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    children: "David Deutsch's case that knowledge can grow without bound, and that pessimism is a failure of imagination.\nAnnoying because optimism turns out to be making the smarter argument.\nHope with better logic than cynicism."
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The Beginning of Infinity

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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

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    children: "A biography of J.C.R. Licklider and the invention of personal computing as a project of the human mind.\nComputing felt romantic here, in a \"people once believed tools could stretch us\" way.\nSexy, honestly."
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The Dream Machine

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    children: "Munger's mental models, lectures, and one-liners, collected.\nReads like a brutally honest uncle who thinks most people are idiots.\nAnnoying because he is usually right."
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Poor Charlie's Almanack

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    children: "Krishnamurti on how much of our thinking we never chose.\nNot comforting.\nHe is the harsh bathroom light of spirituality."
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The First and Last Freedom

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    children: "Andy Grove's playbook for running things, from a manager who actually had to.\nWish I read it before confusing panic with productivity.\nVery founder, very unglamorous, very necessary."
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High Output Management

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A Thousand Brains

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    children: "Gibran's twenty-six prose poems on love, work, marriage, children, joy.\nThe book for when ambition starts making you ugly.\nSoft, but with a spine."
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The Prophet

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    children: "James Scott on how governments simplify reality to control it, and what gets lost in the simplification.\nEvery dashboard person should read this before thinking they understand reality.\nClean systems can still be deeply bakwaas."
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Seeing Like a State

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    children: "Michael Malone on the original Silicon Valley: chips, ego, risk, real work.\nSilicon Valley before it became a networking event.\nDust under the nails."
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The Big Score

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    children: "J. Storrs Hall on why energy and technology stalled, and what unstalling them would look like.\nCivilization disappointment, with receipts.\nWe got better apps instead of better futures and somehow clapped."
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Where Is My Flying Car?

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    children: "Richard Hamming asking: are you wasting your best brain on a small problem?\nRude question.\nCorrect question."
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The Art of Doing Science and Engineering

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Designing Data-Intensive Applications

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    children: "Nadia Eghbal on the strange economics of open source maintainership.\nOpen source is not kumbaya.\nIt is invisible labor with GitHub stars sprinkled on top."
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Working in Public

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    children: "Tyler Cowen's case for caring about long-run growth and the welfare of future people.\nMade ambition feel moral, which I loved.\nWanting a bigger future is not automatically spiritually bankrupt."
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Stubborn Attachments

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    children: "Ben Horowitz on the parts of running a company the other startup books leave out.\nFinally, a startup book that does not smell like laminated optimism.\nThe dread is the point."
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The Hard Thing About Hard Things

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    children: "Claire Hughes Johnson on building the actual org around the actual product.\nCulture is not what you put on the careers page.\nIt is what you repeatedly let happen."
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Scaling People

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    children: "Elad Gil's collected interviews and tactics for scaling a company past the early stage.\nNot poetic, but useful.\nThe book equivalent of \"here is where the floor usually gives out.\""
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High Growth Handbook

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The Mom Test

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7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy

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Zero to One

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The Innovator's Dilemma

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Crossing the Chasm

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    children: "Bruce Greenwald on where competitive advantage actually comes from once you do the math.\nVery unsexy, therefore probably useful.\nAsks where the actual advantage is, which most decks do not survive."
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Competition Demystified

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    children: "Sebastian Mallaby on venture capital from inside its own mythology.\nVC is finance with a religious belief in monsters.\nOne huge win forgives a cemetery of mistakes."
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The Power Law

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    children: "William Thorndike on the eight CEOs whose capital allocation outperformed every market darling.\nQuiet CEOs doing precise, ruthless things.\nMuch hotter than founder charisma once you grow up emotionally."
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The Outsiders

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Only the Paranoid Survive

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The Revolt of the Public

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The Machiavellians

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    children: "Peter Bevelin's collected mental models, mostly from Munger and Charlie.\nMental hygiene.\nBasically, your brain lies to you with excellent posture."
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Seeking Wisdom

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    children: "Fred Brooks on the eternal truth that adding people to a late project makes it later.\nSomehow executives keep needing this written down.\nMore people can make software slower."
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The Mythical Man-Month

