Technology
Our digital world pulses with endless possibilities, from coding breakthroughs to philosophical questions about how technology shapes our minds and culture. Here you'll find practical guides for developers and entrepreneurs alongside thoughtful explorations of how our tools and screens are transforming society, work, and human connection.
Technology Book Summaries
Free Your Mind
Your mind is under fire from ads, algorithms, propaganda, and cereal boxes. A self-defense guide.
Psychology
Self Help
Politics
Sociology
Philosophy
Free Your Mind
Your mind is under fire from ads, algorithms, propaganda, and cereal boxes. A self-defense guide.
Psychology
Self Help
Politics
Sociology
Philosophy
When Coffee and Kale Compete
Stop asking what features to add. Ask what progress your customer is trying to make.
Business
Design
Entrepreneurship
Psychology
Technology
When Coffee and Kale Compete
Stop asking what features to add. Ask what progress your customer is trying to make.
Business
Design
Entrepreneurship
Psychology
Technology
COVID-19
The pandemic didn't just upend the world; it created a fleeting chance to rebuild it from scratch.
Politics
Economics
Business
History
Globalization
COVID-19
The pandemic didn't just upend the world; it created a fleeting chance to rebuild it from scratch.
Politics
Economics
Business
History
Globalization
Deep Learning
Deep learning isn't clever math. It's simple neurons, wired at scale, learning from their mistakes.
Computer Science
Technology
Science
Ai
Mathematics
Deep Learning
Deep learning isn't clever math. It's simple neurons, wired at scale, learning from their mistakes.
Computer Science
Technology
Science
Ai
Mathematics
Rebooting Justice
Justice is too expensive for most Americans. The surprising cure: fewer lawyers and smarter systems.
Law
Politics
Social Justice
Technology
Economics
Rebooting Justice
Justice is too expensive for most Americans. The surprising cure: fewer lawyers and smarter systems.
Law
Politics
Social Justice
Technology
Economics
Understanding and Using C Pointers
Pointers are C's sharpest tool. This is how to stop cutting yourself.
Programming
Computer Science
Reference
Technology
Science
Understanding and Using C Pointers
Pointers are C's sharpest tool. This is how to stop cutting yourself.
Programming
Computer Science
Reference
Technology
Science
Thank You for Being Late
Technology, markets, and the climate are all speeding up simultaneously; adaptation is not optional.
Politics
Economics
Business
Technology
Globalization
Thank You for Being Late
Technology, markets, and the climate are all speeding up simultaneously; adaptation is not optional.
Politics
Economics
Business
Technology
Globalization
The PayPal Wars
Russian mobsters, eBay's sabotage, an IPO after 9/11: inside PayPal's fight to survive.
Business
Entrepreneurship
Technology
History
Biography
The PayPal Wars
Russian mobsters, eBay's sabotage, an IPO after 9/11: inside PayPal's fight to survive.
Business
Entrepreneurship
Technology
History
Biography
Object-Oriented Software Construction
Before running code, define the contract: how agreements between objects produce reliable software.
Programming
Computer Science
Technology
Reference
Design
Object-Oriented Software Construction
Before running code, define the contract: how agreements between objects produce reliable software.
Programming
Computer Science
Technology
Reference
Design
How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything
War, law, and state fray together. A Pentagon insider on where the seams gave way.
Politics
War
History
Law
Technology
How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything
War, law, and state fray together. A Pentagon insider on where the seams gave way.
Politics
War
History
Law
Technology
The Year Without Pants
From Microsoft to a pants-optional company: what a year without an office teaches about work.
Business
Management
Technology
Leadership
Memoir
The Year Without Pants
From Microsoft to a pants-optional company: what a year without an office teaches about work.
Business
Management
Technology
Leadership
Memoir
Astronomy For Dummies by Stephen P. Maran
No math, no jargon: the astronomy guide that starts with 'look up' and builds from there.
Science
Space
Physics
Reference
Education
Astronomy For Dummies by Stephen P. Maran
No math, no jargon: the astronomy guide that starts with 'look up' and builds from there.
Science
Space
Physics
Reference
Education
Like, Comment, Subscribe
Three PayPal coworkers built a dating site. It became the algorithm deciding what the world watches.
Business
Technology
History
Internet
Culture
Like, Comment, Subscribe
Three PayPal coworkers built a dating site. It became the algorithm deciding what the world watches.
Business
Technology
History
Internet
Culture
The Retail Revival
Retail's middle ground is gone. Winners pick a side: extreme convenience or premium experience.
Business
Economics
Marketing
Sociology
Technology
The Retail Revival
Retail's middle ground is gone. Winners pick a side: extreme convenience or premium experience.
