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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel, Blake Masters — business, entrepreneurship, startups, technology, innovation, investment, strategy, philosophy
You Are Not a Sh*tty Parent: How to Practice Self-Compassion and Give Yourself a Break by Carla Naumburg — parenting, self-compassion, psychology, mindfulness
You Are Not a Gadget by Jaron Lanier — technology, culture, internet, social media, ai, philosophy, ethics, creativity
Yes to the Mess: Surprising Leadership Lessons from Jazz by Frank J. Barrett — business, leadership, innovation, jazz, music, collaboration, teamwork
Writing Is Designing: Words and the User Experience by Michael J. Metts, Andy Welfle • 2020 — ux writing, content strategy, product design, user experience, accessibility
Writing Is Designing by Michael J. Metts, Andy Welfle — design, technology, writing, user-experience, ux-writing, content-strategy
Writing for Developers: Blogs that get read by Piotr Sarna, Cynthia Dunlop • 2025 — technical communication, software engineering, blogging, career development
Words Are My Matter by Ursula K. Le Guin — literature, essays, writing, literary-criticism, fantasy, imagination, genre-fiction
Why Startups Fail: A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success by Tom Eisenmann — business, entrepreneurship, startups, failure, investment, risk management
Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation by Steven Johnson • 2010 — innovation, creativity, networks, collaboration, business, science
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut — science, history, quantum mechanics, mathematics, biography, philosophy, ethics
What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture by Ben Horowitz — business, culture, leadership, management, history, strategy
What They Forgot to Teach You at School by The School of Life • 2021 — psychology, philosophy, self-help, emotional intelligence
What The Heck Is EOS? by Gino Wickman, Tom Bouwer — business, management, entrepreneurship, leadership, strategy, execution, systems, teams
What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence by Stephen A. Schwarzman — business, finance, leadership, entrepreneurship, investment, philanthropy, success, memoir
What Computers Can't Do: A Critique of Artificial Reason by Hubert L. Dreyfus — technology, ai, philosophy, cognitive science, artificial intelligence
Watch Before You Speak, Play Before You Teach by Darius Ryan-Kadem • 2024 — parenting, child development, communication, psychology, education
Vibe Coding: The Future of Programming by Addy Osmani • 2025 — ai, software development, future of work, productivity, engineering culture
VC Fundamentals by Ben Gilbert, David Rosenthal — venture capital, business, investing, startups, entrepreneurship
Utopia Is Creepy: And Other Provocations by Nicholas Carr — technology, culture, society, internet, ai, philosophy, ethics
Utopia Is Creepy by Nicholas Carr — technology, internet, automation, privacy, ai, digital, culture, reading
Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect by Will Guidara — hospitality, business, customer-service, leadership, culture
UNIX: A History and a Memoir by Brian Kernighan — unix, operating-systems, bell-labs, computing-history, programming, technology
Unf*ckology: A Field Guide to Living with Guts and Confidence by Amy Alkon — self-help, psychology, relationships, confidence, communication, behavior, change, dating
Understanding Software Dynamics by Richard L. Sites — technology, software engineering, programming, performance, optimization, systems, ai
Unconditional Parenting: Moving From Rewards and Punishments To Love and Reason by Alfie Kohn — parenting, psychology, child development, education
Ultralearning by Scott H. Young — learning, self-improvement, education, skill development, cognitive science, psychology, technology, success
Twist by Colum McCann • 2025 — fiction, technology, infrastructure, globalization, psychological thriller
Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe by George Dyson — computing, history, technology, mathematics, physics, artificial intelligence, evolution, princeton, biography
TSMC 반도체 제국: 초격차를 뛰어넘는 초일류 기업의 비밀 by 상업주간 (Business Weekly) • 2021 — semiconductors, business strategy, leadership, innovation, geopolitics
Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments: A Practical Guide to A/B Testing by Ron Kohavi, Diane Tang, Ya Xu • 2020 — a/b testing, data science, product management, statistics, innovation
Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life by Theodore M. Porter — science, objectivity, quantification, sociology, politics, measurement
Trillion Dollar Coach by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alan Eagle — leadership, management, coaching, teamwork, business, trust
TRANSFORMED: Moving to the Product Operating Model by Marty Cagan, Lea Hickman, Christian Idiodi, Chris Jones, Jon Moore — product management, business transformation, technology, leadership, innovation
Traction: Get a Grip On Your Business by Gino Wickman — business, management, entrepreneurship, leadership, strategy, execution, growth, systems
Top Tips from the Baby Whisperer for Toddlers by Tracy Hogg, Melinda Blau — parenting, child development, toddlers, behavior
To Hell with the Hustle: Reclaiming Your Life in an Overworked, Overspent, and Overconnected World by Jefferson Bethke • 2019 — spirituality, culture, technology, burnout, christianity
To Forgive Design: Understanding Failure by Henry Petroski — engineering, failure analysis, design, technology
To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design by Henry Petroski • 1985 — engineering, design, innovation, history, failure, analysis
Tidy First? A Personal Exercise in Empirical Software Design by Kent Beck — technology, software-engineering, design, programming, refactoring, agile
This is Service Design Doing by Marc Stickdorn, Adam Lawrence, Markus Hormess, Jakob Schneider — service design, design thinking, ux, business, facilitation, management, design
This Is Marketing by Seth Godin — business, marketing, strategy, branding, customer, experience, psychology
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone — fiction, science fiction, romance, time travel, philosophy, language, identity
This Idea Is Brilliant: Lost, Overlooked, and Underappreciated Scientific Concepts Everyone Should Know by John Brockman — science, concepts, anthology, scientific literacy
This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works by John Brockman — science, philosophy, psychology, biology, physics
Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella H. Meadows — systems thinking, complexity, sustainability, problem-solving, environment, ai
Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts by Annie Duke — decision-making, psychology, behavioral-economics, poker, uncertainty, risk, learning
Thinking for a Living: The Coming Age of Knowledge Work by Kenneth Megill — business, technology, future of work, knowledge work, collaboration, culture, philosophy
Think Faster, Talk Smarter: How to Speak Successfully When You're Put on the Spot by Matt Abrahams • 2023 — communication, psychology, self-help, business
The Worlds I See by Dr. Fei-Fei Li — artificial intelligence, computer vision, human-centered ai, technology, autobiography, data science
The Weirdest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous by Joseph Henrich • 2020 — psychology, history, anthropology, cultural evolution, economics
The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy by David Graeber • 2015 — political science, anthropology, technology, social theory
The Unicorn's Shadow: Combating the Dangerous Myths That Hold Back Startups, Founders, and Investors by Ethan Mollick • 2020 — entrepreneurship, startups, data-driven, innovation, venture-capital
The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? by Michael J. Sandel • 2020 — philosophy, politics, sociology, inequality, education
The True Believer by Eric Hoffer • 1951 — sociology, psychology, politics, history, mass movements, ideology, religion
The Ten Faces of Innovation by Tom Kelley, Jonathan Littman — business, innovation, design, creativity, teams, leadership, customer experience
