cristi cretan / software engineer @ crowdstrike / bucharest
cristi@ro:~$ cat books.md

Books that stuck

  1. Malcolm Gladwell - Outliers: story about how a lot of the high achievers in the world, they got very lucky, these outliers a lot of the things that separated them, it's just luck.
  2. Daniel H. Pink - Drive: Motivational structures, the ones that are effective the ones that are not.
  3. Daniel H. Pink - When: Talks about time.
  4. Max Tegmark - Life 3.0: MIT professor, the potential outcomes of AI
  5. Phil Knight - Shoe dog: a guy who finds himself, he's just a regular university student, it takes you along the journey about how that regular guy, made NIKE
  6. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - flow: concretely answers a lot of questions that people have about happiness. Flow gives you the blueprint to be happy, what are happy people doing? they are engaged in activities in a specific way.
  7. Viktor Frankl - Man's search for meaning: Written by a psychologist who went throught Holocaust. talking about how he found meaning even in the hardest times.
  8. Robert Greene - Mastery: on how to master any skill
  9. Cal Newport - Deep Work: on how you should actually practice and work on a a project or learn something new
  10. Mark Manson - The Subtile Art of Not Giving a Fuck
  11. Charles Dugigg - The Power of Habit
  12. James Clear - Atomic Habits
  13. Barry Schwartz - The Paradox of Choice