Recommended Books

Books that have shaped how I think about excellence, leadership, and the craft of building things that matter. Referenced across my writing, tested against real practice.

Curated Collections

Deep-dive reading lists organized by theme, each with editorial commentary on why these books matter.

Best Books on Stoic Philosophy

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Curated Stoic philosophy reading list from a practitioner, not an academic. Books on Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus, and modern Stoic practice.

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Best Books on Practical Wisdom & Decision-Making

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Books on judgment, mental models, and strategic thinking. A curated list for practitioners who want to make better decisions under uncertainty.

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Best Books on Leadership Character

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Books on principled leadership, character development, and leading by example. Curated for leaders who know tactics without character is empty.

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Best Books on Discipline & Mastery

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Books on deliberate practice, self-discipline, and expertise building. A curated list for those committed to the long road of craft development.

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Best Books on Human Flourishing

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Books on living well, meaning, purpose, and building a good life. A curated list grounded in the ancient pursuit of eudaimonia.

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Most Referenced

The books that keep showing up across my writing. Referenced the most because they've influenced my thinking the most.

Discourses and Selected Writings

by Epictetus

The former slave turned philosopher understood freedom at its most fundamental level. Epictetus teaches that the only real imprisonment is knowing what's right and refusing to act on it. His Discourses are the blueprint for moral courage in speech and action.

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Radical Candor

by Kim Scott

Scott's framework for caring personally while challenging directly is the modern workplace application of ancient truth-telling. The book maps where most people fall on the honesty spectrum and why ruinous empathy destroys teams faster than obnoxious aggression.

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Fearless Speech

by Michel Foucault

Foucault's 1983 Berkeley lectures trace parrhesia from Athenian democracy through Stoic philosophy. This is the definitive modern treatment of fearless speech as philosophical practice, revealing how truth-telling shapes both the speaker and the society that receives it.

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The Courage to Be Disliked

by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga

Through Adlerian psychology presented as a Socratic dialogue, this book dismantles the approval-seeking that keeps people silent. The core argument, that freedom requires the courage to be disliked, is the modern psychological foundation beneath the ancient practice of parrhesia.

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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

by Susan Cain

Cain's research demonstrates that cultures rewarding volume over substance systematically undervalue the quiet leaders who actually drive results. A modern case for ancient sophrosyne.

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Silence: In the Age of Noise

by Erling Kagge

Norwegian explorer Kagge walked to the South Pole alone and discovered that silence is not emptiness but fullness. A rare modern meditation on what becomes possible when you stop filling space with noise.

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The 48 Laws of Power

by Robert Greene

The source text for Law 4. For the first time in this series, Greene's tactical recommendation aligns with ancient virtue. Read it to see where his reasoning diverges from the philosophers'.

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Nicomachean Ethics

by Aristotle

The foundational text on phronesis, practical wisdom. Aristotle's argument that the highest virtue is knowing how to act rightly in specific circumstances, which is exactly the calibration between speed and deliberation this article explores.

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Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman

The Nobel laureate's exploration of two decision systems: automatic intuition and deliberate reasoning. The scientific foundation for understanding why we default to the wrong speed for most decisions.

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The Art of Action

by Stephen Bungay

A military historian's case for closing the gap between decisions and execution. Bungay shows how over-deliberation on the wrong things creates organizational paralysis while under-deliberation on strategy creates chaos.

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Algorithms to Live By

by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths

Computer science applied to human decision-making. The optimal stopping problem and explore/exploit trade-off provide mathematical backing for why calibrating decision effort to decision stakes produces better outcomes than uniform deliberation.

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Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

The emperor's private journal on accepting what cannot be changed while working diligently on what can. The foundation for understanding the dichotomy of control that separates grit from stubbornness.

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Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

by Angela Duckworth

The book that launched the grit conversation. Essential reading to understand what Duckworth got right about persistence, and where the popular interpretation went wrong.

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The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit

by Seth Godin

Godin's essential distinction between strategic quitting and giving up. The practical wisdom of knowing when you're in a dip worth pushing through versus a dead end worth abandoning.

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Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts

by Annie Duke

Former poker champion on separating decision quality from outcome quality. Essential for understanding why persistence isn't always virtue and quitting isn't always failure.

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Lying

by Sam Harris

A concise philosophical argument against deception in all its forms. Harris shows how even 'white lies' erode trust and create cognitive burden.

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Radical Honesty

by Brad Blanton

An extreme but illuminating take on the costs of concealment and the freedom of complete transparency. Challenges assumptions about necessary deception.

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The Republic

by Plato

Plato's cave allegory is the original insight into why the comfortable majority calls those seeking truth 'mad.' Essential for understanding why intensity gets pathologized.

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The Obstacle Is the Way

by Ryan Holiday

Holiday's accessible Stoic wisdom on why difficulty is the path, not an obstacle to it. A modern bridge between ancient philosophy and the intensity required for excellence.

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Finite and Infinite Games

by James P. Carse

Carse's distinction between playing to win versus playing to continue playing illuminates why the comfortable life is actually a finite game dressed as wisdom.

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Man's Search for Meaning

by Viktor E. Frankl

Frankl's insight that meaning requires suffering illuminates why the comfort-seeking life leads to emptiness. Purpose demands the intensity that comfort avoids.

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Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters

by Richard Rumelt

Rumelt's sharp distinction between genuine strategic thinking and goal-setting disguised as strategy. Essential for understanding what real vision looks like versus its common imitations.

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The Art of the Long View: Planning for the Future in an Uncertain World

by Peter Schwartz

Schwartz's scenario planning methodology as a practical application of ancient prolepsis (anticipation). A guide to building the capacity to see around corners.

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Thinking in Systems: A Primer

by Donella H. Meadows

Meadows' introduction to seeing interconnections and long-term patterns. The mental models required for genuine strategic thinking, presented with clarity and depth.

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Politics

by Aristotle

Aristotle's foundational work on humans as communal beings explores how individual excellence serves the polis. The concept of koinonia reveals why personal flourishing was never meant to be separated from contribution to others.

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Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success

by Adam Grant

Grant's research on givers, matchers, and takers provides modern evidence for ancient wisdom. The data confirms what the Greeks knew: those who contribute most consistently end up achieving the most meaningful success.

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The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World

by Lewis Hyde

Hyde's exploration of creative labor as gift economy challenges transactional thinking about achievement. A powerful meditation on how the best work moves through contribution rather than accumulation.

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Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

by Carol S. Dweck

Dweck's research on fixed versus growth mindset explains why some people treat past achievements as proof of permanent talent while others see them as foundations for continued development. Essential reading for escaping the glory days trap.

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The Art of Possibility

by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander

A lesser-known gem on reinvention and present-focused living. The Zanders offer practical frameworks for releasing attachment to past identity and embracing continuous possibility.

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Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

by David Epstein

Epstein's research on late bloomers and continuous adaptation shows why peak performance rarely comes from one defining achievement. A powerful antidote to the glory days mentality.

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Bowling Alone

by Robert Putnam

Documents the collapse of community and social trust in America. Shows the devastating consequences of isolation and transactional relationships. Provides evidence that Greene's approach, scaled up, destroys societies.

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Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

by Sebastian Junger

NYT bestseller exploring why modern society's emphasis on self-sufficiency is making us miserable. Junger shows that humans evolved to need tight-knit groups and that our epidemic of loneliness stems from abandoning tribal connection for strategic isolation.

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Extreme Ownership

by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin

Navy SEALs demonstrate that taking complete responsibility is the foundation of elite performance. Integrity in action, not integrity as excuse.

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The Road to Character

by David Brooks

Brooks distinguishes between resume virtues and eulogy virtues, exposing how we often mistake claimed qualities for lived ones. Essential reading for understanding the gap between who we say we are and who we actually become.

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Give and Take

by Adam Grant

Research demolishing the myth that nice guys finish last. Grant shows that givers outperform takers and matchers in long-term success, proving integrity is a competitive advantage, not an obstacle.

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Deep Work

by Cal Newport

Newport's thesis that the ability to focus intensely is becoming rare and valuable directly addresses how to access crisis-level concentration without external pressure.

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The War of Art

by Steven Pressfield

Pressfield's concept of Resistance explains exactly why we default to lower intensity and what it takes to summon professional-level output without external emergency.

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Good to Great

by Jim Collins

Level 5 Leadership demonstrates that the best leaders don't diminish themselves OR seek the spotlight. Evidence that excellence and humility coexist without self-diminishment.

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Daring Greatly

by Brene Brown

Brown's exploration of vulnerability provides an important contrast. Her framework leans toward authenticity as expression; the Greek perspective offers authenticity as integration.

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Integrity

by Henry Cloud

Modern treatment of integrity as wholeness and integration. Connects character integration to effectiveness in work and relationships.

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Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

by Greg McKeown

McKeown's modern framework for identifying what matters most. The disciplined elimination of non-essentials echoes the ancient wisdom of clarity as foundation for meaningful action.

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Letters from a Stoic

by Seneca

Seneca's letters reveal how the Stoics practiced clarity through negative visualization and the disciplined examination of what truly matters versus what merely distracts.

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Turning Pro

by Steven Pressfield

Pressfield's overlooked gem about the identity shift that changes everything. The amateur asks what to do. The professional has already decided who they are. The book is about that moment of turning, when identity crystallizes and action becomes obvious.

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Atomic Habits

by James Clear

Clear's insight that identity-based habits outperform goal-based habits aligns perfectly with ancient wisdom. The smoker who says 'I'm not a smoker' succeeds where the one who says 'I'm trying to quit' fails.

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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

by Stephen Covey

Covey's principle-centered approach recognizes that effectiveness flows from character. His 'inside-out' paradigm echoes the ancient truth that who you are determines what you do.

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things

by Ben Horowitz

Horowitz's brutally honest account of building companies reveals the unglamorous sacrifices behind every success. No frameworks, just the reality of paying prices most people refuse to acknowledge exist.

