The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness

By Steven Levy (2007) Pages: 286, Final verdict: Great-read If you’ve ever owned one, you know: the iPod was special. From 2001 to 2022, Apple sold more than 450 million of them. Along the way, it morphed from a music player into a social phenomenon. If you had one,... Read more

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Facebook: The Inside Story

By Steven Levy (2020) Pages: 592 , Final verdict: Great-read Steven Levy is what you might call an OG tech journalist. Starting in the 80's, he has done everything from contributing to Stewart Brand's Whole Earth Software Catalog, publishing for the NY Times, Wired, Macworld and writing... Read more

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The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley

By Jimmy Soni (2022) Pages: 496, Final verdict: Great-read PayPal's impact transcends the company. I heard this a few times before picking up Soni's latest book, and for good reason. Yes, Paypal is - at the time I'm writing this in May '23... Read more

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The Master Algorithm

By Pedro Domingos (2015) Pages: 352, Final verdict: Great-read Harvard Business Review declared Data Scientist the sexiest job of the 21st century [https://hbr.org/2012/10/data-scientist-the-sexiest-job-of-the-21st-century], back in 2012. And everywhere you look the words "artificial intelligence", "machine learning" and "algorithms" appear.... Read more

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