Prompt: Personal Reading Roadmap

Plus: 9 book recommendations to read in 2025.

Most engineers I know don’t have issues with the technical aspects of their profession.

They can understand and solve problems effectively. They can sit for hours and debug horrendous vibe-coded software from their clients. And they can adapt to the new trends of technology faster than most people can.

But when it comes to their personal development, I see these issues over and over:

• They suffer from poor mental health.

• They don’t know how to communicate ideas.

• They don’t know how to behave in social settings.

• They can’t separate professional endeavors from personal life.

• They have poor control over how much money they make and spend.

I blame the traditional education system.

It has taken me years after graduating from University to fully understand how to excel in the professional world. Even though I am proficient on the technical side of things, it wasn’t until I started focusing on a different skillset, a more human one, that my career ramped up. And with it, my overall health and the qual…