The Technique of My Musical Language by Olivier Messiaen — music, music theory, composition, harmony, rhythm, melody
The Technical and Social History of Software Engineering by Capers Jones — technology, software engineering, history, programming, culture, business, security
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn • 1962 — science, philosophy of science, history of science, knowledge, paradigms, revolutions, ai
The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson, John David Mann — self-help, personal development, habits, success, philosophy
The Size of Thoughts by Nicholson Baker — essays, literature, philosophy, language, knowledge, thought, culture
The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully by Gerald M. Weinberg — business, consulting, communication, problem-solving, relationships, change management
The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter by Joseph Henrich • 2016 — anthropology, cultural evolution, psychology, innovation, human evolution
The Secret History of Mac Gaming by Richard Moss — technology, gaming, history, culture, apple, macintosh
The Search for Modern China by Jonathan D. Spence — history, china, modernization, politics, society
The Science of Effective Communication: Improve Your Social Skills and Small Talk, Develop Charisma and Learn How to Talk to Anyone by Ian Tuhovsky • 2017 — communication, psychology, self-help, social skills
The Saad Truth About Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life by Gad Saad — happiness, psychology, self-help, personal-development, decision-making, relationships, career, moderation, playfulness, resilience
The Rust Programming Language: New Way of Learning in GenAI Era by RantAI Founders • 2024 — systems programming, ai, education, software engineering
The Rub of Time by Martin Amis — essays, literature, politics, culture, biography, personal experience
The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900 by Theodore M. Porter • 1986 — statistics, history, mathematics, social science, probability, philosophy
The Rise and Fall of Wang Laboratories: An American Tragedy by The Artificial Intelligence Channel — technology, business, computing, entrepreneurship, history
The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War by Robert J. Gordon — economics, history, technology, innovation, inequality, society
The Right It: Why So Many Ideas Fail and How to Make Sure Yours Succeed by Alberto Savoia • 2019 — innovation, product-management, startups, data-analysis
The Product Book: How to Become a Great Product Manager by Josh Anon, Carlos González de Villaumbrosia • 2017 — product management, technology, business strategy, agile methodologies
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power by Daniel Yergin — history, economics, oil, business, politics, energy
The Practice: Shipping Creative Work by Seth Godin — creativity, self-help, work, art, leadership, marketing
The Power of Intuition by Gary Klein — decision-making, intuition, psychology, business, leadership, management
The Power of a Positive No by William Ury — self-help, communication, relationships, assertiveness, negotiation
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton • 2009 — philosophy, sociology, work, modernity, globalization
The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman — business, self-help, management, marketing, sales, finance, psychology
The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century by Steven Watts — biography, american history, business, technology, automotive, industrial revolution
The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance by Henry Petroski — engineering, design, history, technology, manufacturing
The Opposite of Spoiled by Ron Lieber — parenting, finance, money, values, education, child-development
The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant by Tae Kim • 2025 — technology, business, innovation, leadership, ai
The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins by Sonny Rollins, Sam V.H. Reese — jazz, music, notebooks, practice, discipline, spirituality, eastern philosophy, meditation, mastership, self-reflection
The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves by W. Brian Arthur • 2009 — technology, economics, innovation, evolution, complexity
The Motivation Hacker by Nick Winter — motivation, productivity, self-improvement, psychology, goal-setting
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 — business, entrepreneurship, startups, customer_development, product_development, marketing
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley • 2024 — speculative fiction, romance, spy thriller, history, bureaucracy
The Mindful Geek by Michael W. Taft — mindfulness, meditation, psychology, neuroscience, self-help, technology
The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker — literature, fiction, consciousness, memory, everyday-life, product-design, office-culture, consumerism, mindfulness, routine
The Meaning of Life by The School of Life • 2019 — philosophy, psychology, self-help, personal development
The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World by Iain McGilchrist — neuroscience, philosophy, consciousness, psychology, cognition, perception, creativity, brain, hemispheres, science, truth, intuition, reason
The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by Iain McGilchrist — neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, brain, culture, consciousness
The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom by Simon Winchester • 2008 — biography, history, china, science, innovation
The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann by Ananyo Bhattacharya • 2021 — biography, mathematics, physics, computer science, game theory, quantum mechanics, nuclear strategy, artificial intelligence, history of science
The Lean Startup by Eric Ries — business, entrepreneurship, startups, innovation, agile, lean startup
The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback by Dan Olsen — business, technology, product management, design, lean startup, innovation
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin • 1971 — science fiction, philosophy, dreams, reality, ethics, technology, utopia, dystopia, taoism
The Language Game: How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the World by Morten H. Christiansen, Nick Chater • 2022 — linguistics, cognitive science, evolution, culture, artificial intelligence
The Knowledge Work Factory by William F. Heitman — business, management, productivity, efficiency, knowledge work, automation
The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company by Michael S. Malone • 2014 — history, technology, innovation, business, leadership
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson — technology, innovation, computing, digital revolution, collaboration, history, biography, internet, personal computers, software
The Innovator's Solution by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor — business, innovation, technology, strategy, growth
The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators by Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, Clayton M. Christensen • 2019 — innovation, business, strategy, leadership, creativity, psychology
The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators by Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, Clayton M. Christensen — innovation, business, creativity, entrepreneurship, leadership
The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail by Clayton M. Christensen — business, innovation, technology, strategy, disruption
The Inmates Are Running the Asylum by Alan Cooper — design, software, user-experience, interaction-design, usability, personas, technology
The Imagineers of War by Sharon Weinberger — history, military, technology, darpa, vietnam, cold war, innovation
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation by Jon Gertner — technology, innovation, business, history, telecommunications, research, science
The Humane Interface by Jef Raskin — interface-design, usability, hci, psychology, design, cognition, technology
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz — business, entrepreneurship, leadership, management, startups, technology, culture
