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must read

  • Getting to Yes - William Ury, Roger Fisher, Bruce Patton
    • a great book to learn how to do "non-adversarial bargaining" through principled negotiation, focusing on the basic needs and optimizing for the overall satisfaction, rather than following the typical "positional bargaining" approach.
  • Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
    • a breathtaking book about how our brain works, with a focus on the pre-rational (system 1) part of the brain and all the biases that influes our actions.
  • The Lean Startup - Eric Ries
    • seminal book on the concept of iterative development of a product to fit market needs, illustrates a method based on experimentation and rigorous testing of hyptothesis.
  • The Goal - Eliyahu M. Goldratt
    • a business novel that introduces the Theory of Constraints, referred to in many of the other books on this list.

should really read

  • Black Box Thinking - Matthew Syed
    • how to learn from mistakes; it's common sense but this book delves into the issue very well, tackling problems such as the effect of blame and how cognitive dissonance impacts the ability to learn.
  • Influence - Robert B. Cialdini
    • a good read that builds on "Thinking, Fast and Slow" to analyze how cognitive biases are used everyday to influence people, how to exploit them, and how to protect ourselves from them.
  • The Spirit of Kaizen - Bob Maurer, Leigh Ann Hirschman
    • a short read to reflect on the importance of how small, local improvements can generate a drastic overall improvement; not a great book per se, but short and useful.
  • Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit - Mary Poppendieck and Tom Poppendieck
    • the first book to systematically apply lean thinking to software development, a milestone in agile software development.

cool books

  • Consciousness and the Brain - Stanislas Dehaene
    • dense and technical book that tries to answer the question "what is consciousness" from a scientific point of view, analyzing brain activity.. fascinating!
  • What Einstein Told His Cook: Kitchen Science Explained - Robert L. Wolke
    • approaching cooking scientifically, a refreshing rational view on what matters in the kitchen :)
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