Best Technology Books | Summaries & Audio

Technology Book Summaries

The Substance of Style

by Virginia Postrel • 2003

The sensory qualities of things now rival price and performance as economic forces.

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🏗️ Design Economy 🛍️ Consumer Aesthetics ⚙️ Form And Function 🎭 Taste And Identity 👁️ Sensory Design

The Substance of Style

The sensory qualities of things now rival price and performance as economic forces.

by Virginia Postrel 2003 237 pages

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500+ ratings

🏗️ Design Economy 🛍️ Consumer Aesthetics ⚙️ Form And Function 🎭 Taste And Identity 👁️ Sensory Design

Sports Analytics

by Benjamin C. Alamar • 2013

The playbook for installing analytics inside a sports organization, from data to decision.

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📊 Sports Analytics 📈 Data Analytics 🗄️ Data Management 🔮 Predictive Modeling 📏 Performance Metrics

Sports Analytics

The playbook for installing analytics inside a sports organization, from data to decision.

by Benjamin C. Alamar 2013 150 pages

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130 ratings

📊 Sports Analytics 📈 Data Analytics 🗄️ Data Management 🔮 Predictive Modeling 📏 Performance Metrics

The Catalyst

by Thomas R. Cech • 2024

DNA is famous. RNA built life, runs complexity, and will drive the next medical revolution.

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🔬 History Of Science 📖 Scientific Memoir 🧬 Rna Biology 🌋 Origin Of Life 🌍 Rna World Hypothesis

The Catalyst

DNA is famous. RNA built life, runs complexity, and will drive the next medical revolution.

by Thomas R. Cech 2024 304 pages

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500+ ratings

🔬 History Of Science 📖 Scientific Memoir 🧬 Rna Biology 🌋 Origin Of Life 🌍 Rna World Hypothesis

Hackers & Painters

by Paul Graham • 2004

Making beautiful things, breaking dumb rules, and why the kid you ignored is building your future.

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🌉 Silicon Valley Culture 💻 Hacker Ethos 🏢 Startup Culture ⚙️ Software Engineering ⌨️ Programming Languages

Hackers & Painters

Making beautiful things, breaking dumb rules, and why the kid you ignored is building your future.

by Paul Graham 2004 272 pages

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9k+ ratings

🌉 Silicon Valley Culture 💻 Hacker Ethos 🏢 Startup Culture ⚙️ Software Engineering ⌨️ Programming Languages

Glimpses of Utopia

by Jess Scully • 2020

A fair society is not theoretical. Its pieces are already running in cities across the world.

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🗳️ Participatory Democracy 💡 Alternative Economics 🌳 Commons Stewardship 🤲 Care Economy 🏦 Financial Reform

Glimpses of Utopia

A fair society is not theoretical. Its pieces are already running in cities across the world.

by Jess Scully 2020 532 pages

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110 ratings

🗳️ Participatory Democracy 💡 Alternative Economics 🌳 Commons Stewardship 🤲 Care Economy 🏦 Financial Reform

Value Engineering

by Anil Kumar Mukhopadhyaya • 2003

Function is worth more than form: the systematic approach that finds savings competitors overlook.

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🔧 Value Engineering 💰 Cost Engineering ♻️ Life Cycle Costing 💡 Creative Problem-Solving 👥 Team Dynamics

Value Engineering

Function is worth more than form: the systematic approach that finds savings competitors overlook.

by Anil Kumar Mukhopadhyaya 2003 212 pages

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4 ratings

🔧 Value Engineering 💰 Cost Engineering ♻️ Life Cycle Costing 💡 Creative Problem-Solving 👥 Team Dynamics

Anti-Tech Revolution

by Theodore John Kaczynski • 2016

The technological world system is a self-driving machine no one steers and nothing stops.

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🏕️ Anarcho-Primitivism ✊ Revolutionary Theory 🔄 Systems Thinking 📉 Technological Collapse 🏛️ Civilization Critique

Anti-Tech Revolution

The technological world system is a self-driving machine no one steers and nothing stops.

by Theodore John Kaczynski 2016 280 pages

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500+ ratings

🏕️ Anarcho-Primitivism ✊ Revolutionary Theory 🔄 Systems Thinking 📉 Technological Collapse 🏛️ Civilization Critique

The One World Schoolhouse

by Salman Khan • 2012

One cousin's math lesson, a cheap tablet, and a classroom where every student masters every concept.

