Technology
Our digital world pulses with endless possibilities, from coding breakthroughs to philosophical questions about how technology shapes our minds and culture. Here you'll find practical guides for developers and entrepreneurs alongside thoughtful explorations of how our tools and screens are transforming society, work, and human connection.
Technology Book Summaries
Against Intellectual Monopoly
Patents and copyrights were meant to fuel invention. The evidence shows they mostly slow it down.
Economics
Business
Law
Politics
Capitalism
Against Intellectual Monopoly
Patents and copyrights were meant to fuel invention. The evidence shows they mostly slow it down.
Economics
Business
Law
Politics
Capitalism
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
Five activities emit 51 billion tons a year; the cost gaps show where innovation must hit first.
Science
Environment
Sustainability
Technology
Economics
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
Five activities emit 51 billion tons a year; the cost gaps show where innovation must hit first.
Science
Environment
Sustainability
Technology
Economics
Freedom™
A rogue AI is dismantling global finance. One detective must prove humanity deserves to survive.
Science Fiction
Thriller
Technology
Adult
Speculative Fiction
Freedom™
A rogue AI is dismantling global finance. One detective must prove humanity deserves to survive.
Science Fiction
Thriller
Technology
Adult
Speculative Fiction
Digital Body Language
Half your emails land wrong. The cues, channels, and timing that fix digital communication.
Business
Leadership
Self Help
Psychology
Management
Digital Body Language
Half your emails land wrong. The cues, channels, and timing that fix digital communication.
Business
Leadership
Self Help
Psychology
Management
The Self Illusion
Your brain constructs the story of a unified you. Memory, culture, and neurons are the ingredients.
Psychology
Science
Philosophy
Self Help
Sociology
The Self Illusion
Your brain constructs the story of a unified you. Memory, culture, and neurons are the ingredients.
Psychology
Science
Philosophy
Self Help
Sociology
Yuval Noah Harari Collection 3 Books Set
The old stories that gave us meaning are failing while AI and biotech promise to remake humanity.
History
Science
Technology
Sociology
Anthropology
Yuval Noah Harari Collection 3 Books Set
The old stories that gave us meaning are failing while AI and biotech promise to remake humanity.
History
Science
Technology
Sociology
Anthropology
Platform Scale
Pipes make and sell. Platforms let others create the value. The blueprint for building one.
Business
Technology
Entrepreneurship
Economics
Management
Platform Scale
Pipes make and sell. Platforms let others create the value. The blueprint for building one.
Business
Technology
Entrepreneurship
Economics
Management
Unleashing the Idea Virus
Find your carriers. Arm them with a remarkable idea. The right community does the rest.
Business
Entrepreneurship
Leadership
Management
Technology
Unleashing the Idea Virus
Find your carriers. Arm them with a remarkable idea. The right community does the rest.
Business
Entrepreneurship
Leadership
Management
Technology
Tim Cook
They said Apple peaked with Jobs. Cook's bet on operations, ethics, and privacy tripled its value.
Biography
Business
Technology
Leadership
Management
Tim Cook
They said Apple peaked with Jobs. Cook's bet on operations, ethics, and privacy tripled its value.
Biography
Business
Technology
Leadership
Management
The User Experience Team of One
Win allies, test fast, and ship better products as the solo UX designer: the lightweight methods.
Design
Business
Reference
Technology
Management
The User Experience Team of One
Win allies, test fast, and ship better products as the solo UX designer: the lightweight methods.
Design
Business
Reference
Technology
Management
The Accidental Billionaires
The $1,000 server payment and a 65/30 split that turned old friends into courtroom enemies.
Business
Biography
Technology
History
Internet
The Accidental Billionaires
The $1,000 server payment and a 65/30 split that turned old friends into courtroom enemies.
Business
Biography
Technology
History
Internet
The Engineering Executive's Primer
Values you can flip, metrics your CEO reads, and the one rule for build vs. buy.
Business
Leadership
Management
Technology
Self Help
The Engineering Executive's Primer
Values you can flip, metrics your CEO reads, and the one rule for build vs. buy.
Business
Leadership
Management
Technology
Self Help
Data Science
Turning raw data into decisions requires a defined process, not just algorithms and statistics.