Business
Economics
Marketing
Sociology
Technology
The Forever Transaction
Build a subscription around an ongoing promise, and customers stop looking elsewhere.
Business
Entrepreneurship
Marketing
Management
Technology
The Forever Transaction
Build a subscription around an ongoing promise, and customers stop looking elsewhere.
Business
Entrepreneurship
Marketing
Management
Technology
Artificial Intelligence
An AI 101: the tech, the jobs at risk, and the one skill machines can't touch.
Computer Science
Technology
Business
Science
Sociology
Artificial Intelligence
An AI 101: the tech, the jobs at risk, and the one skill machines can't touch.
Computer Science
Technology
Business
Science
Sociology
Applied Artificial Intelligence
AI that doesn't pay for itself is overhead. The business leader's framework for picking what wins.
Business
Technology
Entrepreneurship
Leadership
Management
Applied Artificial Intelligence
AI that doesn't pay for itself is overhead. The business leader's framework for picking what wins.
Business
Technology
Entrepreneurship
Leadership
Management
Driving Honda
Honda's real edge is a culture of paradox: individuals over teams, factory floors over boardrooms.
Business
Management
Leadership
Entrepreneurship
Technology
Driving Honda
Honda's real edge is a culture of paradox: individuals over teams, factory floors over boardrooms.
Business
Management
Leadership
Entrepreneurship
Technology
India’s Railway Man
Bridge: 46 days. Mountain railway: 7 years. The values that built modern India on schedule.
Biography
History
Business
Management
Leadership
India’s Railway Man
Bridge: 46 days. Mountain railway: 7 years. The values that built modern India on schedule.
Biography
History
Business
Management
Leadership
Too Big to Know
Knowledge on paper was settled and scarce. Online, it is abundant, linked, and never finished.
Technology
Philosophy
Science
Sociology
Culture
Too Big to Know
Knowledge on paper was settled and scarce. Online, it is abundant, linked, and never finished.
Technology
Philosophy
Science
Sociology
Culture
PHP and MySQL Web Development
Build a database-backed site with PHP and MySQL: setup, queries, security, and path to production.
Programming
Development
Computer Science
Technology
Internet
PHP and MySQL Web Development
Build a database-backed site with PHP and MySQL: setup, queries, security, and path to production.
Programming
Development
Computer Science
Technology
Internet
Creativity Code
AI paints, composes, writes. But can a machine truly be creative? A mathematician investigates.
Science
Technology
Ai
Computer Science
Mathematics
Creativity Code
AI paints, composes, writes. But can a machine truly be creative? A mathematician investigates.
Science
Technology
Ai
Computer Science
Mathematics
Strange Rites
Americans didn't quit religion. They replaced church with SoulCycle, fandom, and social justice.
Religion
Sociology
Spirituality
Cultural
History
Strange Rites
Americans didn't quit religion. They replaced church with SoulCycle, fandom, and social justice.
Religion
Sociology
Spirituality
Cultural
History
A Human Algorithm
Machines are learning to think. The real question is whether we will remember how to feel.
Technology
Computer Science
Philosophy
Ethics
Science
A Human Algorithm
Machines are learning to think. The real question is whether we will remember how to feel.
Technology
Computer Science
Philosophy
Ethics
Science
Behind the Screen
The open internet is a myth: a hidden workforce decides what you see, for a hidden price.
Technology
Sociology
Internet
Social Media
Business
Behind the Screen
The open internet is a myth: a hidden workforce decides what you see, for a hidden price.
Technology
Sociology
Internet
Social Media
Business
Born Digital
When childhood happens online, identity is public, privacy erodes, and creativity becomes remix.
Technology
Sociology
Internet
Education
Culture
Born Digital
When childhood happens online, identity is public, privacy erodes, and creativity becomes remix.
Technology
Sociology
Internet
Education
Culture
The Storytelling Edge
Oxytocin is the reason stories sell. The craft and system for using it deliberately.
Business
Writing
Marketing
Psychology
Self Help
The Storytelling Edge
Oxytocin is the reason stories sell. The craft and system for using it deliberately.
Business
Writing
Marketing
Psychology
Self Help
The Second Coming of Steve Jobs
Fired at thirty, Jobs failed a decade before returning to remake the company that rejected him.
Biography
Business
Technology
Leadership
Design
The Second Coming of Steve Jobs
Fired at thirty, Jobs failed a decade before returning to remake the company that rejected him.
Biography
Business
Technology
Leadership
Design
Content Chemistry
A visual playbook for turning your blog into a customer magnet, from search to email.
Marketing
Business
Writing
Design
Entrepreneurship
Content Chemistry
A visual playbook for turning your blog into a customer magnet, from search to email.
Marketing
Business
Writing
Design
Entrepreneurship
Dual Transformation
Disruption demands two transformations: save the core, build the future, and the bridge between.
