Stuff I mention a lot.

What I do

• Art-o-mat – I’ve sold a few hundred tiny pieces of art through this.
• The Book Academy – I’m a graduate. Luvvie Ajayi Jones is wonderful.
• bouncingleaf.com – My art site
• Prison Book Program – I volunteer there once or twice a month. If you have books meeting their criteria, you can give them to me to donate!

Books

Books I’ve read and highly recommend. The bookshop.org links are affiliate links. Support independent bookstores!

Tech books

• Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations by Dr. Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim.
• The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford. A fictional account of a DevOps transformation.
• Observability Engineering by Charity Majors, Liz Fong-Jones, and George Miranda. THE book to read about observability.
• The Staff Engineer’s Path by Tanya Reilly. What’s beyond Senior Developer?
• You Look Like a Thing and I Love You by Janelle Shane. Super accessible. I recommend this to anyone curious about machine learning and AI, regardless of their existing knowledge on the topic.

Leadership and other books

• Brené Brown – not sure you can go wrong with any of her books.
• Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
• Good to Great by Jim Collins. The most engaging audiobook narrator I’ve ever heard.
• Professional Troublemaker (or really any book) by Luvvie Ajayi Jones.
• Start With Why by Simon Sinek. I was skeptical, Sinek seems trendy. But by the time I’d read the first few chapters, I was a fan.
• Turn the Ship Around! by L. David Marquet. Why bottom-up leadership beats top-down, even on a nuclear submarine.
• Wrong Fit, Right Fit by Dr. André Martin. It’s not always about good vs. bad company culture.

Where I get books

Support your indie bookstores! And don’t forget your public library, they have audio books and ebooks too!

• Physical copies: Bookshop.org (more recommendations listed there!)
• Audio books: libro.fm

Tech resources

• Enterprise Technology Leadership Summit videos, including my 2024 talk
• LeadDev – good articles and videos from past conferences.
• AI Weirdness – researcher Janelle Shane

Interesting articles, podcasts, posts

• Being Glue, by Tanya Reilly
• Dear diary, today the user asked me if I’m alive, by Jesse Vincent
• Dr. Joy Buolamwini on Unmasking AI, with Brené Brown
• The weekly LuvvLetter, by Luvvie Ajayi Jones. Rants, reflections, and recommendations. My favorite of the newsletters I receive.
• Own your Impact, by Macy Robison

Artists

Here are some artists whose work I enjoy:

• Larry Barth
• Bird and Moon by Rosemary Mosco
• Birdstrips
• Chuck Draws Things
• False Knees by Joshua Barkman
• Milky Way Opera by Jenny Johannesson