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Mastery

by Robert Greene

Greene reveals that every master paid a price in obscurity, rejection, and relentless practice that most admirers never see. The gap between wanting mastery and achieving it is measured in sacrifices, not talent.

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The Comfort Crisis

by Michael Easter

Easter's investigation into why modern comfort is making us miserable and weak. His research on voluntary discomfort as the antidote to technological ease directly supports this article's thesis.

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Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance

by Alex Hutchinson

Scientific exploration of human limits reveals that our capacity expands through exposure to difficulty, not protection from it. The brain's governor can only be recalibrated through struggle.

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Can't Hurt Me

by David Goggins

Goggins embodies the philosophy of voluntary suffering as character formation. His 'callousing the mind' concept provides the practical framework for building resilience through deliberate difficulty.

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Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Taleb's framework explains why systems (including humans) need stressors to grow stronger. The absence of challenge doesn't create stability; it creates fragility.

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The Practicing Mind

by Thomas M. Sterner

A practical guide to process-focused discipline that shows how mastery emerges from present-moment engagement with practice, not outcome obsession.

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Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise

by Anders Ericsson

The definitive research on deliberate practice, showing that expertise is built through thousands of hours of intentional effort, not discovered through passion.

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The Confidence Code

by Katty Kay and Claire Shipman

Research-backed exploration of how confidence is built through action and risk-taking, not positive thinking. The science confirms what the ancients knew: confidence follows courage.

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Courage Is Calling

by Ryan Holiday

Modern Stoic examination of why courage is the foundation of all other virtues and achievements. Holiday shows how the ancient understanding of andreia applies to contemporary challenges.

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Peak

by Anders Ericsson

The science of deliberate practice shows how competence is built through systematic exposure to difficulty. Real confidence requires real capability, and this book shows how capability is built.

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The Coaching Habit

by Michael Bungay Stanier

Practical framework for asking questions instead of giving answers. Shows how seven simple questions can transform you from problem-solver to capability-builder.

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Turn the Ship Around!

by L. David Marquet

Marquet transformed a submarine crew from followers into leaders by pushing decision-making down. The ultimate case study in building capability over dependency.

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Leadership and Self-Deception

by The Arbinger Institute

Exposes how leaders unconsciously sabotage their teams by treating them as objects to be managed rather than people to be developed. The self-deception that drives rescuing behavior.

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The Brave Athlete: Calm the F*ck Down and Rise to the Occasion

by Simon Marshall & Lesley Paterson

Sports psychology approach to the mental governors that limit performance, with practical tools for belief modification.

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Lore of Running

by Tim Noakes

Noakes developed the Central Governor Theory referenced in the article. This is the deep-dive scientific foundation for understanding fatigue as signal vs. state.

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Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds

by David Goggins

Goggins embodies the article's thesis in extreme form. His journey from 300 pounds to Navy SEAL to ultramarathon runner demonstrates what happens when you refuse to accept belief-imposed limits. Raw proof that the ceiling is painted on.

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Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

by Jocko Willink, Leif Babin

A modern statement of responsibility with sharp edges. Useful for understanding why the leader owns the outcome, even when the cause was not the leader's choice.

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The Art of Action: How Leaders Close the Gaps between Plans, Actions and Results

by Stephen Bungay

Bungay explains how to build alignment through intent and boundaries instead of constant approval. If every decision must touch the leader, the organization is designed to be slow.

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The Effective Executive

by Peter F. Drucker

A classic on effectiveness that still holds up because it is honest about attention and priority. It pairs well with leadership because the cost of being the bottleneck is paid in your focus.

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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

by Jim Collins

Collins' research on what separates good companies from great ones. The empirical evidence that 'good is the enemy of great' operates at organizational scale.

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Outliers: The Story of Success

by Malcolm Gladwell

The 10,000-hour rule reveals that exceptional achievement comes from accumulated practice, not talent. The mundane hours of repetition that look like nothing are actually building everything.

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Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable

by Tim S. Grover

Michael Jordan's trainer reveals the psychology of elite performers and the relentless mindset that separates good from unstoppable. The cleaners, closers, and coolers framework illuminates what drives exceptional achievement.

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Ego Is the Enemy

by Ryan Holiday

Essential distinction between ego-driven dissatisfaction that demands external validation and purpose-driven dissatisfaction that represents internal compulsion toward excellence.

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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

by Mark Manson

Modern application of selective engagement. Manson's irreverent take on choosing what deserves your limited energy aligns perfectly with ancient Stoic wisdom about ignoring what doesn't matter.

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The Coddling of the American Mind

by Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt

How good intentions and bad ideas are setting up a generation for failure. Addresses victim culture, safetyism, and the loss of antifragility in modern society. The perfect modern companion to ancient Stoic wisdom on building resilience through difficulty.

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The Top Five Regrets of the Dying

by Bronnie Ware

A palliative care nurse's account of what people actually regret at life's end. Nobody regrets failing. They regret not trying.

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The Captain Class

by Sam Walker

Surprising research on what actually makes teams elite. Spoiler: it's not the star player. The best captains lead through behavior, not authority.

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Primal Leadership

by Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, Annie McKee

The science behind why leadership is about presence and behavior, not position. Emotional resonance matters more than organizational charts.

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The Dip

by Seth Godin

Godin examines why winners quit the right things and stick through the hard middle where most people abandon ship.

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Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

by Charles T. Munger

Munger's collected wisdom on inversion thinking and avoiding stupidity as the primary path to success. The philosophical foundation for this entire article.

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The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

by Atul Gawande

Gawande's investigation into how simple checklists prevent catastrophic errors across medicine, aviation, and construction. Proof that systems beat brilliance.

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Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger

by Peter Bevelin

Deep dive into the mental models that prevent errors. Bevelin synthesizes psychology, biology, and philosophy into practical wisdom for avoiding stupidity.

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Mini Habits

by Stephen Guise

The tactical playbook for stupid-small habits. Guise's approach is the practical implementation of worst-day design.

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Outliers

by Malcolm Gladwell

Gladwell's investigation into extraordinary success reveals the hidden advantages and accumulated practice behind apparent overnight breakthroughs.

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The Luck Factor

by Richard Wiseman

Wiseman's decade of research on 'lucky' people reveals four principles they share. Spoiler: None of them are actually about luck.

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So Good They Can't Ignore You

by Cal Newport

Newport's case for building career capital through rare and valuable skills. The counterintuitive argument that passion follows mastery, and mastery comes from doing what others won't.

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The Gap and The Gain

by Dan Sullivan and Benjamin Hardy

A framework for measuring progress against where you started rather than your ideals. Shifts focus from intention to actual movement.

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Antifragile

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Taleb explains why disciplined people become harder to break and harder to control. Systems that try to weaken them only make them stronger.

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Discourses

by Epictetus

A former slave who understood that true freedom is internal sovereignty. Master your impulses and no one can enslave you to their agenda.

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The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work

by John Gottman

Gottman's research proves conflict frequency doesn't predict divorce. Conflict style does. The couples who repair well outlast those who avoid the arena entirely.

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Hold Me Tight

by Dr. Sue Johnson

Johnson's Emotionally Focused Therapy reveals the dance of disconnection and reconnection. The repair after rupture is where intimacy actually lives.

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StrengthsFinder 2.0

by Tom Rath

Gallup's research on why investing in strengths produces dramatically better results than fixing weaknesses. The data behind what intuition suggests.

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The Talent Code

by Daniel Coyle

Coyle's exploration of how deep practice on the right skills creates exceptional capability. The science of deliberate practice applied to natural advantages.

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Drive

by Daniel H. Pink

The definitive research on intrinsic motivation. Pink shows why autonomy, mastery, and purpose outperform external rewards for complex work.

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The Progress Principle

by Teresa Amabile

Amabile's research reveals that meaningful progress, not compensation, is the primary driver of engagement. Small wins in purposeful work beat big bonuses.

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Leaders Eat Last

by Simon Sinek

Sinek explores why belonging and psychological safety create loyalty that money can't buy. The circle of safety that compensation can't purchase.

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The Practice

by Seth Godin

Godin's meditation on showing up consistently without attachment to outcomes. The creative act as identity formation, not performance for approval.

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Stillness Is the Key

by Ryan Holiday

Holiday bridges Stoic wisdom to modern practice. The discipline of internal work when the external world demands performance.

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Apology

by Plato

Socrates' defense speech, demonstrating the elenchus method and his commitment to examined living.

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Socrates: A Man for Our Times

by Paul Johnson

A concise exploration of Socrates' life and his revolutionary commitment to questioning everything.

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Think Again

by Adam Grant

The science of rethinking and unlearning, and why the best thinkers question their own beliefs.

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The Scout Mindset

by Julia Galef

The difference between soldier mindset (defending beliefs) and scout mindset (seeking truth). Essential reading on intellectual honesty.

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Tuesdays with Morrie

by Mitch Albom

A dying professor's final lessons on what matters most. Morrie's insights on love, work, and meaning offer a practical application of memento mori for modern life.

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The Practice: Shipping Creative Work

by Seth Godin

Godin's manifesto on the creative process as practice, not preparation. The insight that shipping is the practice, not the result of practice, directly confronts the preparation myth.

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The Lean Startup

by Eric Ries

Ries' build-measure-learn framework is the antidote to endless planning. Learn why validated learning through action beats theoretical preparation every time.

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Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done

by Jon Acuff

Acuff's research-backed exploration of why we don't finish what we start. The counterintuitive strategies for actually completing goals instead of perpetually preparing for them.

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Skin in the Game

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Taleb's exploration of how real risk and actual stakes create true commitment. The philosophical foundation for understanding why backup plans undermine the intensity required for breakthrough.

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Hell Yeah or No

by Derek Sivers

Modern minimalism on commitment through elimination. Sivers' insight that if something isn't a 'hell yeah,' it's a no, applied to eliminating the hedged commitments that dilute your intensity.

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Discourses of Epictetus

by Epictetus

The primary source for prohairesis, the Stoic concept of moral choice. Epictetus, who was born a slave and became one of history's greatest philosophers, understood that real power comes from singular commitment to what's truly within your control.

