society's war on knowledge.
The battle for control over Bitcoin's protocol rules
Jonathan Bier chronicles the Bitcoin blocksize war (2015-2017), exploring the key players, strategies, and ideological battles that shaped who controls Bitcoin's protocol.
A Beginner's Guide to Agile Implementation and Leadership
Projects that followed a Waterfall methodology tended to exceed their expenses in the first initiative over time, while the product delivered was below standard and difficult to use. That situation originated that a group of developers signed a brief, 68-word manifesto in 2001.
For Yourself, Your Team, and Your Company
An effective remote work environment is about treating everyone as remote, with everyone in mind having the same level, equality, and information.
Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
What I've Learned from Falling Down the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole
Bitcoin as more than just money—a deep dive into economics, philosophy, and culture. Like Alice in Wonderland, exploring Bitcoin is full of surprises.
How to Create Innovation, Solve People Puzzles, and Win in Business
Told through the story of one bold company (People First IT), Adapt or Die takes readers through the unparalleled business system known as The Algorithm of Success that has the potential to inspire, ignite, and affect change for all aspects of an organization.
A bold framework for leadership in today's ever-changing world
From the bestselling author of Start With Why and Leaders Eat Last, a bold framework for leadership in today's ever-changing world.
Or the strange story of the time-thieves and the child who brought the stolen time back to the people
Momo is a modern fairytale that shows the fight between good and evil in our contemporary society, focusing on the lack of time to care for other people.
What is coupling, and why is it bad? What is decoupling, and how to do it efficiently? This book is a compilation of strategies to decouple your domain code from those infrastructure details, so you can enjoy a healthier system in the long run.
The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on Management
The Essential Drucker contains twenty-six selections on management in the organization, management and the individual, and management and society. It covers the basic principles and concerns of management and its problems, challenges, and opportunities, giving managers, executives, and professionals the tools to perform the tasks that the economy and society of tomorrow will demand of them.
Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.
Leadership is not about titles, status and power over people. Leaders are people who hold themselves accountable for recognising the potential in people and ideas, and developing that potential. This is a book for everyone who is ready to choose courage over comfort, make a difference and lead.
Discover Products that Create Customer Value and Business Value
Continuous Discovery Habits (2021) explores how product managers and designers can keep making a positive impact on their customers’ lives. It explores an optimal decision-making process for product teams, so that they can continue to improve their offerings.
The Tactical Guide to Company Building
Learn how to efficiently scale your business from startup to corporation by implementing a system of accountability, effective problem-solving, and transparent feedback.
The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations
If you cut off a spider's head, it dies; if you cut off a starfish's leg it grows a new one, and that leg can grow into an entirely new starfish. Traditional top-down organizations are like spiders, but now starfish organizations are changing the face of business and the world.
Disciplines, Standards, and Ethics
Robert C. Martin covers the three pillars of software craftsmanship: TDD disciplines with practical examples, professional standards for teams, and the ethical responsibilities of programmers.
Doing What Works to Build Better Software Faster
This book presents software development as an engineering practice at every level. To master software engineering, we must become experts at learning and managing complexity.
Published in 2017, most of the technology shown is already history
How is created Bitcoin address? How does it work the creation of the private & public keys and how are they known as wallets? And many other interesting questions.