Best Technology Books | Summaries & Audio

Technology Book Summaries

Great Myths of the Brain

by Christian Jarrett • 2014

10% usage, right-brain creativity, five senses: all myths. The brain behind them is far weirder.

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Great Myths of the Brain

10% usage, right-brain creativity, five senses: all myths. The brain behind them is far weirder.

by Christian Jarrett 2014 368 pages

3.83

161 ratings

The Architect's Studio Companion

by Edward Allen • 1995

Code-compliant shortcuts for sizing structures, HVAC, and egress before the math begins.

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🏛️ Building Codes 🏗️ Structural Systems ✏️ Architectural Design 📐 Preliminary Design ☀️ Daylighting

The Architect's Studio Companion

Code-compliant shortcuts for sizing structures, HVAC, and egress before the math begins.

by Edward Allen 1995 480 pages

4.33

131 ratings

🏛️ Building Codes 🏗️ Structural Systems ✏️ Architectural Design 📐 Preliminary Design ☀️ Daylighting

Online Business Startup

by Robin Waite • 2015

Launch your online business lean and fast: the complete roadmap from naming to analytics.

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🌐 Online Business 📘 Startup Playbooks 📋 Business Planning 🎨 Brand Identity 🔍 SEO Basics

Online Business Startup

Launch your online business lean and fast: the complete roadmap from naming to analytics.

by Robin Waite 2015 260 pages

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177 ratings

🌐 Online Business 📘 Startup Playbooks 📋 Business Planning 🎨 Brand Identity 🔍 SEO Basics

Post-Truth

by Matthew d'Ancona • 2017

Truth is everywhere and irrelevant. How emotion replaced fact in public life, and the way back.

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📺 Media Criticism 🦠 Misinformation 🕵️ Conspiracy Theories 🔄 Echo Chambers 👁️ Attention Economy

Post-Truth

Truth is everywhere and irrelevant. How emotion replaced fact in public life, and the way back.

by Matthew d'Ancona 2017 160 pages

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500+ ratings

📺 Media Criticism 🦠 Misinformation 🕵️ Conspiracy Theories 🔄 Echo Chambers 👁️ Attention Economy

An Empire of Wealth

by John Steele Gordon • 2004

How a scrappy republic became the engine of global capitalism, from canals to microchips.

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🏛️ Economic History 🏭 American Capitalism 💰 Financial History ⚙️ Industrial Revolution 🚂 Infrastructure History

An Empire of Wealth

How a scrappy republic became the engine of global capitalism, from canals to microchips.

by John Steele Gordon 2004 460 pages

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1k+ ratings

🏛️ Economic History 🏭 American Capitalism 💰 Financial History ⚙️ Industrial Revolution 🚂 Infrastructure History

The Power of Visual Storytelling

by Ekaterina Walter • 2014

The brain reads pictures 60,000 times faster than words. How to make your marketing stick.

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📋 Content Marketing 📱 Social Media Platforms 📖 Brand Storytelling 👁️ Attention Economy 🧠 Cognitive Psychology

The Power of Visual Storytelling

The brain reads pictures 60,000 times faster than words. How to make your marketing stick.

by Ekaterina Walter 2014 237 pages

3.67

287 ratings

📋 Content Marketing 📱 Social Media Platforms 📖 Brand Storytelling 👁️ Attention Economy 🧠 Cognitive Psychology

To Pixar and Beyond

by Lawrence Levy • 2016

Goldman Sachs rejected Pixar. Its CFO took a different road to a billion-dollar IPO.

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🎬 Animation Industry 🔄 Corporate Turnarounds 🎨 Art Vs Commerce 🎯 Creative Leadership 🍎 Steve Jobs

To Pixar and Beyond

Goldman Sachs rejected Pixar. Its CFO took a different road to a billion-dollar IPO.

by Lawrence Levy 2016 259 pages

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7k+ ratings

🎬 Animation Industry 🔄 Corporate Turnarounds 🎨 Art Vs Commerce 🎯 Creative Leadership 🍎 Steve Jobs

Java 8 in Action

by Raoul-Gabriel Urma • 2014

Replace anonymous inner classes with lambdas, iterate with streams, and fix broken dates.

