Reddit reviews The Effective Engineer: How to Leverage Your Efforts In Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impact

If you're doing backend/server side work, there's no better book than:
Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems https://www.amazon.com/dp/1449373321/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_h5nPBbZ9ZAWG9

In terms of learning what it takes to level up, I highly recommend the following books:
The Senior Software Engineer: 11 Practices of an Effective Technical Leader https://www.amazon.com/dp/0990702804/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_o6nPBbVY8XDM9

The Effective Engineer: How to Leverage Your Efforts In Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impact https://www.amazon.com/dp/0996128107/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_n7nPBbB1ZDP2H

Hey man, before you embark on these books and videos, I implore you to read The Effective Engineer by Edmond Lau

>I am trying accelerate my mental, spiritual, and physical growth

The book talks about high leverage activities as ways to maximize and optimize growth.

Basically, you just do the most productive task you can think of, in the least amount of time possible, and you're just constantly finding chunks of time to do more high leverage tasks.

And it's written sooo good. I fucking love his word economy, makes reading it so smooth.

Highly recommend it.

It's from The Effective Engineer. Arguably overpriced, but I found it worthwhile.

Just read The Effective Engineer

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0996128107/