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Recommended Books

A curated reading list for engineers and builders

I suggest reading these (in this order). They are not technical so you can even listen to them on audible when running:

  1. Founders at Work — interviews with most influential founders, written by Jessica Livingston, founder of YC
  2. Hackers & Painters — from Paul Graham, founder of YC and husband of Jessica Livingston. Not only about startups. Very interesting.
  3. Coders at Work — interviews with most influential programmers, including Knuth
  4. The Innovation Stack — story of Square
  5. Architects of Intelligence — interviews with most influential people in AI, including Geoffrey Hinton, Andrew Ng, Judea Pearl, Fei-Fei Li, Daphne Koller, Yann LeCun.
  6. Multipliers, Revised and Updated — About leadership
If you only want to read 2 of them though, I suggest #2 and #5.