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☕ Java Programming 🧠 Functional Programming 📈 Language Evolution 🔌 Api Design ⚡ Parallelism

Java 8 in Action

Replace anonymous inner classes with lambdas, iterate with streams, and fix broken dates.

by Raoul-Gabriel Urma 2014 394 pages

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500+ ratings

☕ Java Programming 🧠 Functional Programming 📈 Language Evolution 🔌 Api Design ⚡ Parallelism

Leading From Anywhere

by David Burkus • 2021

Your team went remote. Now manage for outcomes, build trust without meetings, and stop the burnout.

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🌍 Distributed Teams 📡 Remote Leadership 🛡️ Psychological Safety 🎯 Outcome Management 🔥 Burnout Prevention

Leading From Anywhere

Your team went remote. Now manage for outcomes, build trust without meetings, and stop the burnout.

by David Burkus 2021 255 pages

3.76

500+ ratings

🌍 Distributed Teams 📡 Remote Leadership 🛡️ Psychological Safety 🎯 Outcome Management 🔥 Burnout Prevention

Subprime Attention Crisis

by Tim Hwang • 2020

The internet's ad economy is a bubble of fake clicks, hidden fees, and bad incentives.

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🌐 Internet Economy 👀 Attention Economy 💥 Market Bubbles ⚠️ Systemic Risk 🕵️ Advertising Fraud

Subprime Attention Crisis

The internet's ad economy is a bubble of fake clicks, hidden fees, and bad incentives.

by Tim Hwang 2020 176 pages

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1k+ ratings

🌐 Internet Economy 👀 Attention Economy 💥 Market Bubbles ⚠️ Systemic Risk 🕵️ Advertising Fraud

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

by Richard Rhodes • 1986

Physics made the bomb inevitable long before any general asked for it.

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🔬 History Of Science ⚛️ Nuclear Physics ☢️ Atomic Age ⚔️ Science And War 🎲 Deterrence Theory

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Physics made the bomb inevitable long before any general asked for it.

by Richard Rhodes 1986 886 pages

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24k+ ratings

🔬 History Of Science ⚛️ Nuclear Physics ☢️ Atomic Age ⚔️ Science And War 🎲 Deterrence Theory

Health Design Thinking

by Bon Ku • 2020

Empathy interviews, prototypes, sprints: the playbook for making healthcare human again.

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💭 Design Thinking 🏥 Healthcare Design 💡 Medical Innovation 🔍 User Research 🧱 Prototyping

Health Design Thinking

Empathy interviews, prototypes, sprints: the playbook for making healthcare human again.

by Bon Ku 2020 228 pages

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163 ratings

💭 Design Thinking 🏥 Healthcare Design 💡 Medical Innovation 🔍 User Research 🧱 Prototyping

Can't Even

by Anne Helen Petersen • 2020

Millennial burnout is not a personal failure. It is the bill for decades of broken promises.

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👥 Millennial Generation 🔥 Burnout 💸 Economic Precarity 🎓 Higher Education Crisis 📱 Gig Economy Critique

Can't Even

Millennial burnout is not a personal failure. It is the bill for decades of broken promises.

by Anne Helen Petersen 2020 304 pages

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9k+ ratings

👥 Millennial Generation 🔥 Burnout 💸 Economic Precarity 🎓 Higher Education Crisis 📱 Gig Economy Critique

Refactoring to Patterns

by Joshua Kerievsky • 2004

How to transform tangled code into textbook patterns one small, safe step at a time.

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🧱 Software Architecture ✨ Code Quality 🏗️ Object Oriented Design 🌱 Evolutionary Design 🧩 Design Patterns

Refactoring to Patterns

How to transform tangled code into textbook patterns one small, safe step at a time.

by Joshua Kerievsky 2004 367 pages

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1k+ ratings

🧱 Software Architecture ✨ Code Quality 🏗️ Object Oriented Design 🌱 Evolutionary Design 🧩 Design Patterns

The Art of Project Management

by Scott Berkun • 2005

Earn trust, clarify roles, and make tough calls: the human skills that plan-obsessed managers miss.

