Impro Improvisation and the Theatre
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- Keith Johnstone
Books
These are the books I've read and even sometimes enjoyed
2026 3 of 18 read
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Civil Litigation for Non‑Lawyers A plain-English guide to civil cases in New Zealand
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- Martin Dillon
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Careless People A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
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- Sarah Wynn-Williams
2025 6 of 18 read
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Moral Mazes The World of Corporate Managers
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- Robert Jackall
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How to Take Smart Notes One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking
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- Sönke Ahrens
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The Tyranny of Metrics
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- Jerry Z. Muller
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The Three-Body Problem
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- Liu Cixin
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Tidy First? A Personal Exercise in Empirical Software Design
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- Kent Back
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Amusing Ourselves to Death Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
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- Neil Postman
2024 19 of 16 read
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The Wisdom of Anxiety How Worry and Intrusive Thoughts Are Gifts to Help You Heal
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- Sheryl Paul
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The Upward Spiral Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time
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- Alex Korb
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Half-Life 2 Raising the Bar
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- David Hodgson
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Personal Kanban Mapping Work | Navigating Life
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- Jim Benson and Tonianne DeMaria Barry
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Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life
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- Spencer Johnson
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Meditations for Mortals Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
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- Oliver Burkeman
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Means of Control How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State
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- Byron Tau
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How Big Things Get Done The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between
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- Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner
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Burn Book A Tech Love Story
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- Kara Swisher
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Hacks, Leaks, and Revelations The Art of Analyzing Hacked and Leaked Data
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- Micah Lee
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Creative Dysregulation Why Your Creativity Is Chaotic & What to Do About It
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- Kelly Wilde Miller
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Risk & Reward An Inside View of the Property/Casualty Insurance Business
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- Stephen Catlin
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Networks of New York An Illustrated Field Guide to Urban Internet Infrastructure
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- Ingrid Burrington
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サイレントヒル2 (Silent Hill 2) The Novel
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- Sadamu Yamashita
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The Shallows What the Internet is Doing to our Brains
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- Nicholas Carr
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Creative Doing 75 Practical Exercises to Unblock Your Creative Potential in Your Work, Hobby, or Next Career
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- Herbert Lui
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Digital Zettelkasten Principles, Methods, & Examples
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- David Kadavy
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What the CEO Wants You to Know How Your Company Really Works
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- Ram Charan
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High Performance Browser Networking What Every Web Developer Should Know about Networking and Web Performance
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- Ilya Grigorik
2023 7 of 24 read
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Blood, Sweat, and Pixels The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made
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- Jason Schreier
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Walking Your Blues Away How to Heal the Mind and Create Emotional Well-Being
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- Thom Hartmann
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Taxtopia How I Discovered the Injustices, Scams and Guilty Secrets of the Tax Evasion Game
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- The Rebel Accountant
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The PARA Method Simplify, Organize, and Master Your Digital Life
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- Tiago Forte
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Hanging Out The Radical Power of Killing Time
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- Sheila Liming
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How to Make Coffee The Science Behind the Bean
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- Lani Kingston
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Like, Comment, Subscribe How YouTube Drives Google's Dominance and Controls Our Culture
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- Mark Bergen
2022 5 of 12 read
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Build An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
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- Tony Fadell
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High Output Management
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- Andrew S. Grove
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Building a Second Brain A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
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- Tiago Forte
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Slow Horses
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- Mick Herron
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Ruined by Design How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It
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- Mike Monteiro
2021 10 of 20 read
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Four Thousand Weeks Time Management for Mortals
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- Oliver Burkeman
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Crossing the Chasm, 3rd Edition Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers
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- Geoffrey A. Moore
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The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge
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- Abraham Flexner
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Resilient Management
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- Lara Hogan
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The Big Four The Curious Past and Perilous Future of the Global Accounting Monopoly
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- Ian D. Gow
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Little Rice Smartphones, Xiaomi, and The Chinese Dream
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- Clay Shirky
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The Waxman Report How Congress Really Works
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- Henry Waxman
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In the Beginning ...Was the Command Line
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- Neal Stephenson
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The Dip A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit
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- Seth Godin
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Propaganda
