Books I've Read

Read How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie Can't help but feel this is a little Machiavellian in its "influence" but there are some simple communication tips I will introduce, wh...

Read Getting to Yes by Roger Fischer My current project has some particularly stubborn stakeholders and collaborators, where my teammate and I are embedded on the client's site and needing to work ...

Read Building Microservices by Sam Newman Required reading for us all at Headspring as we get more and more into distributed systems. My current project involves some major application changes to p...

Read JavaScript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford I've dipped my toe into some JS here and there on some rich front-ends but in a very hacky way. Good to learn how better to utilize the language...

Read The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier. What great questions and guidance this book offers. Definitely changed the way I have 1x1s.

Read Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity by Kim Malone Scott.

Read Getting Things Done by David Allen A bit outdated given the whole paper-based angle but the lessons are good. While my own paper process remains unchanged, I've introduced a tickler-style seei...