The Greatest Nobodies of History: Minor Characters from Major Moments by Adrian Bliss • 2024 — history, humor, satire, biography
The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider by Michiko Kakutani — politics, technology, culture, disruption, democracy, social movements, outsiders, innovation
The Great Mental Models, Volume 4: Economics and Art by Shane Parrish, Rhiannon Beaubien • 2024 — economics, art, psychology, decision-making
The Great Mental Models, Vol. 2: Physics, Chemistry and Biology by Shane Parrish, Rhiannon Beaubien • 2019 — mental models, science, decision-making, systems thinking, biology
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox — business, management, operations, productivity, efficiency, manufacturing
The Glass Cage: Automation and Us by Nicholas Carr — technology, ai, automation, society, culture, psychology
The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World by Lewis Hyde • 1983 — art, creativity, gift-economy, anthropology, philosophy, culture
The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank — business, entrepreneurship, startups, product development, marketing, sales
The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy by Michael E. Porter • 2008 — strategy, economics, management, competition
The Family Firm: A Data-Driven Guide to Better Decision Making in the Early School Years by Emily Oster — parenting, education, data, child development, family
The Evolution of Useful Things by Henry Petroski — design, engineering, innovation, technology, evolution, failure, invention, artifacts, tools, history
The Essential Drucker by Peter F. Drucker — management, business, leadership, effectiveness, knowledge workers, entrepreneurship, innovation, strategy
The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness by Todd Rose — psychology, education, individuality, business, talent, standardization
The End of Average by Todd Rose — psychology, education, business, individuality, talent, success, innovation
The Emotion Regulation Skills System for Cognitively Challenged Clients: A DBT-Informed Approach by Julie F. Brown • 2016 — psychology, therapy, cognitive science, instructional design
The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc. by Jonathan Lethem — writing, creativity, influence, culture, art, essays, literary criticism
The Dream Machine by M. Mitchell Waldrop — technology, computing, history, artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, innovation, arpa, psychology, cybernetics
The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies by Scott E. Page — business, sociology, psychology, diversity, innovation, problem-solving, teams, decision-making
The Design of Future Things by Donald A. Norman — technology, design, ai, robotics, future, user experience
The Cult of Creativity: A Surprisingly Recent History by Samuel W. Franklin • 2023 — history, psychology, innovation, business, culture
The Crux: How Leaders Become Strategists by Richard Rumelt • 2022 — strategy, leadership, problem-solving, business
The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination by Daniel J. Boorstin — history, art, creativity, culture, religion, philosophy
The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin, Neil Strauss — creativity, mindfulness, artistic process, self-development
The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton — philosophy, self-help, happiness, ethics, relationships, life
The Computing Universe: A Journey through a Revolution by Tony Hey, Gyuri Pápay — computing, technology, computer science, algorithms, artificial intelligence, hardware, software, internet, programming, machine learning
The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman, Michael Bhaskar — technology, artificial intelligence, synthetic biology, governance, containment, future, policy
The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality by Katharina Pistor — law, economics, politics, history, social justice, technology, ai
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande • 2009 — systems thinking, process improvement, human factors, medicine, complexity
The Charismatic Leader: 21 Skills for Connecting with People by John C. Maxwell • 2025 — leadership, communication, personal development, soft skills
The Captain Class: The Hidden Force That Creates the World's Greatest Teams by Sam Walker — leadership, teams, sports, psychology, motivation, communication
The Candy House by Jennifer Egan • 2022 — fiction, technology, memory, identity, authenticity, digital age, connectivity, surveillance
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk • 2014 — trauma, psychology, neuroscience, therapy, healing, ptsd, mental health, embodiment
The Bed of Procrustes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb — philosophy, economics, psychology, uncertainty, randomness, stoicism, decision-making
The Beauty of Everyday Things by Soetsu Yanagi — aesthetics, craft, design, japan, philosophy, art, mingei
The Art of Witty Banter by Patrick King — communication, conversation, social skills, wit, banter, interpersonal skills, self-help
The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America's Leading Design Firm by Tom Kelley, Jonathan Littman — innovation, design, creativity, business, prototyping, ideo, product design
The Art of Doing: A Guide to Getting Motivated, Getting Unstuck and Getting It Done by Jesse Lipscombe • 2025 — self-help, motivation, productivity, entrepreneurship, autobiography
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn by Richard W. Hamming — science, engineering, learning, mathematics, computer science, physics, artificial intelligence, systems thinking
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn by Richard W. Hamming • 1997 — computer science, philosophy of science, innovation, career development, systems thinking
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt • 2024 — psychology, technology, childhood, mental health, social media, development
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt • 2024 — psychology, technology, parenting, sociology, mentalhealth
The Anxiety of Influence by Harold Bloom • 1973 — literary criticism, poetry, influence, psychology, creativity
The Amazing Bud Powell: Black Genius, Jazz History, and the Challenge of Bebop by Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr. — music, jazz, history, culture, race, biography, creativity, innovation
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Naval Ravikant, Eric Jorgenson — wealth, happiness, philosophy, entrepreneurship, self-help, meditation, business, investing, personal-development
The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age by Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha, Chris Yeh • 2014 — talent management, human resources, leadership, career development, technology
The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age by Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha, Chris Yeh • 2014 — management, human resources, career development, leadership, technology
The AI Economy: Work, Wealth and Welfare in the Robot Age by Roger Bootle — ai, economics, automation, future-of-work, policy, technology, inequality
The Age of A.I.: And Our Human Future by Henry A. Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, Daniel Huttenlocher — artificial intelligence, technology, geopolitics, human identity, security, warfare, network platforms, machine learning
The 80/20 Principle by Richard Koch — business, self-help, productivity, time_management, success, efficiency, happiness, investment
The 5 Choices: The Path to Extraordinary Productivity by Kory Kogon, Adam Merrill, Leena Rinne — productivity, self-help, time-management, decision-making, attention-management, energy-management, leadership
The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership by Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman, Kaley Warner Klemp — leadership, self-help, consciousness, emotional intelligence, communication, teamwork, culture
The 100 Best Business Books of All Time: What They Say, Why They Matter, and How They Can Help You by Jack Covert, Todd Sattersten, Sally Haldorson — business, leadership, management, strategy, sales, marketing, finance, innovation, creativity
