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Overly Optimistic Books & Papers 2025

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[ ] Out of the Tar Pit - Ben Moseley, Peter Marks (2006)
[ ] Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System - Leslie Lamport (1978)
[ ] Self-stabilizing Systems in Spite of Distributed Control - Edsger W. Dijkstra (1974)
[ ] Life beyond Distributed Transactions: an Apostate’s Opinion - Pat Helland (2007)
[ ] Attention Is All You Need - Ashish Vaswani, Noam Shazeer, Niki Parmar, Jakob Uszkoreit, Llion Jones, Aidan N. Gomez, Lukasz Kaiser, Illia Polosukhin (2017)
[ ] Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available Key-value Store - Giuseppe DeCandia, Deniz Hastorun, Madan Jampani, Gunavardhan Kakulapati, Avinash Lakshman, Alex Pilchin, Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, Peter Vosshall, Werner Vogels (2007)

[ ] Clean Architecture: A Craftsman’s Guide to Software Structure and Design – Robert C. Martin (2017)
[ ] The Effective Engineer: How to Leverage Your Efforts In Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impact – Edmond Lau (2015)
[ ] The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win – Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford (2013)
[ ] The Unicorn Project: A Novel About Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Data – Gene Kim (2019)
[ ] The Model Thinker: What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You – Scott E. Page (2018)
[ ] Implementing Domain-Driven Design – Vaughn Vernon (2013)
[ ] The Manager’s Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change – Camille Fournier (2017)
[ ] The Design of Design: Essays from a Computer Scientist – Frederick P. Brooks Jr. (2010)

[ ] The 10x Rule – Grant Cardone (2011)
[ ] The 1-Page Marketing Plan: Get New Customers, Make More Money, And Stand Out From The Crowd – Allan Dib (2016)
[ ] The Dip – Seth Godin (2007)
[ ] The E-Myth Revisited – Michael E. Gerber (1995)
[ ] Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future – Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014)
[ ] Rework – Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson (2010)

[ ] Creativity, Inc – Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace (2014)
[ ] Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making – Tony Fadell (2022)
[ ] The Innovator’s Dilemma – Clayton M. Christensen (1997)
[ ] The Mom Test – Rob Fitzpatrick (2013)
[ ] The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership – Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh (2009)
[ ] Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us – Daniel H. Pink (2009)
[ ] Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die – Chip Heath, Dan Heath (2007)

[ ] Antifragile – Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012)
[ ] Show your work! – Austin Kleon (2014)
[ ] So Good They Can’t Ignore You – Cal Newport (2012)
[ ] The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing – Marie Kondo (2011)
[ ] The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results – Gary Keller, Jay Papasan (2013)
[ ] Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World – Cal Newport (2016)
[ ] Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman (2011)
[ ] The War of Art – Steven Pressfield (2002)
[ ] Thinking in Bets – Annie Duke (2018)

[ ] Indistractable – Nir Eyal (2019)
[ ] Mindset: The New Psychology of Success – Carol S. Dweck (2006)
[ ] Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance – Angela Duckworth (2016)
[ ] Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World – David Epstein (2019)
[ ] Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less – Greg McKeown (2014)
[ ] The Art of Thinking Clearly – Rolf Dobelli (2011)

[ ] Truth: A Brief History of Total Bullsh*t – Tom Phillips (2020)
[ ] Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up – Tom Phillips (2018)
[ ] The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck – Mark Manson (2016)