Reading List

Last Updated: July 24, 2025

Books

• Hackers & Painters by Paul Graham
• The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.

Wikipedia Articles

• 6174
• Acoustic Kitty
• Gambler's fallacy
• Just-world fallacy
• Survivorship bias
• Operation Cat Drop
• Zero-rupee note

Around the web

• The Curse of Knowing How, or; Fixing Everything by raf, April 24, 2025
• The Curse of the Senior Software Engineer by Dmitry Kudryavtsev, March 14, 2024
• The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival by Sir John Glubb, January 2018
• How Complex Systems Fail by Richard I. Cook, MD, January 2002
• In Praise of "Normal" Engineers by Charity Majors , March 13, 2025
• Job titles are bullshit by Jamie Tanna, February 26, 2024
• Old CSS, new CSS by Eevee, February 1, 2020
• The Recurring Cycle of 'Developer Replacement' Hype by Danilo Alonso, May 25, 2025
• Technocensorship: The Government’s War on So-Called Dangerous Ideas [SHORT] by John & Nisha Whitehead, August 1, 2023
• The Who Cares Era by Dan Sinker, May 23, 2025
• Things You Should Never Do, Part I by Joel Spolsky, April 6, 2000
• Why Engineers Hate Their Managers (And What to Do About It) by Matheus Lima, June 24, 2025
• Why layoffs don’t work by Mark Dent, March 7, 2025