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

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

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

Here's a few books I really enjoyed:

• Deep Work by Cal Newport
• Die With Zero by Bill Perkins
• It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson

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

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