TOPIC · 22 BOOKS
Technology
Books I have read about technology, brought together across genres, periods and countries.
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👍🏼👍🏼Very goodChaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
Antonio García MartínezOne of the funniest and most honest books I have read about Silicon Valley. It covers Facebook, startups, money and egos from the inside, without trying to make any of its characters look particularly admirable. It is hilarious on the author's journey from one large technology company to another and all the bullshit surrounding them.
👍🏼👍🏼Very goodBad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
John CarreyrouThe story of Theranos is so absurd that at times it feels like fiction, and it's amazing how well he reconstructed fraud and, above all, how investors, media and employees were accepting signals that looked obvious from the outside.
👍🏼GoodThe Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google
Scott GallowayIt has interesting ideas about the power of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google, and about the human needs each company exploits. It is easy to read, although some of the conclusions felt more clever than convincing.
👍🏼👍🏼Very goodThe technological republic
Alexander C. Karp y Nicholas W. ZamiskaIt's a book about how private tech companies and the state should work together to solve big problems for humanity, which was something that used to happen and then got lost.
👍🏼👍🏼⭐️ExcellentOnly the paranoid survive
Andrew GroveA perfect book written by the CEO of Intel in the '90s to deal with this crisis on a professional and personal level, how to deal with periods of uncertainty, learn to reinvent yourself as a company and as a professional, and how to survive in turbulent markets.
👍🏼👍🏼Very goodThe Checklist Manifesto
Atul GawandeA very interesting book about how something as simple as a checklist can prevent huge mistakes in medicine, aviation and all kinds of complex organizations.
👍🏼👍🏼Very goodMeltdown
Chris Clearfield y András TilcsikA very interesting book about how complex systems fail and why several small mistakes, which separately seem harmless, can end up causing huge disasters.
👍🏼👍🏼⭐️ExcellentQueremos su dinero
Jesús Martínez del ValWhat a book and what a story. From a great Spanish entrepreneur and businessman in the 1980s, a visionary who brought the Amstrad computers to Spain. He was the first to create a large distribution network and see the future of personal computers at that time.
👍🏼👍🏼Very goodPossible minds: 25 ways of looking at AI
John Brockman (ed.)A book with a very philosophical and historical approach to artificial intelligence. Many interesting concepts, many open questions and an interesting future. Very dense at times, Stephen Wolfram's part is undoubtedly the best.
👍🏼👍🏼⭐️ExcellentAI Superpowers. China, Silicon Valley and the New World Order
Kai-Fu LeeI loved it, I ate it. A book where you learn about artificial intelligence, how China works, how America competes, the future, and very interesting proposals on how to deal with what's coming technologically.
👍🏼👍🏼⭐️ExcellentHappy at any cost: The revolutionary vision and fatal quest of Zappos CEO
Katherine Sayre and Kirsten GrindThere's very little talk about this book among entrepreneurs, and it's a basic one. How sad the story of Tony Hsie, founder of Zappos, a company sold to Amazon that inspired thousands of entrepreneurs more than ten years ago with his book Delivering Happiness.
👍🏼👍🏼Very goodThe Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze
Laura ShinIf you like crypto, this book is worth reading. It tells Ethereum’s story from the inside: the people, problems, attacks and politics. I found it very interesting and, besides enjoying it, it helped me understand much more about crypto.
👍🏼👍🏼⭐️ExcellentBehind the Cloud
Marc BenioffThe story of Salesforce told by its founder, very interesting lessons for starting a business and for a SaaS.
👍🏼GoodTrailblazer
Marc BenioffMarc Benioff, although I admire him greatly as an entrepreneur, in this book abuses the "me" when something is his idea and the "us" when it is someone else's idea.
👍🏼👍🏼Very goodInspired
Marty CaganIf you need to create or design a digital product, this is your book. How to structure your team, culture, processes, organization, etc. with the sole goal of launching and evolving a product.
👍🏼👍🏼Very goodHooked
Nir EyalOne of the product books that has helped me the most to understand how habits are created around an app or service and why some products keep us coming back.
👍🏼GoodSecrets of Sand Hill Road
Scott KuporIt's perfect for someone who doesn't know how startups are funded and how venture capital dynamics work. I expected a lot more from the book, but I don't think I was his audience. Recommended to anyone looking to get funding or setting up their startup.
👍🏼👍🏼⭐️ExcellentWhat is ChatGPT doing… and why does it work?
Stephen WolframA short, accessible book for understanding AI and what we are living through. It explains how models such as ChatGPT work in technical terms that remain accessible, including the logic behind neural networks and training. It helped me understand so many things. I think it is essential groundwork for what is coming.
👍🏼GoodRocket Surgery Made Easy
Steve KrugI want to do usability testing in my company, and I wanted to read this book to refresh knowledge -- practical, practical, and useful for doing user testing in your business easily and quickly.
👍🏼👍🏼⭐️ExcellentWhere Good Ideas Come From
Steven JohnsonIt's very interesting to understand not only how ideas are generated and how innovation works, but also to learn how to create environments where it's facilitated and encouraged. And how each of us can be a part of that.
👍🏼👍🏼⭐️ExcellentElon Musk
Walter IsaacsonI've enjoyed it from start to finish. Not only because I admire Musk, but because it's well written, you can better understand his genius (and his complex way of being), and it's very easy to read.
👍🏼👍🏼Very good