Terms of Service: Social Media and the Price of Constant Connection by Jacob Silverman — social media, technology, surveillance, privacy, capitalism, journalism, digital culture, reputation, sharing economy
Technical Communication and the Digital Role-Playing Game: A History of Bethesda, BioWare, and CD Projekt Red by Daniel Reardon, David Wright — gaming, technical communication, game development, digital rpg, bethesda, bioware, cd projekt red
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin • 2005 — biography, history, politics, leadership, lincoln, civil war, american history
Teaching with AI by José Antonio Bowen, C. Edward Watson — ai, education, teaching, higher education, ai literacy, creativity, grading, assessment, faculty
Systemantics: How Systems Work and Especially How They Fail by John Gall — systems theory, complexity, management, philosophy, cybernetics
Swipe to Unlock: The Primer on Technology and Business Strategy by Neel Mehta, Aditya Agashe, Parth Detroja — technology, business, strategy, innovation, ai, economics, marketing, social, media
Structured Rapid Prototyping: An Evolutionary Approach to Software Development by John L. Connell, Linda Brice Shafer • 1989 — software development, prototyping, evolutionary development, rdms, structured techniques
Strong Product People: A Complete Guide to Developing Great Product Managers by Petra Wille — business, technology, product, management, leadership, teams, coaching, development
Street Coder: The rules to break and how to break them by Sedat Kapanoglu • 2022 — software engineering, pragmatism, career development, best practices
Strategize: Product Strategy and Product Roadmap Practices for the Digital Age by Roman Pichler • 2016 — product management, strategy, agile, innovation, technology
Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup by Rob Walling • 2010 — business, technology, entrepreneurship, software, development, marketing, startups
Start at the End: How to Build Products that Create Change by Matt Wallaert • 2019 — behavioral science, product management, innovation, psychology
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi • 2016 — history, race, racism, social justice, culture, politics, america
Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track by Will Larson — technology, engineering, leadership, careers, management, teams
Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days by Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, Braden Kowitz — business, design, innovation, technology, problem-solving, teams, product development
Software Engineering at Google by Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck, Hyrum Wright — technology, software engineering, programming, teams, culture, scaling, google
So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love by Cal Newport — career, productivity, skills, work, advice
Smarter Faster Better by Charles Duhigg — productivity, self-help, psychology, neuroscience, business, teamwork, decision-making, innovation
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan — fiction, literature, social justice, ethics, morality, ireland, history
Small Things Considered: Why There Is No Perfect Design by Henry Petroski • 2003 — design, engineering, innovation, product design
Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport • 2024 — productivity, work, knowledge-work, burnout, philosophy
Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb — philosophy, economics, risk, decision-making, rationality, business, society, psychology
Six Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono — thinking, problem-solving, decision-making, creativity, communication, collaboration
Shift: Managing Your Emotions—So They Don't Manage You by Ethan Kross • 2025 — psychology, neuroscience, self-help, emotions
Sense & Respond by Jeff Gothelf, Josh Seiden — business, technology, management, leadership, innovation, agile, lean, startup, customer, experience
Self-Consciousness: Memoirs by John Updike — memoir, autobiography, literature, writing, identity, self-reflection
Self-Compassion: Stop Beating Yourself Up and Leave Insecurity Behind by Kristin Neff — psychology, self-help, mindfulness, emotional well-being, mental health
Seeing What Others Don't: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights by Gary Klein • 2013 — psychology, insights, decision-making, creativity, innovation, organizational-behavior
Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott — history, politics, sociology, anthropology, economics, power, knowledge
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel • 2022 — science fiction, literary fiction, time travel, pandemics, simulation hypothesis
Scientific Advertising by Claude C. Hopkins — business, marketing, advertising, psychology, sales, data analysis
Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building by Claire Hughes Johnson — business, management, leadership, teams, culture, scaling, human-resources, growth
Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock by Jenny Odell — time, philosophy, culture, capitalism, wellbeing, environment
Same as Ever by Morgan Housel — psychology, behavioral economics, decision-making, finance, human behavior
Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It by Mike Monteiro — design, technology, ethics, social responsibility, activism, culture
Remaking the World: Adventures in Engineering by Henry Petroski • 1997 — engineering, history, innovation, technology
Reality Hunger: A Manifesto by David Shields — literature, art, creativity, digital age, appropriation, memoir, reality, fiction, nonfiction, collage, manifesto
React Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide by Loren Klingman, Ashley Parker • 2023 — web development, javascript, react, programming, testing
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein • 2019 — psychology, learning, education, expertise, career, specialization, generalists
Raising Calm Kids in a World of Worry: Tools to Ease Anxiety and Overwhelm by Ashley Graber, Maria Evans • 2025 — parenting, psychology, child development, mental health
Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System by Nick Montfort, Ian Bogost — technology, gaming, history, design, platform studies, culture
Psycho-Cybernetics, Updated and Expanded by Maxwell Maltz, Matt Furey • 2015 — psychology, self-help, cybernetics, performance, mindset
Prototyping: An Approach to Evolutionary System Development by Reinhard Budde, Karlheinz Kautz, Karin Kuhlenkamp, Heinz Züllighoven • 1992 — software engineering, prototyping, evolutionary development, system design
Prototyping: A Practitioner's Guide by Todd Zaki Warfel — design, prototyping, ux, product design, usability testing
Project to Product: How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework by Mik Kersten • 2018 — business, technology, management, innovation, devops
Programming as if People Mattered by Nathaniel S. Borenstein • 1991 — software engineering, human-computer interaction, user-interface design, product management
Profiles in Leadership: Historians on the Elusive Quality of Greatness by Walter Isaacson — leadership, history, biography, politics, strategy
Professor Maxwell's Duplicitous Demon by Brian Clegg — physics, science, biography, electromagnetism, thermodynamics, maxwell, demon, victorian, mathematics
Product Operations: How Successful Companies Build Better Products at Scale by Melissa Perri, Denise Tilles — product management, operations, scaling, business strategy, data insights, customer research, processes
Product Management in Practice by Matt LeMay — business, technology, product, management, teams, communication, leadership
Product Leadership by Richard Banfield, Martin Eriksson, Nate Walkingshaw — business, technology, product, management, leadership, teams, innovation, customer, experience, design
Procedural Storytelling in Game Design by Tanya X. Short, Tarn Adams — gaming, ai, design, narrative, storytelling, interactive, fiction
Procedural Puzzle Generation: A Survey by Barbara De Kegel, Mads Haahr • 2020 — procedural generation, game design, ai, computer science, puzzles
Principles by Ray Dalio — business, management, leadership, self-help, success, decision-making, culture
