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The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you by Rob Fitzpatrick
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe Mom Test is a quick, practical guide that will save you time, money, and heartbreak. They say you shouldn't ask your mom whether your business is a good idea, because she loves you and will lie to you. This is technically true, but it misses the point. You shouldn't ask anyone if your business is a good idea. It's a bad question and everyone will lie to you at least a little... -
The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses by Jesse Schell
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsGood game design happens when you view your game from as many perspectives as possible... -
High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn this legendary business book and Silicon Valley staple, the former chairman and CEO of Intel shares his perspective on how to build and run a company. A practical handbook for navigating real-life business scenarios and a powerful management manifesto with the ability to revolutionize the way we work... -
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz, Marcelo Brandão Cipolla
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsA lot of people talk about how great it is to start a business, but only Ben Horowitz is brutally honest about how hard it is to run one... -
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No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsA New York Times Bestseller and Shortlisted for the 2020 Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings reveals for the first time the unorthodox culture behind one of the world's most innovative, imaginative, and successful companies There's never before been a company like Netflix... -
The Secret Daily Teachings by Rhonda Byrne
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsEnjoy more joy, abundance, and blessings with this 365-day guide—with removable pages—building on The Secret’s powerful truths. Perfect for your work desk or your bedside table. All around the world, The Secret is helping millions achieve the lives of their dreams. Now, with The Secret Daily Teachings, Rhonda Byrne takes readers through the next vital steps in living The Secret... -
The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined by Salman Khan
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere: this is the goal of the Khan Academy, a passion project that grew from an ex-engineer and hedge funder's online tutoring sessions with his niece, who was struggling with algebra, into a worldwide phenomenon...Categorized as:
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Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition by Steve Krug
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsSince Don’t Make Me Think was first published in 2000, over 400,000 Web designers and developers have relied on Steve Krug’s guide to help them understand the principles of intuitive navigation and information design. Witty, commonsensical, and eminently practical, it’s one of the best-loved and most recommended books on the subject... -
Principles of Neural Science by Eric R. Kandel
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAn introduction to the brain, its structure, function, development, and control of behavior, this text discusses neuroanatomy, cell and molecular mechanisms, mechanisms of signaling, and development in the context of the cognitive approaches to behavior... -
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 36 ratings“What does it mean to manage well?”From Ed Catmull, co-founder (with Steve Jobs and John Lasseter) of Pixar Animation Studios, comes an incisive book about creativity in business—sure to appeal to readers of Daniel Pink, Tom Peters, and Chip and Dan Heath. Creativity, Inc...Categorized as:
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Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport, Кал Нюпорт
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsOne of the most valuable skills in our economy is becoming increasingly rare. If you master this skill, you'll achieve extraordinary results.Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It's a skill that allows you to quickly master complicated information and produce better results in less time... -
Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love by Marty Cagan
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThe basic premise of Inspired is that the best tech companies create products in a manner very different from how most companies create products. The goal of the book is to share the techniques of the best companies. This book is aimed primarily at Product Managers working on technology-powered products... -
How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between by Bent Flyvbjerg, Dan Gardner
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe secrets to successfully planning and delivering projects on any scale—from home renovation to space exploration—by the world’s leading expert on megaprojects “This book is important, timely, instructive, and entertaining. What more could you ask for?”—Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize–winning author of Thinking, Fast and Slow “Over-budget and over-schedule is an inevitability... -
How We Learn: The New Science of Education and the Brain by Stanislas Dehaene
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratings'Absorbing, mind-enlarging, studded with insights ... This could have significant real-world results' Sunday TimesHumanity's greatest feat is our incredible ability to learn. Even in their first year, infants acquire language, visual and social knowledge at a rate that surpasses the best supercomputers...Categorized as:
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10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades by Thomas Frank
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIf you're looking to improve your grades and study more efficiently, there are a lot of ways you can go about it. Thomas Frank, founder of the College Info Geek blog, YouTube channel, and podcast, breaks these ways down into ten steps in this short book... -
Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change by William R. Miller, Stephen Rollnick
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis bestselling work for professionals and students is the authoritative presentation of motivational interviewing (MI), the powerful approach to facilitating change. The book elucidates the four processes of MI--engaging, focusing, evoking, and planning--and vividly demonstrates what they look like in action...Categorized as:
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Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow by Matthew Skelton, Manuel Pais
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsEffective software teams are essential for any organization to deliver value continuously and sustainably. But how do you build the best team organization for your specific goals, culture, and needs? Team Topologies is a practical, step-by-step, adaptive model for organizational design and team interaction based on four fundamental team types and three team interaction patterns... -
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Blake Masters, Peter Thiel
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 44 ratingsIf you want to build a better future, you must believe in secrets.The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things...Categorized as:
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Good To Great by James C. Collins
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 40 ratings________________________________Can a good company become a great one? If so, how?After a five-year research project, Jim Collins concludes that good to great can and does happen. In this book, he uncovers the underlying variables that enable any type of organisation to make the leap from good to great while other organisations remain only good...Categorized as:
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A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra) by Barbara Oakley
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWhether you are a student struggling to fulfill a math or science requirement, or you are embarking on a career change that requires a higher level of math competency, A Mind for Numbers offers the tools you need to get a better grasp of that intimidating but inescapable field. Engineering professor Barbara Oakley knows firsthand how it feels to struggle with math...Categorized as:
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Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days by Jake Knapp
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFrom three design partners at Google Ventures, a unique five-day process for solving tough problems using design, prototyping, and testing ideas with customers...Categorized as:
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Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To by David A. Sinclair
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIt’s a seemingly undeniable truth that aging is inevitable. But what if everything we’ve been taught to believe about aging is wrong? What if we could choose our lifespan? In this groundbreaking book, Dr. David Sinclair, leading world authority on genetics and longevity, reveals a bold new theory for why we age. As he writes: “Aging is a disease, and that disease is treatable...Categorized as:
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The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsAnyone who designs anything to be used by humans -- from physical objects to computer programs to conceptual tools -- must read this book, and it is an equally tremendous read for anyone who has to use anything created by another human...Categorized as:
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Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change by Victor Papanek
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDesign for the Real World has, since its first appearance twenty-five years ago, become a classic. Translated into twenty-three languages, it is one of the world's most widely read books on design... -
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The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries, Эрик Рис
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsMost startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched. Eric Ries defines a startup as an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty...Categorized as:
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Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach by Stuart Russell, Peter Norvig
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFor one or two-semester, undergraduate or graduate-level courses in Artificial Intelligence. The long-anticipated revision of this best-selling text offers the most comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to the theory and practice of artificial intelligence. *NEW-Nontechnical learning material-Accompanies each part of the book... -
Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain by David Eagleman
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom the best-selling author of Incognito and Sum comes a revelatory portrait of the human brain based on the most recent scientific discoveries about how it unceasingly adapts, re-creates, and formulates new ways of understanding the world we live in...Categorized as:
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Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware by Andy Hunt
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsSoftware development happens in your head. Not in an editor, IDE, or design tool. You're well educated on how to work with software and hardware, but what about wetware--our own brains? Learning new skills and new technology is critical to your career, and it's all in your head... -
Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time by Jeff Sutherland
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn the future, historians may look back on human progress and draw a sharp line designating “before Scrum” and “after Scrum.” Scrum is that ground-breaking. It already drives most of the world’s top technology companies. And now it’s starting to spread to every domain where leaders wrestle with complex projects...Categorized as:
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Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions by Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsA fascinating exploration of how computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives, helping to solve common decision-making problems and illuminate the workings of the human mindAll our lives are constrained by limited space and time, limits that give rise to a particular set of problems...Categorized as:
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