Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War (for thoughts on competition) Managing Gigabytes (if you are doing anything related to search) Writing Sol

Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War (for thoughts on competition) Managing Gigabytes (if you are doing anything related to search) Writing Solid Code (especially if you are using C/C++) Most of the research papers that come out of OSDI/SOSP: Dynamo, BigTable, Sawzall, GFS, Chubby, etc