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The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company

The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company

Steve Blank

608 pages Kindle Edition
★★★★ 4.11

Read: Feb 20, 2018

Too much focus on customer/market discovery and validation, so it misses many steps on how to build a great company.

Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work

Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work

Nick Srnicek

245 pages Paperback
★★★☆ 3.97

Surprised by the oversimplification on the Conclusion chapter, where the Internet is credited as a state sponsored advancement. That may be true for how it started, but it's current state and potential was only achieved through market/capitalism incentives.

Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery

Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery

Henry Marsh

289 pages Kindle Edition
★★★★ 4.25

Read: Sep 09, 2015

Highly recommended! I was expecting deep, emotional, philosophical endless rumblings but instead found a page-turner. You can really hear Dr.Marsh's voice and his heart-breaking yet necessary honesty, chapter after chapter, as he recounts remarkable situations he went through. What an outstanding human being!

Data Science for Business: What You Need to Know about Data Mining and Data-Analytic Thinking

Data Science for Business: What You Need to Know about Data Mining and Data-Analytic Thinking

Foster Provost

413 pages Paperback
★★★★ 4.13

Read: Jul 12, 2014

Great review of the field, doesn't drown you with references or implementation/math details.

The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work

The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work

Scott Berkun

258 pages Hardcover
★★★☆ 3.81

Read: Apr 2014

Nice, Berkun shares his experience at Wordpress. Doesn't get any deep into really understanding the future of work.

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

499 pages Hardcover
★★★★ 4.17

Read: Nov 09, 2014

Good but too repetitive. Missed references to non-academic advances in understanding how our brain works, like the work done by Jeff Hawkins

Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin To Munger

Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin To Munger

Peter Bevelin

318 pages Hardcover
★★★★ 4.22

Read: Jan 2013

Definitely a book to be re-read every year or so!

The Tour According to G: My Journey to the Yellow Jersey

The Tour According to G: My Journey to the Yellow Jersey

Geraint Thomas

200 pages Kindle Edition
★★★★ 4.19

Read: Oct 15, 2024

Você Não Merece Ser Feliz - Como Conseguir Mesmo Assim

Você Não Merece Ser Feliz - Como Conseguir Mesmo Assim

Craque Daniel

160 pages Paperback
★★★☆ 3.88

Read: Sep 27, 2020

Thinking In Systems: A Primer

Thinking In Systems: A Primer

Donella H. Meadows

218 pages Paperback
★★★★ 4.18

Read: Jan 05, 2020

Becoming

Becoming

Michelle Obama

448 pages Hardcover
★★★★☆ 4.43
Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13

Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13

Jim Lovell

378 pages Hardcover
★★★★☆ 4.4

Read: Dec 30, 2018

Industrial Design A-Z

Industrial Design A-Z

Charlotte Fiell

576 pages Paperback
★★★☆ 3.93

Read: Apr 05, 2020

Principles: Summary

Principles: Summary

Ray Dalio

106 pages ebook
★★★★ 4.1
Measure What Matters

Measure What Matters

John Doerr

299 pages Kindle Edition
★★★☆ 3.98

Read: Oct 21, 2018

Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

272 pages Paperback
★★★☆ 3.91

Read: Aug 13, 2018

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

Steven Pinker

1 pages Audiobook
★★★★ 4.16

Read: May 20, 2018

Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Martin Kleppmann

562 pages ebook
★★★★☆ 4.7

Read: Sep 29, 2018

Principles: Life and Work

Principles: Life and Work

Ray Dalio

16 pages Audio CD
★★★★ 4.1
Man's Search for Meaning

Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl

165 pages Paperback
★★★★☆ 4.37
Only the Paranoid Survive

Only the Paranoid Survive

Andrew S. Grove

229 pages Kindle Edition
★★★☆ 3.98

Read: Jul 23, 2017

Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders

Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders

Joshua Foer

470 pages Hardcover
★★★★ 4.21

Read: Dec 30, 2020

The Death of Ivan Ilych

The Death of Ivan Ilych

Leo Tolstoy

86 pages Paperback
★★★★ 4.14

Read: Jan 26, 2016

Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software

Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software

Eric Evans

560 pages Hardcover
★★★★ 4.15

Read: Jul 08, 2009

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Jared Diamond

498 pages Paperback
★★★★ 4.04

Read: Apr 23, 2017

High Output Management

High Output Management

Andrew S. Grove

272 pages Paperback
★★★★ 4.3

Read: Jan 21, 2016

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

Peter Thiel

195 pages Hardcover
★★★★ 4.15

Read: Jun 25, 2015

Marketing the Moon: The Selling of the Apollo Lunar Program

Marketing the Moon: The Selling of the Apollo Lunar Program

David Meerman Scott

144 pages Hardcover
★★★★ 4.25

Read: Jun 25, 2015

Artificial Cognitive Systems: A Primer

Artificial Cognitive Systems: A Primer

David Vernon

265 pages Hardcover
★★★★ 4.19

Read: Oct 18, 2015

Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster

Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster

Alistair Croll

440 pages Hardcover
★★★★ 4.11

Read: Feb 25, 2015

The Complete Life's Little Instruction Book

The Complete Life's Little Instruction Book

H. Jackson Jr. Brown

320 pages Hardcover
★★★★ 4.21

Read: Nov 07, 2014

The Prince

The Prince

Niccolò Machiavelli

144 pages Paperback
★★★☆ 3.84

Read: Jan 2012

Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street

Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street

John Brooks

468 pages Kindle Edition
★★★☆ 3.81

Read: Sep 03, 2014

Lying

Lying

Sam Harris

83 pages Kindle Edition
★★★☆ 3.88

Read: Mar 2013

How to Lie with Statistics

How to Lie with Statistics

Darrell Huff

142 pages Paperback
★★★☆ 3.84

Read: May 26, 2014

The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement

The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement

Eliyahu M. Goldratt

384 pages Paperback
★★★★ 4.07

Read: Oct 06, 2018

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

Edward R. Tufte

197 pages Hardcover
★★★★☆ 4.39

Read: May 26, 2014

The New Yorker Book of Cat Cartoons

The New Yorker Book of Cat Cartoons

The New Yorker

112 pages Paperback
★★★☆ 3.63

Read: May 26, 2014

The Myths of Innovation

The Myths of Innovation

Scott Berkun

176 pages Hardcover
★★★☆ 3.85

Read: May 26, 2012

Leonardo

Leonardo

Martin Kemp

304 pages Paperback
★★★☆ 3.71

Read: May 26, 2014

Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In

Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In

Roger Fisher

200 pages Kindle Edition
★★★☆ 3.93

Read: May 26, 2013

In Cold Blood

In Cold Blood

Truman Capote

343 pages Paperback
★★★★ 4.09

Read: May 26, 2012

The Essential Drucker

The Essential Drucker

Peter F. Drucker

358 pages Paperback
★★★★ 4.09

Read: Jan 2013

Wondermark, Vol. 1: Beards of Our Forefathers

Wondermark, Vol. 1: Beards of Our Forefathers

David Malki

96 pages Hardcover
★★★★ 4.03

Read: May 26, 2010

The Wisdom of Crowds

The Wisdom of Crowds

James Surowiecki

306 pages Paperback
★★★☆ 3.82

Read: Jan 2012

The Last Lecture

The Last Lecture

Randy Pausch

206 pages Hardcover
★★★★ 4.26

Read: May 26, 2014

Heads On and We Shoot: The Making of Where the Wild Things Are

Heads On and We Shoot: The Making of Where the Wild Things Are

Michelle Quint

205 pages Hardcover
★★★★☆ 4.44

Read: May 26, 2014

Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup

Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup

Rob Walling

214 pages Kindle Edition
★★★☆ 3.95

