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I have some Audible credits - How should I use them?

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Entry-Level Software Engineer at Unemployed2 months ago

Are there any book recommendations I can listen that are fun? Are there any books that helped you in your career that you recommend?

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    Eng @ Taro
    2 months ago

    I read the following books ~10 years ago, and the lessons still stick with me to this day:

    • Mindset by Carol Dweck
      • How your mindset can affect how you respond to new challenges, adversity, and failure
    • Peak by Anders Ericsson
      • How to get better at a skill or activity by always being on the edge of your competency; you can't improve if your practice is too easy or if it's too hard
    • Deep Work by Cal Newport
      • How to develop a work environment with focused blocks of work to be more effective at producing results
      • Admittedly, the concepts in this book get harder to implement the more senior you get in a company because you end up getting involved in more and more meetings where it's just not feasible to carve out focus blocks anymore
      • I would love if another book came out that had strategies for maximizing your time given smaller focus time blocks
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    Tech Lead @ Robinhood, Meta, Course Hero
    2 months ago

    I don't know if they're "fun", but there's a lot of nice book recommendations here: "Must read books for new software engineers?"

    If you have extra time after finishing all those books, I actually do have a fun one that isn't mentioned in the other thread (it's about user research though, so it wouldn't be super relevant unless you're doing a startup or are a very product-focused senior+ engineer): The Mom Test

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    Tech Lead/Manager at Meta, Pinterest, Kosei
    2 months ago

    Here's a few books I really enjoyed:

    I also like company profiles, about the founding of certain businesses and how they achieved success.

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    Senior Software Engineer
    2 months ago

    For a technical book, I found Designing Data Intensive Applications to be a wildly great audiobook

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      Senior Software Engineer [E5] at Meta
      a month ago

      Interesting. I had never thought of trying a technical audiobook. Will have to give this a try.

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      Senior Software Engineer [ICT4] at Apple
      22 days ago

      I'm very surprised at this answer too. I'd be very interesting if you could share your experience a bit more.

      From what I've read [1], research shows reading text is the most effective [2] learning style for technical material.

      [1] My source: Hidden Potential by Adam Grant
      [2] Not necessarily the most enjoyable for the learner