The books and workshops that I have invested my Learning & Development budget on in the last 3 years.

• The Manager's Path, Camille Fournier
• The Making of a Manager, Julie Zhuo
• Staff Engineer, Will Larson
• An Elegant Puzzle, Will Larson
• Managing Humans, Michael Lopp
• Resilient Management, Lara Hogan
• Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, Tom DeMarco & Timothy Lister
• A Lapsed Anarchist's Approach to Being a Better Leader, Ari Weinzweig
• Measure What Matters, John Doerr
• Turn the Ship Around, David Marquet
• Start With Why, Simon Sinek
• Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni
• Crucial Conversations, Joseph Grenny
• Dare to Lead, Brene Brown
• The Coaching Habit, Michael Bungay Stanier
• 97 Things Every Engineering Manager Should Know, Camille Fournier
• Talking with Tech Leads, Patrick Kua
• The Retrospective Handbook, Patrick Kua
• Making Work Visible, Dominica DeGrande
• The Innovator's Dilemma, Clayton Christenson
• Building Great Software Engineering Teams, Joshua Tyler
• The Mythical Man-month, Fred Brooks

• Working Effectively with Legacy Code, Michael Feathers
• Growign Object Oriented Systems, Steve Freeman
• Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, Kent Beck
• Extreme Programming Explained, Kent Beck
• Design Patterns, Gamma, Helm, Johnson, Vissides
• Designing Interfaces, Jennifer Tidwell
• Explore It! Reduce Risk and Increase Confidence with Exploratory Testing, Elisabeth Hendrickson
• Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby, Sandi Metz
• 99 Bottles of OOP, Sandi Metz & Katrina Owen

• Data Feminism, Catherine D'Ignazio
• Superforecasting, Philip Tetlock
• Automating Inequality, Virginia Eubanks
• Algorithms of Oppression, Safiya Umoja
• Weapons of Math Destruction, Cathy O'Neil

• Site Reliability Engineering, Beyer, Jones, Petoff, Murphy
• The Challenger Launch Decision, Diane Vaughn
• The Checklist Manifesto, Atul Gawande
• Implementing Service Level Objectives, Alex Hidalgo
• Release It! Michael T. Nygard
• Seeking SRE, David Blank-Edelman
• Cloud Native Patterns, Cornelia Davis
• The Art of Scalability, Martin Abbott
• Thinking in Systems, Donella Meadows
• The Phoenix Project, Gene Kim
• The Unicorn Project, Gene Kim
• The DevOps Handbook, Gene Kim

• Designing Data-Intensive Applications, Martin Kleppmann
• Designing Distributed Systems, Brendan Burns
• Production-Ready Microservices, Susan Fowler
• BPF Performance Tools, Brendan Gregg
• Database Internals, Alex Petrov
• Distributed Algorithms, Nancy Lynch

• Level Up! The Guide to Great Video Game Design, Scott Rogers
• Game Design Vocabulary, Anna Anthropy
• Game Design and Play: An iterative approach to game design, Colleen Macklin
• Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals, Katie Salen Tekinbas
• Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D, Fabien Sanglard
• The Gamification of Learning and Instruction Fieldbook, Karl Kapp

• On Writing Well, William Zinser
• Non-violent Communication, Marshall B. Rosenberg
• Say What You Mean: A mindful approach to Nonviolent Communication, Oren Jay Sofer
• Just Enough Research, Erika Hall
• Strategic Writing for UX, Torrey Podmajersky
• Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott
• Because Internet, Gretchen McCulloch
• Radical Candor, Kim Scott

• Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America, Ijeoma Oluo
• How to be an Anti-Racist, Ibram X. Kendi
• How to do the Work, Dr. Nicole Lepera
• Hood Feminism, Mikki Kendall

These are conferences I've attended over the years OR heard positive things about from trusted friends, not necessarily in the last 3 years.

• The Lead Developer
  • The Lead Dev Together
  • StaffPlus

• RailsConf
• Bath Ruby
• EuRuKo
• EuroClojure
• JSConf

• CraftConf
• Software Craft & Testing (SoCraTes)
  • Codefreeze
  • SoCraTes UK
  • SoCraTes Germany
• Codebar Festival
• SRECon
• DevOpsDays
• QCon