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The Laws of Simplicity

by John Maeda

Designer and technologist John Maeda's ten laws for balancing simplicity and complexity in business, technology, and design—revealing how less can produce more.

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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character

by Richard P. Feynman

Physicist Richard Feynman's approach to making complex ideas elegantly simple through deep understanding and intellectual honesty.

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The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph

by Ryan Holiday

Modern application of ancient Stoic principles on using difficulty as raw material for growth and resilience.

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Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity

by Kim Scott

Scott's framework for caring personally while challenging directly. Ruinous empathy (high care, low challenge) and obnoxious aggression (high challenge, low care) both fail. Only radical candor - both together - builds teams.

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The Enchiridion

by Epictetus

Epictetus, who was a slave, taught the control dichotomy with brutal clarity. External circumstances are indifferent. What matters is what you do with them. Your actions determine your outcomes, not your conditions.

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The Book of Forgiving

by Desmond Tutu and Mpho Tutu

Wisdom on forgiveness from leaders of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Not abstract philosophy but practical guidance from those who had to forgive the unforgivable.

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The Nicomachean Ethics

by Aristotle

Foundational text on eudaimonia (flourishing) and virtue ethics. Aristotle's insight that happiness emerges from living excellently, not from pursuing pleasure directly.

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The Happiness Hypothesis

by Jonathan Haidt

Modern psychology confirming ancient wisdom. Haidt's research on why pursuing happiness directly fails and what actually creates lasting well-being.

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Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Foundational research on flow states showing that happiness emerges from absorption in meaningful challenge, not from pursuing the feeling itself. Empirical evidence for ancient wisdom about engagement over hedonic pursuit.

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Shop Class as Soulcraft

by Matthew B. Crawford

Why meaningful work demands consumption. The difference between work that depletes and work that develops mastery. Essential reading on the transformative power of craft.

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The Discourses

by Epictetus

Epictetus was born a slave, crippled by his master, and became one of history's greatest philosophers. Essential reading on how excellence is universal obligation, not contingent on circumstances.

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The Abilene Paradox and Other Meditations on Management

by Jerry B. Harvey

Harvey's groundbreaking work on organizational behavior reveals how groups make decisions that contradict individual preferences.

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The Fifth Discipline

by Peter Senge

Senge's essential work on systems thinking and how organizational structures shape behavior and decision-making.

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The Wisdom of the Stoics

by Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca

Ancient wisdom on courage, truth-telling, and living according to virtue rather than comfort.

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Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

by Cal Newport

Newport explores the concept of deep work and provides strategies for cultivating focus in an age of constant distraction.

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Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

by James Clear

Clear's framework for habit formation through environment design and identity-based behavior change. Essential reading on making focus the default, not the exception.

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Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life

by Nir Eyal

Eyal's research-backed approach to managing attention through understanding the psychology behind distraction and building systems that support focus.

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Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

by Anne Lamott

Lamott's insights on the creative process, including the critical separation between drafting (creator mode) and revision (critic mode).

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The Creative Act: A Way of Being

by Rick Rubin

Legendary music producer's insights on the creative process, emphasizing the importance of protecting the generative phase from premature judgment.

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Thinking in Systems

by Donella Meadows

Primer on understanding how systems create behavior patterns. Critical for recognizing how trust erosion becomes institutionalized through process accumulation.

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The Daily Stoic

by Ryan Holiday

366 daily meditations on Stoic wisdom, making ancient philosophy accessible for modern practice. Perfect companion for understanding the daily nature of virtue and excellence.

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Peak Performance

by Brad Stulberg

Science-based strategies for achieving sustainable high performance through stress, rest, and purpose alignment.

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The Inner Game of Tennis

by W. Timothy Gallwey

Gallwey's groundbreaking exploration of the effort paradox in sports performance and how releasing mental interference unlocks natural ability.

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Rework

by Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson

The founders of Basecamp (37signals) share their philosophy of building successful businesses through strategic subtraction, saying no, and doing less better.

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The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement

by Eliyahu M. Goldratt

Theory of Constraints presented through narrative, showing how identifying and eliminating bottlenecks (subtraction) creates more value than adding capacity everywhere.

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The Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius wrote extensively about the courage to do what's right even when uncomfortable, and understanding that actions define standards more powerfully than words.

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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

by Patrick Lencioni

Lencioni's exploration of how teams fail, with particular focus on accountability and peer standards—why team members must hold each other accountable to maintain excellence.

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The Leadership Challenge

by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner

Evidence-based research on what makes leaders effective, including the critical role of listening, understanding, and building trust with your people.

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Dare to Lead

by Brené Brown

Brown's research on courageous leadership emphasizes vulnerability, empathy, and the critical importance of truly hearing your people rather than managing them.

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The Collapse of Parenting

by Leonard Sax

Physician's perspective on how modern parenting culture has inverted the parent-child relationship and what it means to demonstrate authority and character worth emulating.

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How to Raise an Adult

by Julie Lythcott-Haims

Former Stanford dean's examination of how overprotective parenting prevents children from developing the independence and character needed for adulthood.

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Indistractable

by Nir Eyal

Eyal's research-backed approach to managing attention through environment design and understanding the psychology behind distraction, not just willpower.

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Zhuangzi

by Zhuangzi

Ancient Daoist philosophy on wu wei (effortless action) and working in harmony with natural patterns rather than forcing outcomes through sheer willpower.

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Effortless Mastery

by Kenny Werner

Jazz pianist Werner's exploration of how releasing the grip on perfection and control allows musical excellence to flow naturally, applicable to any performance domain.

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Leadership in Turbulent Times

by Doris Kearns Goodwin

How Lincoln, Roosevelt, FDR, and LBJ led through crisis with authentic authority that didn't depend on external validation or applause.

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Bird by Bird

by Anne Lamott

A writer's guide to embracing imperfection in craft, showing how 'shitty first drafts' lead to brilliant final work through iteration and courage.

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Finish

by Jon Acuff

Why we don't finish what we start and how to go from idea to done by embracing imperfection and strategic completion.

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Crossing the Chasm

by Geoffrey A. Moore

The definitive guide to technology adoption patterns. Moore's framework shows how transformational technologies require different strategies at different stages.

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The Innovator's Dilemma

by Clayton M. Christensen

Christensen's groundbreaking work on why established companies struggle with disruptive innovation. Essential for understanding organizational resistance to transformational change.

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The Power of Now

by Eckhart Tolle

A guide to spiritual enlightenment through present-moment awareness

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The Speed of Trust

by Stephen M.R. Covey

Essential framework for understanding how trust accelerates relationships and business results through authentic leadership behaviors.

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The Trusted Advisor

by David H. Maister

Definitive guide on building deep, trust-based relationships through vulnerability and genuine investment in others' success.

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Multipliers

by Liz Wiseman

How the best leaders amplify the intelligence and capability of people around them rather than diminishing it through protective behaviors.

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Good Strategy Bad Strategy

by Richard Rumelt

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Research-backed distinction between hedonic adaptation and sustainable well-being practices that support eudaimonic flourishing.

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Practical framework for human-AI collaboration and the future of work

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The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies

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The Infinite Game

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The Art of Thinking Clearly

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Systematic exploration of cognitive biases and systematic errors in judgment, including how environmental context creates predictable distortions.

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The Technology Trap

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Historical perspective on technology adoption and resistance, showing patterns of how societies adapt to transformative innovations.

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Emotional Agility

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Laches

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Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career

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Comprehensive guide to writing effective unit tests with clean, maintainable output.

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The foundational approach to writing clean, focused tests that drive development.

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Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control

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A leading AI researcher's vision for creating beneficial artificial intelligence.

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A guide to creating machine learning systems that work in the real world.

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Classic programming wisdom including the broken windows theory applied to software development.

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Improving the design of existing code through disciplined refactoring techniques.

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Wisdom, advice, and life lessons from over 130 of the world's top performers in various fields.

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Quiet Leadership

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Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done

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A comprehensive guide to creating a culture of execution and accountability in your organization.

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The No Asshole Rule

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How to build a civilized workplace and survive one that isn't by identifying and dealing with difficult personalities.

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Effective Testing with RSpec 3

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A comprehensive guide to testing Ruby applications with RSpec, including best practices for maintainable test suites.

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The Rails 5 Way

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An authoritative guide to building modern Rails applications, including deep dives into ActiveRecord and the Rails testing ecosystem.

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How the power of inquiry can spark breakthrough ideas in business, education, and innovation.

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The Creative Habit

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A practical guide to establishing creative habits and routines that lead to sustained innovation and artistic output.

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Creativity, Inc.

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Lessons on fostering creativity and managing creative teams from the co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios.

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Big Magic

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How to face down fears, embrace curiosity, and live a more creative life by examining the mysterious nature of inspiration.

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Life and work principles that emphasize radical transparency and idea meritocracy to build innovative organizations.

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The Art of Learning

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A chess prodigy's insights on the journey to mastery and peak performance through disciplined practice.

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How organizational health trumps everything else in business and why it's the ultimate competitive advantage.

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Leadership on the Line

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How to make a difference without getting 'taken out' while navigating the dangers of leading meaningful change.

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Human-in-the-Loop Machine Learning

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A comprehensive guide to pair programming techniques and how to effectively collaborate on code development.

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What every programmer needs to know about cognition to make their work more effective and empathetic.

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Leadership Jazz: The Essential Elements of a Great Leader

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Yes to the Mess: Surprising Leadership Lessons from Jazz

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How principles of jazz thinking and jazz performance can help anyone who leads teams develop critical skills for today's complex business environment.

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The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life

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Presents a set of breakthrough practices for creativity in all human enterprises and a visionary approach to leadership.

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Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

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A science-based approach to understanding and completing the stress cycle to prevent burnout and manage overwhelming emotions.

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The Gratitude Diaries: How a Year Looking on the Bright Side Can Transform Your Life

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A journalist's year-long journey exploring how gratitude can transform every aspect of life, from marriage and friendship to health and career.

