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
The Influential Product Manager
Own the product, not the team. How to lead without authority, prioritize without mercy, and ship.
Business
Technology
Management
Design
Leadership
The Influential Product Manager
Own the product, not the team. How to lead without authority, prioritize without mercy, and ship.
Business
Technology
Management
Design
Leadership
Return to the Little Kingdom
A Los Altos garage, two unlikely partners, and the unfiltered early years of Apple.
Business
Technology
Biography
History
Entrepreneurship
Return to the Little Kingdom
A Los Altos garage, two unlikely partners, and the unfiltered early years of Apple.
Business
Technology
Biography
History
Entrepreneurship
CRM at the Speed of Light
CRM is a business philosophy, not a technology project. The blueprint for making it real.
Business
Management
Marketing
Technology
Reference
CRM at the Speed of Light
CRM is a business philosophy, not a technology project. The blueprint for making it real.
Business
Management
Marketing
Technology
Reference
Decode and Conquer
A proven system for product management interviews: ace the design, metrics, and strategy rounds.
Business
Management
Technology
Entrepreneurship
Self Help
Decode and Conquer
A proven system for product management interviews: ace the design, metrics, and strategy rounds.
Business
Management
Technology
Entrepreneurship
Self Help
Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness
You wake up to cortisol, brush with fluoride, and carry a lithium battery. Chemistry did that.
Science
Chemistry
Physics
Technology
Health
Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness
You wake up to cortisol, brush with fluoride, and carry a lithium battery. Chemistry did that.
Science
Chemistry
Physics
Technology
Health
What to Think About Machines That Think
The real threat isn't machines that outthink us. It's handing control to machines that can't think.
Science
Technology
Philosophy
Computer Science
Ethics
What to Think About Machines That Think
The real threat isn't machines that outthink us. It's handing control to machines that can't think.
Science
Technology
Philosophy
Computer Science
Ethics
The Gifts of Athena
The modern economy runs on a feedback loop between understanding nature and manipulating it.
Economics
History
Science
Technology
Business
The Gifts of Athena
The modern economy runs on a feedback loop between understanding nature and manipulating it.
Economics
History
Science
Technology
Business
The Third Wave
The Internet's next phase: health care, education, food. Disruptors need the disrupted as partners.
Business
Entrepreneurship
Technology
Leadership
Economics
The Third Wave
The Internet's next phase: health care, education, food. Disruptors need the disrupted as partners.
Business
Entrepreneurship
Technology
Leadership
Economics
Defensive Security Handbook
From asset inventory to incident response: the IT security program handbook that fills the gaps.
Technology
Computer Science
Business
Reference
Management
Defensive Security Handbook
From asset inventory to incident response: the IT security program handbook that fills the gaps.
Technology
Computer Science
Business
Reference
Management
The Essential Engineer
Science explains; engineering creates. When we confuse the two, our biggest problems get harder.
Science
Technology
Sociology
Design
Philosophy
The Essential Engineer
Science explains; engineering creates. When we confuse the two, our biggest problems get harder.
Science
Technology
Sociology
Design
Philosophy
Escaping the Rabbit Hole
Facts alone won't pull someone from the rabbit hole. Respect and the right missing detail might.
Psychology
Conspiracy
Sociology
Science
Politics
Escaping the Rabbit Hole
Facts alone won't pull someone from the rabbit hole. Respect and the right missing detail might.
Psychology
Conspiracy
Sociology
Science
Politics
The Art of Unit Testing
C# unit testing without the brittle tests: stubs, mocks, and the isolation patterns that work.
Programming
Computer Science
Technology
Reference
Education
The Art of Unit Testing
C# unit testing without the brittle tests: stubs, mocks, and the isolation patterns that work.
Programming
Computer Science
Technology
Reference
Education
Dishonesty Is the Second-Best Policy
The internet, Brexit, and everything else a British comedian finds disastrous and hilarious.
Humor
Essays
Politics
Culture
Sociology
Dishonesty Is the Second-Best Policy
The internet, Brexit, and everything else a British comedian finds disastrous and hilarious.
Humor
Essays
Politics
Culture
Sociology
Q is for Quantum
Forget the math: colored balls explain superposition, entanglement, and why quantum computers work.
