book snippets

When I read a good book I highlight passages that catch my attention. I'm not one of these people who claim you should never mark a book - I figure the time I spend reading the book is far more valuable than the book. After I've finished a book I copy all the highlighted passages to my personal wiki. Then I copy a few of the highlights into a snippet-review. I hope the snippets give you a feel for the book.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

• 97 things every programmer should know edited by Kevlin Henney
• the ACM Turing Award Lectures
• Ackoff's best by Russell Ackoff
• Adapt - why success always starts with failure by Tim Harford
• Adrenaline junkies and template zombies by Tom DeMarco, Peter Hruschka, Tim Lister, Steve McMenamin, James Robertson and Suzanne Robertson
• the Aesthetics of change by Bradford Keeney
• the Aesthetics of change (2) by Bradford Keeney
• Agile coaching by Rachael Davies and Lez Sedley
• Agile development in the large by Jutta Eckstein
• the Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• Alice in wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• All I need to know about manufacturing I learned in Joe's garage by William B. Miller and Vicki L. Schenk
• Aquinas by Anthony Kenny
• the Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski
• Are your lights on? by Donald Gause and Jerry Weinberg
• Are your lights on? (2) by Donald Gause and Jerry Weinberg
• the Aremac project by Jerry Weinberg
• the Art of war by Sun Tzu
• Augustine's Laws by Norman Augustine
• Authentic happiness by Martin Seligman
• the Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
• the Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr

B

• BCPL by Martin Richards and Colin Whitby-Strevens
• Beating the system by Russell Ackoff and Sheldon Rovin
• Becoming a technical leader by Jerry Weinberg
• Becoming a technical leader (2) by Jerry Weinberg
• Being wrong by Kathryn Schulz
• Beyond culture by Edward T.Hall.
• Birth of the chaordic age by Dee Hock
• the Book of five rings by Miyamoto Musashi
• the Book of tea by Kakuzo Okakura
• the Book - on the taboo against knowing who you are by Alan Watts
• Bounce the myth of talent and the power of practice, by Matthew Syed
• Boyd - the fighter pilot who changed the art of war by Robert Coram
• Brain rules by John Medina
• Building Microservices by Sam Newman

C

• the C programming language by Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan
• the C standard
• Certain to win by Chet Richards
• Cognitive surplus by Clay Shirky
• Complexity and postmodernism - understanding complex systems by Paul Cilliers
• the Conquest of happiness by Bertrand Russell
• Consilience by Edward O. Wilson
• Continuous Delivery by Jez Hubble and Dave Farley
• the Corporation by Joel Bakan
• the Culture Code by Daniel Coyle

D

• the Dance of life by Edward T. Hall
• Dancing with elves by John Gall
• DaVinci decoded by Michael Gelb
• the Deming route to quality by William W. Scherkenbach
• the DevOps Handbook by Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, and John Willis
• Disabling professions by Ivan Illich et al
• Docker in Action by Jeff Nickoloff
• Drive by Dan Pink
• Dr Deming by Rafael Aguayo

E

• Effective leadership masterclass by John Adair
• the End of certainty by Ilya Prigogine
• Everyday heroes of the quality movement by Perry Gluckman and Diana Reynolds Roome
• the Evolution of useful things by Henry Petroski
• Experiential learning 1: beginning by Jerry Weinberg
• Experiential learning 2: inventing by Jerry Weinberg
• Experiential learning 3: simulation by Jerry Weinberg
• Existentialism and humanism by Jean Paul Sartre
• Extreme programming explained by Kent Beck

F

• the Fifth discipline by Peter Senge
• the Five dysfunctions of a team by Patrick Lencioni
• Float fishing rivers by Ken Giles and Dave Harrell
• Fred Foster's swing tipping by Fred Foster
• Free by Chris Anderson
• Freedom from command and control by John Seddon

G

• Gandhi an autobiography
• General principles of systems design by Jerry Weinberg
• the Genius in all of us by David Shenk
• the Gift of time edited by Fiona Charles
• Growing a business by Paul Hawken

