📚 Book Summaries
Summaries of the books I have read in an attempt not to forget everything after a few months.
Homo Deus
Summary, Notes and Highlights
Homo Deus is a thought-provoking book that attempts to look into what the future might hold for humanity given the direction that current technologies are taking us.
How to Take Smart Notes
Summary, Notes and Highlights
One of the key books on how to take notes. This book predates How to Build a Second Brain
6 Months to 6 Figures
Summary, Notes and Highlights
A great book to read if you are struggling to reach your goals, and you want to learn what the most successful people do.
Rich Dad, Poor Dad
Summary, Notes and Highlights
Schools teach people to work for money but not how to get money to work for you. Robert covers the lessons he learnt from his rich dad vs his poor dad.
Building a Second Brain
Summary, Notes and Highlights
What if all the time spent reading was not wasted. In building a second brain you learn how to organise your notes so you can unlock your creative potential.
📚 Recommended Reading
I only started summarising my books in 2022. The following books I have read and can recommend but I have yet to write a summary for them.
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🧑💻 Software Development
- Developer Hegemony: The Future of Labor (Erik Dietrich)
- Data Structures and Algorithms Made Easy (Narasimha Karumanchi)
- Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Martin Fowler)
- Pragmatic Programmer, The: Your journey to mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition (David Thomas & Andrew Hunt)
- Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship (Robert C. Martin)
- Clean Architecture: A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design (Robert C. Martin)
- Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup (Rob Walling)
- Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software (Eric Evans)
- Implementing Domain-Driven Design (Vaughn Vernon)
- Design patterns : elements of reusable object-oriented software (Erich Gamma)
- Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware (Pragmatic Programmers) (Andy Hunt)
- Test Driven Development: By Example (Kent Back)
- Building Microservices Second edition: Designing Fine-Grained Systems (Sam Newman)
🎓 Personal Development
- Think and Grow Rich! (Napolean Hill)
- I Will Teach You To Be Rich (Ramit Sethi)
- Your Money or Your Life (Vicki Robin)
- Nothing You Don't Already Know (Alexander den Heijer)
- Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Cal Newport)
- Art of Non-Conformity: Set Your Own Rules, Live the Life You Want, and Change the World (Chris Guillebeau)
- The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness (Eric Jorgenson)
- Tools of Titans (Tim Ferriss)
- Tribe of Mentors (Tim Ferriss)
- The One Thing (Gary Keller)
- Born For This: How to Find the Work You Were Meant to Do (Chris Guillebeau)
- The Pathless Path (Paul Millerd)
💰 Entrepreneurship
- ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income (Darren Rowse)
- Will It Fly (Pat Flynn)
- The Lean Startup: How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses (Eric Ries)
- The 4-Hour Work Week (Tim Ferriss)
- The 7 Day Startup: You Don't Learn Until You Launch (Dan Norris)
- One Million Followers (Brendan Kane)
- The $100 Startup (Chris Guillebeau)
- The Unfair Advantage: How You Already Have What It Takes to Succeed (Ash Ali & Hasan Kubba)
- Oversubscribed: How To Get People Lining Up To Do Business With You (Daniel Priestley)
- Start With Why (Simon Sinek)
Yet to Read
I haven't read any of these yet but they have all been recommend to me by others and are on my reading list.
🧑💻 Software Development
- Software Developer Life: Career, Learning, Coding, Daily Life, Stories (David Xiang)
- Coders: Who They Are, What They Think and How They Are Changing Our World (Clive Thompson)
🎓 Personal Development
- The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles (Steven Pressfield)
- Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (Daniel H. Pink)
- The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness (Morgan Housel)
- Hell Yeah or No: what's worth doing (Derek Sivers)
- Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals (Oliver Burkeman)
💰 Entrepreneurship
- The Minimalist Entrepreneur: How Great Founders Do More with Less (Sahil Lavingia)
- The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime (MJ DeMarco)
- Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur (Derek Sivers)
- Company of One: Why Staying Small is the Next Big Thing for Business (Paul Jarvis)