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🏫 Education Reform 💻 Education Technology 🎯 Mastery Learning 🧩 Personalized Learning 🧠 Active Learning

The One World Schoolhouse

One cousin's math lesson, a cheap tablet, and a classroom where every student masters every concept.

by Salman Khan 2012 400 pages

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🏫 Education Reform 💻 Education Technology 🎯 Mastery Learning 🧩 Personalized Learning 🧠 Active Learning

The Right Kind of Crazy

by Adam Steltzner • 2015

A sky crane, a rover, and a team that trusted doubt more than confidence.

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🚀 Space Exploration 🏛️ NASA History 🧩 Systems Thinking 🧠 Intellectual Humility 🌫️ Managing Uncertainty

The Right Kind of Crazy

A sky crane, a rover, and a team that trusted doubt more than confidence.

by Adam Steltzner 2015 256 pages

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500+ ratings

🚀 Space Exploration 🏛️ NASA History 🧩 Systems Thinking 🧠 Intellectual Humility 🌫️ Managing Uncertainty

Machine Learning with R

by Brett Lantz • 2015

Build the algorithms that catch spam, flag fraud, and recommend products: a hands-on guide in R.

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💻 R Language 🤖 Machine Learning 📈 Predictive Modeling 🏷️ Supervised Learning 📊 Classification Algorithms

Machine Learning with R

Build the algorithms that catch spam, flag fraud, and recommend products: a hands-on guide in R.

by Brett Lantz 2015 375 pages

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312 ratings

💻 R Language 🤖 Machine Learning 📈 Predictive Modeling 🏷️ Supervised Learning 📊 Classification Algorithms

This Explains Everything

by John Brockman • 2013

One question, 150 scientists: name the elegant idea that makes the most sense of everything.

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📚 Science Anthologies 🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🧠 Cognitive Biases ⚛️ Quantum Mechanics 🦋 Emergent Complexity

This Explains Everything

One question, 150 scientists: name the elegant idea that makes the most sense of everything.

by John Brockman 2013 411 pages

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2k+ ratings

📚 Science Anthologies 🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🧠 Cognitive Biases ⚛️ Quantum Mechanics 🦋 Emergent Complexity

The AI Book

by Susanne Chishti • 2020

AI isn't incremental; it's a step change in finance. What investors and entrepreneurs must know now.

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💳 Fintech 🤖 Ai In Finance 📈 Algorithmic Trading 📋 Regtech 🚀 Digital Transformation

The AI Book

AI isn't incremental; it's a step change in finance. What investors and entrepreneurs must know now.

by Susanne Chishti 2020 304 pages

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17 ratings

💳 Fintech 🤖 Ai In Finance 📈 Algorithmic Trading 📋 Regtech 🚀 Digital Transformation

The AI Edge

by Jeb Blount • 2024

Your competitor uses AI. A battle plan for reclaiming time and winning more deals.

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🤖 Sales Technology ⏱️ Sales Productivity 🤝 Human-Ai Collaboration ⌨️ Prompt Engineering 🧠 Sales Psychology

The AI Edge

Your competitor uses AI. A battle plan for reclaiming time and winning more deals.

by Jeb Blount 2024 292 pages

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240 ratings

🤖 Sales Technology ⏱️ Sales Productivity 🤝 Human-Ai Collaboration ⌨️ Prompt Engineering 🧠 Sales Psychology

Cities

by Monica L. Smith • 2019

Cities were never about efficiency. They were about all the things you cannot get alone.

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🏙️ Urban History 🏛️ Ancient Cities 🏺 Material Culture 🌆 Urban Anthropology 🚶 Everyday Urbanism

Cities

Cities were never about efficiency. They were about all the things you cannot get alone.

by Monica L. Smith 2019 304 pages

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446 ratings

🏙️ Urban History 🏛️ Ancient Cities 🏺 Material Culture 🌆 Urban Anthropology 🚶 Everyday Urbanism

The Next Africa

by Jake Bright • 2015

By 2030 half of Africans will be under 30. The economy they are building has no precedent.