Science
Physics
Computer Science
Technology
Mathematics
Q is for Quantum
Forget the math: colored balls explain superposition, entanglement, and why quantum computers work.
Science
Physics
Computer Science
Technology
Mathematics
Effective Programming
Syntax lands the job. Everything else—teams, users, security—is what actually keeps it.
Programming
Technology
Computer Science
Business
Management
Effective Programming
Syntax lands the job. Everything else—teams, users, security—is what actually keeps it.
Programming
Technology
Computer Science
Business
Management
The Design of the UNIX Operating System
What actually happens between the shell prompt and the hardware: the Unix kernel explained.
Computer Science
Programming
Technology
Reference
Design
The Design of the UNIX Operating System
What actually happens between the shell prompt and the hardware: the Unix kernel explained.
Computer Science
Programming
Technology
Reference
Design
The Idea Factory
MIT: where a valedictorian learns to celebrate a B and survive the pressure without losing himself.
Memoir
Autobiography
Education
Science
Technology
The Idea Factory
MIT: where a valedictorian learns to celebrate a B and survive the pressure without losing himself.
Memoir
Autobiography
Education
Science
Technology
Dealing with Darwin
Growth and mature markets demand opposite innovation strategies. Few companies master both.
Business
Management
Entrepreneurship
Leadership
Economics
Dealing with Darwin
Growth and mature markets demand opposite innovation strategies. Few companies master both.
Business
Management
Entrepreneurship
Leadership
Economics
Linux Administration Best Practices
Storage, patches, databases, monitoring: a Linux playbook for keeping all the plates spinning.
Technology
Computer Science
Reference
Design
Management
Linux Administration Best Practices
Storage, patches, databases, monitoring: a Linux playbook for keeping all the plates spinning.
Technology
Computer Science
Reference
Design
Management
Cracking the PM Career
A PM career is built on skills no job description covers. A manual for the gaps.
Business
Management
Leadership
Technology
Self Help
Cracking the PM Career
A PM career is built on skills no job description covers. A manual for the gaps.
Business
Management
Leadership
Technology
Self Help
Four Battlegrounds
AI is a contest for physical and intellectual resources; the winner writes the rules of the century.
Technology
Ai
Politics
Military
War
Four Battlegrounds
AI is a contest for physical and intellectual resources; the winner writes the rules of the century.
Technology
Ai
Politics
Military
War
Optimize
Optimize for Google and for humans simultaneously: the integrated playbook that ends the tug-of-war.
Business
Social Media
Design
Writing
Reference
Optimize
Optimize for Google and for humans simultaneously: the integrated playbook that ends the tug-of-war.
Business
Social Media
Design
Writing
Reference
The Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It
Wikipedia and malware share one cause: an open internet. The locked-down alternative kills both.
Technology
Internet
Law
Computer Science
Sociology
The Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It
Wikipedia and malware share one cause: an open internet. The locked-down alternative kills both.
Technology
Internet
Law
Computer Science
Sociology
The Open Organization
What open source taught a CEO: ditch hierarchy, let the best ideas win, fail faster.
Business
Management
Leadership
Technology
Culture
The Open Organization
What open source taught a CEO: ditch hierarchy, let the best ideas win, fail faster.
Business
Management
Leadership
Technology
Culture
The Origins of Victory
Precision warfare gave America dominance. That revolution is over. The next one has already begun.
History
War
Technology
Politics
Science
The Origins of Victory
Precision warfare gave America dominance. That revolution is over. The next one has already begun.
History
War
Technology
Politics
Science
Breaking the Mould
The factory ladder is gone. India's future is in services, innovation, and its children's brains.
Economics
India
Business
Politics
Sociology
Breaking the Mould
The factory ladder is gone. India's future is in services, innovation, and its children's brains.
Economics
India
Business
Politics
Sociology
24/6 The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week
One day offline each week. The science says your attention, empathy, and sleep all improve.
Self Help
Technology
Psychology
Personal Development
Health
24/6 The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week
One day offline each week. The science says your attention, empathy, and sleep all improve.
Self Help
Technology
Psychology
Personal Development
Health
Steve Jobs
Before the iPhone, Jobs took a calligraphy class. That strange detour explains everything.
