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2 books recommended · 1 episode
Books they recommend that someone else wrote.
“In it, Martin describes a bunch of different patterns of how to build business systems, essentially. And Active Record is a little bit of a footnote in there.”
Why: It is one of the very few programming books that the speaker has read many times over and is incredible for anyone working on business systems.
Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler
Guest on Lex Fridman Podcast#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting
“And I was really lucky to read the book Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi early on.”
Why: It provided early insight into the concept of flow and understanding when people are actually happy.
Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Guest on Lex Fridman Podcast#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting
Their own books, or books they discussed with the author. Not counted as recommendations.
“And this is one of the key points we make in It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work, the latest book we wrote, is that there's enough time.”
It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work by Jason Fried
Guest on Lex Fridman Podcast#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting