Out of the Software Crisis: Systems-Thinking for Software Projects
By: Baldur Bjarnason
4.29
Format: 195 pages, Kindle Edition
Software projects keep failing, not because we don’t have the right team or tools but because our s…
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1. Between the World and Me
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.40
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
“This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live wi… read more
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"Soft or hard, love was an act of heroism."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
"My work is to give you what I know of my own particular path while allowing you to walk your own."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
"I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
"You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
2. High Output Management
By: Andrew S. Grove
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
The essential skill of creating and maintaining new businesses--the art of the entrepreneur--can be… read more
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3. Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
By: Peter Watts
4.01
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Two months since the stars fell... Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched a… read more
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"Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then stumble upon the temptation of rhythm and music. Th…"-Peter Watts, Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
4. How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking - for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers
By: Sönke Ahrens
3.42
Format: 320 pages,
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5. Thinking in Systems: A Primer
By: Donella H. Meadows , None
3.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
Meadows' Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on… read more
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6. The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
By: Dave Thomas , Andy Hunt
3.28
Format: 404 pages, Paperback
-- Ward Cunningham Straight from the programming trenches, The Pragmatic Programmer cuts through th… read more
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7. Don't Think of an Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate: The Essential Guide for Progressives
By: George Lakoff , Howard Dean , None
4.57
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Don't Think of An Elephant!is the antidote to the last forty years of conservative strategizing and… read more
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8. Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work
By: Matthew B. Crawford
4.00
Format: None pages,
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9. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
By: Timothy Snyder
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
An historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authorita… read more
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10. Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, #1)
By: Neal Stephenson
3.93
Format: 927 pages, Paperback
Quicksilver is the story of Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and conflicted Puritan, pursuing kn… read more
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"he's surprised your tits come wi' a head attached"-Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, #1)
"Your diligence is setting an example for all of us—stop it!"-Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, #1)
"Most men would rather be shot through with a broad-headed arrow than be described by you."-Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, #1)
"If money is a science, then it is a dark science...it has gone on developing...by its own rules"-Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, #1)
11. The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
By: Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
3.36
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Few books on software project management have been as influential and timeless as The Mythical Man-… read more
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12. Elder Race
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.11
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
In Adrian Tchaikovsky's Elder Race, a junior anthropologist on a distant planet must help the local… read more
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13. Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3)
By: Tamsyn Muir
4.35
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Her city is under siege. The zombies are coming back. And all Nona wants is a birthday party.… read more
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"Love and freedom don't coexist."-Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3)
"This is all there is to love? Simply by being in your life, I have added indelibly to its weight?"-Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3)
"Have you been eating sand again?' [Cam asked] 'I haven't eaten sand in months', Nona protested, then more truthfully: 'Weeks,' and more truthfully than that: 'one week."-Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3)
14. The Sunlit Man
By: Brandon Sanderson
4.34
Format: 447 pages, Hardcover
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson―creator of The Stormlight Archive, the … read more
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"Try some curry powder next time. It has a much better flavor than tyranny. Less nutty."-Brandon Sanderson, The Sunlit Man
"She knew how she liked to look. And she didn't care that others knew it was artificial. In expressing herself, the artificial became more authentic than the original."-Brandon Sanderson, The Sunlit Man
"Your planet shouldn't have different countries. You should have conquered and unified it all." "Conquest doesn't remove countries," Nomad said. "It removes lines on a map. Unity requires something el…"-Brandon Sanderson, The Sunlit Man
"This man might not be brilliant or clever, though he'd think himself both. Truth was, he didn't need either to be dangerous. Because he had power and power - wielded by a fool - could crush anyone, s…"-Brandon Sanderson, The Sunlit Man
15. The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England (Secret Projets #2)
By: Brandon Sanderson
3.77
Format: 399 pages, Hardcover
A man awakes in a clearing in what appears to be medieval England with no memory of who he is, wher… read more
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"Horses were less the thundering creatures Of pounding hoof beats and unparalleled speed found in movies and more like golf carts that ran on a tank of grass and occasionally bit you."-Brandon Sanderson, The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England (Secret Projets #2)
"A little pebble starts as an avalanche," I said. "Life isn't like the craps table, where the next roll has the same chance of winning as the last one. In real life, you lose a little - and that makes…"-Brandon Sanderson, The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England (Secret Projets #2)
16. Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
By: Ashley Shew
4.30
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto exploding what we think we know about disability, and arguing that disabled people are … read more
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17. Four Thousand Weeks
By: Oliver Burkeman
4.22
Format: 271 pages, Hardcover
The average human lifespan is absurdly, insultingly brief. Assuming you live to be eighty, you have… read more
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"We’ve been granted the mental capacities to make almost infinitely ambitious plans, yet practically no time at all to put them into action."-Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks
"Rendering yourself more efficient — either by implementing various productivity techniques or by driving yourself harder—won’t generally result in the feeling of having ‘enough time,’ because, all el…"-Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks
"The problem with trying to make time for everything that feels important—or just for enough of what feels important—is that you definitely never will. The reason isn’t that you haven’t yet discovered…"-Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks
18. Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
By: Hans Rosling
4.36
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporti… read more
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"Free access to data doesn’t turn into knowledge without effort"-Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
