https://www.alexanderjunge.net/categories/books/ Recent content in Books on Alexander Junge's website Hugo -- gohugo.io en-US Sun, 02 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.alexanderjunge.net/blog/lead-books/ Sun, 02 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.alexanderjunge.net/blog/lead-books/ As I briefly mentioned in a previous post, I went from an individual contributor (IC) role to tech & team lead over the last few years. Most technical and team leadership growth comes from learning by doing and experiencing challenging situations for the first time, dealing with them with the help of the people around you, and coming out wiser at the other end. Then you run into the next thing and the cycle repeats itself. https://www.alexanderjunge.net/blog/book-review-hands-on-healthcare-data/ Sun, 05 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.alexanderjunge.net/blog/book-review-hands-on-healthcare-data/ I recently finished reading Andrew Nguyen’s book “Hands-On Healthcare Data” published by O’Reilly in September 2022. What I particularly liked about the book: Clearly illustrating the complexity of healthcare data Performing scientific research, statistical analyses, data integration, or machine learning in a healthcare setting often means reusing data originally collected with another goal in mind, namely delivering healthcare. This makes working with and harmonizing healthcare data difficult. For example, when working with International Classification of Diseases (ICD) codes, consider the following complexities: https://www.alexanderjunge.net/blog/book-review-designing-ml-systems/ Sun, 28 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.alexanderjunge.net/blog/book-review-designing-ml-systems/ I recently finished (and enjoyed) reading Chip Huyen’s book “Designing Machine Learning Systems” published by O’Reilly. I’d recommend this book to anyone looking for an introduction to what it takes to make machine learning (ML) work in the real world, i.e., outside a pure research setting and in real products. Here is what I think about the book: What’s good The three things I particularly liked about Chip’s book are: https://www.alexanderjunge.net/blog/book-tip-inspired/ Fri, 10 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.alexanderjunge.net/blog/book-tip-inspired/ I recently read the book ‘Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love’ by Marty Cagan and can wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone interest in learning more about digital product management. Split into many short chapters, the book covers everything from case stories describing the work of successful product managers (PMs) at big tech companies to developing product roadmaps, stakeholder management, and discovering which products are worth building in the first place.