5 Books That Made Me a 10X Engineer

I'm not the most voratious reader, but I've learned so much from some books throughout my career. Some of them are very much about coding, but others were really surprising for me to find so much value in. Let's talk about these!

📖 Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:15 Effectiveness
02:10 Mathematical thinking
03:54 Fundamentals
05:04 Programming
06:16 The ropes of the industry

📚 Get the books:
7 Habits of Highly Effective People:
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
The Pragmatic Programmer
The Innovators:

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🚀 Let's connect

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[jcfontech]

What are some of your book recommendations? Would love to learn more! 🤓

[abrilmarina]

Reading can be a great way of leveraging others’ life experience and learnings, and I love how you seek to apply what you read to really harness the power of that knowledge. In this industry, it’s this mindset that really differentiates programmers from software engineers. Thanks for the book recs, I added a couple to my Amazon cart :)

I really appreciate and admire how much effort you put into learning and going beyond the surface level in everything you do. It’s really inspiring.
Happy to be part of this community and looking forward to seeing it explode here shortly with all the great content you’ve been putting out 🚀🚀🚀

[EduardoHenrique-ndro]

Another outstanding video, Juan! Thanks for sharing these book tips with us!
Have an amazing week ahead!
Cheers from Brazil!

[Sushi]

I learned that reading books and code are one of the multiple ways to familiarize yourself with programming languages. Thanks for sharing your books on this video. I have one of your books, "Code", which made me think to revisit it again.

[BiHMaverick]

the background music is too high paced for what you are explaining. It draws too much attention away from what you are saying.

[jayshree]

Thanks Juan, I clicked expecting a generic video but this was really good.

[_Cyback_]

00:03 Five books that have helped me become a more effective person and better coder
01:01 Focus on strategic initiatives and foundational architecture for long-term impact
02:00 The book 'How Not to Be Wrong' is a GameChanger in problem solving.
02:59 Mathematical reasoning offers practical insights in real-life situations.
03:59 Understanding the inner workings of computers is essential for efficient coding.
04:58 The book 'The Pragmatic Programmer' offers practical and foundational advice on software development.
05:56 Constant learning and adapting new techniques in this ever evolving field
06:56 Learning from the past to build the future
Crafted by Merlin AI.

[mawfyy]

Great books, also i recommend clean code or some books from uncle bob. :)

[Anandharajan.a]

Don't be saggy when you are talking articulate clearly !