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🌍 African Development 📈 Emerging Markets 💻 Digital Transformation 🚀 African Entrepreneurship ✊ Pan-Africanism

The Next Africa

By 2030 half of Africans will be under 30. The economy they are building has no precedent.

by Jake Bright 2015 304 pages

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86 ratings

🌍 African Development 📈 Emerging Markets 💻 Digital Transformation 🚀 African Entrepreneurship ✊ Pan-Africanism

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Knowledge Management

by Melissie Clemmons Rumizen • 2001

Turn scattered know-how into a strategic asset that outlasts any single employee.

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🧠 Knowledge Management 📚 Organizational Learning 🤫 Tacit Knowledge 🗣️ Knowledge Sharing 🏢 Corporate Culture

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Knowledge Management

Turn scattered know-how into a strategic asset that outlasts any single employee.

by Melissie Clemmons Rumizen 2001 315 pages

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80 ratings

🧠 Knowledge Management 📚 Organizational Learning 🤫 Tacit Knowledge 🗣️ Knowledge Sharing 🏢 Corporate Culture

Fact Vs. Fiction

by Jennifer Lagarde • 2018

Phones deliver news, not teachers. Strategies for turning feeds into critical thinking.

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📺 Media Literacy ⚠️ Misinformation 🧠 Critical Thinking 🧩 Cognitive Biases 💻 Digital Citizenship

Fact Vs. Fiction

Phones deliver news, not teachers. Strategies for turning feeds into critical thinking.

by Jennifer Lagarde 2018 159 pages

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326 ratings

📺 Media Literacy ⚠️ Misinformation 🧠 Critical Thinking 🧩 Cognitive Biases 💻 Digital Citizenship

Controligarchs

by Seamus Bruner • 2023

A trillion-dollar global elite is using crises to control your food, money, and speech.

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🌐 Global Elites 💰 Billionaire Class 🚫 Anti-Globalism 📹 Digital Surveillance 🧐 Philanthropy Critique

Controligarchs

A trillion-dollar global elite is using crises to control your food, money, and speech.

by Seamus Bruner 2023 384 pages

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🌐 Global Elites 💰 Billionaire Class 🚫 Anti-Globalism 📹 Digital Surveillance 🧐 Philanthropy Critique

Domain-Driven Design Quickly

by Floyd Marinescu • 2006

Business and code speak different languages. The modeling method that forces them to share one.

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📐 Domain Modeling 🏗️ Software Architecture 🧭 Domain Driven Design 📦 Object Oriented Design 🤝 Collaborative Modeling

Domain-Driven Design Quickly

Business and code speak different languages. The modeling method that forces them to share one.

by Floyd Marinescu 2006 104 pages

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500+ ratings

📐 Domain Modeling 🏗️ Software Architecture 🧭 Domain Driven Design 📦 Object Oriented Design 🤝 Collaborative Modeling

Westworld and Philosophy

by Richard Greene • 2018

Westworld turns consequence-free violence into philosophy's sharpest questions about your own mind.

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🎬 Pop Culture Philosophy 🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🤖 Artificial Consciousness 🔗 Free Will Debate ⚖️ Ethics Of Technology

Westworld and Philosophy

Westworld turns consequence-free violence into philosophy's sharpest questions about your own mind.

by Richard Greene 2018 312 pages

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21 ratings

🎬 Pop Culture Philosophy 🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🤖 Artificial Consciousness 🔗 Free Will Debate ⚖️ Ethics Of Technology

Python for Geeks

by Muhammad Asif • 2021

Machine learning from notebook to production: Python libraries, data prep, and deployment paths.

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🐍 Python Programming ⚙️ Machine Learning Engineering 📊 Data Science 🚀 Production Deployment ☁️ Serverless Computing

Python for Geeks

Machine learning from notebook to production: Python libraries, data prep, and deployment paths.

by Muhammad Asif 2021 546 pages

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8 ratings

🐍 Python Programming ⚙️ Machine Learning Engineering 📊 Data Science 🚀 Production Deployment ☁️ Serverless Computing

The Billionaire and the Mechanic

by Julian Guthrie • 2013

Flying boats and shoreline crowds: how a billionaire and a mechanic won the America's Cup.

