Good engineers read docs.
Great engineers study decisions, systems, and people.

The Reading List

Updated in Feb 2026

• Why this exists

  After years of building frontends, scaling systems, and collaborating across product, design, and engineering, one pattern keeps repeating:

  Documentation helps you ship.
  And books help you decide what to build — and why.

  This collection reflects how I think about software today:

  • Trade-offs over tools
  • Systems over features
  • People over abstractions

  Read these in any order.
  The connections will reveal themselves over time.

  Stay curious,
  Sid

• Recommended
  

  Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
  

  Great for resetting your brain after deep technical work.

  Human Behavior
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• Recommended
  

  The Alchemist
  A fable about following your dreams.

  The journey matters more than the destination.

  Career Leverage
  Buy Now on
• Read
  

  Who Moved My Cheese?
  An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life

  Adaptability is the only constant asset.

  Decision Making

  Career Leverage
  Buy Now on
• Read
  

  Leaders Eat Last
  Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't

  Software is built by people, not processes.

  Leadership

  Human Behavior
  Buy Now on
• Recommended
  

  Atomic Habits
  An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

  Systems thinking applied to personal behavior.

  Systems Thinking
  Buy Now on
• Wishlisted
  

  Refactoring
  Improving the Design of Existing Code

  Teaches discipline and courage more than syntax.

  Software Craft

  Systems Thinking
  Buy Now on
• Recommended
  

  Algorithms to Live By
  The Computer Science of Human Decisions

  Computer science applied to human decision-making.

  Decision Making
  Buy Now on
• Wishlisted
  

  The Pragmatic Programmer
  Your Journey to Mastery

  A mindset book disguised as technical advice.

  Software Craft

  Career Leverage
  Buy Now on
• Wishlisted
  

  Clean Code
  A Handbook of Agile Software Craftmanship

  Not about cleanliness — about communication at scale.

  Software Craft
  Buy Now on

• Thanks for visiting!

  I’m always open to:

  • Book recommendations
  • Conversations on product and design
  • Collaborations over interesting problems

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