Influences
Once in a while, friends and strangers ask me about what are the contents that have influenced me most. I used to answer them individually by email, direct messages, and occasional chats. But my memory is always like a hard disk requiring more space, so I decided to put all the great things that have shaped the way I see the world in the following list. I hope some of these references can surprise you the same way they have surprised me.
Books
- Virando a Própria Mesa (Maverick), Ricardo Semler
- The Manual: A Philosopher’s Guide to Life, Epictetus
- Anything You Want, Derek Sivers
- Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari
- Sobre a Brevidade da Vida (On The Shortness Of Life), Seneca
- Rework, Jason Fried & David Hanson
- De Pernas Pro Ar (Upside Down), Eduardo Galeano
- As Veias Abertas da América Latina (Open Veins of Latin America), Eduardo Galeano
- Getting Real, Jason Fried & David Hanson
- Clean Code, Robert Martin
- Pedagogia do Oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed), Paulo Freire
- Shape Up, Ryan Singer
- Don’t Make Me Think, Steve Krug
- Testable Javascript, Mark Ethan Trostler
- Bauhaus 1919-1933, Magdalena Droste
- Responsive Web Design, Ethan Marcotte
Videos
- Sangue Latino, Eduardo Galeano
- How to run a company with (almost) no rules, Ricardo Semler
- Pale Blue Dot, Carl Sagan
- The Salt of the Earth, Sebastião Salgado
- How to start a movement, Derek Sivers
- Dance monkeys, dance!, Ernest Cline
- Speech at Stanford, Steve Jobs
- The puzzle of motivation, Daniel Pink
Posts
- How I got rich on the other hand, Derek Sivers
- Subtract, Derek Sivers
- What if you didn’t need money or attention?, Derek Sivers
- Reconsider, David Hanson
- Exponential growth devours and corrupts, David Hanson
- Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company, Sahil Lavingia
- What Software Craftsmanship is about, Robert Martin
- Building A Component-Based Web UI With Modern JavaScript Frameworks, Derick Bailey
- Digital pollution, Derek Sivers
- Having 170 competitors is not an obstacle, Victor Ponamariov