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👷 Project Management 💻 Software Development Management 🤝 Trust Building 🧩 Decision Frameworks 📋 Role Clarity

The Art of Project Management

Earn trust, clarify roles, and make tough calls: the human skills that plan-obsessed managers miss.

by Scott Berkun 2005 448 pages

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500+ ratings

👷 Project Management 💻 Software Development Management 🤝 Trust Building 🧩 Decision Frameworks 📋 Role Clarity

The Evolution of Useful Things

by Henry Petroski • 1994

Annoyance, not function, gave us forks, zippers, paper clips. The real driver of everyday design.

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🏭 Industrial Design 🥄 Everyday Objects 🔄 Design Evolution ⚙️ History Of Technology 🏺 Material Culture

The Evolution of Useful Things

Annoyance, not function, gave us forks, zippers, paper clips. The real driver of everyday design.

by Henry Petroski 1994 304 pages

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1k+ ratings

🏭 Industrial Design 🥄 Everyday Objects 🔄 Design Evolution ⚙️ History Of Technology 🏺 Material Culture

Beyond Measure

by James Vincent • 2022

The foot, the pound, the second: none are innocent. How measurement conquered the modern world.

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🧱 History Of Measurement 🔢 Quantification 📏 Standardization 👁️ State Legibility 💡 Enlightenment Ideals

Beyond Measure

The foot, the pound, the second: none are innocent. How measurement conquered the modern world.

by James Vincent 2022 432 pages

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1k+ ratings

🧱 History Of Measurement 🔢 Quantification 📏 Standardization 👁️ State Legibility 💡 Enlightenment Ideals

Startup Communities

by Brad Feld • 2012

Startup communities are built, not copied. The entrepreneur's guide to growing one in your own city.

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🏙️ Entrepreneurial Ecosystems 🗺️ Regional Development 🕸️ Networked Leadership 🤝 Mentorship Culture 💥 Failure Acceptance

Startup Communities

Startup communities are built, not copied. The entrepreneur's guide to growing one in your own city.

by Brad Feld 2012 188 pages

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2k+ ratings

🏙️ Entrepreneurial Ecosystems 🗺️ Regional Development 🕸️ Networked Leadership 🤝 Mentorship Culture 💥 Failure Acceptance

Google It

by Anna Crowley Redding • 2018

Two Stanford students, a garage, and an algorithm that ranked the entire web by importance.

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🏢 Tech Company History 🌉 Silicon Valley Startups 🌐 Internet History 📖 Corporate Biography 🧮 Algorithmic Thinking

Google It

Two Stanford students, a garage, and an algorithm that ranked the entire web by importance.

by Anna Crowley Redding 2018 272 pages

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500+ ratings

🏢 Tech Company History 🌉 Silicon Valley Startups 🌐 Internet History 📖 Corporate Biography 🧮 Algorithmic Thinking

Exit Interview

by Kristi Coulter • 2023

Amazon promised a meritocracy. For women, ambition demanded a second full-time job: survival.

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💻 Tech Industry 🏢 Corporate Culture ⚖️ Gender Bias At Work 🔥 Workplace Burnout 👩‍💻 Women In Tech

Exit Interview

Amazon promised a meritocracy. For women, ambition demanded a second full-time job: survival.

by Kristi Coulter 2023 384 pages

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6k+ ratings

💻 Tech Industry 🏢 Corporate Culture ⚖️ Gender Bias At Work 🔥 Workplace Burnout 👩‍💻 Women In Tech

Smartcuts

by Shane Snow • 2014

The ladder is slow. The people who accelerate success move sideways, not up.

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💡 Lateral Thinking 🔁 Rapid Feedback 🏗️ Platform Leverage 🚀 Moonshot Thinking 🪶 Simplicity In Innovation

Smartcuts

The ladder is slow. The people who accelerate success move sideways, not up.

by Shane Snow 2014 272 pages

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6k+ ratings

💡 Lateral Thinking 🔁 Rapid Feedback 🏗️ Platform Leverage 🚀 Moonshot Thinking 🪶 Simplicity In Innovation

Secrets of the Autistic Millionaire

by David William Plummer • 2021

Diagnosed late, millionaire early: an autistic programmer's strategies for a life that fits.

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📖 Autism Memoir 🔍 Late Diagnosis 🌈 Neurodiversity Movement 🎭 Autistic Masking 💪 Autistic Strengths

Secrets of the Autistic Millionaire

Diagnosed late, millionaire early: an autistic programmer's strategies for a life that fits.

by David William Plummer 2021 286 pages

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334 ratings

📖 Autism Memoir 🔍 Late Diagnosis 🌈 Neurodiversity Movement 🎭 Autistic Masking 💪 Autistic Strengths

Non-Obvious

by Rohit Bhargava • 2012

Trends are curated, not predicted: how to spot what's next by gathering what's already here.

