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
Everybody Lies
Google searches expose the racism, fear, and desire that surveys and social media carefully hide.
Psychology
Science
Technology
Sociology
Business
Everybody Lies
Google searches expose the racism, fear, and desire that surveys and social media carefully hide.
Psychology
Science
Technology
Sociology
Business
Death by China
America armed its biggest rival: every dollar spent at Walmart helped finance the Chinese military.
Politics
Economics
Business
Globalization
History
Death by China
America armed its biggest rival: every dollar spent at Walmart helped finance the Chinese military.
Politics
Economics
Business
Globalization
History
Klara and the Sun
An Artificial Friend thinks the Sun can heal her sick companion. She means to prove it.
Science Fiction
Literary Fiction
Dystopia
Adult
Book Club
Klara and the Sun
An Artificial Friend thinks the Sun can heal her sick companion. She means to prove it.
Science Fiction
Literary Fiction
Dystopia
Adult
Book Club
Escaping the Build Trap
Feature factories ship output. Products need outcomes. The framework for making the switch.
Business
Management
Technology
Leadership
Design
Escaping the Build Trap
Feature factories ship output. Products need outcomes. The framework for making the switch.
Business
Management
Technology
Leadership
Design
Becoming Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs was not born a visionary. His twelve years outside Apple made him one.
Biography
Business
Technology
Entrepreneurship
Leadership
Becoming Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs was not born a visionary. His twelve years outside Apple made him one.
Biography
Business
Technology
Entrepreneurship
Leadership
Steve Jobs
Ousted from Apple at 30, he returned to save it, then reinvented music, phones, and computing.
Biography
Business
Technology
History
Leadership
Steve Jobs
Ousted from Apple at 30, he returned to save it, then reinvented music, phones, and computing.
Biography
Business
Technology
History
Leadership
100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People
Drawn to faces, blind to detail, ruled by emotion: the human mind your design actually meets.
Design
Psychology
Business
Reference
Instructional
100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People
Drawn to faces, blind to detail, ruled by emotion: the human mind your design actually meets.
Design
Psychology
Business
Reference
Instructional
Source Code
How card games, a high school mainframe, and a friend's death forged Microsoft's co-founder.
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
Business
Technology
Source Code
How card games, a high school mainframe, and a friend's death forged Microsoft's co-founder.
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
Business
Technology
The Filter Bubble
Every click surrenders your free will to an algorithm. The only fix: quit social media entirely.
Technology
Computer Science
Psychology
Politics
Sociology
The Filter Bubble
Every click surrenders your free will to an algorithm. The only fix: quit social media entirely.
Technology
Computer Science
Psychology
Politics
Sociology
One Million Followers
A million followers in 30 days: the hands-on playbook of testing, partnerships, and emotional hooks.
Business
Social Media
Marketing
Entrepreneurship
Self Help
One Million Followers
A million followers in 30 days: the hands-on playbook of testing, partnerships, and emotional hooks.
Business
Social Media
Marketing
Entrepreneurship
Self Help
The Crisis of Narration
We drown in information but starve for stories. A philosophy of what happens when narration dies.
Philosophy
Essays
Sociology
Politics
Writing
The Crisis of Narration
We drown in information but starve for stories. A philosophy of what happens when narration dies.
Philosophy
Essays
Sociology
Politics
Writing
HTML and CSS
HTML and CSS are the web's building blocks. This visual guide shows you how to lay them.
Programming
Design
Computer Science
Technology
Reference
HTML and CSS
HTML and CSS are the web's building blocks. This visual guide shows you how to lay them.
Programming
Design
Computer Science
Technology
Reference
Ultimate Guide to Facebook Advertising
Precision targeting, not scale, wins on Facebook. The rules for finding your exact customer.
Business
Reference
Internet
Technology
Entrepreneurship
Ultimate Guide to Facebook Advertising
Precision targeting, not scale, wins on Facebook. The rules for finding your exact customer.
Business
Reference
Internet
Technology
Entrepreneurship
So You've Been Publicly Shamed
180 years without public shaming ended when the internet made everyone a potential mob member.
Psychology
Sociology
Journalism
Technology
Social Media
So You've Been Publicly Shamed
180 years without public shaming ended when the internet made everyone a potential mob member.
Psychology
Sociology
Journalism
Technology
Social Media
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Sam and Sadie make brilliant video games together but keep breaking each other across thirty years.