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The Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything

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How trust impacts business speed and cost, and how to build it across teams and organizations.

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The Art of Action: How Leaders Close the Gaps between Plans, Actions, and Results

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How to close the gap between plans and outcomes by using a model developed by the Prussian Army in the 19th century.

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First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently

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Based on Gallup studies of great managers, this book reveals that the best managers select for talent, set expectations, and build on strengths rather than fixing weaknesses.

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The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—but Some Don't

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How to distinguish true signals from noisy data, and make better predictions in an uncertain world.

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Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

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Insights from the Good Judgment Project on how to improve prediction accuracy in an uncertain world.

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Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work

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A four-step process to overcome biases and make better decisions when stakes are high.

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The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life

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Using game theory principles to develop better strategies in competitive situations.

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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

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How rare and unpredictable events have massive impact, and why we tend to be blind to them until after they happen.

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Good Strategy, Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters

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How disruptive innovation will change the way the world learns and transform education through student-centric approaches.

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Preparing our kids for the innovation era and reimagining education for the 21st century.

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The End of Average

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How we succeed in a world that values sameness and why we need to embrace individual potential in education.

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Free to Learn

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Why unleashing the instinct to play will make our children happier, more self-reliant, and better students for life.

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The Software Craftsman

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Professionalism, pragmatism, and pride in software development and how to build a culture of technical excellence.

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Clean Architecture

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A craftsman's guide to software structure and design, applying universal rules of software architecture for sustainable code.

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A collection of design principles for creating deeper, more modular, and more maintainable software systems.

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Power and Prediction

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How AI is reshaping business and creating new opportunities through the economics of prediction.

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The Inevitable

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Understanding the 12 technological forces that will shape our future and how they will transform how we live, work, and think.

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Human + Machine

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Reimagining work in the age of AI and how businesses can harness the power of human-machine collaboration.

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Superintelligence

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Paths, dangers, and strategies for advanced artificial intelligence and its impact on humanity's future.

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Debugging

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Nine simple rules to help find and fix bugs in software and hardware systems.

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Apprenticeship Patterns

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Guidance for the aspiring software craftsman on how to excel in the workplace and become a better programmer.

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Designing Machine Learning Systems

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A practical guide to building machine learning systems that are reliable, scalable, and maintainable in production environments.

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Fundamentals of Software Architecture

by Mark Richards & Neal Ford

A comprehensive guide to software architecture fundamentals, patterns, and practices for modern systems.

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Competing in the Age of AI

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How AI is transforming business strategies and reshaping companies around data, algorithms, and AI-driven platforms.

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The Manager's Path

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A guide for tech leaders navigating growth and change in their careers, from tech lead to CTO.

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A comprehensive guide to Ruby's metaprogramming features and how to use them effectively.

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Ruby Under a Microscope

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An exploration of Ruby's internal mechanics and how the language works under the hood.

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Design Patterns in Ruby

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Adapting classic design patterns to Ruby with idiomatic implementations.

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Effective Ruby

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48 specific ways to write better Ruby code and avoid common pitfalls.

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Software for Your Head

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Core protocols for creating high-performance teams and authentic human connections in work and life.

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Rails AntiPatterns

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Best practices and solutions to common Rails programming problems and anti-patterns.

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How to apply Domain-Driven Design concepts in Rails applications to create maintainable, scalable code.

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Clean Ruby

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Writing maintainable, clear Ruby code by applying SOLID principles and design patterns.

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AI in Education

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How artificial intelligence transforms teaching and learning across educational contexts.

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The New Learning Economy

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How to thrive in an era of innovation-driven educational transformation.

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Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

by Joseph E. Aoun

How colleges can prepare students for the AI economy and the jobs of the future.

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The Difference Engine: Teaching AI to Think Differently

by Sal Khan

How to harness AI to enhance education while maintaining the human elements that make learning meaningful.

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The Age of AI: And Our Human Future

by Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt & Daniel Huttenlocher

An exploration of how AI will transform human society—and what we can do to ensure its positive impact.

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Marketing 5.0: Technology for Humanity

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How marketers can use technology to address customers' needs and make a difference while still focusing on profit.

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The End of Marketing: Humanizing Your Brand in the Age of Social Media and AI

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How to remain relevant in the current landscape where AI is changing how brands reach consumers.

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SEO for Growth: The Ultimate Guide for Marketers, Web Designers & Entrepreneurs

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A comprehensive guide for integrating SEO into every aspect of your online marketing strategy.

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Design Patterns

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A catalog of solutions to common programming problems that can help guide refactoring efforts.

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Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less

by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

How deliberate rest enhances creativity, productivity, and well-being in our always-on world.

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The Oz Principle

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Getting results through individual and organizational accountability by moving 'above the line' of responsibility.

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Radical Responsibility

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Practices for creating ownership, choosing freedom over victimhood, and transforming your life and relationships.

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How to focus on what matters every day using a framework designed by former Google designers.

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A comprehensive guide to creating successful technology products that customers love, written by a Silicon Valley product management veteran.

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A practical guide to building products that create user habits through a four-step process called the Hook Model.

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The Lean Product Playbook

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A practical guide to building products that customers love by using Lean Startup principles and product-market fit strategies.

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The Mamba Mentality: How I Play

by Kobe Bryant

An inside look at the mind of one of basketball's greatest players and his approach to excellence.

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The Score Takes Care of Itself

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Bill Walsh's leadership philosophy of focusing on the process and performance standards rather than just the outcome.

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The natural history of innovation and how to create environments where innovation thrives.

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Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success

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Phil Jackson's insights into leadership and team-building from his time coaching Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, and the Chicago Bulls.

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The surprising truth about what motivates us, exploring how autonomy, mastery, and purpose fuel high-performing teams.

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How the Pareto principle applies across business and life, showing how a small percentage of efforts produce the majority of results.

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What really separates world-class performers from everybody else, with insights into deliberate practice.

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Power Laws in the Information Production Process

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A detailed academic exploration of power laws in information science and bibliometrics.

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Clutch: Why Some People Excel Under Pressure and Others Don't

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An exploration of what enables some individuals to perform exceptional feats under extreme pressure.

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Pressure Is a Privilege

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Lessons learned from a life in tennis about embracing pressure as an opportunity for greatness.

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How extreme athletes achieve superhuman performance through accessing flow states under pressure.

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Scientific insights into why people fail under pressure and how to overcome performance anxiety.

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Digital Minimalism

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A philosophy of technology use that helps you focus on your values in our increasingly digital world.

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A memoir of Steve Martin's stand-up comedy career, exploring how humor served as both shield and sword.

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Code Complete

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A practical handbook of software construction that provides specific advice on improving the art of programming.

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A memoir by the creator of Nike that reveals the early days of the company and the challenges faced in building a global brand.

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A comprehensive guide to product management, including effective demonstration techniques.

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Leveraging natural groups to build a thriving organization by understanding the five stages of tribal culture.

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How to build successful product teams that create exceptional products through empowerment and leadership.

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How top product managers create and build successful products and teams through effective leadership.

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Field manual for gaining control, building discipline, and creating freedom in life through mental and physical toughness.

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What the All Blacks can teach us about the business of life through 15 powerful lessons in leadership.

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31 days training with the toughest man on the planet - lessons in pushing beyond mental limits.

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Master hard skills, outsmart the competition, and accelerate your career through self-directed learning.

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How to build a well-lived, joyful life through reflective practices and intentional design.

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The definitive guide to effective retrospectives, offering practical activities and approaches for continuous team improvement.

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How the scrum framework can transform productivity and help teams deliver more value.

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A handbook for team reviews that helps improve team processes and ceremonies.

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Timeless advice on building meaningful relationships and connecting with others effectively.

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The Charisma Myth

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How anyone can master the art and science of personal magnetism to improve networking outcomes.

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Finding Your Own North Star

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Claiming the life you were meant to live through uncovering your authentic self and purpose.

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The Four Agreements

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A practical guide to personal freedom through four simple agreements that transform how we interact with others.

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Strategies for identifying and managing emotions, particularly in challenging interpersonal situations.

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Why some ideas survive and others die, exploring the principles that make ideas memorable.

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An essential guide for the whole branding team, covering strategy, research, design, and implementation.

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The Thank You Economy

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How businesses can thrive through genuine customer appreciation and care in the social media age.

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Strategies for building lasting customer relationships through exceptional service and loyalty programs.

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Moments of Truth

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How focusing on critical customer interactions can transform business performance and customer satisfaction.

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Never Split the Difference

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The Art of Woo

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The Five Love Languages

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Understanding different ways people express and receive love, including recognizing when someone needs assistance.

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Nonviolent Communication

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A language of compassion that strengthens our ability to connect with others and ourselves, facilitating clear requests for help.

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Why working remotely is the future and how companies can embrace this trend without sacrificing culture or productivity.

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Virtual Culture

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The way we work has changed, with insights on building strong virtual teams and maintaining culture in distributed environments.

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Work Together Anywhere

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A handbook for working remotely, successfully, for individuals, teams, and managers with practical strategies for virtual collaboration.

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Leading From Anywhere

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The new rules of remote work for managers, offering strategies for building trust, maintaining productivity, and leading virtually.

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Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business

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The definitive guide to Kanban methodology for software development, introducing concepts like flow, pull systems, and limiting work in progress.

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How to build value through values, promoting conscious leadership and accountability in organizations.

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A comprehensive guide to planning and estimating in an agile environment with practical techniques for software professionals.

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A companion for ScrumMasters, Agile coaches, and project managers transitioning to Agile methodologies.

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How to create relevant and memorable experiences at every touchpoint to win in the age of experience.

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The secrets of building a five-star customer service organization, inspired by the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company.

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The Principles of Product Development Flow

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Second-generation lean product development, with deep insights on managing queues, batch sizes, and cycle time in product development.

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Actionable Agile Metrics for Predictability

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An introduction to flow-based metrics that help teams better understand and improve their software delivery process.

