Books

A collection of the books I've read with notes that I want to refer back to later.

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Books to Read General Badass: Making Users Awesome Apprenticeship patterns Nonviolent Communication - Marshall Rosenberg (recommended by…

September 07, 2020

Getting Started with Web Accessibility There are lots of different ways to get started with accessibility, and honestly, looking at a list…

Books Read 2020 Non-fiction How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X Kendi Fiction At the Mountains of Madness by HP Lovecraft Slaughterhouse Five…

Customer Success Books Tags: Books to look at: Chief Customer Officer 2.0: How to Build Your Customer-Driven Growth Engine amazon The…

How to Summarize a Book Notes and highlights taken from Tiago Forte's The Ultimate Guide to Summarizing Books: How to Distill Ideas to…

November 01, 2020

Software Engineering Management Books Tags: [[benrobertson.io/books]] These are the books I've been reading this year that have helped me…

A Promised Land Full Title: A Promised Land I learned a lot about politics from reading this, and also a developed a fondness for Obama. He…

Brag Better Full Title: Brag Better Summary It’s not enough to just do good work. You have to practice telling people how good your work is…

Chapterhouse Full Title: Chapterhouse Highlights They say they seek security and quiet, conditions they call peace. Even as they speak…

God Emperor of Dune Full Title: God Emperor of Dune Highlights They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even…

Joyland Full Title: Joyland A fast, fun read. Highlights When you’re twenty-one, life is a roadmap. It’s only when you get to be twenty…

Love in the Ruins Full Title: Love in the Ruins I think the adjective I would use to describe this book is zany. If you are a Catholic in…

My Age of Anxiety Full Title: My Age of Anxiety I admit, I didn’t get very far. It was a little too in the weeds for me. Highlights CHAPTER…

November 01, 2022

The Buried Giant Full Title: The Buried Giant Recommendation - 2/5. This was a good bed time read because it was slow and boring. The plot…

The Confidence Men Full Title: The Confidence Men: How two prisoners of war engineered the most remarkable escape in history Recommendation…

The Stand Full Title: The Stand A gripping read. It’s a King classic for a reason. There are some squirmy, hard to read parts. Not for the…

August 01, 2022

Everything in Its Place Full Title: Everything in Its Place Rereading through these notes ~2 years later, a lot of the ideas and practical…

Radical Candor Full Title: Radical Candor Highly recommend this book to anyone new to management or interested in management. It was…