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🏆 Americas Cup 🥇 Underdog Stories 💻 Tech Entrepreneurship 💰 Billionaire Biography ⚙️ Sports Innovation

The Billionaire and the Mechanic

Flying boats and shoreline crowds: how a billionaire and a mechanic won the America's Cup.

by Julian Guthrie 2013 336 pages

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500+ ratings

🏆 Americas Cup 🥇 Underdog Stories 💻 Tech Entrepreneurship 💰 Billionaire Biography ⚙️ Sports Innovation

No Filter

by Sarah Frier • 2020

Facebook bought Instagram for a billion dollars, promised independence, then slowly took everything.

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🏙️ Silicon Valley 🚀 Tech Startups 📸 Influencer Culture 📱 Social Media History 🏗️ Platform Capitalism

No Filter

Facebook bought Instagram for a billion dollars, promised independence, then slowly took everything.

by Sarah Frier 2020 352 pages

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10k+ ratings

🏙️ Silicon Valley 🚀 Tech Startups 📸 Influencer Culture 📱 Social Media History 🏗️ Platform Capitalism

Labor of Love

by Moira Weigel • 2016

The dinner-and-a-movie date is a recent invention, and its real author is capitalism.

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🏛️ Cultural History ✊ Feminist History ⚧️ Gendered Expectations 💰 Economic Sociology 📉 Anti-Self-Help

Labor of Love

The dinner-and-a-movie date is a recent invention, and its real author is capitalism.

by Moira Weigel 2016 304 pages

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1k+ ratings

🏛️ Cultural History ✊ Feminist History ⚧️ Gendered Expectations 💰 Economic Sociology 📉 Anti-Self-Help

Underground Empire

by Henry Farrell • 2023

The global economy's plumbing became America's most powerful weapons, and it was an accident.

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🏴‍☠️ Economic Warfare 💵 Dollar Dominance 🔗 Global Supply Chains 💻 Geopolitics Of Technology 🌐 Geoeconomics

Underground Empire

The global economy's plumbing became America's most powerful weapons, and it was an accident.

by Henry Farrell 2023 288 pages

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1k+ ratings

🏴‍☠️ Economic Warfare 💵 Dollar Dominance 🔗 Global Supply Chains 💻 Geopolitics Of Technology 🌐 Geoeconomics

Streetfight

by Janette Sadik-Khan • 2016

Paint, data, and political nerve: beating the car-first status quo.

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🛣️ Street Design 🎨 Tactical Urbanism 🌳 Public Space 🚲 Bike Advocacy 🚌 Transit Equity

Streetfight

Paint, data, and political nerve: beating the car-first status quo.

by Janette Sadik-Khan 2016 368 pages

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2k+ ratings

🛣️ Street Design 🎨 Tactical Urbanism 🌳 Public Space 🚲 Bike Advocacy 🚌 Transit Equity

Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic And Genetic Algorithms

by S. Rajasekaran • 2004

Soft computing's three pillars each have blind spots. This is how they fill each other's gaps.

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🖥️ Soft Computing 🧠 Neural Networks 🌫️ Fuzzy Logic 🧬 Genetic Algorithms 🤖 Machine Learning

Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic And Genetic Algorithms

Soft computing's three pillars each have blind spots. This is how they fill each other's gaps.

by S. Rajasekaran 2004 627 pages

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151 ratings

🖥️ Soft Computing 🧠 Neural Networks 🌫️ Fuzzy Logic 🧬 Genetic Algorithms 🤖 Machine Learning

The Lazarus Heist

by Geoff White • 2022

North Korea's hackers targeted one bank for nearly a billion. That was just the trial run.

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🖥️ Cyber Warfare 💰 Financial Cybercrime 🏛️ State-Sponsored Crime 🇰🇵 North Korean Regime 💸 Money Laundering

The Lazarus Heist

North Korea's hackers targeted one bank for nearly a billion. That was just the trial run.

by Geoff White 2022 304 pages

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1k+ ratings

🖥️ Cyber Warfare 💰 Financial Cybercrime 🏛️ State-Sponsored Crime 🇰🇵 North Korean Regime 💸 Money Laundering

14 Habits of Highly Productive Developers

by Zeno Rocha • 2020

Fourteen habits for developers who want to stop sprinting and start compounding.

