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 include:

• 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?
• Vibe Coding by Gene Kim and Steve Yegge.
• 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