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🕵️ Trend Spotting 🔭 Strategic Foresight 🔀 Cross-Industry Thinking 🧩 Sensemaking 👁️ Attention Economics

Non-Obvious

Trends are curated, not predicted: how to spot what's next by gathering what's already here.

by Rohit Bhargava 2012 256 pages

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1k+ ratings

🕵️ Trend Spotting 🔭 Strategic Foresight 🔀 Cross-Industry Thinking 🧩 Sensemaking 👁️ Attention Economics

Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World

by Fareed Zakaria • 2020

COVID-19 hit fast-forward. Ten lessons for a digital, unequal, and bipolar world.

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🏛️ Public Policy 🌐 International Relations 🚨 Crisis Management 💻 Digital Transformation ⚖️ Economic Inequality

Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World

COVID-19 hit fast-forward. Ten lessons for a digital, unequal, and bipolar world.

by Fareed Zakaria 2020 319 pages

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5k+ ratings

🏛️ Public Policy 🌐 International Relations 🚨 Crisis Management 💻 Digital Transformation ⚖️ Economic Inequality

The Lever of Riches

by Joel Mokyr • 1990

Europe didn't out-invent Asia by chance. Culture, not geography, explains who industrializes first.

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🏛️ Economic History 🔧 History Of Technology 🏭 Industrial Revolution 🌏 Great Divergence 💡 Innovation Economics

The Lever of Riches

Europe didn't out-invent Asia by chance. Culture, not geography, explains who industrializes first.

by Joel Mokyr 1990 368 pages

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326 ratings

🏛️ Economic History 🔧 History Of Technology 🏭 Industrial Revolution 🌏 Great Divergence 💡 Innovation Economics

Unmasked

by Paul Holes • 2022

A forensic scientist obsessed with a rapist's cold case file; 24 years later, DNA caught him.

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🔬 Forensic Science 📁 Cold Case Investigations 🧬 Genetic Genealogy 🕵️ Offender Profiling 🧪 Dna Forensics

Unmasked

A forensic scientist obsessed with a rapist's cold case file; 24 years later, DNA caught him.

by Paul Holes 2022 288 pages

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30k+ ratings

🔬 Forensic Science 📁 Cold Case Investigations 🧬 Genetic Genealogy 🕵️ Offender Profiling 🧪 Dna Forensics

Fundamentals of Database Systems

by Shamkant B. Navathe • 1989

Before the database, there was a file. The conceptual leap that organizes the world's information.

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🗄️ Database Systems 📊 Data Modeling 🗃️ Relational Databases ⌨️ Query Languages 🧱 Database Architecture

Fundamentals of Database Systems

Before the database, there was a file. The conceptual leap that organizes the world's information.

by Shamkant B. Navathe 1989 1139 pages

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500+ ratings

🗄️ Database Systems 📊 Data Modeling 🗃️ Relational Databases ⌨️ Query Languages 🧱 Database Architecture

FRICTION―The Untapped Force That Can Be Your Most Powerful Advantage

by Roger Dooley • 2019

The hidden force that decides what you buy, what you quit, and what you never start.

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🧠 Behavioral Economics 🛒 Customer Experience 🧱 Habit Design 💻 User Experience 👆 Nudge Theory

FRICTION―The Untapped Force That Can Be Your Most Powerful Advantage

The hidden force that decides what you buy, what you quit, and what you never start.

by Roger Dooley 2019 320 pages

4.09

119 ratings

🧠 Behavioral Economics 🛒 Customer Experience 🧱 Habit Design 💻 User Experience 👆 Nudge Theory

Designing for Behavior Change

by Stephen Wendel • 2013

Build products that change real-world behavior: a system grounded in how the mind actually decides.

