Andrew Lovett-Barron (andrewlb.com)
A collection of books that have helped me develop. Hopefully you might find something interesting in here!
If you have recommendations (and I want them!), please submit as issues or find me on twitter @readywater
All of these lists are incomplete
- Dan Hill, Dark Matter, Trojan Horses
- Heinz Von Foerster, Understanding Understanding
- Jane Fulton Suri, Thoughtless Acts
- Donella H. Meadows, Thinking In Systems: A Primer
- Bruce Sterling, Shaping Things
- Kimberly Elm, Typographic Systems in Design
- Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style
- Joseph Albers, Interactions of Color
- Michael Kroegers, Paul Rand: Conversations with Students
- (More to come)
- Camille Fournier, The Manager's Path
- Jason Fried, Getting Real
- Rian van der Merwe, Making It Right: Product Management For A Startup World
- Arnie Lund, User Experience Management
- Joel Spolsky, Joel On Software
- Roger Fisher, Getting to Yes
- Malcolm McCollough, Digital Ground
- Malcolm McCollough, Ambient Commons
- Dan Saffer, Microinteractions
- (More to come)
- Gary Bradski, Learning OpenCV 3
- Andrew Koenig, Accelerated C++
- Douglas Crockford, Javascript: The Good Parts
- Wes McKinney, Python for Data Analysis
- Joel Grus, Data Science from Scratch
- Hastie, James, Witten, Tibshirani, An Introduction to Statistical Learning
- Daniel Shiffman, Learning Processing
- Marian Petre+André van der Hoek,Software Design Decoded
- TODO
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- Intercom, Intercom on Starting Up
- Roger Martin, Sally Osberg, Getting Beyond Better:How Social Entrepreneurship Works
- Brad Feld, Venture Deals
- Ken Stern, With Charity For All
- Ori Brafman, The Starfish and the Spider
- Kai Bird, American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
- James C Scott, Seeing Like A State
- Paul Virilio, The Administration of Fear
- Aki Peritz+Eric Rosenbach, Find, Fix, Finish
- Stanley McChrystal, Team of Teams
- CJ Chivers, The Gun
- Eric Schlosser, Command and Control
- GCHQ, Boiling Frogs
- MOMA,Design and Violence
- Kevin Kelly, What Technology Wants
- Richard H. Thaler, Nudge
- Jan Chipchase, Hidden In Plain Sight
- Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto
- Ed Catmull, Creativity Inc
- Peter Jones, Design for Care
- Barry Katz, Make it New
- Jake Knapp, Sprint
- Don Norman, Design of Everyday Things
- Peter Thiel, Zero to One
- Bruce Sterling, Viridian Design Movement
- William Zinsser, On Writing Well
- Paola Antonelli, Talk To Me
- Marc Stickdom, Service Design Thinking
- Eric Ries, Lean Startup
- Emily Chan, Harvard Business School Confidential
- David Gray, Game Storming
- Jason Fried, Getting Real
- Robert Coram, Boyd
- Alexander Osterwalder, Business Model Generation
- Alan Cooper, About Face
- Anthony Dunne+Fionna Raby, Hertzian Tales
- Jonas Löwgren, Thoughtful Interaction Design
- William Gibson, Zero History
- William Gibson, Pattern Recognition
- Neal Stephenson, Diamond Age
- Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
- Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
- Frank Herbert, Dune
- Charlie Stross, Accelerando
- China Miéville, The City and The City
- Terry Pratchett, Absolutely Every Discworld Book
- Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
- Dennis DeSantis, Making Music
- David Byrne, How Music Works
- John Napier, Hands
- Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
- William Rosen, The Most Powerful Invention in the World
- Stewart Brand, How Buildings Learn
- Thucydidies, The History of the Peloponnesian War
- Hiawatha Bray, You Are Here
- Marc Levinson, The Box
- David Gordon Wilson, Bicycle Science
- John Robb, Brave New War