 | Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age by Paul Graham
Buy new: $15.61 / Used from: $3.87 Let's start with Paul Graham.
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 | How Would You Move Mount Fuji? Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle - How the World's Smartest Company Selects the Most Creative Thinkers by William Poundstone
Buy used from: $2.38 What every techie must know.
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 | Joel on Software: And on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of Interest to Software Developers, Designers, and Managers, and to Those Who, Whether by Good Fortune or Ill Luck, Work with Them in Some Capacity by Joel Spolsky
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $4.68 A gem from Joel Sposky, a prolific writer with a riveting website too.
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 | Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge
Buy new: $13.46 / Used from: $2.19 Orgasmic brain workout..
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 | Secrets of Software Success: Management Insights from 100 Software Firms Around the World by Cyriac R. Roeding
Buy new: $20.90 / Used from: $0.08 This a McKinsey book, and suitably business like, but has some great observations
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 | The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master by Andrew Hunt
Buy new: $29.59 / Used from: $19.99 It's easy to be a code auteur, but to do so in teams is easier said than done. This book has some great suggestions
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 | Code Complete (Microsoft Programming) by Steve McConnell
Buy used from: $0.68 The primer, the bible, THE book for software structuring and design.
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 | The Best Software Writing I: Selected and Introduced by Joel Spolsky (v. 1) by Joel Spolsky
Buy new: $18.24 / Used from: $1.49 Best of software writing.
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 | In Search of Stupidity: Over 20 Years of High-Tech Marketing Disasters by Merrill R. (Rick) Chapman
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $2.09 Fun read, and a lot to learn from.
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 | Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules by Steve McConnell
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $2.31 Important Project Management read, no.1.
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 | Mind Hacks: Tips & Tools for Using Your Brain by Tom Stafford
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $4.26 Get a mind workout.
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 | The Art of Project Management (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly)) by Scott Berkun
Buy used from: $18.86 Important Project Management read, no.2.
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