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Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love

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De vloek van Polyfemos

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Dennis E. Taylor

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Duchess of Terra

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After On: A Novel of Silicon Valley

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The Terminal List

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The Sidekicks Initiative: A Comedy Superhero Adventure

Barry J. Hutchison

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Ready Player Two

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Ready Player One

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Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup

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Leviathan Wakes

James S.A. Corey

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Caliban’s War

James S.A. Corey

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Babylon’s Ashes

James S.A. Corey

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The SaaS Playbook: Build a Multimillion-Dollar Startup Without Venture Capital

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The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World

Virginia Postrel

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Why Taiwan Matters: A Short History of a Small Island That Will Dictate Our Future

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Against Platforms: Surviving Digital Utopia

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Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI

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The 24 most recent of the 199 books I’ve read. View them all on my Bookhive profile.

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The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

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Thinking In Systems: A Primer

Donella H. Meadows

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Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

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The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization

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The Business Value of Developer Relations: How and Why Technical Communities Are Key To Your Success

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The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data

David Spiegelhalter

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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

Shoshana Zuboff

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Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

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Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data

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Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

Yuval Noah Harari

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Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics

Richard H. Thaler

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Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

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Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

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AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can't, and How to Tell the Difference

Arvind Narayanan

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Artificial Intelligence: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review

Harvard Business Review

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Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential

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Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It

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Building Brand Communities: How Organizations Succeed by Creating Belonging

Carrie Melissa Jones

Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster

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Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

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The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

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The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist

Richard P. Feynman

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Summary of The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee

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Waarom vuilnismannen meer verdienen dan bankiers

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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

Walter Isaacson

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Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

Christopher McDougall

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In lichtjaren heeft niemand haast

Marjolijn van Heemstra

Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience

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Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

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The Design of Everyday Things

Donald A. Norman

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The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

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"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character

Richard P. Feynman

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Virtual Freedom: How to Work with Virtual Staff to Buy More Time, Become More Productive, and Build Your Dream Business

Chris C. Ducker

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Grip: Het geheim van slim werken

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Hello World: How to be Human in the Age of the Machine

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When to Rob a Bank: ...And 131 More Warped Suggestions and Well-Intended Rants

Steven D. Levitt

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