The Gojek Essential Reading List

The ideas that shape how we think about building beautiful things.

Graffiti at Gojek Headquarters, Jakarta

Note: We’ll update this list from time to time as our collective opinions change.

Everyone

• How to Ask Questions the Smart Way, Eric S. Raymond
• The Curse of the Gifted Programmer, Eric S. Raymond to Torvalds, 2000
• On Bike Shedding, Poul Hennink-Kamp, FreeBSD list, 1999
• No Silver Bullet, Fred Brooks (paper)
• How to become a Hacker, Eric S. Raymond
• Agile as Trauma, Dorian Taylor
• Principles, Ray Dahlio
• Inspired, Marty Cagan
• Powerful, Patty McCord
• Thinking - Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman
• Zero to One, Peter Thiel, Blake Masters
• The Hard thing about Hard Things, Ben Horowitz
• Only the Paranoid Survive, Andy Grove
• High Output Management, Andy Grove
• Measure what Matters, John Doerr
• Don’t Make Me Think, Steve Krug
• The Elements of Style, Strunk and White
• The Mythical Man Month, Fred Brooks
• The Four Steps to Epiphany, Steve Blank
• The Lean Startup, Eric Ries
• The Goal, Eliyahu Goldratt
• Masters of Doom, David Kushner
• Hackers and Painters, Paul Graham
• Lean Software Development, Mary Poppendieck and Tom Poppendieck
• The Principles of Product Development Flow, Donald G. Reinertsen
• Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change, Kent Beck

Managers

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Designers

• 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People, Susan Weinschenk
• About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design, Alan Cooper, Robert Reimann, David Cronin, Christopher Noessel

Developers

• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Abelson and Sussman
• Release It!, Michael T. Nygard
• Domain Driven Design, Eric J. Evans
• The Pragmatic Programmer, Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt
• Refactoring, Martin Fowler
• TDD: By Example, Kent Beck
• Code Complete, Steve McConnell
• Managing Humans, Michael Lopp
• Out of the Tar Pit, Ben Mosely, Peter Marks (paper)
• On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules, David L. Parnas (paper)
• Brewer’s conjecture and the feasibility of consistent, available, partition-tolerant web services, Seth Gilbert, Nancy Lynch (paper)
• Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures, Roy Fielding (thesis)
• Agile as Trauma, Dorian Taylor
• The Way of Testivus, Alberto Savoia (humour)

Extended Canon:

• Indonesia, Etc.: Exploring the Improbable Nation, Elizabeth Pisani
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert M. Pirsig
• The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, Nassim N. Taleb