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The Mom Test
The Mom TestRob Fitzpatrick
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The Mom TestRob FitzpatrickReading guide
The Mom Test
Rob Fitzpatrick
How to talk to customers and learn the truth when everyone is lying to you — including your mom.
The Design of Everyday Things
The Design of Everyday ThingsDon Norman
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The Design of Everyday ThingsDon NormanReading guide
The Design of Everyday Things
Don Norman
Norman’s distinctive mechanism is the action loop: usable design closes the gap between human goals and system behavior by making possible actions, control relationships, constraints, and feedback perceptible.
俞军产品方法论 (Yu Jun's Product Methodology)
俞军产品方法论 (Yu Jun's Product Methodology)俞军 (Yu Jun)
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俞军产品方法论 (Yu Jun's Product Methodology)俞军 (Yu Jun)Reading guide
俞军产品方法论 (Yu Jun's Product Methodology)
俞军 (Yu Jun)
Evaluate a product through user value, alternatives, and the conditions that make exchange worthwhile.
The Crowd
The CrowdGustave Le Bon
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The CrowdGustave Le BonReading guide
The Crowd
Gustave Le Bon
Read a historically influential account of collective behavior critically, without treating its prejudices as settled psychology.
Capital (Das Kapital)
Capital (Das Kapital)Karl Marx
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Capital (Das Kapital)Karl MarxPartially read · Reading guide
Capital (Das Kapital)
Karl Marx
An introductory guide to Volume I: commodities, labor-power, and the organization of production.
The Globalization Paradox
The Globalization ParadoxDani Rodrik
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The Globalization ParadoxDani RodrikReading guide
The Globalization Paradox
Dani Rodrik
Understand why deep economic integration can conflict with democratic choice and national policy autonomy.
The Great Divergence
The Great DivergenceKenneth Pomeranz
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The Great DivergenceKenneth PomeranzReading guide
The Great Divergence
Kenneth Pomeranz
Compare regions and constraints before explaining industrialization as an inevitable outcome of European superiority.
台北人
台北人白先勇
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台北人白先勇Reading guide
台北人
白先勇
A reading guide to memory, displacement, and the lives that continue after a historical rupture.
牡丹亭
牡丹亭汤显祖
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牡丹亭汤显祖Reading guide
牡丹亭
汤显祖
A reading orientation to Tang Xianzu’s drama of desire, dreams, and the authority of feeling.
Miyazakiworld
MiyazakiworldSusan Napier
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MiyazakiworldSusan NapierReading guide
Miyazakiworld
Susan Napier
Connect Miyazaki’s creative life with the recurring tensions in his films, rather than reducing them to comforting fantasy.
耻
耻【南非】J.M.库切
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耻【南非】J.M.库切Reading guide
耻
【南非】J.M.库切
A critical orientation to power, responsibility, and the limits of self-understanding in Coetzee’s novel.
On the Shelf
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Thinking, Fast and SlowDaniel Kahneman
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Thinking, Fast and SlowDaniel KahnemanReading guide
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
A map of the two systems that run your mind — and the predictable ways the fast one fools you.
The Wisdom of Crowds
The Wisdom of CrowdsJames Surowiecki
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The Wisdom of CrowdsJames SurowieckiReading guide
The Wisdom of Crowds
James Surowiecki
Why large groups of ordinary people outguess experts — and the exact conditions under which they stop.
The Inevitable (必然)
The Inevitable (必然)Kevin Kelly
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The Inevitable (必然)Kevin KellyReading guide
The Inevitable (必然)
Kevin Kelly
Kelly organizes technological change around recurring processes such as accessing, sharing, filtering, and remixing.
Outliers
OutliersMalcolm Gladwell
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OutliersMalcolm GladwellReading guide
Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell
Gladwell turns attention from the traits of exceptional people toward the opportunities, timing, and cultural settings around them.
段永平传
段永平传孙力科
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段永平传孙力科Reading guide
段永平传
孙力科
Sun Like's biography traces Duan Yongping's education, working life, entrepreneurship, and investing.