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Factory Physics

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A comprehensive guide to the science of manufacturing, explaining how to improve flow, reduce lead times, and understand variability.

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The Art of Focused Conversation

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100 methods for accessing group wisdom in the workplace, with practical techniques for focused, productive discussions.

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Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers

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A playbook for innovators, rulebreakers, and changemakers with activities and formats for productive group meetings and events.

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Community: The Structure of Belonging

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Creating communities of possibility, generosity, and gifts through the way we structure belonging and connection.

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Here Comes Everybody

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The power of organizing without organizations in the internet age, exploring how technology enables new forms of group formation and collaboration.

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The Social Labs Revolution

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A new approach to solving our most complex challenges through collaborative innovation and social experimentation.

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The Abundant Community

by John McKnight & Peter Block

Awakening the power of families and neighborhoods by focusing on the gifts and capacities of individuals, associations, and institutions.

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The Rise of the Creative Class

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Exploring how the growing role of creativity in our economy is transforming the way we live, work, and experience our communities.

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Building an entrepreneurial ecosystem in your city, with strategies for creating thriving startup communities in any location.

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For the Love of Cities

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The mutual love affair between people and their places, exploring emotional connections that lead to community engagement and development.

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The Metropolitan Revolution

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How cities and metros are fixing our broken politics and fragile economy, with case studies of metropolitan innovation and leadership.

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The Creative Community Builder's Handbook

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How to transform communities through local arts and cultural development, with practical strategies for community revitalization.

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Art as Experience

by John Dewey

A foundational text on the importance of the arts as an essential component of human experience and community life.

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What We Made: Conversations on Art and Social Cooperation

by Tom Finkelpearl

An examination of socially engaged art practices and their impact on community development and cultural exchange.

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The Art of Placemaking

by Ronald Lee Fleming

Interpreting community through public art and design, with case studies on how art transforms public spaces and builds community identity.

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Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World

by Michael Hyatt

A step-by-step guide for building a compelling personal brand and expanding your influence online.

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Permission Marketing

by Seth Godin

Turning strangers into friends and friends into customers by earning people's permission to deliver targeted messages.

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Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook

by Gary Vaynerchuk

How to tell your story in a noisy social world with strategies for connecting authentically on various social platforms.

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Open Space Technology: A User's Guide

by Harrison Owen

The definitive guide to Open Space Technology, a powerful method for facilitating group conversations and fostering community development.

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Fearless Change

by Mary Lynn Manns & Linda Rising

Patterns for introducing new ideas in organizations, with strategies for overcoming resistance to change.

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The Art of Community

by Jono Bacon

Building the new age of participation, with practical guidance for fostering collaboration in technical communities.

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Content Rules

by Ann Handley & C.C. Chapman

How to create killer blogs, podcasts, videos, e-books, webinars that engage customers and ignite your business.

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Contagious

by Jonah Berger

Why things catch on, exploring the science behind why certain content goes viral and how to craft messages that people will share.

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The Art of Facilitation: The Essentials for Leading Great Meetings and Creating Group Synergy

by Dale Hunter

Comprehensive guide to facilitation techniques that can be applied to retrospectives and other team meetings.

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Training From the Back of the Room!

by Sharon Bowman

Teaches facilitation techniques that engage participants and make learning stick, perfect for improving retrospective engagement.

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The Skilled Facilitator

by Roger Schwarz

A practical wisdom-based approach for facilitating groups, with guidance on maintaining neutrality and managing complex dynamics.

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The Art of Powerful Questions

by Eric E. Vogt, Juanita Brown, and David Isaacs

How to use questioning techniques in facilitation to catalyze insight, innovation, and action without injecting your own perspective.

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#NoEstimates

by Vasco Duarte

Explores alternatives to traditional estimation in software development, focusing on delivering value continuously without detailed upfront estimates.

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Commitment

by Olav Maassen, Chris Matts, and Chris Geary

A graphic novel about managing project risk through real options, offering an alternative perspective on estimation and commitment.

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Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art

by Steve McConnell

A balanced view of software estimation, acknowledging its challenges while providing practical techniques for making more accurate estimates.

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Cognitive Surplus

by Clay Shirky

The book that introduced Shirky's sharing model, exploring how technology enables people to collaborate and create shared value in ways previously impossible.

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Coworking: Building Community as a Space Catalyst

by Angel Kwiatkowski and Beth Buczynski

A practical guide to creating collaborative workspaces that foster community and innovation, representing the communal sharing model in action.

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The Starfish and the Spider

by Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom

Explores decentralized organizational models that thrive on collaboration and shared value creation, aligning with Shirky's public and civic sharing concepts.

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Wikinomics

by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams

How mass collaboration changes everything, detailing how businesses can harness collective intelligence and value creation in the digital age.

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The 4-Hour Workweek

by Timothy Ferriss

Includes innovative approaches to email management and automation to increase productivity and reduce time spent on routine tasks.

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Inbox Zero

by Merlin Mann

The methodology for managing email overload that pairs well with email scheduling tools like Boomerang.

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Email Marketing Rules

by Chad White

Best practices for email marketing that can be implemented using tools like Boomerang to optimize sending times.

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The Maker Movement Manifesto

by Mark Hatch

Rules for innovation in the new world of crafters, hackers, and tinkerers that aligns with Gangplank's creator-focused environment.

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The Power of Names

by Justin Halpern

An exploration of how names shape identity and perception, examining cultural, historical, and psychological aspects of naming.

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You Are Not So Smart

by David McRaney

Why you have too many friends on Facebook, why your memory is mostly fiction, and 46 other ways you're deluding yourself, including biases in how we perceive names.

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The Art of Choosing

by Sheena Iyengar

Explores how and why we make the choices we do, including how we choose to identify ourselves and others through names.

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The Culture Map

by Erin Meyer

Breaking through the invisible boundaries of global business - including cultural differences in how names are perceived and pronounced.

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Continuous Delivery

by Jez Humble and David Farley

Reliable software releases through build, test, and deployment automation - a foundational text on implementing effective DevOps practices.

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The DevOps Handbook

by Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, and John Willis

How to create world-class agility, reliability, and security in technology organizations through proven technical practices.

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Site Reliability Engineering

by Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff, and Niall Richard Murphy

How Google runs production systems, with principles that support effective DevOps collaboration and automation.

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Collaborative Innovation

by Edward B. Roberts

How organizations can foster innovation through structured collaboration, with policy recommendations for educational and business settings.

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Democratizing Innovation

by Eric von Hippel

How user-centered innovation fundamentally alters the way products and services are created, with implications for educational policy.

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Open Innovation

by Henry Chesbrough

The new imperative for creating and profiting from technology through collaborative approaches and policy frameworks that support knowledge sharing.

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Building Powerful Community Organizations

by Michael Jacoby Brown

A practical manual for building organizations and communities that focuses on the everyday actions that create lasting change.

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How to Read a Book

by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren

The classic guide to intelligent reading, providing a framework for different levels of reading engagement and comprehension.

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The Personal MBA

by Josh Kaufman

A comprehensive overview of business concepts that includes guidance on how to read more effectively and extract actionable insights.

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The Shallows

by Nicholas Carr

What the Internet is doing to our brains, exploring how digital reading differs from traditional reading and affects our cognitive processes.

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Proust and the Squid

by Maryanne Wolf

The story and science of the reading brain, examining the neurological and cultural evolution of reading throughout human history.

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The Read-Aloud Handbook

by Jim Trelease

A compelling case for the importance of reading aloud to children at all stages of development, with guidance on fostering a love of reading.

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The Self-Driven Child

by William Stixrud and Ned Johnson

The science and sense of giving your kids more control over their lives, emphasizing autonomy and intrinsic motivation.

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Raising Digital Natives

by Devorah Heitner

A practical guide to helping kids thrive in their digital world while developing healthy technology habits and critical thinking skills.

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Event Planning

by Judy Allen

The ultimate guide to successful meetings, corporate events, fundraising galas, conferences, conventions, incentives and other special events.

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The Secrets to Successful Events

by Lynn Fawcett

A resource guide for planning successful community events, with practical tips for volunteer organizers.

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The Power of Moments

by Chip Heath and Dan Heath

Why certain experiences have extraordinary impact, with insights for creating memorable and transformative events.

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Steal Like an Artist

by Austin Kleon

10 things nobody told you about being creative - a manifesto for creativity in the digital age focusing on creation over consumption.

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Creative Confidence

by Tom Kelley and David Kelley

Unleashing the creative potential within us all, with strategies for building the confidence to create rather than merely consume.

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Last Child in the Woods

by Richard Louv

Explores the increasing divide between children and the outdoors, and why connecting with nature is vital for healthy development and environmental stewardship.

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A Walk in the Woods

by Bill Bryson

A humorous and insightful account of hiking the Appalachian Trail that highlights the importance of preserving natural spaces and parks.

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The Nature Principle

by Richard Louv

Presents a case for reconnecting with the natural world to improve health, well-being, and community involvement, particularly through parks and outdoor spaces.

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Desert Solitaire

by Edward Abbey

A passionate defense of the desert and its park lands, with reflections on the importance of wilderness preservation in the American Southwest.

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The Soul of Yosemite

by Barbara J. Moritsch

Examines the challenges facing national parks and offers insights on sustainable park management and citizen involvement in park preservation.

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The Effortless Experience

by Matthew Dixon, Nick Toman, and Rick DeLisi

Conquering the new battleground for customer loyalty by making customer service experiences simple and straightforward.

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Resilience: The Science of Mastering Life's Greatest Challenges

by Steven M. Southwick and Dennis S. Charney

The source book for this post that explores the neurobiological and psychological mechanisms behind resilience, based on interviews with trauma survivors.

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Option B

by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant

Facing adversity, building resilience, and finding joy after tragedy, with practical advice based on psychological research.

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The Resilience Factor

by Karen Reivich and Andrew Shatte

Seven essential skills for overcoming life's inevitable obstacles, based on cognitive behavioral techniques and positive psychology.