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🖥️ Software Engineering 💼 Software Careers 🧱 Code Craftsmanship 📚 Continuous Learning 📣 Learning In Public

14 Habits of Highly Productive Developers

Fourteen habits for developers who want to stop sprinting and start compounding.

by Zeno Rocha 2020 158 pages

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500+ ratings

🖥️ Software Engineering 💼 Software Careers 🧱 Code Craftsmanship 📚 Continuous Learning 📣 Learning In Public

Virtually Human

by Martine Rothblatt • 2014

Software copies of human minds will outlive bodies and demand citizenship. They're almost here.

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🧠 Mind Uploading 💾 Digital Immortality 🔮 Transhumanism 🧬 Consciousness Studies ⚖️ AI Ethics

Virtually Human

Software copies of human minds will outlive bodies and demand citizenship. They're almost here.

by Martine Rothblatt 2014 368 pages

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182 ratings

🧠 Mind Uploading 💾 Digital Immortality 🔮 Transhumanism 🧬 Consciousness Studies ⚖️ AI Ethics

The Sharing Economy

by Arun Sundararajan • 2016

Trust between strangers, scaled by smartphones, is building an economy that sidesteps the firm.

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🤝 Sharing Economy 🔌 Platform Economics 🚗 Gig Economy 🤖 Future Of Work 💼 Independent Work

The Sharing Economy

Trust between strangers, scaled by smartphones, is building an economy that sidesteps the firm.

by Arun Sundararajan 2016 240 pages

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491 ratings

🤝 Sharing Economy 🔌 Platform Economics 🚗 Gig Economy 🤖 Future Of Work 💼 Independent Work

Falter

by Bill McKibben • 2019

Engineers want to redesign humans as the climate exit. The two crises share a cause.

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🤖 Tech Ethics ⚠️ Existential Risk 🛢️ Fossil Fuel Deception ☀️ Renewable Energy ✊ Nonviolent Resistance

Falter

Engineers want to redesign humans as the climate exit. The two crises share a cause.

by Bill McKibben 2019 291 pages

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2k+ ratings

🤖 Tech Ethics ⚠️ Existential Risk 🛢️ Fossil Fuel Deception ☀️ Renewable Energy ✊ Nonviolent Resistance

How to Sell Your Art Online

by Cory Huff • 2016

Replace the starving artist story with a sustainable business, half creation and half marketing.

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🖌️ Art Business 📧 Audience Building 📖 Brand Storytelling 🎨 Creative Brand 🧠 Artist Mindset

How to Sell Your Art Online

Replace the starving artist story with a sustainable business, half creation and half marketing.

by Cory Huff 2016 192 pages

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389 ratings

🖌️ Art Business 📧 Audience Building 📖 Brand Storytelling 🎨 Creative Brand 🧠 Artist Mindset

Make

by Charles Platt • 2008

From Ohm's Law to Arduino: learn electronics by building, breaking, and fixing circuits.

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⚡ Electronic Fundamentals 🔌 Circuit Building 🛠️ Hobbyist Electronics 📟 Component Guides 🔧 Maker Movement

Make

From Ohm's Law to Arduino: learn electronics by building, breaking, and fixing circuits.

by Charles Platt 2008 349 pages

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1k+ ratings

⚡ Electronic Fundamentals 🔌 Circuit Building 🛠️ Hobbyist Electronics 📟 Component Guides 🔧 Maker Movement

Digital Minds

by Weber Systems Inc. • 2013

From search and social to email and mobile: the twelve channels that build a digital business.

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🖥️ Digital Marketing ✍️ Content Marketing 🔍 SEO Strategy 📱 Social Media Marketing 📈 Conversion Optimization

Digital Minds

From search and social to email and mobile: the twelve channels that build a digital business.

by Weber Systems Inc. 2013 160 pages

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458 ratings

🖥️ Digital Marketing ✍️ Content Marketing 🔍 SEO Strategy 📱 Social Media Marketing 📈 Conversion Optimization

How Data Happened

by Chris Wiggins • 2023

Data was never neutral. How statistics went from serving kings to fueling the attention economy.