运营之光：我的互联网运营方法论与自白
运营之光：我的互联网运营方法论与自白黄有璨
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运营之光：我的互联网运营方法论与自白黄有璨Reading guide
运营之光：我的互联网运营方法论与自白
黄有璨
Huang Youcan treats internet operations as a professional discipline rather than a collection of promotional tricks.
真需求 (True Demand)
真需求 (True Demand)梁宁 (Liang Ning)
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真需求 (True Demand)梁宁 (Liang Ning)Reading guide
真需求 (True Demand)
梁宁 (Liang Ning)
Liang Ning organizes the book around value, consensus, and model.
How to Win Friends and Influence People
How to Win Friends and Influence PeopleDale Carnegie
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How to Win Friends and Influence PeopleDale CarnegieReading guide
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie
Carnegie approaches communication and leadership through the way people experience an interaction.
Poor Charlie's Almanack
Poor Charlie's AlmanackCharlie Munger
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Poor Charlie's AlmanackCharlie MungerReading guide
Poor Charlie's Almanack
Charlie Munger
This collection of Munger's talks draws across business, psychology, history, science, and ethics.
Man's Search for Meaning
Man's Search for MeaningViktor E. Frankl
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Man's Search for MeaningViktor E. FranklReading guide
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
Frankl combines an account of imprisonment in Nazi concentration camps with an introduction to logotherapy, his meaning-centered approach.
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
Capitalism, Socialism and DemocracyJoseph A. Schumpeter
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Capitalism, Socialism and DemocracyJoseph A. SchumpeterReading guide
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
Joseph A. Schumpeter
Schumpeter examines capitalism, socialism, and democracy as evolving social arrangements.
The Score Takes Care of Itself
The Score Takes Care of ItselfBill Walsh
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The Score Takes Care of ItselfBill WalshReading guide
The Score Takes Care of Itself
Bill Walsh
Walsh's account uses the transformation of the San Francisco 49ers to examine leadership and organizational performance.
Steve Jobs
Steve JobsWalter Isaacson
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Steve JobsWalter IsaacsonReading guide
Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
Isaacson's biography follows Jobs through product creation, company building, and personal relationships.
To Sell Is Human
To Sell Is HumanDaniel H. Pink
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To Sell Is HumanDaniel H. PinkReading guide
To Sell Is Human
Daniel H. Pink
Pink broadens selling beyond a sales job to the everyday effort of persuading people to devote attention, effort, or resources.
On Task
On TaskDavid Badre
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On TaskDavid BadreReading guide
On Task
David Badre
Badre introduces cognitive control: how the brain organizes behavior to achieve goals.
The Technological Republic
The Technological RepublicAlexander C. Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska
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The Technological RepublicAlexander C. Karp and Nicholas W. ZamiskaReading guide
The Technological Republic
Alexander C. Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska
Karp and Zamiska argue for a closer relationship between the technology industry, national purpose, and defense.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle MaintenanceRobert M. Pirsig
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle MaintenanceRobert M. PirsigReading guide
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Robert M. Pirsig
Pirsig combines a motorcycle journey with philosophical reflection about quality and ways of understanding experience.
A Culture of Growth
A Culture of GrowthJoel Mokyr
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A Culture of GrowthJoel MokyrReading guide
A Culture of Growth
Joel Mokyr
Mokyr argues that cultural changes in early modern Europe helped create conditions for sustained scientific and technological progress.
价值 (Value)
价值 (Value)张磊 (Zhang Lei)
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价值 (Value)张磊 (Zhang Lei)Reading guide
价值 (Value)
张磊 (Zhang Lei)
Zhang Lei connects his investing experience with an approach centered on long horizons, research, and the creation of value.
The Beginning of Infinity
The Beginning of InfinityDavid Deutsch
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The Beginning of InfinityDavid DeutschReading guide
The Beginning of Infinity
David Deutsch
Deutsch places explanatory knowledge at the center of human progress.
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