A sporadically updated list of reading and viewing recommendations so I have something to link to:
(These are not affiliate links, but maybe they should be?)

Technical

• SRE book
• Designing Data Intensive Applications 
• Software Engineering at Google
• System Design Interview
• Accelerate
• Observability Engineering
• Is Software Engineering? (video)

Coding principles and other programming basics:

• Use with caution: Clean Code, critique of clean code
• A Philosophy of Software Design (also contains some critique of clean code)
• The Pragmatic Programmer
• Refactoring
• Effective Java (3rd Edition)
• Fluent Python

Career

• The Staff Engineer’s Path
• Being Glue (AKA a must watch for every woman in tech and people who might ever work with a woman in tech)
• Coordination Headwind (AKA why is everything in Google and other big-co so hard)

Basics for any leader

• Thinking in Systems

People Stuff

• Radical Candor
• Crucial Conversations
• The Culture Map

Productivity

• Building a Second Brain

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