Biography
Business
Technology
Leadership
Entrepreneurship
Steve Jobs
Before the iPhone, Jobs took a calligraphy class. That strange detour explains everything.
Biography
Business
Technology
Leadership
Entrepreneurship
Passive Income Freedom
Stack online income streams until they pay you five figures a month, no prior experience needed.
Business
Self Help
Entrepreneurship
Finance
Money
Passive Income Freedom
Stack online income streams until they pay you five figures a month, no prior experience needed.
Business
Self Help
Entrepreneurship
Finance
Money
Taming the Sun
More solar means each panel is worth less. Three innovations can flip that equation.
Science
Technology
Climate Change
Environment
Economics
Taming the Sun
More solar means each panel is worth less. Three innovations can flip that equation.
Science
Technology
Climate Change
Environment
Economics
The Passing of the Great Race or the Racial Basis of European History
Why classical inheritance breaks a JavaScript app, and how composition, modules, and events fix it.
Programming
Computer Science
Technology
Internet
Reference
The Passing of the Great Race or the Racial Basis of European History
Why classical inheritance breaks a JavaScript app, and how composition, modules, and events fix it.
Programming
Computer Science
Technology
Internet
Reference
Get Scrappy
Digital marketing for the underdog: how to win with creativity, strategy, and sheer stubbornness.
Business
Entrepreneurship
Internet
Technology
Management
Get Scrappy
Digital marketing for the underdog: how to win with creativity, strategy, and sheer stubbornness.
Business
Entrepreneurship
Internet
Technology
Management
World Without Mind
A counterculture dream of global harmony became a corporate machine for total surveillance.
Technology
Business
Politics
Sociology
Philosophy
World Without Mind
A counterculture dream of global harmony became a corporate machine for total surveillance.
Technology
Business
Politics
Sociology
Philosophy
Reengineering Retail
E-commerce ate the store. Here's how to rebuild retail into something worth leaving the couch for.
Business
Technology
Marketing
Fashion
Economics
Reengineering Retail
E-commerce ate the store. Here's how to rebuild retail into something worth leaving the couch for.
Business
Technology
Marketing
Fashion
Economics
How to Prevent the Next Pandemic
Most of COVID's suffering was avoidable. The blueprint to ensure nothing like it happens again.
Science
Health
Medicine
Politics
Economics
How to Prevent the Next Pandemic
Most of COVID's suffering was avoidable. The blueprint to ensure nothing like it happens again.
Science
Health
Medicine
Politics
Economics
Library 2020
The library forecast every director needs: less warehouse, more community, and librarians who teach.
Books About Books
Education
Management
Leadership
Reference
Library 2020
The library forecast every director needs: less warehouse, more community, and librarians who teach.
Books About Books
Education
Management
Leadership
Reference
The Seven Pillars of Customer Success
Turn customer success into a growth engine. Seven pillars, from onboarding to advocacy.
Business
Entrepreneurship
Leadership
Management
Marketing
The Seven Pillars of Customer Success
Turn customer success into a growth engine. Seven pillars, from onboarding to advocacy.
Business
Entrepreneurship
Leadership
Management
Marketing
Killer Facebook Ads
Turn Facebook's social data into a precision ad pipeline that costs less and converts more.
Business
Marketing
Social Media
Technology
Entrepreneurship
Killer Facebook Ads
Turn Facebook's social data into a precision ad pipeline that costs less and converts more.
Business
Marketing
Social Media
Technology
Entrepreneurship
The Scientific American Book of Love, Sex and the Brain
Love, cocaine, and prayer light up the same brain circuits. A tour of our many bonds.
Science
Psychology
Biology
Love
Sex
The Scientific American Book of Love, Sex and the Brain
Love, cocaine, and prayer light up the same brain circuits. A tour of our many bonds.
Science
Psychology
Biology
Love
Sex
Plan B 3.0
Planetary systems are collapsing in unison. The fix demands wartime mobilization, not half measures.
Environment
Science
Economics
Politics
Conservation
Plan B 3.0
Planetary systems are collapsing in unison. The fix demands wartime mobilization, not half measures.
Environment
Science
Economics
Politics
Conservation
