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Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

Jocko Willink, Leif Babin

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Noe2097
Try "Extreme Ownership". It will give you concrete examples on how to broaden your scope out of just your individual contribution, by learning to care for all the rest, and pushing you to realize that to a large extent, the things you see as broken you can actually fix. Even when they are not inside the codebase you are in charge of. Even if they aren't even on engineering side.
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muzani
33 Strategies of War. It's good for dealing with any and all types of conflict, including conflicts with yourself. Half of the book is unconventional techniques most people don't even think of. Similarly themed is Extreme Ownership, which covers leadership in chaotic situstions. Militaries are designed to deal with the chaos of war, and a lot of principles apply to the chaos of software engineering too.

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