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I’m a passionate day-to-day DevOps practitioner. My bookshelf: gagor.pro/bookshelf/

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J.L. Collins: The Simple Path to Wealth (2016)
Marty Cagan: Inspired (2017, Wiley)
Eric Ries: The Lean Startup (Paperback, 2011, Crown Business)

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Robert D. Hare, Paul Babiak, Paul Babiak: Snakes in Suits (Hardcover, 2006, Collins)
MJ DeMarco: UNSCRIPTED (Paperback, 2017, Viperion Publishing Corporation, Viperion Corporation)
Melissa Perri: Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value (2018, O'Reilly Media)

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finished reading Snakes in Suits by Robert D. Hare

Robert D. Hare, Paul Babiak, Paul Babiak: Snakes in Suits (Hardcover, 2006, Collins)

It's not a bad lecture, but I think it's popularity is based on peoples assumptions that their bosses are psychopaths. When they're not - they're just ***holes.

Simply speaking. Not worth to read. For a longer rant check here: gagor.pro/book/2025/snakes-in-suits/

reviewed UNSCRIPTED by MJ DeMarco

MJ DeMarco: UNSCRIPTED (Paperback, 2017, Viperion Publishing Corporation, Viperion Corporation)

UNSCRIPTED

This book felt so similar to The 4-Hour Work Week that I experienced deja-vu several times while reading it. In the end, I didn’t finish it. The tone of UNSCRIPTED is lighter than Tim Ferriss’s book (or maybe I’ve just grown used to the occasional swearing), but it was probably just bad timing to start this one so soon after finishing the other - the ideas and examples overlap quite a bit.

Full review: gagor.pro/book/2025/unscripted/

finished reading Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value by Melissa Perri

Melissa Perri: Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value (2018, O'Reilly Media)

To stay competitive in today’s market, organizations need to adopt a culture of customer-centric practices …

This was the first book on Product Management I’ve ever read, and I’m glad I started with such a solid one.

In my daily work, I collaborate closely with product owners, and I wanted to better understand their role: How do they work? What are their priorities? And how can our collaboration be more effective? What I appreciated most about this book is how clearly it structures the profession of Product Management and breaks down its many facets. More here: gagor.pro/book/2025/escaping-the-build-trap/

reviewed The 4-Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss

Timothy Ferriss: The 4-Hour Work Week (2007)

The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9–5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich (2007) is a …

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This book’s title feels like a joke at first, but once you start reading, you realize Ferriss is absolutely serious about it. He breaks things down step by step, challenging the default assumptions about work and life.
More here: gagor.pro/book/2025/the-4-hour-work-week/

reviewed Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In by William L. Ury

William L. Ury, Roger Fisher, Bruce Patton: Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In (Paperback, 1991, Penguin)

Describes a method of negotiation that isolates problems, focuses on interests, creates new options, and …

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I’ve often heard about the “Harvard Negotiation” method, but I hadn’t read Getting to Yes until recently. To my surprise, much of the content felt familiar - not because I had read it before, but because I had already been using many of its principles, unknowingly picked up from other sources.
More here: gagor.pro/book/2025/getting-to-yes/