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Rising Strong

by Brené Brown

How the ability to reset transforms the way we live, love, parent, and lead, with strategies for recovering from setbacks and disappointments.

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Open

by Andre Agassi

The autobiography referenced in this post, where Agassi reveals his authentic self and reflects on finding meaning through helping others.

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Altruism

by Matthieu Ricard

The power of compassion to change yourself and the world, with scientific research on how caring for others creates personal well-being.

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Start with Why

by Simon Sinek

How great leaders inspire everyone to take action by starting with their purpose - the 'why' behind what they do.

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Agile Web Development with Rails

by Sam Ruby, Dave Thomas, & David Heinemeier Hansson

The definitive guide to Ruby on Rails development that helped drive its initial popularity and adoption.

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Eloquent Ruby

by Russ Olsen

A guide to Ruby that goes beyond syntax to cover the philosophy, conventions, and community values that shape the language's development.

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60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Phoenix

by Charles Liu

A comprehensive guide to the best day hikes around Phoenix, including many trails in the Payson area.

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Arizona Highways Hiking Guide

by Robert Stieve

A guide to 52 of Arizona's best hikes, featuring detailed trail information and stunning photography of natural attractions.

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The Nature Fix

by Florence Williams

Why nature makes us happier, healthier, and more creative, with scientific evidence for the benefits of spending time outdoors.

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Your Guide to the National Parks

by Michael Joseph Oswald

A complete guide to exploring America's national parks, with tips for community engagement and outdoor exploration.

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How to Shit in the Woods

by Kathleen Meyer

A practical guide to environmentally sound outdoor etiquette, essential for responsible camping and hiking trips.

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Programming Ruby

by Dave Thomas

The definitive guide to Ruby, often referred to as 'the Pickaxe book,' covering both the language and its community.

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Crafting Rails Applications

by José Valim

An exploration of Rails' internal mechanisms and how to extend the framework creatively rather than just using its tools.

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Walkable City

by Jeff Speck

How downtown can save America, one step at a time, by creating environments that attract innovative businesses and creative talent.

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The Coming Jobs War

by Jim Clifton

What every leader must know about the future of job creation, with perspectives on developing vibrant economies beyond traditional industries.

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The Power of Ritual

by Casper ter Kuile

Turning everyday activities into meaningful practices that nurture connection and community, with insights on how rituals build belonging.

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Rituals for Work

by Kursat Ozenc and Margaret Hagan

50 ways to create engagement, shared purpose, and a culture that works, with practical applications of ritual in professional settings.

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Belonging

by Owen Eastwood

How shared rituals and practices create tribal connection in performance teams and communities around the world.

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Braving the Wilderness

by Brené Brown

The quest for true belonging and the courage to stand alone, exploring how shared rituals foster authentic connections.

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The New Localism

by Bruce Katz and Jeremy Nowak

How cities can thrive in the age of populism by focusing on local assets and strategic economic development.

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Economic Development in the 21st Century

by Daphne T. Greenwood and Richard P. F. Holt

New perspectives on improving quality of life, with strategic approaches to community-based economic development.

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Creating a Lean and Green Business System

by Keivan Zokaei, Hunter Lovins, Andy Wood, and Peter Hines

Techniques for improving profits and sustainability, with applications for value-add industries mentioned in Brian Cole's framework.

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Community Economics

by Ron Shaffer, Steve Deller, and Dave Marcouiller

Linking theory and practice in local economic development, with frameworks similar to Cole's comprehensive approach.

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Strategic Planning for Local Economic Development

by Edward J. Blakely and Nancey Green Leigh

A comprehensive guide to the process of community economic planning that aligns with Cole's methodical approach.

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The Triumph of the City

by Edward Glaeser

How our greatest invention makes us richer, smarter, greener, healthier, and happier, with urban development insights for states like Arizona.

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The Death and Life of Great American Cities

by Jane Jacobs

The classic critique of urban planning and renewal, with lessons for sustainable economic development beyond residential construction.

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Smart Communities

by Suzanne W. Morse

How citizens and local leaders can use strategic thinking to build a brighter future, with community-focused economic strategies.

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Investing in What Works for America's Communities

by Nancy O. Andrews and David J. Erickson (Editors)

Essays on people, place and purpose, offering innovative approaches to community and economic development.

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The Fourth Industrial Revolution

by Klaus Schwab

Explores the transformational changes occurring due to the fusion of technologies, building on the concept of historical economic shifts.

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Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital

by Carlota Perez

The dynamics of bubbles and golden ages in economic and technological transformations, with detailed analysis of the five major shifts mentioned in this post.

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The Great Reset

by Richard Florida

How new ways of living and working drive post-crash prosperity, examining how economic crises lead to lasting societal changes.

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The Second Machine Age

by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee

Work, progress, and prosperity in a time of brilliant technologies, analyzing how digital transformation affects all aspects of society.

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The Industries of the Future

by Alec Ross

An examination of the next wave of innovations that will transform our economic landscape, building on the historical context of technological shifts.

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Peopleware

by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister

Productive projects and teams, with insights on building and maintaining excellence in software development teams.

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Who's Your City?

by Richard Florida

How the creative economy is making where you live the most important decision of your life, emphasizing talent over traditional business incentives.

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Creating Innovators

by Tony Wagner

The making of young people who will change the world through developing talent and innovation skills rather than traditional economic approaches.

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What's Mine Is Yours

by Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers

The rise of collaborative consumption and how it's transforming the way we live, with detailed examination of the four principles discussed in this post.

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The Mesh

by Lisa Gansky

Why the future of business is sharing, exploring businesses that leverage the power of idling capacity and community trust.

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Peer-to-Peer

by Michel Bauwens, Vasilis Kostakis and Alex Pazaitis

A commons manifesto that explores belief in the commons and how it enables distributed networks of collaboration.

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The Airbnb Story

by Leigh Gallagher

How three ordinary guys disrupted an industry, made billions... and created plenty of controversy, exemplifying collaborative consumption in action.

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Blockchain Revolution

by Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott

How the technology behind Bitcoin is changing money, business, and the world by enabling new forms of trust between strangers.

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Get Together

by Bailey Richardson, Kevin Huynh, and Kai Elmer Sotto

How to build a community with your people, with practical strategies applicable to intentional collaborative spaces.

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The Coworking Handbook

by Ramon Suarez

Learn how to create a successful coworking space, build community, and explore differing models of shared workspaces.

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Soft Skills Engineering

by Dave Smith and Jamison Dance

The non-technical side of technical leadership, with insights on community contribution, speaking at events like code camps, and growing your network.

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Speaking.io

by Zach Holman

A comprehensive guide to public speaking, with advice for developers preparing for technical conferences and code camps.

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Coders at Work

by Peter Seibel

Reflections on the craft of programming through interviews with fifteen accomplished programmers, illustrating the value of community knowledge sharing.

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Better Tech Presentations

by Nina Zakharenko

A guide for creating and delivering engaging technical presentations, perfect for code camp speakers and attendees.

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The Innovative University

by Clayton Christensen and Henry Eyring

Changing the DNA of higher education from the inside out, with analysis of public and private university business models.

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Saving Higher Education

by Martin Kramer and James Piereson

The liberal arts in America, examining funding models and competition between different university systems.

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The Fall of the Faculty

by Benjamin Ginsberg

The rise of the all-administrative university and why it matters, with critical analysis of university growth strategies.

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Lower Ed

by Tressie McMillan Cottom

The troubling rise of for-profit colleges in the new economy, providing context for the regulatory environment discussed in this post.

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Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

by Benjamin Franklin

One of the most influential autobiographies ever written, providing insights into Franklin's early life and rise to prominence.

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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

by Stephen King

Part memoir, part masterclass on writing, with compelling opening sections about King's early life and career development.

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Born a Crime

by Trevor Noah

Stories from a South African childhood that reveal how Noah's mixed-race birth put him at odds with the apartheid system.

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Educated

by Tara Westover

The account of Westover's journey from a childhood in a survivalist family to earning a PhD from Cambridge University.

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The Future of the Internet

by Jonathan Zittrain

How open hardware and software platforms enable innovation and unexpected uses, as seen with Kinect hacking communities.

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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

by Steven Levy

The history of computing innovators who pushed technology in unexpected directions, similar to how the Kinect was repurposed by hackers.

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Reality Is Broken

by Jane McGonigal

Why games make us better and how they can change the world, with analysis of embodied gaming experiences like those provided by Kinect.

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Making Things Talk

by Tom Igoe

Using sensors, networks, and Arduino to connect physical objects to the digital world, with practical applications for Kinect technology.

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The Art of Innovation

by Tom Kelley

Lessons in creativity from IDEO, with insights on how successful products like Kinect are developed and marketed.