"Something frightening poses a perceived risk. Something dangerous poses a real risk."-Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
"We like to believe that things happen because someone wanted them to, that individuals have power and agency: otherwise, the world feels unpredictable, confusing, and frightening."-Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
"Does saying "things are improving" imply that everything is fine, and we should all relax and not worry? No, not at all. Is it helpful to have to choose between bad and improving? Definitely not. It'…"-Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
19. Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
By: Nicole Forsgren
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Does technology actually matter? And how can we apply technology to drive business value? For years… read more
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- technology
20. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
By: Rick Rubin
4.04
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their… read more
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"Find the sustainable rituals that best support your work."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"In terms of priority, inspiration comes first. You come next. The audience comes last."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"When it comes to the creative process, patience is accepting that the majority of the work we do is out of our control."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"Turning something from an idea into a reality can make it seem smaller. It changes from unearthly to earthly. The imagination has no limits. The physical world does. The work exists in both."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
21. Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow
By: Matthew Skelton
4.21
Format: 240 pages, ebook
Effective software teams are essential for any organization to deliver value continuously and susta… read more
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22. The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change
By: Tanya Reilly
4.40
Format: 335 pages, Paperback
For years, companies have rewarded their most effective engineers with management positions. But tr… read more
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"What will Future You wish that Present You had done?"-Tanya Reilly, The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change
"Yes, you can be an introvert. No, you can't be a jerk."-Tanya Reilly, The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change
23. The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)
By: N.K. Jemisin
4.10
Format: 357 pages, Hardcover
Four-time Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N.K. Jemisin crafts a glorious t… read more
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"Bel's got a crush on NY1's Pat Kiernan, so he watches news every morning on the TV in the common area."-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)
"You said it yourself: New York is rude. We'll give you the shirt off our backs and our last subway card swipe if you're lost, but step to us with wild accusations about things that aren't our fault a…"-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)
"He twitches through Times Square, resisting the urge to gawk like a tourist, groaning in native-New-Yorker frustration when the tourists get in his way—but in an eyeblink he's at Fourteenth Street, h…"-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)
"He moves to stand on a nearby subway grate, through which he can hear a 1 train idling on the platform below. He spreads his hands to feel the gentle waft of warm, funky-smelling subway air along his…"-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)
24. The Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance, #3)
By: Naomi Novik
4.13
Format: 407 pages, ebook
Saving the world is a test no school of magic can prepare you for in the triumphant conclusion to t… read more
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"Les seuls miracles que nous recevons jamais sont ceux que nous façonnons nous-mêmes, et nous payons par avance pour chacun d'entre eux."-Naomi Novik, The Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance, #3)
"Intent doesn't matter, she'd say, when you've really injured someone else. You need to be open to their pain and anger if you're ever to make things whole between you."-Naomi Novik, The Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance, #3)
"We're all greedy, but children make it easier to be. We feel it's only right to give them everything we can grab, even when you know that anything you feed your own child still comes out of someone e…"-Naomi Novik, The Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance, #3)
"The tea was even offered exactly in the same way that Americans always did it, namely with the faint hint that they didn’t really understand why I might like some tea, but they understood that this w…"-Naomi Novik, The Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance, #3)
25. The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation
By: Cory Doctorow
4.17
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A detailed disassembly manual for people who want to dismantle Big Tech When the tech platforms … read more
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26. Jade War (The Green Bone Saga, #2)
By: Fonda Lee
4.41
Format: 587 pages, Hardcover
In Jade War, the sequel to the World Fantasy Award-winning novel Jade City, the Kaul siblings battl… read more
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"If you're not sure you're in love, then you're not."-Fonda Lee, Jade War (The Green Bone Saga, #2)
"We're getting into a dangerous game, Hilo." "You have to go where your enemies are," Hilo said. "And then further."-Fonda Lee, Jade War (The Green Bone Saga, #2)
"The possibility of death was like the weather—you could make attempts to predict it, but you would likely be wrong, and no one would change their most important plans due to threat of rain."-Fonda Lee, Jade War (The Green Bone Saga, #2)
"The possibility of death was like the weather - you could make attempts to predict it, but you would likely be wrong, and no one would change their most important plans due to the threat of rain."-Fonda Lee, Jade War (The Green Bone Saga, #2)
27. The End of Policing
By: Alex S. Vitale
4.19
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
The problem is not overpolicing, it is policing itself Recent years have seen an explosion of pr… read more
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"Our standard of living is not declining because of migrants but because of unregulated neoliberal capitalism, which has allowed corporations and the rich to avoid paying taxes or decent wages. It is …"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
"There is no question that American police use their weapons more than police in any other developed democracy. Unfortunately, we don’t have fully accurate information about the number or nature of ho…"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
"As Jeffrey Reiman points out in the Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison, the criminal justice system excuses and ignores crimes of the rich that produce profound social harms while intensely crim…"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
"Heavy-handed immigration policing will not build a worker’s movement, it will shatter it. One of the mistakes that Trump supporters make is imagining that their own economic conditions will be improv…"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
28. Company of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business
By: Paul Jarvis
3.92
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
What if the real key to a more fulfilling career was not to scale up but to work for yourself and b… read more
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29. Tidy First?: A Personal Exercise in Empirical Software Design
By: Kent Beck
3.95
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
Messy code is a nuisance. "Tidying" code, to make it more readable, requires breaking it up into ma… read more
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30. The Systems Bible: The Beginner's Guide to Systems Large and Small
By: John Gall
3.99
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
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"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have…"-John Gall, The Systems Bible: The Beginner's Guide to Systems Large and Small
31. Out of the Software Crisis: Systems-Thinking for Software Projects
By: Baldur Bjarnason
4.29
Format: 195 pages, Kindle Edition
Software projects keep failing, not because we don’t have the right team or tools but because our s… read more
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