what they swear by
Recommended on the podcast.
Design of Everyday Things
Don Norman
2 mentions
Scaling People
Claire Hughes Johnson
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
Working Backwards
Colin Bryar and Bill Carr
Maybe This Will Help
Michelle Rial
1 mention
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie
Charts for Babies
Jon Klassen Books
Jon Klassen
Am I Overthinking This?
Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
Chip & Dan Heath
Build
Tony Fadell
Aurora
David Koepp
The Wright Brothers
David McCullough
Team of Rivals
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Competing Against Luck
Clayton Christensen
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
In the Heart of the Sea
Nathaniel Philbrick
The Tale of Despereaux
Kate DiCamillo
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Charlie Mackesy
Stripe Design's books on craft
Stripe Design team
I'll Show Myself Out
Jessi Klein
You'll Grow Out of It
Classic children's books
Treasure Island, Alice in Wonderland, Shakespeare's comedies
Happy-Go-Lucky
David Sedaris
The Everything Store
Brad Stone
Sure, I'll Join Your Cult
Maria Bamford
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & How to Listen So Kids Will Talk
Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Baby
Marc Weissbluth
High Growth Handbook
Elad Gil
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
Bodyburst
Sci-fi pick
Circe
Madeline Miller
Year of Yes
Shonda Rhimes
War and Peace
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
George Saunders
The Master and His Emissary
Iain McGilchrist
The Writing Life
Annie Dillard
The Second World War
Winston Churchill
The Rigor of Angels
William Egginton
Bird by Bird
Anne Lamott
Emotional Intelligence
Daniel Goleman
Influence / Persuasion
Robert Cialdini
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
How to Measure Anything
Douglas W. Hubbard
Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi
East of Eden
John Steinbeck
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway
The Timeless Way of Building
Christopher Alexander
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Robert M. Pirsig
Sea Grapes
Derek Walcott
Beauty
Stefan Sagmeister and Jessica Walsh
Poor Charlie's Almanack
Charlie Munger
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
William Finnegan
Product-Led SEO
Eli Schwartz
No Rules Rules
Reed Hastings
Continuous Discovery Habits
Teresa Torres
Sprint
Jake Knapp
Inspired
Marty Cagan