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543 books referenced across my articles

#NoEstimates

by Vasco Duarte

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60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Phoenix

by Charles Liu

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75 Hard: A Tactical Guide to Winning the War with Yourself

by Andy Frisella

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A More Beautiful Question

by Warren Berger

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A Philosophy of Software Design

by John Ousterhout

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A Walk in the Woods

by Bill Bryson

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AI for Learning

by Neil Selwyn

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AI in Education

by Wayne Holmes, Maya Bialik & Charles Fadel

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Accelerate

by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim

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Actionable Agile Metrics for Predictability

by Daniel S. Vacanti

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Agile Estimating and Planning

by Mike Cohn

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Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great

by Esther Derby & Diana Larsen

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Agile Testing

by Lisa Crispin & Janet Gregory

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Agile Web Development with Rails

by Sam Ruby, Dave Thomas, & David Heinemeier Hansson

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Algorithms to Live By

by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths

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Altruism

by Matthieu Ricard

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Antifragile

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Apology

by Plato

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Apprenticeship Patterns

by Dave Hoover & Adewale Oshineye

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Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

by Aristotle

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Arizona Highways Hiking Guide

by Robert Stieve

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Art as Experience

by John Dewey

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Atomic Habits

by James Clear

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Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

by James Clear

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Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

by Benjamin Franklin

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Becoming

by Michelle Obama

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Belonging

by Owen Eastwood

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Better Tech Presentations

by Nina Zakharenko

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Big Magic

by Elizabeth Gilbert

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Bird by Bird

by Anne Lamott

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Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

by Anne Lamott

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Blitzscaling

by Reid Hoffman & Chris Yeh

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Blockchain Revolution

by Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott

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Born Standing Up

by Steve Martin

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Born a Crime

by Trevor Noah

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Born to Run

by Christopher McDougall

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Bowling Alone

by Robert Putnam

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Braving the Wilderness

by Brené Brown

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Building Evolutionary Architectures

by Neal Ford, Rebecca Parsons & Patrick Kua

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Building Intelligent Systems

by Geoff Hulten

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Building Powerful Community Organizations

by Michael Jacoby Brown

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Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski

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Can't Hurt Me

by David Goggins

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Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds

by David Goggins

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Choke: What the Secrets of the Brain Reveal About Getting It Right When You Have To

by Sian Beilock

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Clean Architecture

by Robert C. Martin

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Clean Code

by Robert C. Martin

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Clean Ruby

by Jim Gay

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Clear Thinking

by Shane Parrish

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Clutch: Why Some People Excel Under Pressure and Others Don't

by Paul Sullivan

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Coaching Agile Teams

by Lyssa Adkins

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Code Complete

by Steve McConnell

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Coders at Work

by Peter Seibel

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Cognitive Surplus

by Clay Shirky

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Collaborative Innovation

by Edward B. Roberts

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Commitment

by Olav Maassen, Chris Matts, and Chris Geary

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Community Economics

by Ron Shaffer, Steve Deller, and Dave Marcouiller

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Community: The Structure of Belonging

by Peter Block

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Competing in the Age of AI

by Marco Iansiti & Karim R. Lakhani

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Conscious Business

by Fred Kofman

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Contagious

by Jonah Berger

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Content Rules

by Ann Handley & C.C. Chapman

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Continuous Delivery

by Jez Humble and David Farley

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Courage Is Calling

by Ryan Holiday

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Coworking: Building Community as a Space Catalyst

by Angel Kwiatkowski and Beth Buczynski

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Crafting Rails Applications

by José Valim

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Creating Innovators

by Tony Wagner

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Creating a Lean and Green Business System

by Keivan Zokaei, Hunter Lovins, Andy Wood, and Peter Hines

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Creative Confidence

by Tom Kelley and David Kelley

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Creativity, Inc.

by Ed Catmull & Amy Wallace

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Crossing the Chasm

by Geoffrey A. Moore

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Crucial Conversations

by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler

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Customer Loyalty: How to Earn It, How to Keep It

by Jill Griffin

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Dare to Lead

by Brené Brown

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Daring Greatly

by Brene Brown

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Debugging

by David J. Agans

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Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work

by Chip Heath and Dan Heath

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Deep Work

by Cal Newport

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Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

by Cal Newport

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Delivering Happiness

by Tony Hsieh

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Democratizing Innovation

by Eric von Hippel

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Desert Solitaire

by Edward Abbey

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Design Patterns

by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson & John Vlissides

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Design Patterns in Ruby

by Russ Olsen

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Designing Brand Identity

by Alina Wheeler

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Designing Machine Learning Systems

by Chip Huyen

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Designing Your Life

by Bill Burnett & Dave Evans

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Developing the Leader Within You 2.0

by John Maxwell

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Difficult Conversations

by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton & Sheila Heen

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Digital Minimalism

by Cal Newport

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Discipline Equals Freedom

by Jocko Willink

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Discourses

by Epictetus

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Discourses and Selected Writings

by Epictetus

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Discourses of Epictetus

by Epictetus

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Disrupting Class

by Clayton Christensen

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Domain-Driven Rails

by Robert Pankowecki & Arkency Team

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Drive

by Daniel H. Pink

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Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

by Daniel H. Pink

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Economic Development in the 21st Century

by Daphne T. Greenwood and Richard P. F. Holt

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Educated

by Tara Westover

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Effective Ruby

by Peter J. Jones

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Effective Testing with RSpec 3

by Myron Marston & Ian Dees

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Effortless Mastery

by Kenny Werner

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Ego Is the Enemy

by Ryan Holiday

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Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success

by Phil Jackson & Hugh Delehanty

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Eloquent Ruby

by Russ Olsen

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Email Marketing Rules

by Chad White

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Emotional Agility

by Susan David

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Emotional Intelligence 2.0

by Travis Bradberry & Jean Greaves

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Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products

by Marty Cagan & Chris Jones

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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

by Alfred Lansing

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Endure

by Alex Hutchinson

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Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance

by Alex Hutchinson

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Enterprise Architecture as Strategy

by Jeanne W. Ross, Peter Weill, David C. Robertson

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Essential Scrum

by Kenneth S. Rubin

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Essentialism

by Greg McKeown

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Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

by Greg McKeown

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Essentials of Product Management

by Raghu Ramanathan

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Event Planning

by Judy Allen

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Exceptional Service, Exceptional Profit

by Leonardo Inghilleri & Micah Solomon

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Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done

by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan

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Exit, Voice, and Loyalty

by Albert O. Hirschman

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Extreme Ownership

by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin

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Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

by Jocko Willink, Leif Babin

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Extreme Programming Explained

by Kent Beck

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Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision-Making

by Sam Kaner

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Factory Physics

by Wallace J. Hopp & Mark L. Spearman

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Fearless Change

by Mary Lynn Manns & Linda Rising

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Fearless Speech

by Michel Foucault

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Finding Your Own North Star

by Martha Beck

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Finish

by Jon Acuff

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Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done

by Jon Acuff

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Finite and Infinite Games

by James P. Carse

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First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently

by Marcus Buckingham

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Flourish

by Martin Seligman

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Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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For the Love of Cities

by Peter Kageyama

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Free to Learn

by Peter Gray

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Fundamentals of Software Architecture

by Mark Richards & Neal Ford

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Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers

by Dave Gray, Sunni Brown, and James Macanufo

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Get Together

by Bailey Richardson, Kevin Huynh, and Kai Elmer Sotto

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Getting Things Done

by David Allen

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Give and Take

by Adam Grant

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Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success

by Adam Grant

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Good Strategy Bad Strategy

by Richard Rumelt

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Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters

by Richard Rumelt

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Good Strategy, Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters

by Richard Rumelt

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Good Strategy/Bad Strategy

by Richard Rumelt

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Good to Great

by Jim Collins

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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

by Jim Collins

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Greenlights

by Matthew McConaughey

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Grit

by Angela Duckworth

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Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

by Angela Duckworth

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Growing Rails Applications in Practice

by Henning Koch & Thomas Eisenbarth

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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

by Steven Levy

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Hell Yeah or No

by Derek Sivers

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Here Comes Everybody

by Clay Shirky

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His Excellency: George Washington

by Joseph Ellis

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Hold Me Tight

by Dr. Sue Johnson

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Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

by Nir Eyal

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How Bad Do You Want It?

by Matt Fitzgerald

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How to Raise an Adult

by Julie Lythcott-Haims

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How to Read a Book

by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren

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How to Shit in the Woods

by Kathleen Meyer

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How to Win Friends and Influence People

by Dale Carnegie

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Human + Machine

by Paul R. Daugherty & H. James Wilson

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Human + Machine: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI

by Paul R. Daugherty

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Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control

by Stuart Russell

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Human-in-the-Loop Machine Learning

by Robert Munro

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Immunity to Change

by Robert Kegan

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Inbox Zero

by Merlin Mann

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Indistractable

by Nir Eyal

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Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life

by Nir Eyal

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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

by Robert Cialdini

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Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love

by Marty Cagan

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Integrity

by Henry Cloud

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Investing in What Works for America's Communities

by Nancy O. Andrews and David J. Erickson (Editors)

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It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work

by Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson

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Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook

by Gary Vaynerchuk

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Joy, Inc.

by Richard Sheridan

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Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business

by David J. Anderson

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Laches

by Plato

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Last Child in the Woods

by Richard Louv

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Leaders Eat Last

by Simon Sinek

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Leadership Jazz: The Essential Elements of a Great Leader

by Max De Pree

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Leadership Without Easy Answers

by Ronald A. Heifetz

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Leadership and Self-Deception

by The Arbinger Institute

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Leadership in Turbulent Times

by Doris Kearns Goodwin

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Leadership on the Line

by Ronald A. Heifetz & Marty Linsky

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Leading From Anywhere

by David Burkus

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Lean UX

by Jeff Gothelf & Josh Seiden

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Lean from the Trenches

by Henrik Kniberg

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Legacy

by James Kerr

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Letters from a Stoic

by Seneca

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Living with a SEAL

by Jesse Itzler

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Lore of Running

by Tim Noakes

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Lower Ed

by Tressie McMillan Cottom

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Lying

by Sam Harris

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Made to Stick

by Chip Heath & Dan Heath

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Make Time

by Jake Knapp & John Zeratsky

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Making Things Talk

by Tom Igoe

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Man's Search for Meaning

by Viktor E. Frankl

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Marketing 5.0: Technology for Humanity

by Philip Kotler, Hermawan Kartajaya & Iwan Setiawan

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Mastery

by Robert Greene

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Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment

by George Leonard

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Measure What Matters

by John Doerr

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Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

