
The Mom Test: How to Talk to Customers & Learn If Your Business Is a Good Idea When Everyone Is Lying to You
Rob Fitzpatrick and Robfitz Ltd
4.7 on Amazon
22 HN comments

High Output Management
Andrew S. Grove
4.6 on Amazon
9 HN comments

The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
Eric Ries
4.6 on Amazon
9 HN comments

An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management
Will Larson
4.5 on Amazon
8 HN comments

The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback
Dan Olsen
4.7 on Amazon
5 HN comments

The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation
Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson
4.5 on Amazon
5 HN comments

The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
Clayton M. Christensen, L.J. Ganser, et al.
4.5 on Amazon
5 HN comments

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't
Jim Collins
4.5 on Amazon
4 HN comments

Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment
George Leonard
4.6 on Amazon
4 HN comments

Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Silicon Valley Product Group)
Marty Cagan
4.6 on Amazon
4 HN comments

Capital: Volume 1: A Critique of Political Economy
Karl Marx, Derek Le Page, et al.
4.7 on Amazon
4 HN comments

Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
Eric Berger
4.8 on Amazon
4 HN comments

Principles: Life and Work
Ray Dalio, Jeremy Bobb, et al.
4.6 on Amazon
3 HN comments

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
Edwin Lefevre, Rick Rohan, et al.
4.6 on Amazon
3 HN comments

Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business
Gino Wickman
4.6 on Amazon
3 HN comments
chalstonJune 9, 2021
failwhalesharkonMay 10, 2021
Popularity and taste rarely coincide because most people have no taste.
(Me covets a The Doors of Perception / Heaven and Hell first edition.)
The other thing is to read books that are important, not just ones that are preferred or pleasant for a wider perspective:
- Mein Kampf
- Capital (Das Kapital)
- Technological Slavery
- The International Jew
- A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
- The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. 1-6.
- (ones by ideological opposites)
- America: The Farewell Tour
- Sorrows of Empire
Also, people who don't own any books, paper or Kindle... that's a big "nope."
randomcarblokeonJune 11, 2021
yikes, no thanks, keep it academic.
logicslaveonMar 25, 2021
Understand labor exploitation and avoid being a victim of it.