Book Club

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Book Recommendations

On China

The Shanghai Free Taxi by Frank Langfitt

China After Mao by Frank Dikötter

Censored by Margaret E. Roberts

Empress Dowager Cixi by Jung Chang

Iron and Silk by Mark Salzman

Mao's China and the Cold War by Jian Chen

Mao's Great Famine by Frank Dikötter

Party of One by Chun Han Wong

Prisoner of the State by Bao Pu, Renee Chiang, Adi Ignatius

Red Roulette by Desmond Shum

Sparks by Ian Johnson

The Cultural Revolution by Frank Dikötter

The Cultural Revolution: 1967 in Review by Michel Oksenberg

The Hakka Cookbook by Linda Lau Anusasananan

The Last Days of Old Beijing by Michael Meyer

The People's Republic of Amnesia by Louisa Lim

The Souls of China by Ian Johnson

The Ugly Wife Is a Treasure at Home by Melissa Margaret Schneider

Tombstone by 杨继绳

Wild Grass by Ian Johnson

《天地翻覆》 by 杨继绳

On South East Asia

Blood and Silk by Michael Vatikiotis

Asian Godfathers by Joe Studwell

Lee Kuan Yew by Graham Allison

The Singapore Story by Lee Kuan Yew

Software Development

Python

Effective Python: Each section talks about a tip to improve Python efficiency.

Fluent Python: It not only introduces how to improve Python coding, but also tells why.

Software Engineer Career

Soft Skills: It talks about all skills a software engineer needs apart from coding skills.

The Effective Engineer: It talks about how to improve the working efficiency as a software engineer.

The Manager's Path: It talks how to manage and how to be managed from intern to CTO.

Building a Career in Software: It talks about how to grow as a software engineer step by step.

System Design

System Design Interview: Each case in this book introduces a software system, from message queue to CDN.

Designing Data-Intensive Applications: It provides a step-by-step guide to build data-intensive systems.

Designing Machine Learning Systems: It provides a step-by-step guide to build machine learning systems from training to serveing.

Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10: If you want to learn how to explain a complicated concept to a stanger, this is the best text book.

Software Engineering at Google: It not only introduces what are the best practise in Google, but also elaborates how Google built these best practises.

Misc
Build
Ask Your Developer
The Innovation Stack
Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
Never Lost Again
Powerful
The Everything Store
Hit Refresh
Delivering Happiness

Weekly Book Club

Weekly Book Club 039 - Innovation Stack
Weekly Book Club 038 - Hit Refresh
Weekly Book Club 037 - Guns, Germs, and Steel
Weekly Book Club 036 - Digital Minimalism
Weekly Book Club 035 - Deep Work
Weekly Book Club 034 - The Power of Habit
Weekly Book Club 033 - Start Small, Stay Small
Weekly Book Club 032 - The Millionaire Fastlane
Weekly Book Club 031 - How I Built This
Weekly Book Club 030 - The Tipping Point

Weekly Book Club 029 - The Psychology of Money
Weekly Book Club 028 - The Checklist Manifest
Weekly Book Club 027 - WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
Weekly Book Club 026 - How to Avoid A Climate Disaster
Weekly Book Club 025 - Daring Greatly
Weekly Book Club 024 - Rework
Weekly Book Club 023 - Atomic Habits
Weekly Book Club 022 - Good Strategy Bad Strategy
Weekly Book Club 021 - Nudge
Weekly Book Club 020 - Make Time

Weekly Book Club 019 - Keep Sharp
Weekly Book Club 018 - Why We Sleep
Weekly Book Club 017 - Your Brain at Work
Weekly Book Club 016 - How to Decide
Weekly Book Club 015 - The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
Weekly Book Club 014 - Finite and Infinite Games
Weekly Book Club 013 - Born a Crime
Weekly Book Club 012 - Measure What Matters
Weekly Book Club 011 - How Will Your Measure Your Life
Weekly Book Club 010 - Range

Books About Companies

Daily Productive Sharing 412 - 20220315 - A book list for software engineer growth

Daily Productive Sharing 262 - 20210817 - A book list by Sahil Lavingia

Daily Productive Sharing 232 - 20210706 - A book list by Jeff Atwood

Daily Productive Sharing 227 - 20210629 - A book list for software development by Gergely Orosz

Daily Productive Sharing 180 - 20210423 - A book list for Suez Evergreen incident

Daily Productive Sharing 174 - 20210415 - A book list for finance

Daily Productive Sharing 172 - 20210413 - A book list by Mergeflow

Daily Productive Sharing 157 - 20210323 - A book list for lockdown

Daily Productive Sharing 094 - 20201224 - A book list for management

Daily Productive Sharing 060 - 20201107 - A book list by Patrick Collison

Daily Productive Sharing 054 - 20201031 - A book list by Marc Andreessen

Book Recommendations

On China

On South East Asia

Software Development

Books About Companies

Angelist

a16z

Basecamp

Google

Microsoft

O'Reilly

Patagonia

Square

Book lists in the previous DPS sharing