Good Reads

Living is learning. And we’re supposed to share our shit, right? So here’s a list of books I’ve read that I suggest you read too. I do not necessarily agree with everything these authors say. I add these titles here simply because I think they are worth a read. I’ve tried to sort the titles by topic, but this is not an exact science, you realize…
The links lead to the respective books at Amazon. There’s no Amazon affiliate thing going on. Just me saying check these books out.

Management Related

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni.
User Stories Applied by Mike Cohn.
Agile Estimating and Planning by Mike Cohn.
Extreme Programming Explained by Kent Beck.
Lean Software Development by Mary and Tom Poppendieck.
Scrumban – Essays on Kanban Systems for Lean Software Development by Corey Ladas.
Managing the Design Factory by Donald G. Reinertse.
Slack by Tom DeMarco.
Leadership and the New Science by Margaret J Wheatley.
The Fifth Discipline by Peter M. Senge.
Scrum and XP from the Trenches by Henrik Kniberg.
Toyota Production System by Taiichi Ohno.
The Rules of Management by Richard Templar.
The One Minute Manager by Kenneth Blanchard.
Theory of Constraints by Eliyahu M. Goldratt.
No Yelling: The 9 Secrets of Marine Corps Leadership You Must Know to Win in Business by Wally Adamchik.
Philosophy, Religion and the History of Ideas

Essays by Michel de Montaigne.
Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar – Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes by T. Catchcart and D.Klein.
Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud by Peter Watson.
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins.
God is not Great by Christopher Hitchens.
Collected Writings: Common Sense, Rights of Man, The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine.

Just plain Interesting

Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
Risk, The Science and Politics of Fear by Dan Gardner.
The Undercover Economist by Tim Hartford.
The Logic of Life by Tim Hartford.
Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt.
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell.
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell.
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell.
How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions by Francis Wheen.
Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky by Paul M. Johnson.
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson.
Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely.
Intellectual Self Defense by Normand Baillargeon.
Armchair Economist: Economics & Everyday Life by Steven E. Landsburg.
Nonsense, How We Abuse Logic in Our Everyday Language by Robert J. Gula.

Internet related stuff

Getting Real by 37signals.
Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky.
Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business by Jeff Howe.
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams.
The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki.
The Long Tail by Chris Anderson.
Free – the Future of a Radical Price by Chris Anderson.
Tribes by Seth Godin.
Purple Cow by Seth Godin.

Usability

Emotional Design by Donald A. Norman.
The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman.
Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug.
Prioritizing Web Usability by Jakob Nielsen.
Designing Web Usability by Jakob Nielsen.
Paper Prototyping: The Fast and Easy Way to Design and Refine User Interfaces by Carolyn Snyder.
Measuring the User Experience by Tullis & Albert.

On Writing and Journalism

The New Journalism by Tom Wolfe.
The Gang Who Wouldn’t Write Straight by Marc Weingarten.
Write to Sell by Andy Maslen.
On Writing by Stephen King.

Funny and Clever

On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt.
Holidays in Hell by P.J O’Rourke.
On The Wealth of Nations” by P.J O’Rourke.
Peace Kills by P.J O’Rourke.
Eat the Rich by P.J O’Rourke.

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