I loved the book 59 seconds by Richard Wiseman that I first came across in Tools of Titans. Here are the top 10 most interesting studies the autor…

Here are my highlights from a book Amp It Up by Frank Slootman broken down to a few key takeaways. Raise Expectations and Intensity "Raise your standards. The…

Here are my highlights from a highly recommended book Tools of Titans by Tim Ferriss, broken down into few sections. Just as a note for myself; of all…

TL;DR In this post, I’m sharing my ultimate list of books on the topics of leadership, personal improvement, goals, finance, purpose, and programming. !TL;DR The book to read…

Here are my highlights from a highly recommended book The Manager’s Path by Camille Fournier. Management 101 1on1 meetings with your direct manager are an essential feature of…

TL;DR In this short post I’ll tell you: how we implemented our fourth book club idea in our engineering team what book we read how we liked it,…

TL;DR How about instead of just adding more new books to our read pile (and even more to the never-ending to-read pile), we revisit our list of the…

Here are my notes from the practical book Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time. Several of us were reading it as a…

TL;DR In this short post I’ll tell you: how we implemented our third book club idea in our engineering team what book we read how we liked it, and…

Here are my notes from a very practical book The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier: The book covers 7 questions: Kickstart: What’s on your mind AWE: And…

TL;DR You can read all about how we implemented our 1st book club idea in our engineering team, and in this post, I’m going to do the same…

Here are my favorite quotes from the book Way of the Warrior Kid: From Wimpy to Warrior the Navy SEAL Way: A Novel by Jocko Willink: If you…

Here are my favorite quotes from the book Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by K. Anders Ericsson. You have to keep upping the ante: run…

TL;DR In this post I’m going to show you: how we implemented the book club idea in our engineering team what book we read how we liked it,…

Here are my favorite quotes from the book The Productivity Project by Chris Bailey. Make a list of all the things you’re responsible at your work. Then, ask…

Here are my favorite quotes from the book The Coaching Mindset: 8 Ways to Think Like a Coach by Chad W. Hall. Rather than tell people what to…

Here are my favorite quotes from the book Can’t hurt me by David Goggins. I’ve reviewed this one on Goodreads like this: Wow, just wow. The book is…

My favorite quotes from a remarkable book called How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, and Karen Dillon. How can I be sure…

I just love Steve McConnell’s classic book Code Complete 2, and I recommend it to everyone in the Software ‘world’ who’s willing to progress and sharpen his skills.…

TL;DR 25 minutes reading daily is enough to read 30 books per year. In this blog post I’m going to show you a simple math behind reading 30…

I just love Steve McConnell’s classic book Code Complete 2, and I recommend it to everyone in the Software ‘world’ who’s willing to progress and sharpen his skills.…

These are my notes from an awesome and more importantly practical book called Leading Snowflakes by Oren Ellenbogen. This is a very good book if you just moved…

Here are my notes from the book Coaching for performance by Sir John Whitmore. Coaching focuses on future possibilities, not past mistakes. Coaching is unlocking peoples potential to…

I just love Steve McConnell’s classic book Code Complete 2, and I recommend it to everyone in the Software ‘world’ who’s willing to progress and sharpen his skills.…

I just love Steve McConnell’s classic book Code Complete 2, and I recommend it to everyone in the Software ‘world’ who’s willing to progress and sharpen his skills.…

I just love Steve McConnell’s classic book Code Complete 2, and I recommend it to everyone in the Software ‘world’ who’s willing to progress and sharpen his skills.…

Executed is a second book from the Extracted trilogy. Same as with the first book (Extracted), I don’t have any special quotes, but I really enjoyed the story…

My favorite quotes from a remarkable biography Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World’s Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself by Rich Roll, a man who finished EPIC5 in…

My favorite quotes from the book The Art of Being Brilliant: Transform Your Life by Doing What Works For You by Andy (Cope &  Whittaker): Our final thought in this…

I don’t read a lot of fiction books, but recently I stumbled upon a fiction book that I liked quite a bit. I don’t have any special quotes…

My favorite quotes from the book Doing Good Better by William MacAskill: The money is less valuable to you, the more you have of it. The challenge for us…

I just love Steve McConnell’s classic book Code Complete 2, and I recommend it to everyone in the Software ‘world’ who’s willing to progress and sharpen his skills.…

I just love Steve McConnell’s classic book Code Complete 2, and I recommend it to everyone in the Software ‘world’ who’s willing to progress and sharpen his skills.…

I just love Steve McConnell’s classic book Code Complete 2, and I recommend it to everyone in the Software ‘world’ who’s willing to progress and sharpen his skills.…

I just love Steve McConnell’s classic book Code Complete 2, and I recommend it to everyone in the Software ‘world’ who’s willing to progress and sharpen his skills.…

I just love Steve McConnell’s classic book Code Complete 2, and I recommend it to everyone in the Software ‘world’ who’s willing to progress and sharpen his skills.…

I just love Steve McConnell’s classic book Code Complete 2, and I recommend it to everyone in the Software ‘world’ who’s willing to progress and sharpen his skills.…

My favorite quotes from the book Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life by Eric Greitens which I rated 5/5 on my Goodreads account: What you will become…