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    children: "Eric Raymond on the social architecture of open source and why it works at all.\nPublic work is messy, social, reputation-heavy, and somehow works.\nVery internet, very human."
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The Cathedral and the Bazaar

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    children: "Dwarkesh Patel's interviews with the people actually building the frontier of AI.\nRead it for the ideas and the cadence.\nSome people think in ways you want to steal, respectfully."
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The Scaling Era

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    children: "Chris Miller on semiconductors as geopolitics, history, and the substrate of everything else.\nAI is not cloud magic.\nIt is fabs, borders, politics, and machines that cost more than your entire delusion."
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Chip War

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    children: "Nick Bostrom's careful framework for thinking about AI before everyone else started.\nDry in a way I respect.\nAI risk does not need more theater."
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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

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    children: "Max Tegmark on the futures available to us depending on how AI lands.\nThe more readable AI futures book.\nGood for when you want to think about the end of humanity but still make dinner."
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Life 3.0

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    children: "Paul Graham's essays on tech, taste, and craft.\nThis is why tech people secretly want to be artists.\nHonestly, fair."
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Hackers & Painters

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    children: "Don Norman on why everyday objects fail and how to design ones that don't.\nRuins doors forever.\nAlso makes you blame bad design before blaming users, as one should."
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The Design of Everyday Things

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    children: "Christopher Alexander's catalog of recurring patterns in how humans live in space.\nDesign, but with a soul.\nPeople live inside patterns, not features."
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A Pattern Language

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Revolution in the Valley

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    children: "Jordan Mechner's journals from building the original game, mostly alone.\nThe work before the mythology.\nLonely, slow, stubborn, beautiful."
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The Making of Prince of Persia

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    children: "Feynman's stories of safecracking, samba bands, and physics, told with the mind that earned the Nobel.\nSerious mind, unserious personality.\nThe ideal combination, frankly."
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!

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    children: "Will Larson's playbook for engineering management at scale.\nEngineering orgs are tiny civilizations with Jira.\nThis helps explain why they become weird."
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An Elegant Puzzle

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    children: "Eliyahu Goldratt's parable about finding and fixing the bottleneck in a factory and in life.\nFind the bottleneck. Fix the bottleneck.\nStop making productivity your personality."
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The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement

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    children: "Donella Meadows on stocks, flows, feedback, and why the world behaves the way it does.\nGave names to things I already felt.\nThe world is less random once you can see the loops."
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Thinking in Systems

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    children: "Atul Gawande on why even surgeons need lists, and what that says about excellence.\nHumbling because intelligence is not enough.\nSometimes excellence is a boring list someone actually follows."
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The Checklist Manifesto

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    children: "Krishnamurti asking whether your thoughts are even yours.\nWorst question.\nBest question."
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Freedom from the Known

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    children: "A founder book disguised as scripture, with Easwaran as the gentle translator.\nAction without attachment is beautiful, impossible, and deeply annoying."
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The Bhagavad Gita

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    children: "Yogananda's life across India and America, told with stories that read like a friend's.\nI would read this generously.\nSome books matter partly because of who handed them to you."
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Autobiography of a Yogi

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    children: "Harari on information networks across all of history, from clay tablets to feeds.\nThe Harari I'd keep.\nEvery team is an information network pretending to be an org chart."
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The Beginning of Infinity

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

The Dream Machine

Poor Charlie's Almanack

The First and Last Freedom

High Output Management

A Thousand Brains

The Prophet

Seeing Like a State

The Big Score

Where Is My Flying Car?

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering

Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Working in Public

Stubborn Attachments

The Hard Thing About Hard Things

Scaling People

High Growth Handbook

The Mom Test

7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy

Zero to One

The Innovator's Dilemma

Crossing the Chasm

Competition Demystified

The Power Law

The Outsiders

Only the Paranoid Survive

The Revolt of the Public

The Machiavellians

Seeking Wisdom

The Mythical Man-Month

The Cathedral and the Bazaar

The Scaling Era

Chip War

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

Life 3.0

Hackers & Painters

The Design of Everyday Things

A Pattern Language

Revolution in the Valley

The Making of Prince of Persia

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!

An Elegant Puzzle

The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement

Thinking in Systems

The Checklist Manifesto

Freedom from the Known

The Bhagavad Gita

Autobiography of a Yogi

Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks

The Scaling Era