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🧮 History Of Statistics 🏛️ Data And Society ⚖️ Data Ethics 👁️ Surveillance Capitalism 📊 Algorithmic Bias

How Data Happened

Data was never neutral. How statistics went from serving kings to fueling the attention economy.

by Chris Wiggins 2023 384 pages

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467 ratings

🧮 History Of Statistics 🏛️ Data And Society ⚖️ Data Ethics 👁️ Surveillance Capitalism 📊 Algorithmic Bias

The Great Transition

by Lester R. Brown • 2014

Wind and solar are now cheapest. The shift isn't a political choice; it's a price signal.

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⚡ Energy Transition ☀️ Renewable Energy 📉 Energy Economics 🌍 Climate Policy 🚗 Electric Vehicles

The Great Transition

Wind and solar are now cheapest. The shift isn't a political choice; it's a price signal.

by Lester R. Brown 2014 194 pages

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201 ratings

⚡ Energy Transition ☀️ Renewable Energy 📉 Energy Economics 🌍 Climate Policy 🚗 Electric Vehicles

Ask Your Developer

by Jeff Lawson • 2021

Your business now runs on software. Here is how to lead the people who build it.

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🖥️ Digital Transformation 🧱 Engineering Culture 🎯 Customer Development 🧠 Autonomy And Mastery 🔗 Talent Retention

Ask Your Developer

Your business now runs on software. Here is how to lead the people who build it.

by Jeff Lawson 2021 299 pages

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1k+ ratings

🖥️ Digital Transformation 🧱 Engineering Culture 🎯 Customer Development 🧠 Autonomy And Mastery 🔗 Talent Retention

Lessons from the Titans

by Scott Davis • 2020

Silicon Valley bets on moonshots. Factory-floor systems quietly compound wealth for decades.

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🏭 Manufacturing Excellence 💰 Capital Allocation 📐 Lean Methodology ⚙️ Business Systems 🎯 Operational Excellence

Lessons from the Titans

Silicon Valley bets on moonshots. Factory-floor systems quietly compound wealth for decades.

by Scott Davis 2020 415 pages

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500+ ratings

🏭 Manufacturing Excellence 💰 Capital Allocation 📐 Lean Methodology ⚙️ Business Systems 🎯 Operational Excellence

Exploding the Phone

by Phil Lapsley • 2013

The phone system had a hidden language. The teenagers who mastered it invented the modern hacker.

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📞 Phone Phreaking 📡 Telecom History 💾 Early Hacking 🕹️ Hacking Culture 🎭 Social Engineering

Exploding the Phone

The phone system had a hidden language. The teenagers who mastered it invented the modern hacker.

by Phil Lapsley 2013 431 pages

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1k+ ratings

📞 Phone Phreaking 📡 Telecom History 💾 Early Hacking 🕹️ Hacking Culture 🎭 Social Engineering

Computational Thinking

by Peter J. Denning • 2019

It is a 4,500-year-old practice that built modern science, yet most confuse it with just coding.

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💭 Computational Thinking 🕰️ History Of Computing 🎨 Design Thinking ⚙️ Software Engineering 🧠 Algorithmic Thinking

Computational Thinking

It is a 4,500-year-old practice that built modern science, yet most confuse it with just coding.

by Peter J. Denning 2019 246 pages

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304 ratings

💭 Computational Thinking 🕰️ History Of Computing 🎨 Design Thinking ⚙️ Software Engineering 🧠 Algorithmic Thinking

Docker

by Karl Matthias • 2015

Production Docker: the patterns for images, networking, and orchestration that prevent 3-AM pages.

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📦 Containerization 🔄 Devops Practices ☁️ Cloud Native 🚀 Deployment Automation 🔒 Container Security

Docker

Production Docker: the patterns for images, networking, and orchestration that prevent 3-AM pages.

by Karl Matthias 2015 232 pages

3.77

459 ratings

📦 Containerization 🔄 Devops Practices ☁️ Cloud Native 🚀 Deployment Automation 🔒 Container Security

Ada's Algorithm

by James Essinger • 2013

In 1843, Ada Lovelace wrote the first computer program and imagined machines that compose music.

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🖥️ Early Computing 🔬 Women In Science 📚 Scientific Biography ⚙️ Victorian Science 🏆 Unsung Pioneers

Ada's Algorithm

In 1843, Ada Lovelace wrote the first computer program and imagined machines that compose music.

by James Essinger 2013 256 pages

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1k+ ratings

🖥️ Early Computing 🔬 Women In Science 📚 Scientific Biography ⚙️ Victorian Science 🏆 Unsung Pioneers

Writing Secure Code

by Michael Howard • 2001

Every exploit begins with data your code trusted. The developer's manual for input validation.