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Metaprogramming Ruby 2

by Paolo Perrotta

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Mindset

by Carol S. Dweck

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Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

by Carol S. Dweck

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Mini Habits

by Stephen Guise

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Moments of Truth

by Jan Carlzon

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Most Likely to Succeed

by Tony Wagner & Ted Dintersmith

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Multipliers

by Liz Wiseman

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Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter

by Liz Wiseman

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Necessary Endings

by Henry Cloud

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Never Eat Alone

by Keith Ferrazzi

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Never Split the Difference

by Chris Voss

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Nicomachean Ethics

by Aristotle

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Nonviolent Communication

by Marshall B. Rosenberg

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Nuts! Southwest Airlines Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success

by Kevin Freiberg & Jackie Freiberg

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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

by Stephen King

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Open

by Andre Agassi

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Open Innovation

by Henry Chesbrough

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Open Space Technology: A User's Guide

by Harrison Owen

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Option B

by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant

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Outliers

by Malcolm Gladwell

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Outliers: The Story of Success

by Malcolm Gladwell

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Pair Programming Illuminated

by Laurie Williams & Robert Kessler

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Peak

by Anders Ericsson

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Peak Performance

by Brad Stulberg

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Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive

by Brad Stulberg

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Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success

by Brad Stulberg

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Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise

by Anders Ericsson

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Peer-to-Peer

by Michel Bauwens, Vasilis Kostakis and Alex Pazaitis

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Peopleware

by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister

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Permission Marketing

by Seth Godin

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Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World

by Michael Hyatt

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Politics

by Aristotle

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Poor Charlie's Almanack

by Charles T. Munger

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Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

by Charles T. Munger

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Power Laws in the Information Production Process

by Leo Egghe

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Power and Prediction

by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans & Avi Goldfarb

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Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby

by Sandi Metz

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Practical Wisdom

by Barry Schwartz

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Predictably Irrational

by Dan Ariely

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Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence

by Ajay Agrawal

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Pressure Is a Privilege

by Billie Jean King

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Primal Leadership

by Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, Annie McKee

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Principles

by Ray Dalio

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Principles of Psychology

by William James

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Product Leadership

by Richard Banfield, Martin Eriksson & Nate Walkingshaw

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Programming Ruby

by Dave Thomas

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Project Retrospectives

by Norman L. Kerth

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Proust and the Squid

by Maryanne Wolf

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Psychological Safety

by Amy Edmondson

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Quiet Leadership

by David Rock

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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

by Susan Cain

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Radical Candor

by Kim Scott

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Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity

by Kim Scott

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Radical Honesty

by Brad Blanton

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Radical Responsibility

by Fleet Maull

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Rails AntiPatterns

by Chad Pytel & Tammer Saleh

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Raising Digital Natives

by Devorah Heitner

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Range

by David Epstein

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Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

by David Epstein

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Reality Is Broken

by Jane McGonigal

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Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code

by Martin Fowler

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Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable

by Tim S. Grover

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Remote: Office Not Required

by Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson

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Resilience: The Science of Mastering Life's Greatest Challenges

by Steven M. Southwick and Dennis S. Charney

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Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less

by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

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Rework

by Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson

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Rising Strong

by Brené Brown

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Rituals for Work

by Kursat Ozenc and Margaret Hagan

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Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

by Joseph E. Aoun

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Ruby Under a Microscope

by Pat Shaughnessy

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Rusch to Glory

by Rebecca Rusch & Selene Yeager

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SEO for Growth: The Ultimate Guide for Marketers, Web Designers & Entrepreneurs

by John Jantsch & Phil Singleton

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Saving Higher Education

by Martin Kramer and James Piereson

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Scaling Up

by Verne Harnish

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Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time

by Jeff Sutherland

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Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger

by Peter Bevelin

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Setting the Table

by Danny Meyer

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Shoe Dog

by Phil Knight

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Shop Class as Soulcraft

by Matthew B. Crawford

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Show Your Work!

by Austin Kleon

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Silence: In the Age of Noise

by Erling Kagge

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Site Reliability Engineering

by Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff, and Niall Richard Murphy

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Skin in the Game

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Smart Communities

by Suzanne W. Morse

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So Good They Can't Ignore You

by Cal Newport

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Socrates: A Man for Our Times

by Paul Johnson

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Soft Skills Engineering

by Dave Smith and Jamison Dance

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Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art

by Steve McConnell

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Software for Your Head

by Jim McCarthy

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Speaking.io

by Zach Holman

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Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days

by Jake Knapp

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Start with Why

by Simon Sinek

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Startup Communities

by Brad Feld

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Steal Like an Artist

by Austin Kleon

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Steve Jobs

by Walter Isaacson

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Stillness Is the Key

by Ryan Holiday

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Strategic Planning for Local Economic Development

by Edward J. Blakely and Nancey Green Leigh

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StrengthsFinder 2.0

by Tom Rath

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Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

by Philip E. Tetlock

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Superintelligence

by Nick Bostrom

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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character

by Richard P. Feynman

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Surrounded by Idiots

by Thomas Erikson

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Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

by Chip Heath, Dan Heath

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Talent is Overrated

by Geoff Colvin

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Team Topologies

by Matthew Skelton, Manuel Pais

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Team of Teams

by General Stanley McChrystal

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Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital

by Carlota Perez

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Test Driven Development

by Kent Beck

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Thanks for the Feedback

by Douglas Stone & Sheila Heen

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The 10X Rule

by Grant Cardone

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The 4-Hour Workweek

by Timothy Ferriss

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The 48 Laws of Power

by Robert Greene

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The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life

by Sahil Bloom

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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

by Stephen Covey

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The 80/20 Principle

by Richard Koch

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The Abilene Paradox and Other Meditations on Management

by Jerry B. Harvey

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The Abundant Community

by John McKnight & Peter Block

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The Advantage

by Patrick Lencioni

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The Age of AI: And Our Human Future

by Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt & Daniel Huttenlocher

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The Airbnb Story

by Leigh Gallagher

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The Alignment Problem

by Brian Christian

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The Art of Action

by Stephen Bungay

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The Art of Action: How Leaders Close the Gaps between Plans, Actions and Results

by Stephen Bungay

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The Art of Action: How Leaders Close the Gaps between Plans, Actions, and Results

by Stephen Bungay

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The Art of Agile Development

by James Shore & Shane Warden

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The Art of Choosing

by Sheena Iyengar

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The Art of Community

by Jono Bacon

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The Art of Explanation

by Lee LeFever

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The Art of Facilitation: The Essentials for Leading Great Meetings and Creating Group Synergy

by Dale Hunter

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The Art of Focused Conversation

by R. Brian Stanfield

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The Art of Gathering

by Priya Parker

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The Art of Impossible

by Steven Kotler

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The Art of Innovation

by Tom Kelley

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The Art of Learning

by Josh Waitzkin

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The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance

by Josh Waitzkin

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The Art of Placemaking

by Ronald Lee Fleming

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The Art of Possibility

by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander

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The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life

by Rosamund Stone Zander & Benjamin Zander

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The Art of Powerful Questions

by Eric E. Vogt, Juanita Brown, and David Isaacs

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The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life

by Avinash K. Dixit

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The Art of Thinking Clearly

by Rolf Dobelli

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The Art of Unit Testing

by Roy Osherove

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The Art of Woo

by G. Richard Shell & Mario Moussa

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The Art of the Long View: Planning for the Future in an Uncertain World

by Peter Schwartz

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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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The Book of Forgiving

by Desmond Tutu and Mpho Tutu

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The Brave Athlete: Calm the F*ck Down and Rise to the Occasion

by Simon Marshall & Lesley Paterson

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The Captain Class

by Sam Walker

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The Charisma Myth

by Olivia Fox Cabane

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The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

by Atul Gawande

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The Coaching Habit

by Michael Bungay Stanier

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The Coddling of the American Mind

by Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt

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The Collapse of Parenting

by Leonard Sax

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The Comfort Crisis

by Michael Easter

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The Coming Jobs War

by Jim Clifton

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The Compound Effect

by Darren Hardy

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The Confidence Code

by Katty Kay and Claire Shipman

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The Courage to Be Disliked

by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga

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The Coworking Handbook

by Ramon Suarez

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The Craftsman

by Richard Sennett

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The Creative Act: A Way of Being

by Rick Rubin

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The Creative Community Builder's Handbook

by Tom Borrup

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The Creative Habit

by Twyla Tharp

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The Creativity Code

by Marcus du Sautoy

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The Culture Advantage

by Michael Chavez

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The Culture Code

by Daniel Coyle

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The Culture Map

by Erin Meyer

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The Daily Stoic

by Ryan Holiday

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The Death and Life of Great American Cities

by Jane Jacobs

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The Decision Book

by Mikael Krogerus & Roman Tschäppeler

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The DevOps Handbook

by Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, and John Willis

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The Dichotomy of Leadership: Balancing the Challenges of Extreme Ownership to Lead and Win

by Jocko Willink

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The Difference Engine: Teaching AI to Think Differently

by Sal Khan

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The Dip

by Seth Godin

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The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit

by Seth Godin

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The Discourses

by Epictetus

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The E-Myth Revisited

by Michael E. Gerber

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The Effective Executive

by Peter F. Drucker

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The Effortless Experience

by Matthew Dixon, Nick Toman, and Rick DeLisi

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The Enchiridion

by Epictetus

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The End of Average

by Todd Rose

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The End of Marketing: Humanizing Your Brand in the Age of Social Media and AI

by Carlos Gil

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The Fall of the Faculty

by Benjamin Ginsberg

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The Fearless Organization

by Amy Edmondson

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The Fifth Discipline

by Peter Senge

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The First 90 Days

by Michael Watkins

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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

by Patrick Lencioni

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The Five Love Languages

by Gary Chapman

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The Founder's Dilemmas

by Noam Wasserman

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The Four Agreements

by Don Miguel Ruiz

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The Four Disciplines of Execution

by Chris McChesney, Sean Covey & Jim Huling

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The Fourth Industrial Revolution

by Klaus Schwab

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The Future of the Internet

by Jonathan Zittrain

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The Gap and The Gain

by Dan Sullivan and Benjamin Hardy

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The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World

by Lewis Hyde

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The Gifts of Imperfection

by Brené Brown

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The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement

by Eliyahu M. Goldratt

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The Gratitude Diaries: How a Year Looking on the Bright Side Can Transform Your Life

by Janice Kaplan

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The Great Reset

by Richard Florida

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The Happiness Hypothesis

by Jonathan Haidt

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things

by Ben Horowitz

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The How of Happiness

by Sonja Lyubomirsky

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The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book

by Andriy Burkov

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The Industries of the Future

by Alec Ross

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The Inevitable

by Kevin Kelly

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The Infinite Game

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