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
Once Upon an Algorithm
What Hansel and Gretel, Sherlock Holmes, and Groundhog Day can teach you about algorithms.
Computer Science
Science
Technology
Programming
Mathematics
Once Upon an Algorithm
What Hansel and Gretel, Sherlock Holmes, and Groundhog Day can teach you about algorithms.
Computer Science
Science
Technology
Programming
Mathematics
Killing Marketing
The smartest brands no longer rent attention. They own audiences and charge for access instead.
Business
Entrepreneurship
Management
Leadership
Technology
Killing Marketing
The smartest brands no longer rent attention. They own audiences and charge for access instead.
Business
Entrepreneurship
Management
Leadership
Technology
Software Architecture Patterns
Five architecture patterns, their trade-offs, and how to pick the one your system actually needs.
Programming
Technology
Computer Science
Architecture
Reference
Software Architecture Patterns
Five architecture patterns, their trade-offs, and how to pick the one your system actually needs.
Programming
Technology
Computer Science
Architecture
Reference
Cloud Architecture Patterns
Scale out, not up: the patterns that make cloud apps resilient, cheap, and self-healing.
Technology
Programming
Computer Science
Architecture
Reference
Cloud Architecture Patterns
Scale out, not up: the patterns that make cloud apps resilient, cheap, and self-healing.
Technology
Programming
Computer Science
Architecture
Reference
AI-Powered Commerce
Skip the guesswork: AI mines market data to surface product ideas, white space, and demand signals.
Business
Technology
Ai
Computer Science
Entrepreneurship
AI-Powered Commerce
Skip the guesswork: AI mines market data to surface product ideas, white space, and demand signals.
Business
Technology
Ai
Computer Science
Entrepreneurship
Email Marketing Demystified
The $43-to-$1 channel: a system for building a list that sells on demand.
Business
Entrepreneurship
Writing
Internet
Technology
Email Marketing Demystified
The $43-to-$1 channel: a system for building a list that sells on demand.
Business
Entrepreneurship
Writing
Internet
Technology
The Accidental Instructional Designer
Never meant to be an instructional designer? A framework for digital learning that works.
Education
Design
Business
Teaching
Technology
The Accidental Instructional Designer
Never meant to be an instructional designer? A framework for digital learning that works.
Education
Design
Business
Teaching
Technology
Bloomberg by Bloomberg
Fired with $10 million, he built a terminal that reshaped finance, then ran New York City.
Business
Biography
Entrepreneurship
Finance
Leadership
Bloomberg by Bloomberg
Fired with $10 million, he built a terminal that reshaped finance, then ran New York City.
Business
Biography
Entrepreneurship
Finance
Leadership
Conversations with People Who Hate Me
He saved the hate mail, then called the haters. Twelve things those conversations taught him.
Memoir
Social Justice
Sociology
Politics
Psychology
Conversations with People Who Hate Me
He saved the hate mail, then called the haters. Twelve things those conversations taught him.
Memoir
Social Justice
Sociology
Politics
Psychology
The Startup Playbook
Forty founders. One playbook. The principles for product-market fit, pivoting, and scaling.
Business
Entrepreneurship
Leadership
Management
Technology
The Startup Playbook
Forty founders. One playbook. The principles for product-market fit, pivoting, and scaling.
Business
Entrepreneurship
Leadership
Management
Technology
The Future of Fusion Energy
Building a star on Earth: the 35-nation, 500-megawatt experiment to unlock fusion energy.
Science
Physics
Technology
Nature
Environment
The Future of Fusion Energy
Building a star on Earth: the 35-nation, 500-megawatt experiment to unlock fusion energy.
Science
Physics
Technology
Nature
Environment
The New Breed
Robot panic is sci-fi fueled. The real future looks more like our ancient partnership with animals.
Science
Technology
Animals
Philosophy
History
The New Breed
Robot panic is sci-fi fueled. The real future looks more like our ancient partnership with animals.
Science
Technology
Animals
Philosophy
History
It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work
Stop the hustle, protect your time, and build a calm, profitable business. Proven at Basecamp.
Business
Management
Leadership
Work
Entrepreneurship
It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work
Stop the hustle, protect your time, and build a calm, profitable business. Proven at Basecamp.
Business
Management
Leadership
Work
Entrepreneurship
How to Stay Smart in a Smart World
AI masters chess but fumbles real life. Why simple human judgment still outperforms algorithms.
Psychology
Science
Technology
Ai
Business
How to Stay Smart in a Smart World
AI masters chess but fumbles real life. Why simple human judgment still outperforms algorithms.
