Favorite Books
Despite all of the technology we have available, you still can’t beat a great book. Here are some favorites.
Business and Marketing
- Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
- Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne
- Business @ The Speed of Thought by Bill Gates
- Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
- Good to Great by Jim Collins
- Growing Great Employees by Erika Andersen
- How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini, Ph.D.
- My Start-Up Life by Ben Casnocha
- Software That Sells by Edward Hasted
- StrengthsFinder 2.0 by Tom Rath
- The Essential Drucker by Peter F. Drucker
- The Starbucks Experience by Joseph A. Michelli
- The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
Software and Technology
- Database Systems: A Practical Approach to Design, Implementation, and Management by Thomas Connolly and Carolyn Begg
- Just for Fun by Linus Torvalds
- Software Project Management: From Concept to Deployment by Kieron Conway
- Software Requirements by Karl E. Wiegers
- The Cathedral & the Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond
Science
- Chaos by James Gleick
- Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
- On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins
- “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!” by Richard P. Feynman
- The Dancing Wu Li Masters by Gary Zukav
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
Fantasy and Science Fiction
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- The Sword of Truth (a series) by Terry Goodkind
- The Wheel of Time (a series) by Robert Jordan
- Vurt by Jeff Noon