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🧠 Behavioral Design 🏛️ Choice Architecture 🔄 Lean Product Development 🔍 User Research 📈 Behavioral Economics

Designing for Behavior Change

Build products that change real-world behavior: a system grounded in how the mind actually decides.

by Stephen Wendel 2013 391 pages

4.09

414 ratings

🧠 Behavioral Design 🏛️ Choice Architecture 🔄 Lean Product Development 🔍 User Research 📈 Behavioral Economics

Hard Landing

by Thomas Petzinger Jr. • 1995

A busted union here, a rigged screen there: how two men's rivalry built modern air travel.

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✈️ Airline Industry 🏢 Corporate History 📜 Deregulation ⚒️ Labor Wars 🔄 Corporate Turnarounds

Hard Landing

A busted union here, a rigged screen there: how two men's rivalry built modern air travel.

by Thomas Petzinger Jr. 1995 616 pages

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500+ ratings

✈️ Airline Industry 🏢 Corporate History 📜 Deregulation ⚒️ Labor Wars 🔄 Corporate Turnarounds

Kings of Crypto

by Jeff John Roberts • 2021

One startup made bitcoin simple. The regulators came. Then the rivals. Then the civil war.

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🪙 Cryptocurrency 🏦 Fintech Startups 🏛️ Crypto Exchanges 📈 Startup Scaling 🏢 Company Biography

Kings of Crypto

One startup made bitcoin simple. The regulators came. Then the rivals. Then the civil war.

by Jeff John Roberts 2021 236 pages

3.98

500+ ratings

🪙 Cryptocurrency 🏦 Fintech Startups 🏛️ Crypto Exchanges 📈 Startup Scaling 🏢 Company Biography

The ChatGPT Revolution

by Donna Mcgeorge • 2023

The non-techie's guide to making ChatGPT handle your daily tasks, from emails to meal planning.

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🛠️ Prompt Engineering 🤖 Ai For Beginners ⏰ Time Management 💼 Workplace Efficiency 🧹 Life Simplification

The ChatGPT Revolution

The non-techie's guide to making ChatGPT handle your daily tasks, from emails to meal planning.

by Donna Mcgeorge 2023 192 pages

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119 ratings

🛠️ Prompt Engineering 🤖 Ai For Beginners ⏰ Time Management 💼 Workplace Efficiency 🧹 Life Simplification

Curious

by Ian Leslie • 2014

Why knowing more makes you more curious, and why Google is putting that cycle at risk.

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🌱 Lifelong Learning ❓ Questioning Skills 💡 Innovation Drivers 📱 Digital Distraction 😊 Positive Psychology

Curious

Why knowing more makes you more curious, and why Google is putting that cycle at risk.

by Ian Leslie 2014 240 pages

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3k+ ratings

🌱 Lifelong Learning ❓ Questioning Skills 💡 Innovation Drivers 📱 Digital Distraction 😊 Positive Psychology

Surviving AI

by Calum Chace • 2015

Superintelligence is coming. It could be the greatest thing or the last thing we ever build.

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🎯 Ai Alignment ☢️ Existential Risk 🧠 Superintelligence 💥 Singularity 💼 Future Of Work

Surviving AI

Superintelligence is coming. It could be the greatest thing or the last thing we ever build.

by Calum Chace 2015 303 pages

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500+ ratings

🎯 Ai Alignment ☢️ Existential Risk 🧠 Superintelligence 💥 Singularity 💼 Future Of Work

The Country of the Blind

by Andrew Leland • 2023

A writer losing his sight discovers blindness is a vast, varied world hiding in plain view.

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🦯 Blindness Memoir ✊ Disability Rights 🩺 Chronic Illness 🧠 Sensory Perception 📚 Disability Studies

The Country of the Blind

A writer losing his sight discovers blindness is a vast, varied world hiding in plain view.

by Andrew Leland 2023 368 pages

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6k+ ratings

🦯 Blindness Memoir ✊ Disability Rights 🩺 Chronic Illness 🧠 Sensory Perception 📚 Disability Studies

High Performance JavaScript

by Nicholas C. Zakas • 2010

Fewer DOM touches, shorter scope chains, smarter loading: JS performance without the rewrite.

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🧭 Web Performance 📄 Dom Scripting 🔍 Performance Profiling 🏗️ Frontend Engineering 📜 Advanced Javascript

High Performance JavaScript

Fewer DOM touches, shorter scope chains, smarter loading: JS performance without the rewrite.

by Nicholas C. Zakas 2010 232 pages

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500+ ratings

🧭 Web Performance 📄 Dom Scripting 🔍 Performance Profiling 🏗️ Frontend Engineering 📜 Advanced Javascript

Make Something Wonderful

by Steve Jobs • 2023

Steve Jobs in his own words: the real philosophy behind Apple, Pixar, and the black turtleneck.