Literary Fiction
Contemporary
Adult
Art
Technology
Immersive
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Sam and Sadie make brilliant video games together but keep breaking each other across thirty years.
Literary Fiction
Contemporary
Adult
Art
Technology
Emotional Design
Your brain processes beauty before conscious thought, and good looks make things easier to use.
Design
Psychology
Business
Technology
Art
Emotional Design
Your brain processes beauty before conscious thought, and good looks make things easier to use.
Design
Psychology
Business
Technology
Art
The Lean Product Playbook
Test cheaply, validate early, build what customers pay for: a product manager's lean playbook.
Business
Management
Entrepreneurship
Design
Technology
The Lean Product Playbook
Test cheaply, validate early, build what customers pay for: a product manager's lean playbook.
Business
Management
Entrepreneurship
Design
Technology
The Great CEO Within
A CEO coach's tactical playbook: inbox to org chart, the systems that build a real company.
Business
Entrepreneurship
Leadership
Management
Self Help
The Great CEO Within
A CEO coach's tactical playbook: inbox to org chart, the systems that build a real company.
Business
Entrepreneurship
Leadership
Management
Self Help
500 Social Media Marketing Tips
Turn social media into a growth engine: platform-specific tactics from profile tweaks to $5 ads.
Business
Self Help
Technology
Reference
Media
500 Social Media Marketing Tips
Turn social media into a growth engine: platform-specific tactics from profile tweaks to $5 ads.
Business
Self Help
Technology
Reference
Media
The Nature of Technology
Technology is nature harnessed, then endlessly recombined. Each invention fuels the next.
Technology
Science
Economics
Philosophy
Evolution
The Nature of Technology
Technology is nature harnessed, then endlessly recombined. Each invention fuels the next.
Technology
Science
Economics
Philosophy
Evolution
Amusing Ourselves to Death
The real danger isn't censorship. It's a culture so entertained it forgets how to think.
Philosophy
Sociology
Politics
Culture
Media
Amusing Ourselves to Death
The real danger isn't censorship. It's a culture so entertained it forgets how to think.
Philosophy
Sociology
Politics
Culture
Media
Generations
Six generations of data reveal what actually divides us: three forces the stereotypes keep missing.
Sociology
Psychology
History
Science
Politics
Generations
Six generations of data reveal what actually divides us: three forces the stereotypes keep missing.
Sociology
Psychology
History
Science
Politics
The Sales Acceleration Formula
Treat sales like engineering: hire on data, train with structure, coach by the numbers.
Business
Entrepreneurship
Management
Leadership
Marketing
The Sales Acceleration Formula
Treat sales like engineering: hire on data, train with structure, coach by the numbers.
Business
Entrepreneurship
Management
Leadership
Marketing
Architecture Patterns with Python
The patterns that keep business logic clean when databases, queues, and APIs keep changing.
Technology
Computer Science
Programming
Architecture
Design
Architecture Patterns with Python
The patterns that keep business logic clean when databases, queues, and APIs keep changing.
Technology
Computer Science
Programming
Architecture
Design
The Venture Mindset
Steal the VC decision system: reject relentlessly, then bet big on what remains.
Business
Entrepreneurship
Finance
Technology
Management
The Venture Mindset
Steal the VC decision system: reject relentlessly, then bet big on what remains.
Business
Entrepreneurship
Finance
Technology
Management
The Rational Optimist
Trade, not genius, drives human progress. Two centuries of data, and why the pessimists always lose.
Economics
History
Science
Business
Psychology
The Rational Optimist
Trade, not genius, drives human progress. Two centuries of data, and why the pessimists always lose.
Economics
History
Science
Business
Psychology
Autocracy, Inc.
A global network of dictators runs autocracies like for-profit firms. Democracies bankroll them.
Politics
History
Economics
Globalization
International
Autocracy, Inc.
A global network of dictators runs autocracies like for-profit firms. Democracies bankroll them.
Politics
History
Economics
Globalization
International
YouTube Secrets
From zero subscribers to multiple revenue streams: the exact playbook for YouTube as a business.
Business
Self Help
Social Media
Entrepreneurship
Technology
YouTube Secrets
From zero subscribers to multiple revenue streams: the exact playbook for YouTube as a business.
Business
Self Help
Social Media
Entrepreneurship
Technology
Hackers
Before the garage, a creed of open access and hands-on tinkering drove the computer revolution.
History
Technology
Computer Science
Programming
Biography
Hackers
Before the garage, a creed of open access and hands-on tinkering drove the computer revolution.
