Bookshelf
A few books that shaped how I think. I'd hand any of them to a friend.
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Steve Jobs
The best and worst of obsession in one book. It made me want to build things, and to care about them more than seems reasonable.
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The Four Steps to the Epiphany
Dense, ugly, and one of the most useful books I've read. Startups rarely fail because they can't build the product; they fail because nobody wants it.
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Man's Search for Meaning
You can't always choose what happens to you, but you can choose how you respond.
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Alive
The Uruguayan rugby team that crashed in the Andes in 1972 and survived 72 days. Every Uruguayan grows up with this story. It's the best example I know of what a group of people can do when giving up is not an option.
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Algorithm Design
Yes, a textbook. No other book has stretched my brain as much, or taught me more about how to solve real problems.
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Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach
We spend our lives connected and almost nobody knows how it works. I think understanding it is crucial because it changes how you see everything you build on top.