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Only the Paranoid Survive by Andrew S. Grove

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A Peace to End All Peace by David Fromkin

High Performance Web Sites by Steve Souders

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Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe

by Brian Cox

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Wiring the Winning Organization: Liberating Our Collective Greatness through Slowification, Simplification, and Amplification

by Gene Kim

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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

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“If we want the future to be better than the past, moral imagination is required, and that’s something only humans can provide [87]. Data and models should be our tools, not our masters.”
― Martin Kleppmann, Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

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“On the other hand, when there’s a fundamental change in the industry and you don’t change your skills, you will lose at both winning companies and losing companies. That is a situation that can truly be classified as a career inflection point.”
― Andrew S. Grove, Only the Paranoid Survive

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“Design with skepticism, and you will achieve resilience.”
― Michael T. Nygard, Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software

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“Remember: once you build Radically Candid relationships with the people who report to you, you will eliminate a terrible source of misery in the world: the bad boss.”
― Kim Malone Scott, Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity

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“It has been estimated that the total of military and civilian casualties in all of Europe’s domestic and international conflicts in the 100 years between 1815 and 1915 was no greater than a single day’s combat losses in any of the great battles of 1916.”
― David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East

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