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Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++ (2nd Edition)

Bjarne Stroustrup

4.5 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made

Jason Schreier

4.7 on Amazon

3 HN comments

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn

Richard W. Hamming and Bret Victor

4.7 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Effective Java

Joshua Bloch

4.8 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Mastering Bitcoin: Programming the Open Blockchain

Andreas M. Antonopoulos

4.7 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

Cathy O'Neil

4.5 on Amazon

2 HN comments

The Making of Prince of Persia: Journals 1985-1993--Illustrated Edition

Jordan Mechner

4.8 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Steve Jobs

Walter Isaacson, Dylan Baker, et al.

4.6 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Effective C: An Introduction to Professional C Programming

Robert C. Seacord

4.5 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Building Secure and Reliable Systems: Best Practices for Designing, Implementing, and Maintaining Systems

Heather Adkins, Betsy Beyer , et al.

4.7 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Database Internals: A Deep Dive into How Distributed Data Systems Work

Alex Petrov

4.7 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Programming Rust: Fast, Safe Systems Development

Jim Blandy, Jason Orendorff, et al.

? on Amazon

2 HN comments

Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, Timothy Andrés Pabon, et al.

4.4 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Mastering Ethereum: Building Smart Contracts and DApps

Andreas M. Antonopoulos and Gavin Wood Ph. D.

4.6 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Java Concurrency in Practice

Brian Goetz , Tim Peierls, et al.

4.7 on Amazon

2 HN comments

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BluesteinonJune 21, 2021

"[...] That moving anecdote is one of several that will quicken the pulse of even obsessive Apple watchers. 'Becoming Steve Jobs' enters a crowded body of work devoted to Apple and its idiosyncratic co-founder, dominated of course by Walter Isaacson’s 2011 best seller, 'Steve Jobs.' Although it drags and feels unnecessary for large stretches, this new addition to the Apple pantheon redeems itself with access to key players and their previously untold accounts, thereby presenting a layered portrait of the mercurial Jobs, whose style and personality, the book argues, were constantly evolving, right up to his early death."

jppopeonJune 5, 2021

  - The Charisma Myth. It focuses more on meta skills like projecting presence, but is useful to start seeing non-verbal communication as effective as well
  - The Presentation Skills of Steve Jobs. The books is really about presentation skills and then the author layered Steve Jobs on top, but it's a very useful book. 
  - A quick overview of Amazon's approach to written communication. One thing I will say about Bezos, he understands the overhead of communication in a corporation and focused on streamlining it, there are a bunch of articles but this one is useful: https://networkcapital.substack.com/p/the-amazon-way-of-writing
  - I've spent a lot of time reading the sale literature out there and its rough to recommend a book given the way the question is formed but understanding a sales mindset is extremely useful to becoming a better communicator. Zig Zigler "Secrets to closing the sale", Jeffery Gitomer's work, and SPIN selling all come to mind as valuable reads.

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