Books I Recommend

These books have shaped the way I think, work, and lead—from hands-on technical knowledge to powerful mindset shifts.

💪 Motivation & Mental Toughness

• Can't Hurt Me – David Goggins
• Atomic Habits – James Clear
• The Power of Now – Eckhart Tolle
• The War of Art – Steven Pressfield
• Grit – Angela Duckworth
• The 5 AM Club – Robin Sharma
• Make Your Bed – Admiral William H. McRaven

🧠 Software Engineering & Architecture

• Clean Code – Robert C. Martin
• The Pragmatic Programmer – Andy Hunt & Dave Thomas
• Refactoring – Martin Fowler
• Designing Data-Intensive Applications – Martin Kleppmann
• You Don’t Know JS (Series) – Kyle Simpson
• JavaScript: The Good Parts – Douglas Crockford
• Don't Make Me Think – Steve Krug

🤖 Machine Learning & AI

• Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow – Aurélien Géron
• Deep Learning – Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, and Aaron Courville
• Machine Learning Yearning – Andrew Ng
• Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach – Stuart Russell & Peter Norvig

🚀 Leadership, Focus & Productivity

• Start With Why – Simon Sinek
• Deep Work – Cal Newport
• The Lean Startup – Eric Ries
• Essentialism – Greg McKeown
• Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman

Have a great book recommendation? Let me know — I’m always adding to my stack.