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A quick, practical, actionable read on building MVP’s. Borrows heavily from lots of existing sources, so the book feels like an MVP itself, but it works very wel...

Update: The book is now published! Get yourself a copy at hello-startup.net!

Inspired by a reddit discussion, I decided to create short blog post to ask two questions:

I do not understand why this is such a popular and beloved book. It starts off pretty interesting, with an engineered disease wiping out much of humanity, and for...

The good

This book has several very important ideas: Everyone uses design. Even if you aren’t professional designer, you still use design everywhere in your life,...

I found this book frustrating. It has a number of great design insights, but they are mixed with some truly awful advice on what programmers are like and how to b...

There is a lot of interesting content in this book, but I’m not sure if it actually made me more creative. The writing is slightly meandering and academic in styl...

As an engineer, this book makes me happy. A great discussion of how to break any problem down into quantifiable metrics, how to figure out which of those metrics ...

A pretty convincing argument for why large, established companies struggle to keep up with disruptive innovations. It turns out that the very things that make tho...