Science
Technology
Computer Science
Business
Reference
Data Science
Turning raw data into decisions requires a defined process, not just algorithms and statistics.
Science
Technology
Computer Science
Business
Reference
Product-Led SEO
Revenue, not rankings: why the best SEO starts with your product, not your keywords.
Business
Entrepreneurship
Technology
Management
Internet
Product-Led SEO
Revenue, not rankings: why the best SEO starts with your product, not your keywords.
Business
Entrepreneurship
Technology
Management
Internet
Virtual Selling
Master the blend of video, phone, email, and social selling, or watch your pipeline evaporate.
Business
Management
Marketing
Technology
Entrepreneurship
Virtual Selling
Master the blend of video, phone, email, and social selling, or watch your pipeline evaporate.
Business
Management
Marketing
Technology
Entrepreneurship
Social Physics
Idea flow through social networks predicts team output and city GDP better than individual talent.
Science
Sociology
Psychology
Business
Technology
Social Physics
Idea flow through social networks predicts team output and city GDP better than individual talent.
Science
Sociology
Psychology
Business
Technology
The World Beyond Your Head
Your attention is being strip-mined by design. The way out is physical, skilled, and shared.
Philosophy
Psychology
Sociology
Technology
Culture
The World Beyond Your Head
Your attention is being strip-mined by design. The way out is physical, skilled, and shared.
Philosophy
Psychology
Sociology
Technology
Culture
The Elements of Typographic Style
Typography is an invisible art. Its rules: proportion, rhythm, and a five-century memory.
Design
Art
Reference
Writing
Publishing
The Elements of Typographic Style
Typography is an invisible art. Its rules: proportion, rhythm, and a five-century memory.
Design
Art
Reference
Writing
Publishing
Think Python
Python taught as problem decomposition: mastering variables, functions, and data structures.
Programming
Computer Science
Technology
Reference
Education
Think Python
Python taught as problem decomposition: mastering variables, functions, and data structures.
Programming
Computer Science
Technology
Reference
Education
UX for Lean Startups
Prove anyone wants your product before you build it: lightweight UX methods for lean startups.
Design
Business
Technology
Entrepreneurship
Reference
UX for Lean Startups
Prove anyone wants your product before you build it: lightweight UX methods for lean startups.
Design
Business
Technology
Entrepreneurship
Reference
The Unicorn Project
Scapegoated for a payroll crash, an engineer is exiled to a doomed project where nothing ships.
Business
Technology
Leadership
Computer Science
Novels
The Unicorn Project
Scapegoated for a payroll crash, an engineer is exiled to a doomed project where nothing ships.
Business
Technology
Leadership
Computer Science
Novels
Persuasive Games
A videogame's rules are arguments. Learning to read them changes how you see every screen.
Technology
Computer Science
Philosophy
Culture
Design
Persuasive Games
A videogame's rules are arguments. Learning to read them changes how you see every screen.
Technology
Computer Science
Philosophy
Culture
Design
American Sketches
Einstein, FDR, Churchill, Katrina: Isaacson's portraits of leadership when it mattered most.
Biography
Essays
History
Politics
Leadership
American Sketches
Einstein, FDR, Churchill, Katrina: Isaacson's portraits of leadership when it mattered most.
Biography
Essays
History
Politics
Leadership
Cracking the Coding Interview
189 interview problems that teach you to think out loud, because code follows from thinking.
Computer Science
Programming
Technology
Reference
Self Help
Cracking the Coding Interview
189 interview problems that teach you to think out loud, because code follows from thinking.
Computer Science
Programming
Technology
Reference
Self Help
The Challenger Launch Decision
The chain of small failures that precedes every disaster, and where to break it.
Business
Leadership
Psychology
Management
Science
The Challenger Launch Decision
The chain of small failures that precedes every disaster, and where to break it.
Business
Leadership
Psychology
Management
Science
The Startup Owner's Manual Strategy Guide
The original playbook for founders: stop guessing, start testing, find a business model that scales.
Business
Entrepreneurship
Technology
Management
Reference
The Startup Owner's Manual Strategy Guide
The original playbook for founders: stop guessing, start testing, find a business model that scales.
Business
Entrepreneurship
Technology
Management
Reference
The Infinite Machine
What happens when a decentralized revolution turns out to depend on one 23-year-old?