Read: May 26, 2014

Start Your Own Business

Start Your Own Business

Entrepreneur Press

Kindle Edition
★★★☆ 3.47

Read: May 26, 2014

The Practice of Management

The Practice of Management

Peter F. Drucker

Paperback
★★★★ 4.25

Read: May 26, 2014

Strengths Finder 2.0

Strengths Finder 2.0

Tom Rath

174 pages Hardcover
★★★☆ 3.93

Read: Jan 2010

Remote: Office Not Required

Remote: Office Not Required

David Heinemeier Hansson

258 pages Kindle Edition
★★★☆ 3.8

Read: May 26, 2014

Nikola Tesla: Imagination and the Man That Invented the 20th Century

Nikola Tesla: Imagination and the Man That Invented the 20th Century

Sean Patrick

47 pages Kindle Edition
★★★☆ 3.88

Read: Feb 04, 2014

Managing Startups: Best Blog Posts

Managing Startups: Best Blog Posts

Thomas Eisenmann

454 pages Kindle Edition
★★★☆ 3.91

Read: May 26, 2014

Poems by Walt Whitman

Poems by Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman

304 pages Kindle Edition
★★★★ 4.15

Read: May 26, 2014

Atlas Shrugged

Atlas Shrugged

Ayn Rand

1 pages Paperback
★★★☆ 3.69

Read: Dec 05, 2014

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

143 pages Paperback
★★★☆ 3.85

Read: Apr 04, 2014

Meditations

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius

254 pages Paperback
★★★★ 4.28

Read: Jun 2014

Rework

Rework

Jason Fried

279 pages Hardcover
★★★☆ 3.98

Read: Feb 2014

The Lean Startup

The Lean Startup

Eric Ries

299 pages Hardcover
★★★★ 4.11

Read: Jan 2013

Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies

Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies

Jim Collins

368 pages Hardcover
★★★★ 4.06

Read: Jan 2012

Documenting Software Architectures: Views and Beyond

Documenting Software Architectures: Views and Beyond

Felix Bachmann

512 pages Hardcover
★★★☆ 3.71

Read: Jan 2009

The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition

The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition

Caroline Alexander

211 pages Hardcover
★★★★☆ 4.34

Read: Jan 2012

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

Alfred Lansing

282 pages Hardcover
★★★★☆ 4.46
Full Moon

Full Moon

Michael Light

232 pages Hardcover
★★★★☆ 4.47
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

Matt Ridley

405 pages Paperback
★★★★ 4.05

Read: Jan 2010

The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives

The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives

Leonard Mlodinow

252 pages Hardcover
★★★☆ 3.95

Read: Jan 2012

How to Win Friends & Influence People

How to Win Friends & Influence People

Dale Carnegie

288 pages Paperback
★★★★ 4.22

Read: Jan 2010

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

Mihály Csíkszentmihályi

303 pages Paperback
★★★★ 4.11

Read: Jan 2006

South: The Endurance Expedition

South: The Endurance Expedition

Ernest Shackleton

416 pages Paperback
★★★★ 4.19

Read: Jan 08, 2012

The Art of Project Management

The Art of Project Management

Scott Berkun

448 pages Paperback
★★★☆ 3.96
Mind Hacks: Tips & Tools for Using Your Brain

Mind Hacks: Tips & Tools for Using Your Brain

Tom Stafford

394 pages Paperback
★★★☆ 3.74

Read: Jan 2012

On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Non-Fiction

On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Non-Fiction

William Zinsser

322 pages Paperback
★★★★ 4.23

Read: Jan 2010

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Malcolm Gladwell

296 pages Paperback
★★★☆ 3.96

Read: Jan 2009

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

480 pages Hardcover
★★★☆ 3.96

Read: Jan 2012

Economic Facts and Fallacies

Economic Facts and Fallacies

Thomas Sowell

262 pages Hardcover
★★★★ 4.23

Read: Jan 2010

The Diary of a Young Girl

The Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Frank

283 pages Mass Market Paperback
★★★★ 4.2

Read: Jan 1999

Strengths Based Leadership

Strengths Based Leadership

Tom Rath

266 pages Hardcover
★★★☆ 3.96

Read: Jan 2009

In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

Steven Levy

432 pages Hardcover
★★★☆ 3.84

Read: Jan 2012

Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs

Walter Isaacson

630 pages Hardcover
★★★★ 4.16

Read: Aug 24, 2013

On Intelligence

On Intelligence

Jeff Hawkins

261 pages Paperback
★★★★ 4.11

Read: Jan 2011

The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master

The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master

Andy Hunt

321 pages Paperback
★★★★☆ 4.33

Read: Jan 2008

The Design of Everyday Things

The Design of Everyday Things

Donald A. Norman

257 pages Paperback
★★★★ 4.15

Read: Nov 11, 2012

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

Patrick Lencioni

228 pages Paperback
★★★★ 4.11

Read: Sep 12, 2015

The New Yorker Book of All-New Cat Cartoons

The New Yorker Book of All-New Cat Cartoons

The New Yorker

96 pages Hardcover
★★★☆ 3.8

Read: Jan 2010