Related information: Anything I buy that is a course/subscription (pluralsight, lynda, etc) needs to show completion of a course by that deadline, and all purchases have to directly tie to growth in my day job. So, buying a book on Elixir when the tech stack at work is React/React Native/Golang would get rejected, but books on any of our stack or ios/android programming would be approved.
When the new year starts I plan on getting a subscription to linux academy to go through their aws cert courses, but really am not sure what to buy by Feb 2nd besides a pile of books. Really just feel like I'd get something on go, and all the top rec books (clean code, prag prog, etc).
Seems like you're just looking for a way to burn $1K at this point. There's lot of good usages but not in 15~ days with a hard cutoff for whatever you buy.
I'd just get an annual pluralsight sub after Feb 2nd, and then you can even learn things in your own time unrelated to your job (it isn't per course, it is all you can eat, like Netflix).
Make a deal with some coworkers to buy them books now off your 2019 allocation in return for a slice of their 2020 budget?