Reading for engineers that ages well

When making career decisions, prioritize long-term factors over short-term gains, especially early in your career.

Still the single best career-defining book for working engineers. Reads like a senior sitting next to you.

We are told that technology is on the brink of ruining everything. But we are being lied to, and the truth is so much better. Marc Andreessen presents his techno-optimist vision for the future.

Good taste is a practical, learnable discipline: great makers create beautiful work by developing exacting judgment and using it to pursue simplicity, usefulness, timelessness, and better solutions.

Elon is the most important engineer of our century. Despite his peculiar way of building companies, his mindset is changing the world.

Great work usually comes from the same pattern across fields: find something you’re both naturally good at and obsessively curious about, learn it deeply enough to reach the frontier, notice what others overlook, and pursue those gaps with persistence.

An actual bridge engineer turned programmer interviews others like him. What do we borrow, and what don't we?

You get a small number of \"innovation tokens\" per company. Spend them where it matters, boring everywhere else.