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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...

A superb book that presents convincing arguments, great stories, great research, great analogies, and highly actionable advice on how to communicate ideas in a wa...

Very quick read, but not a particularly good one. The advice is extremely simplistic, bordering on platitudes, and much of it is not particularly actionable. A lo...

This book is a mixed bag. There are a few superb blog posts and essays in here. In particular, all the ones from Paul Graham are superb (as usual), Peter Thiel’s ...

The good

A good book to learn how to develop, market, and sell products as a startup.

(I did not write up a text review or notes on this book).