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Discussion on: 11 Books All Software Engineers Must Read

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Jilles van Gurp

This seems like a pretty random list of books. Certainly not mandatory reading. Nothing against the books on the list, I haven't read most of them after all. But then I have read other books (not on the list), plenty of articles, and generally survived in this industry for two decades.

One thing that sticks out after two decades is the value of working with people who have different experience than me and maybe have read different books and think about problems in a different way. Confirmation bias is not what you are looking for in a team: you want diversity.

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Lorenzo Pasqualis

The list might seem random but is far from it. The fact that you want a different wealth of experiences and the fact that those books are not traditional "development" book is the reason why I put together this list. Reading that material won't make an engineer a better coder, but it will help making an engineer a stronger asset to teams and companies.