Business
Leadership
Management
Technology
Entrepreneurship
Dual Transformation
Disruption demands two transformations: save the core, build the future, and the bridge between.
Business
Leadership
Management
Technology
Entrepreneurship
Get Rich or Lie Trying
The influencer dream is built on sweatshops, bot farms, and surgical debt the camera never shows.
Sociology
Technology
Social Media
Economics
Business
Get Rich or Lie Trying
The influencer dream is built on sweatshops, bot farms, and surgical debt the camera never shows.
Sociology
Technology
Social Media
Economics
Business
The Unabomber Manifesto
Industrial civilization cannot be saved. Its endpoint is humans rebuilt to fit the machine.
Philosophy
Politics
Sociology
Technology
Essays
The Unabomber Manifesto
Industrial civilization cannot be saved. Its endpoint is humans rebuilt to fit the machine.
Philosophy
Politics
Sociology
Technology
Essays
Proust and the Squid
Reading isn't genetic. The brain built it by recycling circuits meant for hunting and speech.
Science
Psychology
Language
Education
Books About Books
Proust and the Squid
Reading isn't genetic. The brain built it by recycling circuits meant for hunting and speech.
Science
Psychology
Language
Education
Books About Books
More Joel on Software
Ship on schedule, hire developers who skip the job boards, and know when fixing beats rewriting.
Programming
Computer Science
Technology
Business
Management
More Joel on Software
Ship on schedule, hire developers who skip the job boards, and know when fixing beats rewriting.
Programming
Computer Science
Technology
Business
Management
Writing High-Performance .NET Code
Stop guessing why .NET drags. Measure, master the GC, and fix the real bottlenecks.
Computer Science
Technology
Reference
Science
Design
Writing High-Performance .NET Code
Stop guessing why .NET drags. Measure, master the GC, and fix the real bottlenecks.
Computer Science
Technology
Reference
Science
Design
Numsense! Data Science for the Layman
Data science without the math: twelve techniques, what they do, and why intuition alone falls short.
Technology
Computer Science
Science
Business
Mathematics
Numsense! Data Science for the Layman
Data science without the math: twelve techniques, what they do, and why intuition alone falls short.
Technology
Computer Science
Science
Business
Mathematics
A Brief History of Intelligence
Five evolutionary breakthroughs built your brain. Each one reveals what AI is still missing.
Science
Evolution
Biology
Psychology
Technology
A Brief History of Intelligence
Five evolutionary breakthroughs built your brain. Each one reveals what AI is still missing.
Science
Evolution
Biology
Psychology
Technology
Fundamentals of Digital Image Processing
From pixel to picture: the math that samples, restores, compresses, and reconstructs digital images.
Computer Science
Technology
Science
Mathematics
Reference
Fundamentals of Digital Image Processing
From pixel to picture: the math that samples, restores, compresses, and reconstructs digital images.
Computer Science
Technology
Science
Mathematics
Reference
The Ascent of Man
Art and science are twin expressions of a single gift: the mind's ability to remake itself.
Science
History
Anthropology
Evolution
Philosophy
The Ascent of Man
Art and science are twin expressions of a single gift: the mind's ability to remake itself.
Science
History
Anthropology
Evolution
Philosophy
The Right to Privacy
Privacy: the fundamental right the Constitution never names, and the court cases that invented it.
Law
Politics
History
Technology
Sociology
The Right to Privacy
Privacy: the fundamental right the Constitution never names, and the court cases that invented it.
Law
Politics
History
Technology
Sociology
Reader, Come Home
Your reading brain is only a few thousand years old. Screens are now undoing it.
Psychology
Science
Education
Technology
Books About Books
Reader, Come Home
Your reading brain is only a few thousand years old. Screens are now undoing it.
Psychology
Science
Education
Technology
Books About Books
What Would Google Do?
The internet's most successful company wrote a playbook, and it has nothing to do with search.
Business
Technology
Internet
Economics
Entrepreneurship
What Would Google Do?
The internet's most successful company wrote a playbook, and it has nothing to do with search.
Business
Technology
Internet
Economics
Entrepreneurship
Design for the Real World
Design fills the world with disposables. A manifesto for building what people actually need.
Design
Art
Sustainability
Environment
Ecology
Design for the Real World
Design fills the world with disposables. A manifesto for building what people actually need.
Design
Art
Sustainability
Environment
Ecology
Software Architecture Patterns
Five architecture patterns, their trade-offs, and how to pick the one your system actually needs.
Programming
Technology
Computer Science
Architecture
Reference
Software Architecture Patterns
Five architecture patterns, their trade-offs, and how to pick the one your system actually needs.
Programming
Technology
Computer Science
Architecture
Reference