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- Edward Bernays
2020 21 of 12 read
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In the Plex How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
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- Steven Levy
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Naked Pictures of Famous People
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- Jon Stewart
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The Checklist Manifesto How to Get Things Right
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- Atul Gawande
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Greenlights
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- Matthew McConaughey
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The Death of Ivan Ilych
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- Leo Tolstoy
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Talking to My Daughter About the Economy or, How Capitalism Works - and How It Fails
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- Yanis Varoufakis
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The Miracle of Mindfulness An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation
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- Thich Nhat Hanh
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On Bullshit
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- Harry G. Frankfurt
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The Curse of Bigness Antitrust in the New Gilded Age
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- Tim Wu
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Memos from the Chairman
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- Alan C. Greenberg
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Learning HTTP/2 A Practical Guide for Beginners
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- Stephen Ludin and Javier Garza
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The Master Switch The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
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- Tim Wu
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Atomic Habits An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
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- James Clear
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The Inner Game of Tennis The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
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- Timothy W. Gallwey
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Zen in the Art of Writing
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- Ray Bradbury
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Red Tape Its Origins, Uses, and Abuses
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- Herbert Kaufman
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Why I Write
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- George Orwell
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Dirty Politics How Attack Politics is Poisoning New Zealand's Political Environment
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- Nicky Hager
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Getting Things Done The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
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- David Allen
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The Information Diet A Case for Conscious Consumption
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- Clay A. Johnson
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The Myth of Sisyphus
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- Albert Camus
2019 2 books
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The Unicorn Project A Novel about Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Data
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- Gene Kim
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Super Pumped The Battle for Uber
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- Mike Isaac
2018 14 books
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How To Win Friends and Influence People
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- Dale Carnegie
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The Phoenix Project A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
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- Gene Kim
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The Fifth Discipline The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization
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- Peter M. Senge
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The Flinch
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- Julien Smith
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Twin Peaks The Final Dossier
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- Mark Frost
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The Little Go Book
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- Karl Seguin
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20 Python Libraries You Aren't Using
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- Caleb Hattingh
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Site Reliability Engineering How Google Runs Production Systems
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- Betsy Beyer
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Tales from the Loop
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- Simon Stålenhag
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Shit London Snapshots of a City on the Edge
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- Patrick Dalton
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Japanese Game Graphics Behind the Scenes of Your Favorite Games
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- Works Corporation
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Show Stopper! The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft
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- G. Pascal Zachary
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Half-Life 2 Raising the Bar
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- David Hodgson
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Pendulum How Past Generations Shape Our Present and Predict Our Future
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- Roy H. Williams
Stalled 14 books
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Creating The Mania An Inside Look at How WrestleMania Comes to Life
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- Jon Robinson
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Political Ponerology A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes
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- Andrew M. Lobaczewski
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How To Be Wrong A crash course in startup success
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- Rowan Simpson
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Designing Data-Intensive Applications The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems
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- Martin Kleppman
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Seeing Like a State How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
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- James C. Scott
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100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
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- Teiva Harsanyi
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SQL Performance Explained Everything Developers Need To Know About SQL Performance
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- Markus Winand
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Going Infinite The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
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- Michael Lewis
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The Power Broker Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
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- Robert Caro
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Wrong Way How Privatisation and Economic Reform Backfired
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- Damien Cahill and Phillip Toner
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Unscripted The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy
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- James B. Stewart and Rachel Abrams
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The 99% Invisible City A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
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- Roman Mars
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Original Copies Architectural Mimicry in Contemporary China
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- Bianca Bosker
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The Unaccountability Machine Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions
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- Dan Davies