Sources I recommend
Podcasts, books, and blogs on engineering, leadership, and AI. Grouped by topic.
Engineering management
The Manager's Path
The clearest map from IC to manager to senior leadership. Practical, no fluff—exactly what I wish I had when I made the jump.
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An Elegant Puzzle
Systems of engineering organizations: teams, tooling, and strategy. Dense with frameworks you can use Monday morning.
Visit →The Pragmatic Engineer
Engineering culture, leveling, and how big tech actually works. One of the few podcasts that goes deep without the hype.
Visit →Pragmatic Engineer Blog
Deep dives on compensation, leveling, and engineering org design. Data and nuance instead of generic advice.
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Radical Candor
How to care personally and challenge directly. The framework I use for feedback and 1:1s—clear and actionable.
Visit →Lara Hogan
Resilient management, inclusive hiring, and sustainable teams. Short, practical posts you can apply immediately.
Visit →Engineering Leadership
Conversations with eng leaders on scaling teams, communication, and the transition from coding to leading.
Visit →IT leadership
The Staff Engineer's Path
How to have impact as a senior IC: scope, influence, and navigating the organization. Essential for tech leads and staff+.
Visit →Rands in Repose
Long-form essays on leading engineering teams, hiring, and the craft of management. Thoughtful and rereadable.
Visit →Software Engineering Daily
Interviews with practitioners building real systems. Great for staying current on infra, databases, and platform engineering.
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The Phoenix Project
A novel about IT, DevOps, and fixing a broken org. Makes the case for flow, feedback, and continuous learning.
Visit →Charity.wtf
Observability, on-call, and engineering culture from someone who built and scaled infrastructure teams.
Visit →CoRecursive
Deep technical interviews with engineers and creators. Stories behind the systems and the people who build them.
Visit →Development (TypeScript, Node)
Total TypeScript
TypeScript tips, patterns, and advanced types. Makes the type system click without the overwhelm.
Visit →Node.js Best Practices
Curated list of Node.js security, structure, and performance practices. Practical and up to date.
Visit →TypeScript Handbook
The official TS docs. Still the best reference for understanding the language and compiler options.
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Effective TypeScript
62 specific ways to improve your TypeScript. Bite-sized items that level up your types and tooling.
Visit →Kent C. Dodds
Testing, React, and JavaScript practices. Clear tutorials and a testing-focused mindset that scales.
Visit →Node.js Documentation
Official Node docs: APIs, guides, and best practices. The first place to check for runtime and module behavior.
Visit →Ethics in software development
Weapons of Math Destruction
How algorithms can encode bias and harm at scale. Required reading for anyone building systems that affect people.
Visit →Responsible Tech Guide
Resources and frameworks for building technology that considers societal impact and responsibility.
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Technically Wrong
How tech products perpetuate bias and exclude users. Sharp and necessary for anyone designing or building software.
Visit →Design for Real Life
Designing for stress, crisis, and exclusion. Short book that reframes how we think about edge cases and users.
Visit →Ethics in Tech
Curated reading list on ethics, privacy, and accountability in technology. Good starting point for going deeper.
Visit →AI and development
Simon Willison’s Weblog
Practical experiments with LLMs, AI tooling, and how to integrate them into real products. No hype, lots of code.
Visit →AI Engineering
Newsletter and posts on AI-assisted development, prompt engineering, and shipping with LLMs.
Visit →Andrej Karpathy
Deep learning, LLMs, and AI from one of the field’s clearest teachers. Long-form posts that explain the fundamentals.
Visit →Latent Space
Newsletter and podcast on AI eng and tooling. Practical coverage of models, agents, and the dev stack.
Visit →Eugene Yan
ML systems in production, recommendations, and building data products. Applied and readable.
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