wpietri

hearty +1s for books "Design of Everyday Things"

Daemon is demonstrably not unreadable, in that quite a lot of people did read and enjoy it.

Daemon's rich detail in this regard was appealing to me.

And let me add Crossing the Chasm, which totally shaped my understanding of who buys what when.

"Crossing the Chasm" is about how tech products get adopted. But its mindset around segmenting audiences and building credibility taught me a lot about any sort of social change.

John Carreyrou's nonfiction book "Bad Blood", which covered the rise and fall of Theranos

"Finite and Infinite Games"

"Punished by Rewards"

"Getting to Yes" is a great book about business negotiation, but is lessons about shifting discussions from zero-sum to positive-sum are things I use a lot.

Johnstone's "Impro". It's about improvisational theater, and mainly meant for people learning improv.

every chapter has been surprisingly useful; I keep discovering that I have Old View notions hidden away.

"The Toyota Way" and other books on Lean Manufacturing are about running extremely effective manufacturing operations. But they have deeply changed how I think about systems of making software and running businesses.

Braitenberg's "Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology" is a way of thinking about psychology (and our inference of mind) by examining imaginary robots.

For Bear, Queen of Angels and Moving Mars are two that have AIs as major elements. I enjoyed them both.