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Culture Encoded : Ellen Ullman’s Life in the Machine
Close to the Machine : Technophilia and its discontents by Ellen Ullman chronicles the dawn of the Internet from the point of view of a freelance programmer. I loved it intensely.
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Girly Stuff : Lessons from Katrine Marçal’s Mother of Invention
The system has always worked hard to hide the fact that women are just as brilliantly ingenious innovators as men are.
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Brevity is Good For Business : Why Knowing When to Shut Up Can Boost Productivity
Animals can teach us something about cutting to the chase.
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The 2020 Reading List
*** Other reading lists: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
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Creative Doesn’t Mean Nice : Striking the Balance in Company Culture
Culture can be a company’s most valuable asset, but creative a good one is hard.
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Ghost in the Machine : A Brief History of AI in Therapy
Machine based therapy would be the ultimate proof of generalised artificial intelligence. I’d like to think it’s not too much to expect.
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Use the Force
Knowing your opponent’s most ardent desire is the key to beating them at their own game.
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Steady On Target
It’s all very well to come up with an award winning strategy, the tough bit is to stick to it when the goings get rough.
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Defining Done
Endings are tricky business; how do you know when you’re done?
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Managing Mozart
Great leadership requires constant fluid shifting between different modes of operation.
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Sometimes Slowing Down Will Make You Go Faster
There’s a reason why there’s such a cult around speed in startup culture. Whoever reaches the market first has a huge advantage, so you better get there before your competitors do, because the first mover advantage often eclipses the importance of who has the best product.
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Where Is This Road Taking Us? : Managing Complexity in Software Development
Queues are the Viet Cong of software engineering; the asymmetrical threat you can’t predict.
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Product Spells D-E-V-I-C-E + S-E-R-V-I-C-E : Lessons from William H. Davidow on High-Tech Marketing
Segmentation is marketing’s most discussed and least understood concept.
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Customer Value as North Star
Just because you’re metric driven, doesn’t mean you’re going in the right direction.
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Take Me to the Moon
Communicating what you want done is the essence of product management, but finding the right level of abstraction can be hard.