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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...

A delightful book full of concrete, actionable advice that is perfect for amateurs that want to improve their design skills. This book won’t make you a profession...

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

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

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

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...