Docs Like Code

Anne Gentle

What it offers: A practical playbook for treating documentation like software. It shows how version control, reviews, CI, and automated checks help teams ship faster and maintain quality.

• Git-based doc workflow and engineer reviews
• Static site generators and CI checks for links and style
• Change management and contributor onboarding tips

The Product is Docs

Christopher Gales and the Splunk Documentation Team

What it offers: How to run documentation as a product. Hiring, team structure, content strategy, SLAs, release readiness, quality, and metrics that scale.

• Planning frameworks and impact metrics
• Roles, ladders, and PM/Engineering collaboration
• Voice, IA, and release gates for shippable docs

Docs for Developers

Jared Bhatti, Zachary Sarah Corleissen, Jen Lambourne, David Nunez, Heidi Waterhouse

What it offers: Engineer-friendly patterns for developer docs. Doc types, API guides, code samples, and review workflows with reusable checklists.

• Structure for tutorials, how-to, concepts, reference
• Clear code samples and troubleshooting techniques
• Editorial checklists and feedback loops

Start With Why

Simon Sinek

What it offers: A simple model for purpose-driven leadership. When teams know the “why,” they align better, make clearer decisions, and build trust with users and employees.

• The Golden Circle: Why → How → What
• Finding and communicating your “why” consistently
• Why inspiration beats short-term manipulation

Would you like to know why this book still inspires me? Read the full review here.

Leaders Eat Last

Simon Sinek

What it offers: How to build trust and safety so people do their best work. The leader’s job is to create the conditions where cooperation and courage can thrive.

• “Circle of Safety” and why culture beats rules
• Stress, incentives, and the chemistry of trust
• Practical habits that protect people during change

Would you like to know why I resonate with this book? Read its review.

Extreme Ownership

Jocko Willink and Leif Babin

What it offers: Navy SEAL leadership principles that transfer to teams and products. Leaders take total responsibility and build disciplined, decentralized teams.

• Cover and Move, Simple, Prioritize and Execute
• Decentralized Command and clear commander’s intent
• Own the outcome, fix the process, win as one team

The Radical Leap: A Personal Lesson in Extreme Leadership

Steve Farber

What it offers: A narrative fable that frames leadership as a practice of Love, Energy, Audacity, and Proof (LEAP). Warmer and more personal than a typical business book.

• Lead with love and positive energy
• Take audacious action and show proof through results
• Reflection prompts and simple exercises

Ikigai

Héctor García and Francesc Miralles

What it offers: A gentle guide to finding a sustainable sense of purpose. Blends research on longevity with everyday habits from Okinawa.

• Find your ikigai at the intersection of what you love, are good at, the world needs, and what you can be paid for
• Small joys, flow, community, movement, and simple food
• Anti-hurry mindset and meaningful routines

Eat That Frog!

Brian Tracy

What it offers: A punchy system for beating procrastination by tackling the hardest, highest-value task first.

• Plan your day, pick the “frog,” and start immediately
• ABCDE prioritization, batching, and time blocks
• Cut low-value tasks and distractions

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Stephen R. Covey

What it offers: A values-based framework for personal and interpersonal effectiveness.

• Be Proactive; Begin With the End in Mind; Put First Things First
• Think Win-Win; Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood
• Synergize; Sharpen the Saw