Practical Intelligence: How to Think Critically, Deconstruct Situations, Analyze Deeply, and Never Be Fooled by Patrick King — critical thinking, psychology, decision making, mental models, cognitive biases, problem solving, intelligence, self-improvement
Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth, and Violence at the Edge of the 21st Century by Alvin Toffler, Heidi Toffler • 1990 — power, knowledge, business, technology, politics, economics, information, strategy
Postmortems from Game Developer by Austin Grossman — gaming, development, project, management, technology, design
Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind by Al Ries, Jack Trout — business, marketing, strategy, communication, branding
Poor Charlie's Almanack by Charles T. Munger, Peter D. Kaufman — investing, business, psychology, decision-making, mental-models, multidisciplinary, finance
Playing Changes: Jazz for the New Century by Nate Chinen — music, jazz, history, culture, innovation, globalization
Play Nice But Win by Michael Dell — business, entrepreneurship, technology, leadership, memoir, dell, corporate
Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy by Geoffrey G. Parker, Marshall W. Van Alstyne, Sangeet Paul Choudary — business, technology, platforms, network effects, strategy, innovation, economics, policy
Platform Engineering: A Guide for Technical, Product, and People Leaders by Camille Fournier, Ian Nowland — platform engineering, technology, leadership, software development, devops
Ping: The Secrets of Successful Virtual Communication by Andrew Brodsky • 2025 — communication, technology, business, psychology
Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids by Laura Markham — parenting, emotional-intelligence, child-development, psychology, self-regulation, connection, discipline
Oversubscribed: How to Get People Lining Up to Do Business with You by Daniel Priestley — business, marketing, sales, entrepreneurship, customer experience, growth, strategy
Outcomes Over Output by Joshua Seiden — product-management, business-strategy, customer-behavior, outcomes, organizational-transformation, agile
Otherwise Known as the Human Condition by Geoff Dyer — essays, culture, art, photography, literature, music, travel, personal experience
Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World by Adam Grant • 2016 — psychology, innovation, business, creativity, leadership
Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration by Warren Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman — leadership, teams, creativity, innovation, collaboration, history, business
Org Design for Design Orgs: Building and Managing In-House Design Teams by Peter Merholz, Kristin Skinner — design, leadership, management, teams, culture, innovation, business, organizational design
Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace by Gordon MacKenzie — business, creativity, self-help, leadership, work, culture
Open: How Compaq Ended IBM's PC Domination and Helped Invent Modern Computing by Rod Canion — technology, business, computing, strategy, innovation, compatibility, entrepreneurship, competition
Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology by Henry Chesbrough — business, innovation, technology, strategy, management
Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company by Andrew S. Grove • 1996 — business, technology, management, leadership, strategy, innovation, change management
Only Humans Need Apply - Winners and Losers in the Age of Smart Machines by Thomas H. Davenport, Julia Kirby — technology, ai, future of work, automation, society, economics, jobs, skills
On Looking by Alexandra Horowitz — psychology, perception, attention, neuroscience, urban studies, nature
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong • 2019 — fiction, trauma, identity, queer literature, immigrant experience
On China by Henry Kissinger • 2011 — china, history, diplomacy, geopolitics, international relations
On China by Henry Kissinger • 2011 — china, foreign policy, diplomacy, strategy, geopolitics, history
On Being Nice by The School of Life • 2017 — psychology, philosophy, self-improvement, emotional intelligence
Obviously Awesome: How to Nail Product Positioning so Customers Get It, Buy It, Love It by April Dunford • 2019 — product management, marketing, startups, strategy
Nvidia: The AI Revolution by Ben Gilbert, David Rosenthal — technology, business, ai, nvidia, semiconductor, gpu, cuda, hardware, innovation, leadership
Nuts & Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (in a Big Way) by Roma Agrawal • 2023 — engineering, history, innovation, technology
Nudge: The Final Edition by Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein — behavioral economics, psychology, decision-making, policy, economics, society
Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami — writing, fiction, creativity, publishing, culture, self-reflection
Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, Cass R. Sunstein — psychology, decision-making, judgment, behavioral-science, bias, noise, algorithms, forecasting, management
No Bad Days: Turning Your Biggest Challenges Into Your Greatest Opportunities by JT Mestdagh • 2025 — inspiration, resilience, memoir, personal development, faith
Networks of Innovation: Change and Meaning in the Age of the Internet by Ilkka Tuomi • 2002 — innovation, technology, sociology, open source, internet
Myself When I Am Real: The Life and Music of Charles Mingus by Gene Santoro — music, jazz, biography, history, culture, race, creativity
My Product Management Toolkit by Marc Abraham — business, product management, technology, user experience, design, communication, teamwork
Modern China by Jonathan Fenby — history, china, politics, economics, qing dynasty, mao zedong, deng xiaoping, authoritarianism, revolution
Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design by Kat Holmes — design, technology, inclusion, accessibility, diversity, user experience, social impact
Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things by Dan Ariely • 2023 — psychology, cognitive-bias, misinformation, social-psychology, behavioral-economics
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics by Richard H. Thaler — economics, psychology, behavioral economics, finance, decision-making
Mindmasters: The Data-Driven Science of Predicting and Changing Human Behavior by Sandra Matz • 2025 — psychology, technology, ai, data privacy, social science
Miles Davis: The Definitive Biography by Ian Carr — music, jazz, biography, history, culture, race, innovation
Metafiction: The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction by Patricia Waugh • 1984 — literary theory, postmodernism, narrative, philosophy, fiction
Meta Learning: How To Learn Deep Learning And Thrive In The Digital World by Radek Osmulski — technology, ai, deep learning, machine learning, programming, self-improvement, careers
Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs by John Doerr — business, management, leadership, goal setting, productivity, culture, technology, nonprofit
Masters of Scale by Reid Hoffman, June Cohen, Deron Triff — entrepreneurship, scaling, startups, business, leadership
Mastering the Dynamics of Innovation by James M. Utterback — business, innovation, technology, strategy, competition, management
Mao's China and After: A History of the People's Republic by Maurice Meisner — china, history, communism, mao, revolution, politics
Managing in the Next Society by Peter F. Drucker — business, management, work, technology, society, economics
Making Software: What Really Works, and Why We Believe It by Andy Oram, Greg Wilson — software engineering, empirical research, evidence-based development, programming, complexity metrics, qualitative methods, systematic reviews, human factors, global development
Making Software by Andy Oram, Greg Wilson — technology, software engineering, research, evidence-based, development
Make It New: The History of Silicon Valley Design by Barry M. Katz • 2015 — design, history, technology, innovation, silicon valley
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath, Dan Heath — communication, psychology, marketing, ideas, storytelling
