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The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness by Tim Ferriss, Eric Jorgenson
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsGetting rich is not just about luck; happiness is not just a trait we are born with. These aspirations may seem out of reach, but building wealth and being happy are skills we can learn...Categorized as:
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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]()
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 Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master by Andy Hunt, Dave Thomas]()
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master by Andy Hunt, Dave Thomas
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsStraight from the programming trenches, The Pragmatic Programmer cuts through the increasing specialization and technicalities of modern software development to examine the core process--taking a requirement and producing working, maintainable code that delights its users...Categorized as:
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![Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention- and How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari]()
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention- and How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsOur ability to pay attention is collapsing. From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream and Lost Connections comes a groundbreaking examination of why this is happening--and how to get our attention back. In the United States, teenagers can focus on one task for only sixty-five seconds at a time, and office workers average only three minutes...Categorized as:
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![High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove]()
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]()
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... -
![No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer]()
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 One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined by Salman Khan]()
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]()
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... -
![Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace]()
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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![The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman by Richard P. Feynman]()
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman by Richard P. Feynman
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe Pleasure of Finding Things Out is a magnificent treasury of the best short works of Richard P. Feynman,from interviews and speeches to lectures and printed articles. A sweeping, wide-ranging collection, it presents an intimate and fascinating view of a life in science-a life like no other...Categorized as:
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![Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love by Marty Cagan]()
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]()
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]()
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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![Rationality: From AI to Zombies by Eliezer Yudkowsky]()
Rationality: From AI to Zombies by Eliezer Yudkowsky
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhat does it actually mean to be rational? Not Hollywood-style "rational," where you forsake all human feeling to embrace Cold Hard Logic. Real rationality, of the sort studied by psychologists, social scientists, and mathematicians...Categorized as:
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![Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow by Matthew Skelton, Manuel Pais]()
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]()
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]()
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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![Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein]()
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsWhat's the most effective path to success in any domain? It's not what you think. Plenty of experts argue that anyone who wants to develop a skill, play an instrument, or lead their field should start early, focus intensely, and rack up as many hours of deliberate practice as possible. If you dabble or delay, you'll never catch up to the people who got a head start...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]()
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]()
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]()
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 Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries, Эрик Рис]()
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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![Style: Toward Clarity and Grace by Joseph M. Williams, Gregory G. Colomb]()
Style: Toward Clarity and Grace by Joseph M. Williams, Gregory G. Colomb
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis acclaimed book is a master teacher's tested program for turning clumsy prose into clear, powerful, and effective writing. A logical, expert, easy-to-use plan for achieving excellence in expression, Style offers neither simplistic rules nor endless lists of dos and don'ts. Rather, Joseph Williams explains how to be concise, how to be focused, how to be organized... -
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![Them: Why We Hate Each Other - and How to Heal by Ben Sasse]()
Them: Why We Hate Each Other - and How to Heal by Ben Sasse
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing American Adult, an intimate and urgent assessment of the existential crisis facing our nation.Something is wrong. We all know it.American life expectancy is declining for a third straight year. Birth rates are dropping. Nearly half of us think the other political party isn’t just wrong; they’re evil...Categorized as:
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![Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain by David Eagleman]()
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]()
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]()
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]()
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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![Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek]()
Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsThe highly anticipated follow-up to Simon Sinek’s global bestseller Start with Why Simon Sinek is an optimist, a visionary thinker, and a leader of the cultural revolution of WHY. His second book is the natural extension of Start with Why, expanding his ideas at the organizational level. Determining a company’s WHY is crucial, but only the beginning...Categorized as:
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