Shelf

Holds up after twenty years.

The case against shallow modules.

The systems bible.

What I wish I'd read at chapter-lead time.

A vocabulary for the role.

Engineering management as a system.

Useful, but argue with half of it.

Read it twice; understood it the second time.

Source material for the Mobile Reliability Team at Divar.

Used it both ways — to prepare, and to interview.

For when you inherit the codebase.

Old, still right.

Most of what's hard about software is in here, in disguise.

The book on showing up new.

My two soft spots in one book.

Wiser than it lets on.

A river, a ferryman, a quiet.

Standup notes from an emperor.

Why my code reviews used to be wrong.

Take with salt; keep the underlying truth.

Beautiful, dense, worth the work.

A novel that taught me to listen first.

Spare prose, large feelings.

42 is the only sensible answer.