Made in Japan by Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura — technology, business, innovation, sony, electronics, japan, autobiography, leadership
Lurking: How a Person Became a User by Joanne McNeil • 2020 — internet history, technology, sociology, digital culture
Living with Complexity by Donald A. Norman • 2011 — design, psychology, technology, systems thinking
Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin — business, self-help, careers, creativity, work, leadership
Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman by Yvon Chouinard • 2005 — business, sustainability, leadership, environment, innovation
Learning to See: Inside the World's Leading Art and Design Schools by Keith Sawyer • 2025 — creativity, education, design, art, pedagogy
Learning as a Generative Activity: Eight Learning Strategies That Promote Understanding by Logan Fiorella, Richard E. Mayer • 2015 — cognitive science, education, learning strategies, psychology
Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster by Alistair Croll, Benjamin Yoskovitz • 2013 — startups, data analytics, product management, lean methodology, business
Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future by Olaf Stapledon • 1930 — science fiction, philosophy, future history, evolution
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge, from Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic by Simon Winchester • 2023 — history, technology, epistemology, information science, ai
Knowing What We Know by Simon Winchester — knowledge, history, technology, culture, society, philosophy, ai
Kissinger: A Biography by Walter Isaacson — biography, politics, diplomacy, foreign policy, history, realpolitik
Just Work: Get Sh*t Done, Fast & Fair by Kim Scott • 2021 — management, leadership, diversity, inclusion, workplace culture
Just for Fun by Linus Torvalds, David Diamond — linux, open-source, programming, technology, autobiography, operating-systems
Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products by Leander Kahney — design, apple, biography, technology, product design, industrial design
Interviews with the Masters by Robert Greene — mastery, interviews, self-improvement, entrepreneurship, psychology, creativity, leadership, learning, innovation
Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love by Marty Cagan — product management, technology, business, strategy, innovation, startup
Innovation for the Fatigued by Alf Rehn — business, innovation, creativity, culture, leadership, teams
Innovation and Its Enemies: Why People Resist New Technologies by Calestous Juma — technology, innovation, history, society, economics, policy
Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Practice and Principles by Peter F. Drucker • 1985 — management, innovation, entrepreneurship, strategy, economics
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini — psychology, persuasion, influence, social psychology, behavioral economics, compliance, marketing, decision making
Inclusive Design Patterns by Heydon Pickering — design, technology, web development, accessibility, usability
In Search of Stupidity: Over 20 Years of High-Tech Marketing Disasters by Merrill R. Chapman — business, technology, marketing, case-studies, management
Improve: The Next Generation of Continuous Improvement for Knowledge Work by George Ellis — business, management, lean, thinking, productivity, efficiency, process, improvement, knowledge, work
Impromptu: Amplifying Our Humanity Through AI by Reid Hoffman, GPT-4 — ai, technology, business, artificial intelligence, human augmentation, future of work, creativity, education
Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization by Robert Kegan, Lisa Laskow Lahey — self-help, psychology, change management, leadership, teams, organizational development
Humans Are Underrated - What High Achievers Know That Brilliant Machines Never Will by Geoff Colvin — technology, future-of-work, ai, skills, collaboration, empathy, social-intelligence
How To Write Fiction: A Guardian Masterclass by Geoff Dyer, Jill Dawson, Andrew Miller, Rachel Cusk, Meg Rosoff, DBC Pierre, Adam Foulds, Kate Mosse, Mark Billingham, Clare Conville, Francis Bickmore, Roderick Gordon — writing, fiction, creativity, publishing
How to Work with Complicated People: Strategies for Effective Collaboration with (Nearly) Anyone by Ryan Leak • 2025 — business, psychology, leadership, communication, self-help
How to Think More Effectively: A guide to greater productivity, insight and creativity by The School of Life • 2020 — philosophy, psychology, creativity, self-improvement, productivity
How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships by Leil Lowndes • 2003 — communication, psychology, self-help, networking
How to Raise Kids Who Aren't Assholes by Melinda Wenner Moyer • 2021 — parenting, psychology, child development, social science
How to Overcome Your Childhood: Understand the Past, Move on to the Future by The School of Life • 2019 — psychology, self-help, philosophy, emotional intelligence
How to Lead in Product Management: Practices to Align Stakeholders, Guide Development Teams, and Create Value Together by Roman Pichler • 2020 — product management, leadership, agile, communication, soft skills
How to Find the Right Words: A Guide to Delivering Life's Most Awkward Messages by The School of Life • 2020 — psychology, communication, self-help, relationships
How to Build a Billion Dollar App by George Berkowski • 2014 — startups, entrepreneurship, mobile technology, product management, venture capital
How to Be a Power Connector by Judy Robinett — business, networking, relationships, leadership, success
How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future by Vaclav Smil • 2022 — science, technology, environment, energy, civilization
How Japan Lost the Software Industry by Asianometry — technology, japan, software, industry, history
How It All Works: All Scientific Laws and Phenomena Illustrated & Demonstrated by Adam Dant, Brian Clegg • 2021 — popular science, physics, cosmology, everyday life
How Games Move Us: Emotion by Design by Katherine Isbister — games, emotion, design, psychology, social interaction, user experience, game studies
How Fiction Works by James Wood — fiction, realism, narration, character, language, dialogue, writing, literary criticism, literature
House of Huawei: The Secret History of China's Most Powerful Company by Eva Dou • 2025 — china, technology, business, geopolitics
High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove — business, management, leadership, productivity, teams, decision-making, technology
Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things by Adam Grant — psychology, personal development, leadership, education, potential, character
Herbie Hancock: Possibilities by Herbie Hancock, Lisa Dickey — music, jazz, memoir, creativity, technology, innovation, spirituality
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Entrepreneurship and Startups by William A. Sahlman, Steve Blank, Norman Winarsky, Marc Andreessen, Diane Mulcahy, Hamdi Ulukaya, Andrei Hagiu, Simon Rothman, Reid Hoffman, Richard S. Ruback, Royce Yudkoff, Noam Wasserman — business, entrepreneurship, startups, venture capital, business planning, leadership, innovation
Happiness by Design by Paul Dolan — happiness, psychology, behavioral science, economics, attention, wellbeing
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth • 2016 — psychology, self-help, success, achievement, motivation, education, parenting
Great Thinkers by The School of Life • 2016 — philosophy, self-improvement, history of ideas, emotional intelligence
Genius at Play: The Curious Mind of John Horton Conway by Siobhan Roberts — mathematics, biography, game theory, creativity, artificial intelligence, cellular automata, infinity, games, science
Generative AI: Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review by Harvard Business Review — generative ai, business, artificial intelligence, innovation, ethics, machine learning
General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century by McKenzie Wark • 2017 — philosophy, media theory, political theory, technology, ecology
Games People Play: The Basic Handbook of Transactional Analysis by Eric Berne • 1964 — psychology, relationships, communication, self-help
Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation by Kevin Roose — technology, ai, future_of_work, automation, society, ethics, jobs
From Birdland to Broadway: Scenes from a Jazz Life by Bill Crow — music, jazz, memoir, history, culture
From Bacteria to Bach and Back by Daniel C. Dennett — philosophy, cognitive science, evolution, consciousness, ai, culture, language
Foundations of Trusted Autonomy by Hussein A. Abbass, Jason Scholz, Darryn J. Reid — technology, ai, robotics, ethics, trust, philosophy, cybersecurity, defense
Force: What It Means to Push and Pull, Slip and Grip, Start and Stop by Henry Petroski • 2022 — engineering, physics, design, history of technology
Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb — randomness, probability, finance, philosophy, cognitive bias, decision making, statistics
Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters by Brian Klaas • 2024 — philosophy, complexity, chaos theory, decision-making, science
Flow: The Psychology of Happiness by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi — psychology, happiness, flow, creativity, motivation, consciousness, self-improvement
Find Your Why: A Practical Guide for Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team by Simon Sinek, David Mead, Peter Docker — business, leadership, purpose, motivation, teamwork
Financial Intelligence for Entrepreneurs by Karen Berman, Joe Knight, John Case — business, finance, entrepreneurship, accounting, management
Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy by David D. Burns — psychology, self-help, mental-health, cognitive-therapy, depression, anxiety
Farther, Faster, and Far Less Drama by Janice Fraser, Jason Fraser — leadership, management, decision-making, collaboration, business
Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution: A Handbook for Entrepreneurs by Uri Levine — business, entrepreneurship, startups, product, development, marketing, investment
Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can't Transform Education by Justin Reich — education, technology, innovation, social change, inequality
Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond by Gene Kranz • 2000 — history, leadership, engineering, space, risk
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay • 1841 — history, economics, finance, psychology, speculation
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown — self-help, productivity, time-management, decision-making, minimalism
Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value by Melissa Perri — business, product management, technology, agile, lean startup, strategy, teams
End-to-End Learning of Visual Representations from Uncurated Instructional Videos by Antoine Miech, Ivan Laptev, Jean-Baptiste Alayrac, Josef Sivic, Lucas Smaira, Andrew Zisserman — technology, ai, computer-vision, machine-learning, deep-learning
EMPOWERED: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products by Marty Cagan, Chris Jones — product management, leadership, empowerment, teams, coaching, technology, strategy, business
Emotional Agility by Susan David — psychology, emotional intelligence, self-help, personal development, mindfulness
Electronic Value Exchange by David Stearns — business, finance, technology, innovation, organizational design, payment systems, visa
Educational Game Design Fundamentals: A Journey to Creating Intrinsically Motivating Learning Experiences by George Kalmpourtzis — education, gaming, design, learning, motivation
Educational Game Design Fundamentals: A Journey to Creating Intrinsically Motivating Learning Experiences by George Kalmpourtzis • 2019 — game design, pedagogy, education, user experience, learning
Diffusion of Innovations by Everett M. Rogers — sociology, technology, innovation, communication, social change
Designing Products People Love by Scott Hurff — design, technology, product, development, user, experience, psychology, business
Designing for Behavior Change by Stephen Wendel • 2020 — behavioral science, product design, psychology, ethics, innovation
Design-Driven Innovation by Roberto Verganti — business, innovation, design, product, development, strategy, marketing
Design Paradigms: Case Histories of Error and Judgment in Engineering by Henry Petroski • 1994 — engineering, design, history, innovation, failure analysis
Design Leadership: How Top Design Leaders Build and Grow Successful Organizations by Richard Banfield — design, leadership, management, teams, culture, innovation, business
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver • 2022 — fiction, social commentary, appalachia, coming-of-age, opioid epidemic
Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins by Garry Kasparov, Mig Greengard • 2017 — ai, chess, technology, philosophy
Deep Thinking by Garry Kasparov, Mig Greengard — technology, ai, chess, human, intelligence, cognition, future, work, collaboration
Deep Creativity: Seven Ways to Spark Your Creative Spirit by Deborah Anne Quibell, PhD, Jennifer Leigh Selig, PhD, Dennis Patrick Slattery, PhD — creativity, self-help, spirituality, art, psychology
Decode & Conquer: Answers to Product Management Interviews by Lewis C. Lin — careers, technology, product, management, interviewing, job, search
Deceit and Self-Deception: Fooling Yourself the Better to Fool Others by Robert Trivers — psychology, evolutionary psychology, biology, social psychology, deception, self-deception, ai
Death's End by Cixin Liu, Ken Liu — science fiction, dark forest theory, cosmic sociology, artificial intelligence, existential threats, technology, responsibility
Crucial Conversations by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler — communication, self-help, relationships, leadership, conflict resolution, teamwork
Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A. Moore — business, technology, marketing, innovation, product development, sales
Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, From Birth to Preschool by Emily Oster — parenting, data analysis, science, child development, health
Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace — business, management, leadership, creativity, culture, innovation, teamwork, film, animation
Creative Selection by Ken Kocienda — technology, product development, apple, software engineering, design, innovation
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze — economics, finance, history, globalization, politics
Cracking the PM Interview: How to Land a Product Manager Job in Technology by Gayle Laakmann McDowell, Jackie Bavaro — technology, careers, product management, interviewing, job search
Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres — business, product, management, design, technology, customer, experience, research, agile, lean, startup
Constructing the World by David J. Chalmers — philosophy, epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, knowledge, consciousness, ai
Connected Gaming: What Making Video Games Can Teach Us about Learning and Literacy by Yasmin B. Kafai, Quinn Burke — gaming, education, learning, literacy, computational-thinking, game-design, constructionism, stem, collaboration, equity, technology
Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors by Michael E. Porter • 1980 — strategy, business, competition, management, economics
Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice by Clayton M. Christensen, Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon, David S. Duncan — business, innovation, customer experience, product development, marketing, strategy
Common Sense, the Turing Test, and the Quest for Real AI by Hector J. Levesque — artificial intelligence, machine learning, common sense, turing test, knowledge representation, philosophy, computer science, cognitive science
Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick — ai, technology, business, education, creativity
Click: How to Make What People Want by Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky • 2025 — product management, startups, innovation, business strategy, user experience
Chris Crawford on Game Design by Chris Crawford — game design, interactivity, programming, creativity, technology, education
