5 Books That Made Me a 10X Engineer

I'm not the most voratious reader, but I've learned so much from some books throughout my career. Some of them are very much about coding, but others were really surprising for me to find so much value in. Let's talk about these!
📖 Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:15 Effectiveness
02:10 Mathematical thinking
03:54 Fundamentals
05:04 Programming
06:16 The ropes of the industry
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7 Habits of Highly Effective People:
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How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
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Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
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The Pragmatic Programmer
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The Innovators:
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[@jcfontech]

What are some of your book recommendations? Would love to learn more! 🤓

[@marlonbraga1640]

Great video Juan. What would be your top number 1 read for a Junior software engineer? I've been working at IBM for the past 18 months. Now that I'm past that phase of learning the foundations of programming and I chose a stack, what would your top pic be to get started out of these 5 you selected? or if there is another one you would suggest. Could you share the order you would suggest someone to start reading them? For context, the only book I read so far was "Grokking Algorithms: An Illustrated Guide". I have a list of what I see all the time on line but I don't want to choose a heavy read or one that is too simple.

[@Sushi0923]

I learned that reading books and code are one of the multiple ways to familiarize yourself with programming languages. Thanks for sharing your books on this video. I have one of your books, "Code", which made me think to revisit it again.

[@abrilmarina]

Reading can be a great way of leveraging others’ life experience and learnings, and I love how you seek to apply what you read to really harness the power of that knowledge. In this industry, it’s this mindset that really differentiates programmers from software engineers. Thanks for the book recs, I added a couple to my Amazon cart :) I really appreciate and admire how much effort you put into learning and going beyond the surface level in everything you do. It’s really inspiring. Happy to be part of this community and looking forward to seeing it explode here shortly with all the great content you’ve been putting out 🚀🚀🚀

[@jcfontech]

This made me smile a lot 🥹 thank you so much for the support ❤️

[@EduardoHenrique-nd1ro]

Another outstanding video, Juan! Thanks for sharing these book tips with us! Have an amazing week ahead! Cheers from Brazil!

[@jcfontech]

Thank you so much as always Eduardo! 🙌🏻 have a great week as well!

[@jayshree7574]

Thanks Juan, I clicked expecting a generic video but this was really good.

[@ordinarygg]

No book can make you a 10x engineer.

[@AIKenny123]

Right lol

[@glyakk]

You just discovered click bait titles I see 😅

[@christmasisawesome9348]

How does one know his skillset is 10x improved?

[@JoeDoe1]

Thank you.

[@fabioortegon524]

Gracias Juan

[@mawfyy7001]

Great books, also i recommend clean code or some books from uncle bob. :)

[@BiHMaverick]

the background music is too high paced for what you are explaining. It draws too much attention away from what you are saying.

[@BiHMaverick]

I'm referring to the 2nd book section.

[@jcfontech]

Ahh that's fair, thank you for pointing it out! Will keep that in mind for next time

[@AMOX-INDIA]

00:03 Five books that have helped me become a more effective person and better coder 01:01 Focus on strategic initiatives and foundational architecture for long-term impact 02:00 The book 'How Not to Be Wrong' is a GameChanger in problem solving. 02:59 Mathematical reasoning offers practical insights in real-life situations. 03:59 Understanding the inner workings of computers is essential for efficient coding. 04:58 The book 'The Pragmatic Programmer' offers practical and foundational advice on software development. 05:56 Constant learning and adapting new techniques in this ever evolving field 06:56 Learning from the past to build the future Crafted by Merlin AI.

[@RodrigoValenteInk]

"Name 5 books" kkkkkk

[@Anandharajan.a]

Don't be saggy when you are talking articulate clearly !

[@abrilmarina]

because your videos are such a great example of this?

[@DanialToor-jb2hw]

@@abrilmarinafuck , you got em 😂