Can't hurt me book review
I had to force myself to start reading this book due to the amount of explicit language used by the author. That's probably the first book I've read in more than 20 years that ...
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The Psychology of Money book review
This book will suit if you're a history buff like me. Especially, if you're interested in how economics and history can correllate and influence each other. Well, maybe not so m...
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Atomic Habits by James Clear book review
Personally, it took me more than 6 months to finish this book from the moment when I saw it at the bookshelf at Malta airport until the moment when I was done with all its addit...
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Elon Musk Biography by Walter Isaacson
I've binged-read this book cover to cover in less than a week. I don't remember much about what was happening over the last 7 days besides taking a first look at illustrations i...
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The monk who sold his Ferrari book review
Not sure what happened with this book. Either I'm reading it late in my life of the book is completely outdated and everything it teaches you can be read in other much better bo...
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The subtle art of not giving a f*ck book review
I resented reading this book due to its notoriety and agressive marketing across both online and offline. This wasn't worth it.
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The art of leadership book review
I'll split this book into 2 main parts: the importance of 1:1s & how to conduct them and depiction of really impressive author's experience after working in multiple high-te...
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The inevitable book review
This book was recommended on one of Motley Fool's shows as a visionary book that perfectly describes what the future holds for us in terms of technological progress.
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97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know book review
I don't remember the exact thing that made me start reading this book, but most probably this was due to its marketing campaign or I saw a paid blog post sponsored by the publis...
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Kubernetes up & running book review
This is a review for the second edition of K8S U&R, even though early access for the third edition is already available on some of the platforms.
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Crucial conversations book review
I wish I read this book a long before I actually did it.
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Refactoring book review
This year was supposed to be full of reading and learning new things, but the reality has shown that it had different plans for my time. That's why it took me much longer that u...
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Working effectively with legacy code book review
The world of software moves with such a pace that this book written in 2004 looks like a relict from the distant past. However, it's still capable enough to teach the old dog ne...
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Building a career in software book review
Frankly, I'd never stumble upon this book if it wasn't recommended to me by my boss and he's learned about it as its author is his former colleague.
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Designing data-intensive applications book review
This book is truly a masterpiece, though with its own flaws
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