Updated - Aug 19, 2025

The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Fred Brooks, 1975

Tempo: timing, tactics and strategy in narrative-driven decision-making, Venkatesh Rao, 2011

Founders at Work, Stories of Startups’ Early Days, Jessica Livingston, 2007

The Soul of a New Machine, Tracy Kidder, 1981

An Immense World, How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us, Ed Yong, 2022

The Idea Factory:Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation, Jon Gertner, 2012

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