History
Technology
Computer Science
Programming
Biography
The Basics of Hacking and Penetration Testing
Legally break into computers by thinking like an attacker, from reconnaissance to the final report.
Computer Science
Technology
Internet
Reference
Science
The Basics of Hacking and Penetration Testing
Legally break into computers by thinking like an attacker, from reconnaissance to the final report.
Computer Science
Technology
Internet
Reference
Science
Jobs to be Done
Customers measure success with metrics they never say aloud. Map them and build what actually wins.
Business
Design
Entrepreneurship
Management
Marketing
Jobs to be Done
Customers measure success with metrics they never say aloud. Map them and build what actually wins.
Business
Design
Entrepreneurship
Management
Marketing
In Search of Schrödinger's Cat
Reality vanishes when you stop looking: the century-long quantum fight over what that means.
Science
History
Philosophy
Mathematics
Technology
In Search of Schrödinger's Cat
Reality vanishes when you stop looking: the century-long quantum fight over what that means.
Science
History
Philosophy
Mathematics
Technology
The Art of Invisibility
From encrypted messages to burner devices, a hacker guide to vanishing from always-on surveillance.
Technology
Computer Science
Internet
Science
Reference
The Art of Invisibility
From encrypted messages to burner devices, a hacker guide to vanishing from always-on surveillance.
Technology
Computer Science
Internet
Science
Reference
Permission Marketing
Interruption is broken. Earn consent, build trust, and turn one-time buyers into lifetime revenue.
Business
Entrepreneurship
Management
Self Help
Psychology
Permission Marketing
Interruption is broken. Earn consent, build trust, and turn one-time buyers into lifetime revenue.
Business
Entrepreneurship
Management
Self Help
Psychology
Actionable Gamification
Eight human drives power every action. A blueprint for designing products people can't put down.
Business
Design
Psychology
Self Help
Management
Actionable Gamification
Eight human drives power every action. A blueprint for designing products people can't put down.
Business
Design
Psychology
Self Help
Management
iWoz - Computer Geek to Cult Icon
Phone-hacking pranks, the Apple I, and the engineer who left his own revolution to teach.
Biography
Technology
Memoir
Business
Autobiography
iWoz - Computer Geek to Cult Icon
Phone-hacking pranks, the Apple I, and the engineer who left his own revolution to teach.
Biography
Technology
Memoir
Business
Autobiography
A Thousand Brains
Every cortical column in your brain learns a full model of the world. Then they vote.
Science
Biology
Psychology
Computer Science
Consciousness
A Thousand Brains
Every cortical column in your brain learns a full model of the world. Then they vote.
Science
Biology
Psychology
Computer Science
Consciousness
Learn SQL (using MySQL) in One Day and Learn It Well
SQL from zero to a working booking system: the hands-on guide that delivers in one day.
Computer Science
Programming
Technology
Reference
Education
Learn SQL (using MySQL) in One Day and Learn It Well
SQL from zero to a working booking system: the hands-on guide that delivers in one day.
Computer Science
Programming
Technology
Reference
Education
Brief Answers to the Big Questions
Time travel might work, but the feedback loop of climate disaster probably kills us first.
Science
Physics
Philosophy
Technology
Space
Brief Answers to the Big Questions
Time travel might work, but the feedback loop of climate disaster probably kills us first.
Science
Physics
Philosophy
Technology
Space
Universal Principles of Design
The 125 design principles that turn a frustrating product into one that feels obvious.
Design
Reference
Business
Art
Psychology
Universal Principles of Design
The 125 design principles that turn a frustrating product into one that feels obvious.
Design
Reference
Business
Art
Psychology
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited
People skim, not read: what that means for your buttons, menus, and paragraphs.
Design
Technology
Business
Computer Science
Reference
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited
People skim, not read: what that means for your buttons, menus, and paragraphs.
Design
Technology
Business
Computer Science
Reference
Effective Java
The Java library's hidden contract with your objects: obey it, or spend your life debugging.
Programming
Computer Science
Technology
Design
Reference
Effective Java
The Java library's hidden contract with your objects: obey it, or spend your life debugging.
Programming
Computer Science
Technology
Design
Reference
The Long Tail
Digital shelves flip the economics: niche products collectively now outsell blockbusters.
Business
Economics
Technology
Internet
Entrepreneurship
The Long Tail
Digital shelves flip the economics: niche products collectively now outsell blockbusters.
Business
Economics
Technology
Internet
Entrepreneurship
