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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 Gadget by Jaron Lanier — technology, culture, internet, social media, ai, philosophy, ethics, creativity
Writing Is Designing by Michael J. Metts, Andy Welfle — design, technology, writing, user-experience, ux-writing, content-strategy
What Computers Can't Do: A Critique of Artificial Reason by Hubert L. Dreyfus — technology, ai, philosophy, cognitive science, artificial intelligence
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
UNIX: A History and a Memoir by Brian Kernighan — unix, operating-systems, bell-labs, computing-history, programming, technology
Understanding Software Dynamics by Richard L. Sites — technology, software engineering, programming, performance, optimization, systems, ai
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
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
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
Tidy First? A Personal Exercise in Empirical Software Design by Kent Beck — technology, software-engineering, design, programming, refactoring, agile
Thinking for a Living: The Coming Age of Knowledge Work by Kenneth Megill — business, technology, future of work, knowledge work, collaboration, culture, philosophy
The Worlds I See by Dr. Fei-Fei Li — artificial intelligence, computer vision, human-centered ai, technology, autobiography, data science
The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy by David Graeber • 2015 — political science, anthropology, technology, social theory
The Technical and Social History of Software Engineering by Capers Jones — technology, software engineering, history, programming, culture, business, security
The Secret History of Mac Gaming by Richard Moss — technology, gaming, history, culture, apple, macintosh
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 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 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 Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant by Tae Kim • 2025 — technology, business, innovation, leadership, ai
The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves by W. Brian Arthur • 2009 — technology, economics, innovation, evolution, complexity
The Mindful Geek by Michael W. Taft — mindfulness, meditation, psychology, neuroscience, self-help, technology
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 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 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 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 Glass Cage: Automation and Us by Nicholas Carr — technology, ai, automation, society, culture, psychology
The Evolution of Useful Things by Henry Petroski — design, engineering, innovation, technology, evolution, failure, invention, artifacts, tools, history
The Dream Machine by M. Mitchell Waldrop — technology, computing, history, artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, innovation, arpa, psychology, cybernetics
The Design of Future Things by Donald A. Norman — technology, design, ai, robotics, future, user experience
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 Candy House by Jennifer Egan • 2022 — fiction, technology, memory, identity, authenticity, digital age, connectivity, surveillance
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 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
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
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
Strong Product People: A Complete Guide to Developing Great Product Managers by Petra Wille — business, technology, product, management, leadership, teams, coaching, development
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
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
Sense & Respond by Jeff Gothelf, Josh Seiden — business, technology, management, leadership, innovation, agile, lean, startup, customer, experience
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
Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System by Nick Montfort, Ian Bogost — technology, gaming, history, design, platform studies, culture
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
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
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
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
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
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
Networks of Innovation: Change and Meaning in the Age of the Internet by Ilkka Tuomi • 2002 — innovation, technology, sociology, open source, internet
My Product Management Toolkit by Marc Abraham — business, product management, technology, user experience, design, communication, teamwork
Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design by Kat Holmes — design, technology, inclusion, accessibility, diversity, user experience, social impact
Mindmasters: The Data-Driven Science of Predicting and Changing Human Behavior by Sandra Matz • 2025 — psychology, technology, ai, data privacy, social science
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
Mastering the Dynamics of Innovation by James M. Utterback — business, innovation, technology, strategy, competition, management
Managing in the Next Society by Peter F. Drucker — business, management, work, technology, society, economics
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 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
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
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
Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love by Marty Cagan — product management, technology, business, strategy, innovation, startup
Innovation and Its Enemies: Why People Resist New Technologies by Calestous Juma — technology, innovation, history, society, economics, policy
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
Impromptu: Amplifying Our Humanity Through AI by Reid Hoffman, GPT-4 — ai, technology, business, artificial intelligence, human augmentation, future of work, creativity, education
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 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
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
Herbie Hancock: Possibilities by Herbie Hancock, Lisa Dickey — music, jazz, memoir, creativity, technology, innovation, spirituality
General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century by McKenzie Wark • 2017 — philosophy, media theory, political theory, technology, ecology
Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation by Kevin Roose — technology, ai, future_of_work, automation, society, ethics, jobs
Foundations of Trusted Autonomy by Hussein A. Abbass, Jason Scholz, Darryn J. Reid — technology, ai, robotics, ethics, trust, philosophy, cybersecurity, defense
Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can't Transform Education by Justin Reich — education, technology, innovation, social change, inequality
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
Electronic Value Exchange by David Stearns — business, finance, technology, innovation, organizational design, payment systems, visa
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
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
Decode & Conquer: Answers to Product Management Interviews by Lewis C. Lin — careers, technology, product, management, interviewing, job, search
Death's End by Cixin Liu, Ken Liu — science fiction, dark forest theory, cosmic sociology, artificial intelligence, existential threats, technology, responsibility
Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A. Moore — business, technology, marketing, innovation, product development, sales
Creative Selection by Ken Kocienda — technology, product development, apple, software engineering, design, innovation
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
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
Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick — ai, technology, business, education, creativity
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
Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley by Antonio García Martínez • 2016 — memoir, technology, startups, business, digital advertising
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
Bell Labs Memoirs: Voices of Innovation by A. Michael Noll, Michael N. Geselowitz — bell labs, innovation, research, technology, history, science
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
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 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 Season 9 Episode 3: TSMC by Ben Gilbert, David Rosenthal — business, technology, semiconductors, manufacturing, geopolitics, taiwan, tsmc
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
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 Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge • 1999 — science fiction, space opera, first contact, technology, ethics
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