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🛡️ Application Security 🔒 Secure Coding 🛠️ Defensive Programming ✅ Input Validation 🧠 Memory Safety

Writing Secure Code

Every exploit begins with data your code trusted. The developer's manual for input validation.

by Michael Howard 2001 768 pages

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372 ratings

🛡️ Application Security 🔒 Secure Coding 🛠️ Defensive Programming ✅ Input Validation 🧠 Memory Safety

Democratizing Innovation

by Eric von Hippel • 2005

Innovation's hidden engine isn't corporate R&D. It's users, and companies that ignore them lose out.

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👥 User Innovation 🔓 Open Innovation 📈 Innovation Economics 🛠️ Product Development 📱 Technology Adoption

Democratizing Innovation

Innovation's hidden engine isn't corporate R&D. It's users, and companies that ignore them lose out.

by Eric von Hippel 2005 204 pages

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500+ ratings

👥 User Innovation 🔓 Open Innovation 📈 Innovation Economics 🛠️ Product Development 📱 Technology Adoption

Entry and Exit Confessions of a Champion Trader

by Kevin J. Davey • 2019

A champion's playbook: 41 entries, 11 exits, and the testing rigor to build systems that work.

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🖥️ Algorithmic Trading 🔄 Systematic Trading 🏗️ Trading Strategy Design 🔬 Backtesting Methods 🚪 Market Entry And Exit

Entry and Exit Confessions of a Champion Trader

A champion's playbook: 41 entries, 11 exits, and the testing rigor to build systems that work.

by Kevin J. Davey 2019 100 pages

3.64

99 ratings

🖥️ Algorithmic Trading 🔄 Systematic Trading 🏗️ Trading Strategy Design 🔬 Backtesting Methods 🚪 Market Entry And Exit

Software Architect’s Handbook

by Joseph Ingeno • 2018

Your architecture choices outlive your code. A field manual for making them count.

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🏗️ Software Architecture 📐 System Design 🧩 Architectural Patterns 📏 Design Principles 🧱 Modular Design

Software Architect’s Handbook

Your architecture choices outlive your code. A field manual for making them count.

by Joseph Ingeno 2018 596 pages

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61 ratings

🏗️ Software Architecture 📐 System Design 🧩 Architectural Patterns 📏 Design Principles 🧱 Modular Design

The Book of Why

by Judea Pearl • 2018

Data can't tell you why. A mathematical science of cause and effect finally can.

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🏹 Causal Inference 🕸️ Graphical Models 🔄 Counterfactuals 📉 Limits Of Correlation 🔬 Philosophy Of Science

The Book of Why

Data can't tell you why. A mathematical science of cause and effect finally can.

by Judea Pearl 2018 432 pages

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6k+ ratings

🏹 Causal Inference 🕸️ Graphical Models 🔄 Counterfactuals 📉 Limits Of Correlation 🔬 Philosophy Of Science

The Third Revolution

by Elizabeth C. Economy • 2018

Deng opened China. Xi reversed it: the party now decides what gets built, read, and believed.

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🏛️ Chinese Politics ⚡ Authoritarian Governance 🐉 Xi Jinping Era 🏭 State Capitalism 🌐 Internet Censorship

The Third Revolution

Deng opened China. Xi reversed it: the party now decides what gets built, read, and believed.

by Elizabeth C. Economy 2018 359 pages

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1k+ ratings

🏛️ Chinese Politics ⚡ Authoritarian Governance 🐉 Xi Jinping Era 🏭 State Capitalism 🌐 Internet Censorship

Agile Project Management with Scrum

by Ken Schwaber • 2004

Stop fighting uncertainty. Ship working software every 30 days with a framework built for change.

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🏃 Agile Project Management 🔄 Iterative Development 📈 Continuous Improvement ⏱️ Timeboxing 🤝 Self-Organizing Teams

Agile Project Management with Scrum

Stop fighting uncertainty. Ship working software every 30 days with a framework built for change.

by Ken Schwaber 2004 188 pages

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