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In H.G. Wells “The Time Machine”, the Time Traveler comes back from the future to take 3 books from a bookshelf in their study to return to the future. The reader (or viewer of the film) is left guessing which 3 books have been taken from the bookshelf and how they will shape the future.
Thinking about this the other way, I have been considering which books I would send back to my younger self to read to help my career earlier than when I actually read them. I have expanded my choices to 10 books rather than just 3.
As in “The Time Machine”, I’ve chosen books that are on my bookshelf that I would pick up and hand back to myself. Some of these may be considered a bit dated, however I have chosen books here that helped shape my thinking through the years, rather than the Sports Almanac (Back to the Future reference).
Time paradoxes aside – here is my list;
- Understanding Organisations
- Enterprise Architecture as Strategy
- by Jeanne W.Ross, Peter Weill, David C.Robertson
- https://www.amazon.com/Enterprise-Architecture-Strategy-Foundation-Execution/dp/1591398398
- Site Reliability Engineering
- by Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff, Niall Richard Murphy
- https://www.amazon.com/Site-Reliability-Engineering-Production-Systems/dp/149192912X
- The Art of Systems Architecting
- by Eberhardt Rechtin, Mark Maier
- https://www.amazon.com/Systems-Architecting-Engineering-Eberhardt-Hardcover/dp/B011DB8TJS
- Software Architecture in Practice
- by Len Bass, Paul Clements, Rick Kazman
- https://www.amazon.com/Software-Architecture-Practice-3rd-Engineering/dp/0321815734
- Software Engineering
- Peopleware Productive Projects and Teams
- by Tom DeMarco, Timothy Lister
- https://www.amazon.com/Peopleware-Productive-Projects-Teams-3rd/dp/0321934113
- Trusted Advisor
- David Maister, Charles H. Green, Robert M. Galford
- https://www.amazon.com/Trusted-Advisor-David-H-Maister/dp/0743212347
- Mythical Man Month
- 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
If you had an opportunity to send 10 books back to your younger self, what would you choose from your bookshelf?
Max Hemingway 
Interestingly – no fiction?
A number of these are on my shelf also.
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I was focusing on my non-fiction bookshelf at the time of writing, however its a good point to add in some fiction to help shape thinking. Maybe the Game of Thrones box set.
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This is interesting, I’d need some thinking to define which books to send, but I’d add more self-development books.
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