A History of Modern Computing, by Paul E. Ceruzzi (2010)
Pages: 445, Final verdict: Great-read
There are currently more than 22 billion computing devices in the world. They are everywhere, in laptops, smartphones, cars, and are used in all areas
...A History of Modern Computing, by Paul E. Ceruzzi (2010)
Pages: 445, Final verdict: Great-read
There are currently more than 22 billion computing devices in the world. They are everywhere, in laptops, smartphones, cars, and are used in all areas
...Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, by Caroline Criado Perez (2019)
Pages: 411, Final verdict: Must-read
Reading about discrimination, unfair labour, and prejudice against women became normal. We can surprisingly see that gender inequality is still
...Principles: Life and Work, by Ray Dalio (2017)
Pages: 552, Final verdict: Great-read
What principles does one of the most successful investment managers of the last 40 years live by?
At some point in life people decide it is time
...The Book of Why, by Judea Pearl & Dana Mackenzie (2018)
Pages: 432, Final verdict: Great-read
I had countless discussions with my thesis supervisor on the causes of road traffic accidents. I was proposing to build an AI model
...The Happiness Hypothesis, by Jonathan Haidt (2006)
Pages: 243, Final verdict: Must-read
How should we live our life in order to be happy? The Happiness Hypothesis is the first book by psychologist Jonathan Haidt, today a professor of business ethics
...Energy and Civilization: A History, by Vaclav Smil (2017)
Pages: 568, Final verdict: Great-read
Vaclav Smil, distinguished professor of the University of Manitoba, Canada, has made a career of dissecting broad topics of society from food production, the history of
...Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, by Alfred Lansing (1959)
Pages: 357, Final verdict: Should-read
1914 was an eventful year in history. Escalating tensions in Europe culminated in the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, setting in motion a series of events that
...Why We Sleep, by Matthew Walker (2017)
Pages: 340, Final verdict: Should-read
Would you be interested in an inexpensive way of prolonging good health, delaying aging, while improving memory and learning? Why We Sleep will convince you that sleep works
...Pages: 260, Final verdict: Great-read
Disease eradication is something we hardly think about in the west. Smallpox and Polio are distant memories buried in our high school history books and we only
...Pages: 384, Final verdict: Should-read
The question of why we grow old and how to stop it has intrigued us for long. As early as 1889, Professor Brown-Séquard
...The Netflix culture deck, now famous throughout Silicon Valley and the larger tech world, began as an experiment when Patty McCord, longtime Chief
...Stephen Hawking addresses some of the big questions of our universe: how did it all begin? or, are we alone in the universe? Brief Answers
...How do disruptive technologies cause great companies to fail? In his most famous book, The Innovator's Dilemma, Clayton Christensen explores the process by which very well managed
...Pages: 206,
Final verdict: Should-read
Do you have a book which you like so much that you gift it to all your friends? This was The Last Lecture for me, the I-love-this-book-you-should-read-it-too that
...Hero or thief? What does it take to become the second world's richest historical figure? Titan is the biography of John D.
...Is following our passion bad advice when choosing a career? Cal Newport believes so. So Good They Can't Ignore You is all about the idea
...What does it take to make a great team? No matter where you look, from heartened stories of sports teams winning against all odds to
...Pages: 340, Final verdict: Great-read
What does it mean to be a manager? Is there such thing as a definition of management? Peter Drucker believed so, and his thoughts on the topic
...Which region will be the leading the world in the 21st century? In Easternization, Gideon Rachman provides convincing arguments that the 21st century
...What makes life worth living in the face of death? This is the question asked by Paul Kalanithi, a neurosurgeon diagnosed with cancer at age 36. When
...Who is successful and why? Be it in the classroom, the sports arena or in the military, we've all encountered people who are "
...Pages: 256, Final verdict: Great-read
Can you hook your intended users to your product as you are hooked to your favorite phone apps? Do you want to learn the behavioral
...Pages: 210, Final verdict: Should-read
Can a good company become a great company and, if so, how? This is the question answered in the 2001 best-seller Good to Great by Jim Collins, an
...Pages: 165,
Final verdict: Should-read
We know it already, we go through it, we suffer from it - a creative "block" does not leave anyone out. The more important the
...Do you think that monopolies are bad or that first movers always have the advantage in business? Then be prepared to get your ideas challenged by Peter Thiel,
...Clayton Christensen is one of world's most acclaimed business thinkers, famous for his theory on innovation published in the book The Innovators Dilemma. But
...Let My People Go Surfing tells the story of Yvon Chouinard in founding and managing his companies Chouinard Equipment and Patagonia.
Originally published in 2005 and
...What does it take to be a master of persuasion? How do great salespeople, brands, religious groups and other organizations influence our decisions, and how
...How can someone overthrow a dictatorship, fight for a paradigm shifting change at the CIA or create the next billion dollar company? What do originals
...Without Their Permission is a memoir-meets-entrepreneurship-advice book written by Alexis Ohanian at the age 30. From the founding of the social news webpage Reddit to the political fight
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