Good Reads While On The Journey

You can’t beat the time-to-depth economy of learning done through reading.  Stack Overflow, Reddit, YouTube and random searches spoon feed you what you need at the time.  For really building your breadth of knowledge, you can’t beat good reads. 

These are the books that have guided me.   

One note from author Steven Kolter:  in ‘The Art of the Impossible’ Kolter compares the time that an author devotes to collecting and distilling information and the time it takes to consume it.  For example, he puts about three days into a blog post that can be read in three minutes.  He’ll spend four months to produce an article that can be read in 20 minutes.  The pay-off, however, is in books:  for a five hour read, he’ll distill 15 years of preparation.  So where is the pay-off?  Five hours of blog reading would be about 257 days of author compilation.  While that is almost three-quarters of a year, that falls substantially short of the time the author invested in producing a book.  

DevOps

1. The Practice of System and Network Administration – Thomas Limoncelli, Christina Hogan and Strata Chalup
2. The Practice of Cloud System Administration – Thomas Limoncelli, Christina Hogan and Strata Chalup
3. The DevOps Handbook – Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Wills
4. Effective DevOps – Jennifer Davis and Ryan Darian
5. Web Operations – John Allspaw and Jesse Robhing

Power Shell

1. Learn Windows Power Shell in a Month of Lunches – Don Jones and Jeffery Hicks
2. Power Shell Scripting – Don Jones and Jeffery Hicks
3. Power Shell Toolmaking – Don Jones and Jeffery Hicks
4. Power Shell for Sys Admins – Adam Bertram
5. Power Shell for Office 365 – Martin Machado and Prashant Bhoyar
6. The Pester Book – Adam Bertram

Wireshark

1. Practical Packet Analysis – Chris Sanders
2. Troubleshooting with Wireshark – Laura Chappell and James Aragon
3. Wireshark 101:  Essential Skills for Network Analysis – Laura Chappell and Gerald Combs

Networking

1. Network+ – Mike Meyers

Business Strategy

1. Good to Great – Jim Collins
2. Built to Last – Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras
3. Turning the Flywheel (A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great)- Jim Collins
4. Slack – Tom DeMarco