I just love Steve McConnell’s classic book Code Complete 2, and I recommend it to everyone in the Software ‘world’ who’s willing to progress and sharpen his skills.…

I just love Steve McConnell’s classic book Code Complete 2, and I recommend it to everyone in the Software ‘world’ who’s willing to progress and sharpen his skills.…

I just love Steve McConnell’s classic book Code Complete 2, and I recommend it to everyone in the Software ‘world’ who’s willing to progress and sharpen his skills.…

My favorite quotes from the book Flowers for Algernon by Darren Hardy which I rated 5/5 on my Goodreads account. Lately, I haven’t been reading any nonfiction books, but…

I just love Steve McConnell’s classic book Code Complete 2, and I recommend it to everyone in the Software ‘world’ who’s willing to progress and sharpen his skills.…

I just love Steve McConnell’s classic book Code Complete 2, and I recommend it to everyone in the Software ‘world’ who’s willing to progress and sharpen his skills.…

My favorite quotes from the book The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success by Darren Hardy which I rated 4/5 on my Goodreads account: When the…

These are my notes from an awesome and more importantly practical book Leading Snowflakes by Oren Ellenbogen. I’ve reviewed this one with five stars on my Goodreads account.…

John Sonmez (Simple Programmer), an awesome guy that I’m following for some time now just published a new book called The Complete Software Developer’s Career Guide and you…

My favorite quotes from the book #AskGaryVee: One Entrepreneur’s Take on Leadership, Social Media, and Self-Awareness  by Gary Vaynerchuk which I rated 5/5 on my Goodreads account: Smart work will never…

My favorite quotes from the book Crush It!: Why Now Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion  by Gary Vaynerchuk which I rated 4/5 on my Goodreads account: Love…

My favorite quotes from the book You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life  by Jen Sincero which I rated 4/5…

My favorite quotes from the great book Elantris by Brandon Sanderson which I rated 5/5 on my Goodreads account. When you accept authority you must be willing to…

My notes from the great book The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield which I rated 5/5 on…

My notes from the great book REWORK by Jason Fried and David Hansson which I rated 5/5 on my Goodreads account. Yes, they merged Shelfari (which I loved)…

My notes from the truly awesome book The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson. This is a huge book, but nevertheless packed with action. As a matter of…

My notes from the great book Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Richard Wiesman, which will definitely banish some false presumptions that we may have: Hypnagogic myoclonic twitch…

My notes from the book Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Laszlo Block, which I rated 5/5 and marked as my favorite on my Shelfari account. Only when companies…

I was a technical reviewer for the book Deploying Node.js: This was done via PacktPub, and I must say that this was a great learning experience and I’m…

My notes from the bestseller book Man’s search for meaning by the nazi camp survivor Viktor Frankl, which I marked as favorite and rated  5/5 on my Shelfari account.…

My notes from the book Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert, the author of a bestseller book Eat, pray, love. Rejection, you think you can scare me…

I got this awesome book from an, even more, awesome author Duane Jackson, after a discussion on Twitter where we realized that Amazon.co.uk decided that Croatia was not…

My notes from the book UR by the master Stephen King, which I marked as favorite and rated  5/5 on my Shelfari account. Why don’t you just read from…

My notes from (currently) free book The Art of Being Unmistakable: A Collection of Essays About Making a Dent in The Universe by Srinivas Rao, which I rated  4/5…

My notes from (currently) free book The Universe Doesn’t Give a Flying Fuck About You (Epic series Book 1) by Johnny Truant, which I rated  4/5 on my Shelfari…

My notes from the bestseller book The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking by the authors Edward B. Burger and Michael Starbird, which I rated  5/5 and marked as favorite…

My notes from the bestseller book Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) by the author Richard P. Feynman himself (winner of the Nobel Prize in…

My notes from the bestseller book Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife by Dr. Eben Alexander, which I rated  4/5 on my Shelfari account: A man…

My notes from the bestseller book The ONE Thing by Gary Keller, which I marked as favorite and rated 5/5 on my Shelfari account: Pam Rose – My life…

My notes from a book It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s How Good You Want to Be: The world’s best selling book by Paul Arden, which I rated…

My notes from a book The Chimp Paradox by Steve Peters subtitled “The Mind Management Program to Help You Achieve Success, Confidence, and Happiness”, which I rated 4/5 on…

I rated the book The passionate programmer by Chad Fowler as favorite on my Shelfari account and shortly reviewed it as: Trully a classic in our field! Those of you…

My notes from a book Spell or high water by Scott Meyer, which I rated 4/5 on my Shelfari account and which I think every programmer will enjoy. Bash scripts, hidden…

I stumbled across this rather touching poem Father Forgets by W. Livingston Larned when I was reading the book How to win friends and influence people by Dale Carnegie (you…

My notes from a classic How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie, which I rated 5/5 on my Shelfari account and put to my all time Favorites…

My notes from a best seller book The Martian by Andy Weir, which I rated 4.4/5 on my Shelfari account. The book was made into a movie, starring Matt…

My notes from an awesome book Ghost in the Wires by Kevin Mitnick, which I rated 5/5 on my Shelfari account: If you ask for a piece of sensitive…

