Books

I like to read a lot. Here are some books that I’ve found particularly good.

Books about software development

• The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

Books about design

• Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days

• Design Is a Job

  • How to sell design
  • How to talk to clients and not lose your mind
  • How to balance client requirements

Books about founding companies

• The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

• Disrupted

  • Critical look at startup life
  • Written by a ex-journalist
  • Focuses on HubSpot and the crazy life or working there.

• Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

  • Book about early days of Pixar
  • Great look about building a culture with creativity at it’s core
  • Entertaining read
• Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley
• The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
• Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

• How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars: The Snapchat Story

  • Story about Snapchat and its founders.

• Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture

  • How ID software, creator of Doom, Quake etc. was founded

• The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

  • How Amazon was founded