Envisioning Information

Godel Escher Bach is fairly bible-ish if you ask me Another set of books I consider to be "one" bible are Edward Tufte's (1) The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, (2) Envisioning Information, (3) Visual Explanations and (4) Beautiful Evidence.

There were different book that impacted different stages of my career: As a programmer : 1. The C++ Programming Language by Bjarne Stroustrup. 2. Operating System Concepts by Silberschatz 3. Compilers by Aho As an agile software developer: 1. eXtreme Programming by Kent Beck 2. Pragmatic Programmer by Hunt and Thomas 3. Continuous Delivery by Jez Humble As an architect: 1. Domain Driven Design by Evans 2. Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture by Buschmann 3. Envisioning Information by Edward Tufte As a CEO: 1. Good To Great by Collins 2. Lean Startup by Eric Ries 3. Beyond Budgeting by Pfläging

"Becoming a Technical Leader" by Gerald Weinberg Unconventional perspective on management "How Buildings Learn" by Stewart Brand One of the best books about designing long-term architectures. Excellent coffee table book "Envisioning Information" by Edward Tufte "Walt Disney" by Neal Gabler Excellent biography of maybe the greatest imagineer ever "The Art of Software Testing" by Glenford J. Myers ~100 page classic. The central premise is that the successful test is one that finds bugs/issues not one that doesn't.

I've had to make up for a college education so these may be old hat. Alan Kay's UI lectures: http://webcast.berkeley.edu/course_details.php?seriesid=1906978270 Ed Tufte, especially Envisioning Information Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) http://www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/classes/6.001/abelson-sussman-lectures/ Ed Yourdon: Death March... this is a great guide to dealing with enterprizey development. This shows you what to avoid in your own org.