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Books, papers, blogs & screencasts I plan to read, watch in 2013 or at least try.
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BOOKS IN PROGRESS:

  • Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby: An Agile Primer
  • Cracking the coding interview
  • Eloquent javascript

BOOKS:

  • Growing object oriented software guided by tests
  • Refactoring by martin fowler
  • Rails As She Is Spoke
  • The Passionate Programmer
  • Ruby best practices
  • Rails 3 way (reread)
  • Design patterns in Ruby (reread)
  • Metaprogramming Ruby (reread)
  • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (reread)
  • Meditations - by Marcus Aurelius (reread)
  • Dale Carnegie how to make friends and influence people (reread)
  • Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
  • Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
  • Starting Strength
  • The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense
  • The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
  • There Is Nothing Wrong with You: Going Beyond Self-Hate
  • The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism
  • Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
  • Zen in the art of archery
  • The Way of the Superior Man
  • The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance
  • You Just Don't Understand
  • The Design of Everyday Things
  • Musashi
  • The Watchmen
  • To Kill a Mockingbird
  • The Strategy of Conflict
  • So Good They Can't Ignore You
  • The Personal MBA
  • Seeking Wisdom
  • Power of Full Engagement
  • Influence
  • Predictably Irrational
  • The 4-Hour Work Week
  • The Art of Profitability
  • Willpower - by Roy Baumeister and John Tierney
  • Mastery - by George Leonard
  • You Are Not So Smart
  • Practicing Mind - by Thomas Sterner
  • Mindset - by Carol Dweck
  • You, Inc - The Art of Selling Yourself - by Harry Beckwith
  • The Art of Learning - by Josh Waitzkin
  • Art and Fear - by David Bayles and Ted Orland
  • Overachievement - by John Eliot
  • Rapt - by Winifred Gallagher
  • Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
  • The Ultimate Secret to Getting Absolutely Everything You Want
  • How To Read A Person Like A Book
  • The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
  • The Promise of Sleep: A Pioneer in Sleep Medicine Explores the Vital Connection Between Health, Happiness, and a Good Night's Sleep
  • The Effortless Sleep Method: The Incredible New Cure for Insomnia and Chronic Sleep Problems

SCREENCASTS:

  • Simple made easy by Rich Hickey (rewatch)
  • Refactoring from Good to Great
  • Go Ahead, Make a Mess by Sandi Metz
  • Grand Unified Theory of Software Design - Jim Weirich
  • Thinking in Objects
  • Peepcode's 'Rspec series' 1, 2, 3
  • Peepcode's 'Scaling up'
  • SOLID Object-Oriented Design by Sandi Metz (rewatch)
  • Less - The Path to Better Design by Sandi Metz (rewatch)
  • Yay! Mocks! by Corey Haines
  • Failure for Fun and Profit!
  • Building modular, scalable web apps? Of CORS!
  • All of destroy all software screencasts (rewatch)
  • Legacy
  • Ten Things You Didn't Know Ruby Could Do
  • Ten Things You Didn't Know Rails Could Do
  • Testing Best Practices, or The Five Habits of Highly Effective Tests
  • ActiveRecord Anti-Patterns for Fun and Profit
  • Confident Code
  • Eloquent Explanations
  • Scaling the Web: Databases & NoSQL
  • Introduction to Relational Databases

BLOG POSTS:

PAPERS:

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