H

• Hackers and painters by Paul Graham
• the Hávamál translated from the original by Björn Jónasson
• the Hidden dimension by Edward T. Hall
• the Hidden life of trees by Peter Wohlleben
• the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• Holes by Louis Sachar
• the House at Pooh corner by A. A. Milne
• How buildings learn by Stewart Brand
• How to read water by Tristan Gooley
• How to win friends and influence people by Dale Carnegie
• the Humble Programmer by Edsger W. Dijkstra

I

• Ian Heaps on Fishing by Ian Heaps
• Implementing lean software development by Mary and Tom Poppendieck
• the Importance of living by Lin Yutang
• an Introduction to general systems thinking by Jerry Weinberg
• an Introduction to general systems thinking (2) by Jerry Weinberg
• It's your ship by Michael Abrashoff
• Ivan Marks - the people's champion by Media Press
• I wish I'd said that by Maurice Silver

J

• Javascript: the good parts by Douglas Crockford
• Jonathan livingston seagull by Richard Bach
• Just one more thing by Peter Falk

K

• Kanban by David Anderson
• Kierkegaard in a nutshell edited Robert Van de Weyer
• Kluge by Gary Marcus

L

• the Lady tasting tea by David Salsburg
• the Lean startup by Eric Ries
• Leverage points by Donella Meadows
• Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
• Linked by Albert-László Barabási
• a Little book of f-LAWS by Russell Ackoff and Herbert Addison
• the Logic of failure by Dietrich Dorner
• Long walk to freedom by Nelson Mandela
• Losing my virginity by Richard Branson

M

• the Machine that changed the world by James Womack, Daniel Jones, and Daniel Roos
• a Man called Ove by Fredrik Backman
• Management 3.0 by Jurgen Appelo
• Management of the absurd by Richard Farson
• Managing the design factory by Don Reinersten
• Managing the design factory (2) by Don Reinersten
• Mastery by George Leonard
• Maverick by Ricardo Semlar
• Measuring and managing performance in organizations by Robert Austin
• Mind and nature by Gregory Bateson
• the Mind of war by Grant T. Hammond
• Mindset by Carol Dweck
• More secrets of consulting by Jerry Weinberg
• Mozart a biography by Piero Melograni
• the Mythical man month by Fred Brooks

N

• the Nature and art of workmanship by David Pye
• Non violent communcation by Marshall Rosenberg
• Not always so by Shunryu Suzuki
• Notes on the synthesis of form by Christopher Alexander
• Nudge by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein

O

• Obliquity by John Kay
• On becoming a person by Carl Rogers
• Organize for complexity by Niels Pflaeging
• Out of our minds by Ken Robinson
• Out of the crisis by W. Edwards Deming

P

• Pair programming illuminated by Laurie Williams and Robert Kessler
• Patterns of software by Richard Gabriel
• Peopleware by Tom DeMarco and Tim Lister
• Peopleware (2) by Tom DeMarco and Tim Lister
• Perfect software and other illusions about testing by Jerry Weinberg
• Perfect software and other illusions about testing (2) by Jerry Weinberg
• the Pleasure of finding things out by Richard Feynman
• the Pragmatic programmer by Andrew Hunt and Dave Thomas
• Pragmatic thinking and learning by Andy Hunt
• Predictably irrational by Dan Ariely
• the Princess Bride by William Goldman
• the Principles and practice of fly and bait casting by Reginald D. Hughes
• the Principles and practice of fly and bait casting (2) by Reginald D. Hughes
• the Principles of product development flow by Don Reinersten
• Pro git by Scott Chacon
• Progressive fly fishing for salmon by Alexander Baird Keachie
• the Psychology of computer programming by Jerry Weinberg
• the Psychology of computer programming (2) by Jerry Weinberg
• the Psychology of computer programming (3) by Jerry Weinberg
• the Puritan gift by Kenneth and William Hopper

Q

• Quality software management vol 1, systems thinking by Jerry Weinberg
• Quality software management vol 1, systems thinking (2) by Jerry Weinberg
• Quality software management vol 2, first-order measurement by Jerry Weinberg
• Quality software management vol 2, first-order measurement (2) by Jerry Weinberg
• Quality software management vol 3, congruent action by Jerry Weinberg
• Quality software management vol 3, congruent action (2) by Jerry Weinberg
• Quality software management vol 4, anticipating change by Jerry Weinberg
• Quality software management vol 4, anticipating change (2) by Jerry Weinberg

