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James Clear: Atomic Habits (2018)

No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving every day. James …

Review of 'Atomic Habits' on 'Goodreads'

Read it a second time and I took notes this time. I didn’t had the capacity to organize them yet but I took a lot. Still a great book, all my previous points are still valid.
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Great book. Good setup. Every chapter starts with a story. Wrap-up at the end of each chapter. Download content on the webpage.

George Burr Leonard: The Way of Aikido (EBook, 2008, Penguin Group USA, Inc.)

A fifth-degree black belt in the revolutionary martial art of aikido and co-owner of an …

Review of 'The Way of Aikido' on 'Goodreads'

Well written. Entertaining since it's containing stories and also derived principals from these stories.

All in all a good read.

I am inclined to start Aikido, just for the mindset behind it.

"In this timely manifesto, the authors of the New York Times bestseller Rework broadly reject …

Review of "It doesn't have to be crazy at work" on 'Goodreads'

It' a good compendium on what to do (Protect your time) why (More focus, less distractions, more sanity.

I really like their style. "Fuck this" and "bullshit" and all these words a lot of people use but you don't usually find in a book make it very honest.

Rob Isenberg: Docker for Rails Developers: Build, Ship, and Run Your Applications Everywhere (Pragmatic Bookshelf)

Review of 'Docker for Rails Developers: Build, Ship, and Run Your Applications Everywhere' on 'Goodreads'

If you want to develop rails with docker, this book is for you.
I read it on my kindle (the docker config files are a bit hard to read but it's possible)
4 or 5 chapters are still missing. I will read them once they have been written. :-)
In total a good step by step guide to get you started.

Dave Ramsey: The total money makeover (2007, Nelson Books)

Dave condenses his 17 years of financial teaching and counseling into 7 organized, easy-to-follow steps …

Review of 'The total money makeover' on 'Goodreads'

Interesting read. I guess I identified one flaw in my budgeting process (didn‘t make a plan for the whole income per month)
Will try out the baby steps and see if they make sense for me.
The bible references were a bit annoying but I could ignore them.

Christina Dalcher: Vox (Hardcover, 2018, Berkley)

Set in an America where half the population has been silenced, VOX is the harrowing, …

Review of 'Vox' on 'Goodreads'

Extremely exciting especially at the end. (last 20%)
A bit confusing to follow all the different strands, but maybe it's a good reference to how our lives really are. Challenges don't wait until you think you have capacity for them.

All in all an interesting read (I got hooked up by the 100 words per day thing.).

Leo Babauta: The power of less (2009, Hyperion)

"The Power of Less" is a blueprint for reducing the clutter, noise, and unnecessary work …

Review of 'The power of less' on 'Goodreads'

All in all a good and valuable read. I like the mantra of less because it can help in many areas (as he points out in the book). It's somewhat repetitive and you will know quite a lot if you are familiar with minimalism.

Hans Rosling: Factfulness (Hardcover, 2018, SCEPTRE)

It turns out that the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better …

Review of 'Factfulness' on 'Goodreads'

Incredible read. Helps to move the focus from a single (negative or even horrible) event to a more mid- or long term focus. And in the long run almost everything is improving. Just keep working to make things better!

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Rob Bell: How to be here (2016)

"New York Times bestselling author Rob Bell shows us how to discover the greatness we …

Review of 'How to be here' on 'Goodreads'

Short book which helps you to focus on your life at hand. What happens right now, in this exact moment? Are you fully aware?

Partly interesting stories. Somewhat repetitive. Helpful.

Jason Schreier: Blood, Sweat, and Pixels (2017, HarperCollins Publishers)

Examines the development process of such marquee video games as Uncharted 4, Halo Wars, and …

Review of 'Blood, Sweat, and Pixels' on 'Goodreads'

Very interesting read. It's more like 8 or 9 mini books within one book, written in the same style.

Due to the fact that I, myself am part of the games industry a lot of patters seem familiar and I was able to explain a lot of behavior which I was able to observe at Bigpoint over the last 8 years or so.

Sure, a game team is a complex system but I doubt that crunch and chaos is inevitable. In the end agile methods, tools and principles are developed to help in a complex environment (in the end every team, group, company is a complex system on its own).