Except book #2 I fully agree, these are great books to read for someone who wants to grow their non technical skills.
Huh? It seems to me these are all books about technical skills.
Phoenix Project and Unicorn Project are about non technical skills. Very entertaining books as well.
Some non tech book genres to add for devs and leads I think would be about the history of the computing/IT industry, labor history in general, hacker and maker culture, writings/letters of some of the researchers and engineers like Turning, Von Neumann, Dijkstra, Knuth, etc, and some classical and neoclassical literature.
I enjoyed reading the Phoenix Project and learnt a lot from it. It is a classic for very good reasons.
There was another follow up book – The DevOps Handbook that went into more detail about solutions to the problems raised in the Phoenix Project. I got a lot from the DevOps handbook but I found it quite a heavy read.
Years later I found a smaller, but super practical book, that covered much of the same subject matter – Operations Anti-Patterns, Dev Ops Solutions. I recommend this Manning book after the Phoenix Project.
But then I haven’t read the Unicorn Project yet, so that is a book for the list.