Psychology
Science
Technology
Ai
Business
Supertoys
An android boy faces replacement when his mother wins the right to a real child.
Science Fiction
Short Stories
Dystopian
Anthologies
Speculative Fiction
Supertoys
An android boy faces replacement when his mother wins the right to a real child.
Science Fiction
Short Stories
Dystopian
Anthologies
Speculative Fiction
The Glass Bead Game
Online learning and rising costs disrupt the university model, forcing a choice: reform or decline.
Education
Business
Technology
University
Management
The Glass Bead Game
Online learning and rising costs disrupt the university model, forcing a choice: reform or decline.
Education
Business
Technology
University
Management
God, Technology, and the Christian Life
Technology was God's idea first. The industry's gospel of salvation through silicon is not.
Christian
Technology
Christianity
Christian Faith
Faith
God, Technology, and the Christian Life
Technology was God's idea first. The industry's gospel of salvation through silicon is not.
Christian
Technology
Christianity
Christian Faith
Faith
Paid Attention
Brands used to buy attention. Now they must earn it with myth, emotion, and ideas people share.
Business
Technology
Internet
Psychology
Design
Paid Attention
Brands used to buy attention. Now they must earn it with myth, emotion, and ideas people share.
Business
Technology
Internet
Psychology
Design
Mastering the VC Game
A VC's unvarnished playbook: how deals get done, from the first pitch to the final exit.
Business
Entrepreneurship
Finance
Money
Leadership
Mastering the VC Game
A VC's unvarnished playbook: how deals get done, from the first pitch to the final exit.
Business
Entrepreneurship
Finance
Money
Leadership
Programming C#
C# from the ground up: objects, events, Windows interfaces, and the database that drives them.
Computer Science
Technology
Reference
Development
Design
Programming C#
C# from the ground up: objects, events, Windows interfaces, and the database that drives them.
Computer Science
Technology
Reference
Development
Design
Under a White Sky
Every environmental solution spawns a new problem. The next ones alter genes and block the sun.
Science
Environment
Nature
Climate Change
Ecology
Under a White Sky
Every environmental solution spawns a new problem. The next ones alter genes and block the sun.
Science
Environment
Nature
Climate Change
Ecology
Losing the Signal
BlackBerry invented mobile email, built an $80 billion empire. The iPhone killed it in four years.
Business
Technology
History
Biography
Entrepreneurship
Losing the Signal
BlackBerry invented mobile email, built an $80 billion empire. The iPhone killed it in four years.
Business
Technology
History
Biography
Entrepreneurship
What the Face Reveals
A system cataloging every facial movement, and what it found about lies, craving, and heart disease.
Psychology
Science
Reference
Health
Mental Health
What the Face Reveals
A system cataloging every facial movement, and what it found about lies, craving, and heart disease.
Psychology
Science
Reference
Health
Mental Health
The Race between Education and Technology
The 20th century's inequality curve has a single engine: how fast education kept pace with machines.
Economics
History
Education
Sociology
Technology
The Race between Education and Technology
The 20th century's inequality curve has a single engine: how fast education kept pace with machines.
Economics
History
Education
Sociology
Technology
No Tech Hacking
Hacking without technology: how open dumpsters, shoulder glances, and held doors break security.
Technology
Computer Science
Psychology
Reference
Business
No Tech Hacking
Hacking without technology: how open dumpsters, shoulder glances, and held doors break security.
Technology
Computer Science
Psychology
Reference
Business
The True Adventures of the World's Greatest Stuntman
Indiana Jones's stunt double reveals the truck chase secrets and the invention that changed stunts.
Memoir
Biography
Movies
Action
Adventure
The True Adventures of the World's Greatest Stuntman
Indiana Jones's stunt double reveals the truck chase secrets and the invention that changed stunts.
Memoir
Biography
Movies
Action
Adventure
Quantum Enigma
Quantum theory: nothing is real until it's seen. The one loophole points straight at consciousness.
Science
Philosophy
Psychology
Spirituality
Mind, Body & Spirit
Quantum Enigma
Quantum theory: nothing is real until it's seen. The one loophole points straight at consciousness.
Science
Philosophy
Psychology
Spirituality
Mind, Body & Spirit
Failure to Disrupt
Every new classroom technology gets absorbed into old routines. The real barrier was never the tech.
Education
Technology
Teaching
Sociology
Science
Failure to Disrupt
Every new classroom technology gets absorbed into old routines. The real barrier was never the tech.
Education
Technology
Teaching
Sociology
Science
Writing Is Designing
Interface words are design elements, not just content. Research and strategy to get them right.