R

• Reality is not what it seems by Carlo Rovelli
• the Reason I Jump by Naoki Higashida
• the Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
• Rethinking systems analysis and design by Jerry Weinberg
• the Right suff by Tom Wolfe
• the Road less travelled and beyond by M. Scott Peck

S

• Safer c by Les Hatton
• Salmon fishing by Hugh Falkus
• Sapiens. A Brief History of Human Kind by Yuval Noah Harari
• Scrum by Jeff Sutherland
• the Secrets of consulting by Jerry Weinberg
• the Secrets of consulting (2) by Jerry Weinberg
• Sense and respond by Susan Barlow, Stephen Parry, and Mike Faulkner
• Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
• the Silent language by Edward T. Hall
• Simple and usable by Giles Colborne
• Simplicity by Edward de Bono
• Situated learning - legitimate peripheral participation by Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger
• Six memos for the next millenium by Italo Calvino
• Slack by Tom DeMarco
• Slack (2) by Tom DeMarco
• Smart swarm by Peter Miller
• the Soul would have no rainbow by Guy Zona
• the Starfish and the spider by Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom
• Stuka pilot by Hans Ulrich Rudel
• Surely you're joking Mr Feynman by Richard Feynman
• Surfing the edge of chaos by Richard Pascale, Mark Millemann, Linda Gioja
• Switch by Chip and Dan Heath
• Synectics by William J.J.Gordon
• the Systems bible by John Gall
• Systems thinking in the public sector by John Seddon

T

• Taiichi Ohno's Workplace management by Taiichi Ohno
• Talent is overrated by Geoff Colvin
• the Tao by Lao Tzu
• the Tao is silent by Raymond Smullyan
• the Tao of business by Ansgar Gerstner
• the Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
• Tao Te Ching translated by R.L.Wing
• the Teachings of Don Juan by Carlos Castaneda
• Test-driven development for embedded c by James Grenning
• Thinking in systems - A Primer, by Donella Meadows
• Thinking fast and slow by Daniel Kahneman
• Through the language glass by Guy Deutscher
• the Timeless way of building by Christopher Alexander
• Toyota kata by Mike Rother
• Toyota production system - beyond large scale, by Taiichi Ohno
• the Toyota Way by Jeffrey Liker
• Tragically I was an only twin The complete Peter Cook
• the Trusted advisor by David Maister, Charles Green, and Robert Galford
• Trustee from the toolroom by Nevil Shute

U

• Understanding comics - the invisible art by Scott McCloud
• Understanding the professional programmer by Jerry Weinberg
• Understanding the professional programmer (2) by Jerry Weinberg
• the Universal computer by Martin Davis
• the Unknown craftsman by Sōetsu Yanagi

W

• Wabi sabi by Andrew Juniper
• the War of art by Steven Pressfield
• the Way of the leader by Donald Krause
• the Way of zen by Alan Watts
• the Way to wealth by Benjamin Franklin
• We seven by the Mercury astronauts
• Weinberg on writing by Jerry Weinberg
• What did you say? by Charles and Edith Seashore and Jerry Weinberg
• What did you say? (2) by Charles and Edith Seashore and Jerry Weinberg
• What is Life? by Paul Nurse
• When things start to think by Neil Gershenfeld
• a Whole new mind by Dan Pink
• Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A.Milne
• Wisdom of the idiots by Idries Shah
• the Wisdom of crowds by James Surowiecki
• Wit and wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanac, by Benjamin Franklin
• Wooden on leadership by John Wooden and Steve Jamison
• Working effectively with legacy code by Michael Feathers
• World class match fishing by Kevin Ashurst

Z

• Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance by Robert Pirsig.
• Zen bow, zen arrow by John Stevens.
• Zen in the art of archery by Eugen Herrigel
• Zen in the martial arts by Joe Hyams
• Zen mind, beginner's mind by Shunryu Suzuki
• Zen soup by Laurence Boldt