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🏞️ Silicon Valley History 🎨 Product Design 📈 Corporate Turnarounds 🧭 Leadership Principles 💡 Innovation Culture

Make Something Wonderful

Steve Jobs in his own words: the real philosophy behind Apple, Pixar, and the black turtleneck.

by Steve Jobs 2023 194 pages

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1k+ ratings

🏞️ Silicon Valley History 🎨 Product Design 📈 Corporate Turnarounds 🧭 Leadership Principles 💡 Innovation Culture

Antimatter

by Frank Close • 2009

Half the universe should be antimatter. That it vanished is physics' most persistent mystery.

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🧲 Particle Physics 📜 History Of Science 💥 Matter And Energy 🌌 Cosmic Mysteries 🧪 Science Myths

Antimatter

Half the universe should be antimatter. That it vanished is physics' most persistent mystery.

by Frank Close 2009 176 pages

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1k+ ratings

🧲 Particle Physics 📜 History Of Science 💥 Matter And Energy 🌌 Cosmic Mysteries 🧪 Science Myths

The 100-Year Life

by Lynda Gratton • 2016

A 100-year lifespan breaks the old school, work, retire sequence. The rules that replace it.

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🧭 Career Planning 🌍 Aging Societies 🔄 Life Design 📘 Lifelong Learning ⚖ Work-Life Balance

The 100-Year Life

A 100-year lifespan breaks the old school, work, retire sequence. The rules that replace it.

by Lynda Gratton 2016 280 pages

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2k+ ratings

🧭 Career Planning 🌍 Aging Societies 🔄 Life Design 📘 Lifelong Learning ⚖ Work-Life Balance

Evil Plans

by Hugh MacLeod • 2011

Turn your passion into a global career: think like an artist, build like a small brand.

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🎨 Creative Entrepreneurship 🌐 Internet Business 👤 Personal Branding 🧑‍💻 Solo Entrepreneurship 📅 Daily Practice

Evil Plans

Turn your passion into a global career: think like an artist, build like a small brand.

by Hugh MacLeod 2011 192 pages

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1k+ ratings

🎨 Creative Entrepreneurship 🌐 Internet Business 👤 Personal Branding 🧑‍💻 Solo Entrepreneurship 📅 Daily Practice

The FINTECH Book

by Susanne Chishti • 2016

FinTech isn't just disrupting banking. It's rewriting who participates in the global economy.

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📱 Fintech 🏦 Banking Innovation 🔄 Digital Transformation 🌍 Financial Inclusion 🌏 Emerging Markets

The FINTECH Book

FinTech isn't just disrupting banking. It's rewriting who participates in the global economy.

by Susanne Chishti 2016 320 pages

3.46

252 ratings

📱 Fintech 🏦 Banking Innovation 🔄 Digital Transformation 🌍 Financial Inclusion 🌏 Emerging Markets

The Startup Playbook

by Rajat Bhargava • 2020

Two veteran founders on the cofounder, culture, and hiring decisions that matter more than the idea.

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🚀 Startup Guides 💡 Founder Advice 🔍 Customer Validation 🎯 Product-Market Fit 🔄 Lean Methodology

The Startup Playbook

Two veteran founders on the cofounder, culture, and hiring decisions that matter more than the idea.

by Rajat Bhargava 2020 480 pages

3.94

264 ratings

🚀 Startup Guides 💡 Founder Advice 🔍 Customer Validation 🎯 Product-Market Fit 🔄 Lean Methodology

Ogilvy on Advertising in the Digital Age

by Miles Young • 2019

Digital is a channel, not a discipline. The advertising laws that built Ogilvy still apply.

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📱 Digital Marketing 📊 Advertising Strategy 🏗️ Brand Building 💡 Meaning Creation 🧠 Consumer Psychology

Ogilvy on Advertising in the Digital Age

Digital is a channel, not a discipline. The advertising laws that built Ogilvy still apply.

by Miles Young 2019 288 pages

3.59

268 ratings

📱 Digital Marketing 📊 Advertising Strategy 🏗️ Brand Building 💡 Meaning Creation 🧠 Consumer Psychology

Inbound Marketing, Revised and Updated

by Brian Halligan • 2009

Interruption marketing no longer works. How content and search turn strangers into customers.

