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Book Review: The Power of Habit
TL;DR: Read this Book, when… you are interested in how habits work in individuals, organizations, and societies you want to trigger some self-reflection on your habits you enjoy real-life stories that read like a novel Overview Similar to The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, I read {% include book-link.
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Book Review: Everybody Writes
TL;DR: Read this Book, when… you want to become a better writer (especially, but not exclusively, in online marketing) you are writing for a blog or marketing department you want to learn some tricks on how to keep writing Overview The book {% include book-link.
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Book Review: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
TL;DR: Read this Book, when… you’re ready to change the way you think about your interaction with the world around you you want to be more effective in communicating with those around you you want to learn some motives why you should change your habits Overview I read the book “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” by Stephen Covey in my quest to shape my habits to be more productive at the things I do.
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Book Review: Deep Work
TL;DR: Read this Book, when… you want to get more productive at knowledge work (yes, software development is knowledge work!) you feel like you’re drowning in “shallow” work like emails and phone calls you need arguments to defend a change of work style towards your colleagues and your boss Overview In his book “Deep Work”, Cal Newport gives a name to the productive state of “flow” most of us like to attain at work but which we can rarely maintain for more than a couple minutes when the next emergency interrupts our train of thought.
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Book Review: Your Code as a Crime Scene
TL;DR: Read this Book, when… you are interested in metrics by which to evaluate a codebase or even organizational behavior of a development team you want to know how to gather those metrics you have a certain codebase that you want to analyze Overview Your Code as a Crime Scene by Adam Tornhill is a book that aims to apply criminal investigation techniques to a codebase in order to gain insights about the structure and quality of the code.
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Book Review: Java by Comparison
TL;DR: Read this Book, when… you are starting with Java and want some advice for producing quality code you are teaching Java and want your students to learn best practices you are working with junior developers and want them to get them up to speed Overview In a nutshell, Java by Comparison by Simon Harrer, Jörg Lenhard, and Linus Dietz teaches best practices in the Java programming language.
Tom Hombergs