Note: By no means are any of these lists below exhaustive.
[icon name=”book” class=”” unprefixed_class=””] Reading list
- The New Kingmakers
- The Phoenix Project
- Vaporized
- The Soul of A New Machine
- Zone to Win
- Building a DevOps Culture
- Lean Enterprise: How High-Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale
- The Innovator’s Dilemma
- How Will You Measure Your Life?
- Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice
- The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary
- Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
- Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet
- Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can’t Get a Date
- Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker
- The Ice King: Frederic Tudor and His Circle
- The 48 Laws of Power
- Site Reliability Engineering
- All Free O’Rilley Books
- See more on my Goodreads Profile
[icon name=”podcast” class=”” unprefixed_class=””] Podcasts and such
- a16z (Andreessen Horowitz – “Software is Eating the World”)
- This Week in Startups
- The Cloudcast
- The Hot Aisle
- 2600 – Off The Hook
- StartUp
- Packet Pushers
- Hak5
- CodeNewbie
- Data Skeptic
- Microsoft Channel 9
- Talk Python to Me
- The PHP Roundtable
- VMware Communities Roundtable
- Google Cloud Platform Podcast
- AWS Podcast
- The Pitch by Gimlet Media
- TED Talks – Technology
- Masters of Scale
- The Tim Ferriss Show
- IT Conversations (defunct but still lots of great content)
- Computer History Museum YouTube Channel (so many good talks)
- Computing Conversations
- Tribe of Mentors
- Datanauts
- The Geek Whispers (defunct but still good archive content)
- PODCTL
- The Way I Heard It
- The Joe Rogan Experience
- Valley of Genius
- NPR How I Built This
- Darknet Diaries
- Adversarial Learning
- Jocko Podcast
- Hackable
- Workplace Confessions
- Work Life
- DevOps Cafe
- /dev/hell
- Podecast.__init__
- Arrested DevOps
- The Changelog
- Talking Machines
- Partially Derivative
- Linear Digressions
[icon name=”book” class=”” unprefixed_class=””] Curated list of thought leaders
- Jame Hamilton
- Jez Humble
- Gene Kim
- John Willis
- Adam Jacobs
- Simon Wardley
- Warner Vogels
- Alex Cowan
- Kyle Kingsbury
- Randi Bias
- Ben Kepes
- Stephen Foskett
- David Linthicum
- Chad Sakach
- Chuck Hollis
- Hu Yoshida
- Jon Toigo
- Chris Evans
- Jeff Barr
- Jeff Kaplan
[icon name=”certificate” class=”” unprefixed_class=””] Favorite continuing education resources
- Code Academy
- FreedCodeCamp
- Code School
- Codewars
- HackerRank
- Learn Code the Hard Way
- DataCamp
- Coursera
- edX
- Pluralsight
- Udemy
- Udacity
- Kahn Academy
- Youtube
- SoloLearn
- Code Monk
- Encode: Learn to Code
- A Cloud Guru
- Cloud Academy
- CBT Nuggets
- Pentester Lab
- Microsoft Virtual Academy
- Big Data University
- Katacoda
- MIT OpenCourseWare
- Google Developers
[icon name=”comments” class=”” unprefixed_class=””] Leverage and contribute to the community
- stackoverflow
- Quora
- Gitter
- Github
- EMC{code}
- Public Slack Channels (pick what interests you)
- The tech community has NOT abandoned IRC
[icon name=”fa-newspaper-o” class=”” unprefixed_class=””] News aggregators
[icon name=”cubes” class=”” unprefixed_class=””] Some of my favorite tools
Note: Excludes the incredibly obvious platforms and tools.
Cloud9 IDE (Great cloud IDE and my preferred dev environment)- Codeanywhere (Replaced Cloud9 with Codeyanywhere)
- Replit (Great for prototyping and pair programming)
- The Jupyter Notebook (code, document, test, and share python)
- Google Colaoratory (my fav cloud Jypyter Notebook)
- Docker
- VirtualBox
- VMware
- OSBoxes
- Bitnami
- Turnkey Linux
- Vagrant
- Notepad++
- Visual Studio Code
- MobaXterm
- Babun
- Portable Apps
- ConEmu
- PentestBox
- GNS3
- Sandboxie
- Zeal
- Lepton
- RStudio
- GNU Octave
- Tableau
- GoW (GNU on Windows)
- Typora
- Grammarly
- Tinkercad
- Evernote
- Postman
- Fiddler
- Chocolatey
[icon name=”film” class=”” unprefixed_class=””] Recommended films, documentaries and such
- Revolution OS
- The Code: Story of Linux
- Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World
- Zero Days
- SlingShot
- Downloaded
- We Are Legion: The Story of Hacktivists
- Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires
- Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet
- Something Ventured
- Print the Legend
- Genius on Hold
- The Most Dangerous Town on the Internet
- The Hacker Wars
- Inside the Dark Web
- The Pirate Bay: Away from Keyboard
- Freedom Downtime: The Story of Kevin Mitnick
- Silicon Cowboys
- The Value of Your Personal Data
- Shenzhen: The Silicon Valley of Hardware
- Banking on Bitcoin
- Project Code Rush – The Beginnings of Netscape / Mozilla Documentary
- BBS the Documentary
- Startup.com
- Exit Through The Gift Shop