pkrefta

I'm fairly successful remote software developer working in the industry for 15 yrs. I've recently realized that I'm doing one or the other thing over and over again without any deeper meaning. I deliver what am I asked to, keep up with new technologies, improve quality of my work. But I find those things a bit soulless. I live in outsourcing country so projects and startups come and go. But I'd love to do something more meaningful and write code that matters. Working on something more impactful would bring some sense into what I do every day.

And I'm struggling to fix this dilemma. I'm aware that this is not 1-day-change. Has anybody experienced feeling like this ? I'd to read your story. And I'll more than grateful for any suggestions/ideas how to overcome this situation.

Being a self-taught engineer/programmer I ommitted many useful topics I should have learnt some time ago.

A few weeks ago I started reading "Programming Collective Intelligence" by Toby Segaran [1] and I think it was a very good start to learn about the subjects mentioned in the title.

It puts nicely theory into practice and everything is quite easy to understand so it's a great introduction, but I'd like to learn more :)

Can you suggest any other good and intelligible books on topics such as recommendations, filtering, similarities, clustering etc.?

1. http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Collective-Intelligence-Building-Applications/dp/0596529325