My notes from the book Choose Yourself! by James Altucher: Learned man aims for more, but the wise man decreases, and then decreases again. The thing that really…

My notes from an awesome book EDGY Conversations by Dan Waldschmidt, which I rated 5/5 on my Shelfari account: Success is not about what you do, it’s about what…

My notes from the book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey: The significant problems we face can not be solved with the same level of…

[18.09.2015] edit: I honestly can’t believe it! This awesome book is now also available as an audiobook! Now I’ll be able to listen to this ever so slightly awesome…

The quotes I noted from the book The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion. This book was actually recommended  by Bill Gates, and here’s what he said about it: This…

My notes from the book Progwriter [programmer + writter] by Azat Mardan: It’s better to have fewer features with no bugs than lots of features with bugs. Marketing…

My notes from the book The Lean Startup by Eric Ries: Split testing often uncovers surprising things. Many features that make the product better in the eyes of engineers…

My notes from the book Creativity for sale: How I Made $1,000,000 Wearing T-Shirts and How You Can Turn Your Passion Into Profit, Too by Jason Surfrapp: Do…

My notes (on Croatian [did you notice I added the translate functionality?]) from the book Zločin u židovskoj četvrti by Ernesto Mallo: Smrt je jedino što ne dopušta repliku.…

My quotes from the book Start with why by Simon Sinek: There are leaders and there are those who lead. Leaders hold a position of power or influence.…

My notes from the book Brain rules for baby by John Medina: Babies develop an active mental life in womb. Stressed mom, stress baby. Eat right, stay fit.…

I listened to the book Time management made simple by Brian Tracy via Audible and honestly this is one of the best I’ve read/listened on this subject. Make…

Awesome Andy Weir and his The egg. If you like this, you may like his The Martian which will be a movie in 2015. The Youtube adaptation: You…

My favourite quotes from the book The Richest Man in Babylon: A part of all you earn is yours to keep. Why should so few men be able to…

My notes from the book Game development with Three.js by Isaac Sukin: Three.js is usually used with a new technology called WebGL, a JavaScript API for rendering graphics…

My favourite quotes from the book Legion: Skin deep by Brandon Sanderson: Always tell your captives they have more time than they do. It makes them relaxed. Sets…

The only quote I liked from the book Storm Front by Jim Butcher: I made a vampire cry. I felt like a real super hero now. Harry Blackstone…

My favourite quotes from the book Scream free parenting by Hal Edward Runkel: Parenting is not about kids, it’s about parents. The greatest thing you can do for your…

My favourite quotes from the book Strong fathers strong daughters by Meg Meeker: Believe it or not, the most important factor for girls growing up into competent, well-adjusted woman is…

My favourite quotes from the book Law of success by Napoleon Hill: Make yourself a habit of doing more than you are paid for. We need not seek opportunity in…

My favourite quotes from the book The Game by Anders de la Motte: If you don’t change, then what’s the point of anything happening to you? Fear is…

My favourite quotes from the book Rich dad, poor dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki: The love of money is the root of all evil versus the lack of money…

My favourite quotes from the book Think and grow rich by Napoleon Hill: All earned riches have a beginning and an idea. We refuse to believe that which we…

My favourite quotes from the book The greatest salesman in the world by Og Mandino: It is indeed a simple task, provided one is willing to pay the price…

My favourite quotes from the book The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien: You are not easy to carry around, not even after few weeks of your starvation. This would…

This is the new section that I’ll be posting in Programming category (parent Books); whenever I read a book I always take notes, so here they are now for…

My favourite quotes from the book Therapy by Sebastian Fitzek: Stories are worthless if they can’t be narrated to someone. Show me your friends and I’ll tell you who…

My favourite quotes from the book Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan: Somebody wants to kill me, and that’s not a nice feeling. People envy me, people hate me. That’s…

My favourite quotes from the book The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace Wattles: One is all and all is one. One substance manifests itself as the seeming many…

My favourite quotes from the book The Art of War by Sun Tzu: Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Faint disorder, and crush him. If it is to…

Since I like to read (like, a lot), I realized I should test my reading speed and as it turned out I’m at an average person reading speed…

My favourite quotes from the book A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson: Once in a great while, and few times in history, a human mind produces…

My favourite quotes from the book The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith aka J.K.Rowling: There were other routes to woman’s intimacy than to admire her figure in tight dress. And…

My favourite quotes from the book The Woodcutter by Reginald Hill: He was certainly very good to talk to, meaning of course he was a good listener. The written…

My favourite quotes from the book The Antidote by Oliver Burkeman: Inspiration is for amateurs, the rest of us just show up and get to work. In the effort…

Every time I read a book I write quotes to my notebook, but also when I come across some good random quote I put it in as well.…

My favorite quotes from the book The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss: I don’t care what they talk, I care what they say. There was an art to…

My favourite quotes and notes from the book The name of the wind by Patrick Rothfuss: Though this genre is not my favorite, this book made me reconsider, as…

Since I very much like to read non technical books also, and I have a habit of collecting quotes in my “quotes book”, I’m about to start and…