The Rootkit Arsenal: Escape and Evasion in the Dark Corners of the System. The chapter 3 is a good introduction to computer architecture and how it relates to the OS.
Structured Computer Organization by Tanenbaum. This book is the one that made every layers clear to me, from transistors to assembly code. Code no longer feels like magic for me once I've seen the greasy parts that move under the hood.
For being professional, it was So Good They Can't Ignore You, Getting Things Done, and Clean Coder. They helped with different aspects of my life that I was struggling with, as I never worked in an office (started freelancing online), so no real mentor.
Structured Computer Organization by Tanenbaum. This book is the one that made every layers clear to me, from transistors to assembly code. Code no longer feels like magic for me once I've seen the greasy parts that move under the hood.
For being professional, it was So Good They Can't Ignore You, Getting Things Done, and Clean Coder. They helped with different aspects of my life that I was struggling with, as I never worked in an office (started freelancing online), so no real mentor.