While books are valuable resources, the best learning comes from understanding fundamentals and building real things. This is just a complement to hands-on experience.

Books

Distributed systems

• Designing Data-Intensive Applications
• Database Internals

Math

• Statistics Without Tears

Programming

• Tidy First?
• Refactoring

Sales

• Let’s Get Real or Let’s Not Play: Transforming the Buyer/Seller Relationship

Soft skills

• Unleashed: The Unapologetic Leader’s Guide to Empowering Everyone Around You

Misc

• The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
• Voices of the Fallen Heroes

Papers

Distributed systems

• Lamport, L. (1978). Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System
• Brewer, E. (2000). Towards Robust Distributed Systems

Databases

• The Google File System
• Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available Key-value Store

Newsletters

• Lenny’s Newsletter
• Pointer
• The Pragmatic Engineer