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The Essential Computer Engineer's Inspiration
Tales from the Great, to learn, motivate an inspire.
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Steve Jobs
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Walter Isaacson (Goodreads Author)
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How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
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The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
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Walter Isaacson (Goodreads Author)
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In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
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Steven Levy (Goodreads Author)
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Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
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Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet
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Katie Hafner (Goodreads Author)
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Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker
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How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
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The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security
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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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In the Beginning...Was the Command Line
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)
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The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary
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The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company
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David A. Price (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 9,286 ratings
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Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
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Steven Levy (Goodreads Author)
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Daemon (Daemon, #1)
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Daniel Suarez (Goodreads Author)
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Virtual Reality: The Revolutionary Technology of Computer-Generated Artificial Worlds - and How It Promises to Transform Society
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Howard Rheingold (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 138 ratings
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Green IT: Reduce Your Information System's Environmental Impact While Adding to the Bottom Line
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The Scrumban [R]Evolution: Getting the Most Out of Agile, Scrum, and Lean Kanban
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Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
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Ken Kocienda (Goodreads Author)
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The Know-It-Alls: The Rise of Silicon Valley as a Political Powerhouse and Social Wrecking Ball
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Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date
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The Essentials of Modern Software Engineering
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Attention Factory: The Story of TikTok & China’s ByteDance
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Matthew Brennan (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 611 ratings
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The Florentine Deception
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The Flight of a Wild Duck: An Improbable Journey Through Life and Technology
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Avram Miller (Goodreads Author)
4.44 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World
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Green It for Sustainable Business Practice: An Iseb Foundation Guide
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Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
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The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America
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Colossus: The First Electronic Computer
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B. Jack Copeland (Editor)
4.05 avg rating — 148 ratings
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Mankind Beyond Earth: The History, Science, and Future of Human Space Exploration
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3.89 avg rating — 71 ratings
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What Technology Wants
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Kevin Kelly (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 7,177 ratings
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Opening the Xbox: Inside Microsoft's Plan to Unleash an Entertainment Revolution
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Dean Takahashi (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 150 ratings
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What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry
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3.82 avg rating — 1,144 ratings
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The Dream Machine
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4.55 avg rating — 1,561 ratings
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The Story of Commodore: A Company on the Edge
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4.21 avg rating — 957 ratings
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Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
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Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software
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Game Over, Press Start to Continue: How Nintendo Conquered the World
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David Sheff (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 1,564 ratings
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iWoz - Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It
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The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
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4.01 avg rating — 14,901 ratings
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You Are Not a Gadget
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The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier
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iCon: Steve Jobs, the Greatest Second Act in the History of Business
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Zero Day (Jeff Aiken, #1)
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3.56 avg rating — 5,871 ratings
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The 4-Hour Workweek
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Timothy Ferriss (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 326,880 ratings
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The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet Is Killing Our Culture
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Andrew Keen (Goodreads Author)
2.83 avg rating — 1,168 ratings
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The Internet Is Not the Answer
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Andrew Keen (Goodreads Author)
3.55 avg rating — 884 ratings
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How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of "Intangibles" in Business
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