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📱 Digital Marketing 📝 Content Marketing 🔍 Search Optimization 🎯 Lead Generation 📣 Social Media Strategy

Inbound Marketing, Revised and Updated

Interruption marketing no longer works. How content and search turn strangers into customers.

by Brian Halligan 2009 224 pages

3.87

3k+ ratings

📱 Digital Marketing 📝 Content Marketing 🔍 Search Optimization 🎯 Lead Generation 📣 Social Media Strategy

Dependency Injection in .NET

by Mark Seemann • 2011

When .NET classes build their own dependencies, the codebase calcifies. Patterns to undo it.

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🧱 Object-Oriented Design 🧩 Design Patterns 📐 Solid Principles 🏗️ Modular Architecture 🧪 Code Testability

Dependency Injection in .NET

When .NET classes build their own dependencies, the codebase calcifies. Patterns to undo it.

by Mark Seemann 2011 584 pages

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500+ ratings

🧱 Object-Oriented Design 🧩 Design Patterns 📐 Solid Principles 🏗️ Modular Architecture 🧪 Code Testability

Beautiful Architecture

by Diomidis Spinellis • 2008

Software guards its internals. Emacs shipped a Lisp interpreter and let users rewrite everything.

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🏗️ Software Architecture 🖥️ Emacs 📐 Software Design 📜 Lisp 🔧 Unix Philosophy

Beautiful Architecture

Software guards its internals. Emacs shipped a Lisp interpreter and let users rewrite everything.

by Diomidis Spinellis 2008 426 pages

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171 ratings

🏗️ Software Architecture 🖥️ Emacs 📐 Software Design 📜 Lisp 🔧 Unix Philosophy

Apple in China

by Patrick McGee • 2025

One island, one party: Apple's greatest vulnerability hides in plain sight.

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🚚 Supply Chain Risk 🏭 China Manufacturing 🏛️ State Capitalism 🚀 Tech Nationalism 🇨🇳 China Business

Apple in China

One island, one party: Apple's greatest vulnerability hides in plain sight.

by Patrick McGee 2025 448 pages

4.48

9k+ ratings

🚚 Supply Chain Risk 🏭 China Manufacturing 🏛️ State Capitalism 🚀 Tech Nationalism 🇨🇳 China Business

To Infinity and Beyond

by Neil deGrasse Tyson • 2023

A cosmic tour where emptiness isn't empty, time bends, and most of reality remains invisible.

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🔭 Astrophysics 🪐 Solar System 🌌 Cosmology 🚀 Space Exploration 🌍 Cosmic Perspective

To Infinity and Beyond

A cosmic tour where emptiness isn't empty, time bends, and most of reality remains invisible.

by Neil deGrasse Tyson 2023 319 pages

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1k+ ratings

🔭 Astrophysics 🪐 Solar System 🌌 Cosmology 🚀 Space Exploration 🌍 Cosmic Perspective

How to Start a Business Analyst Career

by Laura Brandenburg • 2015

No BA title yet? Build the skills, network, and experience to claim your first role.

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📊 Business Analysis 💻 Tech Careers 🔄 Career Transitions 📋 Requirements Gathering 👥 Stakeholder Management

How to Start a Business Analyst Career

No BA title yet? Build the skills, network, and experience to claim your first role.

by Laura Brandenburg 2015 244 pages

3.95

118 ratings

📊 Business Analysis 💻 Tech Careers 🔄 Career Transitions 📋 Requirements Gathering 👥 Stakeholder Management

CISA Review Manual

by ISACA • 2007

From audit planning to incident recovery: the CISA exam's full scope, organized for passing.

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🔍 IT Auditing 📝 Certification Exam Prep 🔒 Information Security 🏛️ IT Governance ⚠️ Risk Management

CISA Review Manual

From audit planning to incident recovery: the CISA exam's full scope, organized for passing.

by ISACA 2007 468 pages

3.92

225 ratings

🔍 IT Auditing 📝 Certification Exam Prep 🔒 Information Security 🏛️ IT Governance ⚠️ Risk Management

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