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller • 2022 — technology, geopolitics, history, economics
China since Tiananmen: From Deng Xiaoping to Hu Jintao, Second Edition by Joseph Fewsmith • 2008 — china, politics, economics, nationalism
Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley by Antonio García Martínez • 2016 — memoir, technology, startups, business, digital advertising
Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation by Tim Brown, Barry Katz — design thinking, innovation, business, human-centered design, prototyping, user experience, organizational transformation, product design
Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity by David Lynch • 2006 — creativity, meditation, consciousness, filmmaking, philosophy
But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz by Geoff Dyer — music, jazz, fiction, biography, culture, creativity
Built: The Hidden Stories Behind Our Structures by Roma Agrawal • 2018 — engineering, architecture, materials science, history, innovation
Built to Last by Jim Collins, Jerry I. Porras — business, management, leadership, culture, vision, innovation, long-term, thinking
Building for Everyone: Expand Your Market With Design Practices from Google's Product Inclusion Team by Annie Jean-Baptiste — technology, design, inclusion, diversity, user-experience, product-development, marketing, business-ethics
Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making by Tony Fadell — business, leadership, product development, design, innovation, technology, entrepreneurship, culture, startups
Build for Tomorrow: An Action Plan for Embracing Change, Adapting Fast, and Future-Proofing Your Career by Jason Feifer — self-help, career, change, adaptability, work, technology, innovation
Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing) by Salman Khan — ai, education, technology, learning, personalized-learning, teaching, students
Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds by Daniel C. Dennett — philosophy, artificial intelligence, consciousness, cognitive science, mind, neuroscience, psychology, thinking, intentionality, multiple personality disorder, understanding, qualia, robotics, animal behavior
Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant by W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne — business, strategy, competition, innovation, marketing, growth, value, creation
Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne — business, strategy, competition, innovation, marketing, growth, value creation
Beyond Stoicism: A Guide to the Good Life with Stoics, Skeptics, Epicureans, and Other Ancient Philosophers by Massimo Pigliucci, Gregory Lopez, Meredith Alexander Kunz • 2025 — philosophy, ethics, self-improvement, history
Bell Labs Memoirs: Voices of Innovation by A. Michael Noll, Michael N. Geselowitz — bell labs, innovation, research, technology, history, science
Becoming a Video Game Designer by Daniel Noah Halpern — gaming, design, culture, games, creativity, empathy, storytelling
Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes by Clifton Fadiman, André Bernard — biography, history, literature, anecdotes, human nature
Atomic Habits by James Clear — self-help, productivity, habits, behavior-change, psychology, motivation, goal-setting
Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence by Kate Crawford • 2021 — artificial intelligence, technology, politics, power, surveillance, labor, environment, data, classification
Applied Empathy: The New Language of Leadership by Michael Ventura — business, leadership, empathy, communication, culture, design thinking, innovation, customer experience, social impact
Anxiety and the Equation: Understanding Boltzmann's Entropy by Eric Johnson — physics, biography, entropy, thermodynamics, anxiety, science history
An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management by Will Larson — technology, engineering, management, leadership, organizational design, teams, culture, scaling, problem-solving
Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity by Frank Slootman • 2022 — leadership, management, hypergrowth, technology, business strategy
American Sketches by Walter Isaacson — biography, leadership, history, politics, creativity, journalism, america, founding-fathers, foreign-policy, science, technology, einstein, franklin
AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future by Kai-Fu Lee, Chen Qiufan • 2021 — artificial intelligence, future, technology, automation, science fiction
Against Method by Paul Feyerabend — philosophy, science, philosophy of science, history of science, epistemology, knowledge, rationality, anarchism
Against Creativity by Oli Mould • 2018 — neoliberalism, technology, urbanism, social_justice, capitalism
After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul by Tripp Mickle • 2022 — technology, business, corporate culture, leadership, innovation
Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas by Natasha Dow Schüll — technology, design, psychology, addiction, consumerism, gambling, ethnography, culture
Acquired Special: Superhuman & The Science of Building Habits with Rahul Vohra by Ben Gilbert, David Rosenthal — acquired, superhuman, startups, product-market-fit, email, productivity, fundraising, game-design, user-experience
Acquired Season 9 Episode 3: TSMC by Ben Gilbert, David Rosenthal — business, technology, semiconductors, manufacturing, geopolitics, taiwan, tsmc
Achievement Relocked: Loss Aversion and Game Design by Geoffrey Engelstein — gaming, design, psychology, behavioral, economics, decision-making, game, mechanics, user, experience, emotion
Accident Prone: A History of Technology, Psychology, and Misfits of the Machine Age by John C. Burnham • 2009 — history, psychology, technology, safety
Accelerated Expertise: Training for High Proficiency in a Complex World by Robert R. Hoffman, Paul Ward, Paul J. Feltovich, Lia DiBello, Stephen M. Fiore, Dee H. Andrews — learning, education, training, expertise, cognitive science, psychology, technology, innovation, teamwork
Abstraction and Empathy by Wilhelm Worringer — art, art history, philosophy, aesthetics, psychology, culture, perception, abstraction, empathy
About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design by Alan Cooper, Robert Reimann, David Cronin — interaction-design, user-experience, design-principles, personas, goal-directed-design, user-research, product-design
A Year with Peter Drucker: 52 Weeks of Coaching for Leadership Effectiveness by Joseph A. Maciariello — business, management, leadership, knowledge, work, self-management, organizational, culture, innovation, social, nonprofit
A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond by Daniel Susskind — technology, automation, artificial intelligence, unemployment, future of work, economics, inequality, big tech, basic income, ai, work, society
A Simpler Life by Alain De Botton, The School of Life • 2022 — philosophy, psychology, self-help, minimalism
A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age by Jimmy Soni, Rob Goodman — biography, information theory, claude shannon, bell labs, mathematics, computing, artificial intelligence, cryptography, technology history
A Job to Love by The School of Life • 2017 — psychology, career, development, self, help, philosophy
A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge • 1999 — science fiction, space opera, first contact, technology, ethics
A Brief History of Thought: A Philosophical Guide to Living by Luc Ferry — philosophy, stoicism, christianity, humanism, nietzsche, postmodernity, ethics, morality
7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy by Hamilton Helmer — business, strategy, competition, innovation, investment, economics, growth, leadership, management
50 Years of Text Games: From Oregon Trail to AI Dungeon by Aaron A. Reed — technology, gaming, history, culture, design, innovation, ai, interactive fiction, virtual worlds, online communities
483 startup failure post-mortems by CB Insights • 2024 — startups, venture capital, technology, business strategy, failure analysis
3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool by James Kaplan • 2024 — music, jazz, biography, history, culture, race, addiction, creativity, collaboration, innovation