Design
Writing
Technology
Business
Reference
Writing Is Designing
Interface words are design elements, not just content. Research and strategy to get them right.
Design
Writing
Technology
Business
Reference
Focus
Your mind is stolen by endless pings. The fix is not another app but radical simplicity.
Self Help
Psychology
Personal Development
Philosophy
Technology
Focus
Your mind is stolen by endless pings. The fix is not another app but radical simplicity.
Self Help
Psychology
Personal Development
Philosophy
Technology
Webs of Influence
The brain's shortcuts decide every online purchase. Design for those rules, not for logic.
Business
Psychology
Design
Technology
Self Help
Webs of Influence
The brain's shortcuts decide every online purchase. Design for those rules, not for logic.
Business
Psychology
Design
Technology
Self Help
Mapping Innovation
Not every innovation problem needs disruption. The map for picking the strategy yours does.
Business
Leadership
Entrepreneurship
Management
Technology
Mapping Innovation
Not every innovation problem needs disruption. The map for picking the strategy yours does.
Business
Leadership
Entrepreneurship
Management
Technology
Hackers & Painters
Making beautiful things, breaking dumb rules, and why the kid you ignored is building your future.
Business
Technology
Computer Science
Entrepreneurship
Philosophy
Hackers & Painters
Making beautiful things, breaking dumb rules, and why the kid you ignored is building your future.
Business
Technology
Computer Science
Entrepreneurship
Philosophy
Unwritten Laws of Engineering
Engineers' professional rules that school never taught: delegation, accountability, earning trust.
Business
Leadership
Self Help
Management
Technology
Unwritten Laws of Engineering
Engineers' professional rules that school never taught: delegation, accountability, earning trust.
Business
Leadership
Self Help
Management
Technology
The B2B Social Media Book
Turn LinkedIn, Twitter, and your blog into a lead factory that reports its own revenue.
Business
Self Help
Entrepreneurship
Technology
Management
The B2B Social Media Book
Turn LinkedIn, Twitter, and your blog into a lead factory that reports its own revenue.
Business
Self Help
Entrepreneurship
Technology
Management
The Space Barons
Four billionaires bet private rockets could transform space. Then the rockets started landing.
Business
Science
Technology
Entrepreneurship
Biography
The Space Barons
Four billionaires bet private rockets could transform space. Then the rockets started landing.
Business
Science
Technology
Entrepreneurship
Biography
Value Engineering
Function is worth more than form: the systematic approach that finds savings competitors overlook.
Business
Management
Technology
Design
Reference
Value Engineering
Function is worth more than form: the systematic approach that finds savings competitors overlook.
Business
Management
Technology
Design
Reference
Lean Customer Development
Save five hours of wasted development for every hour you spend talking to customers.
Business
Entrepreneurship
Technology
Management
Design
Lean Customer Development
Save five hours of wasted development for every hour you spend talking to customers.
Business
Entrepreneurship
Technology
Management
Design
Machine Learning for Dummies
Machine learning demystified: pick the right algorithm, train it well, and know when it works.
Technology
Computer Science
Programming
Reference
Mathematics
Machine Learning for Dummies
Machine learning demystified: pick the right algorithm, train it well, and know when it works.
Technology
Computer Science
Programming
Reference
Mathematics
Humility Is the New Smart
Your expertise is not your edge anymore. Your willingness to question it is.
Business
Psychology
Self Help
Leadership
Technology
Humility Is the New Smart
Your expertise is not your edge anymore. Your willingness to question it is.
Business
Psychology
Self Help
Leadership
Technology
Create the Future + The Innovation Handbook
Why smart companies miss disruption: seven predictable traps, and the culture that overcomes them.
Business
Entrepreneurship
Leadership
Psychology
Management
Create the Future + The Innovation Handbook
Why smart companies miss disruption: seven predictable traps, and the culture that overcomes them.
Business
Entrepreneurship
Leadership
Psychology
Management
Quantum Man
Feynman drew pictures of particles, insisted experiment trumps elegance, and rebuilt modern physics.
Science
Biography
History
Philosophy
Technology
Quantum Man
Feynman drew pictures of particles, insisted experiment trumps elegance, and rebuilt modern physics.
Science
Biography
History
Philosophy
Technology
Agile Product Management with Scrum
A single backlog, a vision that sells, and the rules for shipping what customers actually want.
Business
Technology
Management
Programming
Leadership
Agile Product Management with Scrum
A single backlog, a vision that sells, and the rules for shipping what customers actually want.
Business
Technology
Management
Programming
Leadership