Technology
Business
Finance
Economics
Computer Science
The Infinite Machine
What happens when a decentralized revolution turns out to depend on one 23-year-old?
Technology
Business
Finance
Economics
Computer Science
Start Small, Stay Small
Stop building products for everyone. Pick a niche, build an audience, and market before you code.
Business
Entrepreneurship
Technology
Programming
Management
Start Small, Stay Small
Stop building products for everyone. Pick a niche, build an audience, and market before you code.
Business
Entrepreneurship
Technology
Programming
Management
Design Systems
Your pattern library is not a design system. Shared language and team practices close the gap.
Design
Business
Technology
Programming
Computer Science
Design Systems
Your pattern library is not a design system. Shared language and team practices close the gap.
Design
Business
Technology
Programming
Computer Science
God, Human, Animal, Machine
We swapped God for AI. A former fundamentalist finds the old religion hiding in our machines.
Philosophy
Religion
Spirituality
Ai
Technology
God, Human, Animal, Machine
We swapped God for AI. A former fundamentalist finds the old religion hiding in our machines.
Philosophy
Religion
Spirituality
Ai
Technology
Softwar
Oracle nearly died in 1990. Its founder's response: bet the company on an all-in internet gamble.
Biography
Business
Technology
History
Leadership
Softwar
Oracle nearly died in 1990. Its founder's response: bet the company on an all-in internet gamble.
Biography
Business
Technology
History
Leadership
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power
Two nations race to own AI. The prize: your job, your mind, and the global pecking order.
Technology
Politics
Sociology
Economics
Science
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power
Two nations race to own AI. The prize: your job, your mind, and the global pecking order.
Technology
Politics
Sociology
Economics
Science
Operating System Concepts
There is exactly one program that never stops on your computer; everything else negotiates with it.
Computer Science
Technology
Programming
Reference
Operating System Concepts
There is exactly one program that never stops on your computer; everything else negotiates with it.
Computer Science
Technology
Programming
Reference
The Ultimate Guide to Red Light Therapy
An epidemic of light starvation. The precise doses for anti-aging, fat loss, and a sharper brain.
Health
Self Help
Science
Medicine
Wellness
The Ultimate Guide to Red Light Therapy
An epidemic of light starvation. The precise doses for anti-aging, fat loss, and a sharper brain.
Health
Self Help
Science
Medicine
Wellness
Killer ChatGPT Prompts
Everyone has ChatGPT. The difference between frustration and productivity is how you ask.
Technology
Ai
Reference
Business
Computer Science
Killer ChatGPT Prompts
Everyone has ChatGPT. The difference between frustration and productivity is how you ask.
Technology
Ai
Reference
Business
Computer Science
The Happiness Industry
The push to measure your happiness was never about your well-being. It was about control.
Politics
Economics
Sociology
Psychology
Philosophy
The Happiness Industry
The push to measure your happiness was never about your well-being. It was about control.
Politics
Economics
Sociology
Psychology
Philosophy
Music Theory for Computer Musicians
The producer's missing manual: music theory from notes to exotic scales, built for the DAW workflow.
Music
Reference
Education
Technology
Art
Music Theory for Computer Musicians
The producer's missing manual: music theory from notes to exotic scales, built for the DAW workflow.
Music
Reference
Education
Technology
Art
The AI Revolution in Medicine
GPT-4 can diagnose, comfort patients, and fight burnout. Nobody knows if it truly understands.
Medicine
Technology
Computer Science
Science
Health
The AI Revolution in Medicine
GPT-4 can diagnose, comfort patients, and fight burnout. Nobody knows if it truly understands.
Medicine
Technology
Computer Science
Science
Health
The Amazon Management System
The practices, from hiring to metrics, that keep Amazon sprinting while other giants slow.
Business
Management
Leadership
Entrepreneurship
Technology
The Amazon Management System
The practices, from hiring to metrics, that keep Amazon sprinting while other giants slow.
Business
Management
Leadership
Entrepreneurship
Technology
Observability Engineering
Your dashboards only know yesterday's failures. Here's how to debug the ones nobody predicted.
Technology
Programming
Computer Science
Business
Reference
Observability Engineering
Your dashboards only know yesterday's failures. Here's how to debug the ones nobody predicted.
Technology
Programming
Computer Science
Business
Reference
