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Ask HN: What book did you read in 2016 that was so good you gifted it to others?

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Re: Ask HN: What book did you read in 2016 that was so good you gifted it to others?

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Post by chiefalchemist »

charlesroper wrote: post #36

Team of Teams by General Stanley McChrystal. Fundamentally about being agile, adaptable, transparent, collaborative and decentralised. You could say it's about digital transformation but on a military scale. An excellent companion to some other books mentioned here, such as Deep Work (this book is a constructive counterpoint in many ways), Extreme Ownership, and Ego is the Enemy. https://mcchrystalgroup.com/teamoftea…

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Re: Ask HN: What book did you read in 2016 that was so good you gifted it to others?

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Post by happy-go-lucky »

qwertyuiop924 wrote: post #40

The Cuckoo's Egg. I always say this if I can, but I reread it again, and it's still great. For those of you who don't know, it's a story about chasing down a hacker at the dawn of the computing era (mid 80s, AFAIK). It's riveting, and absolutely true.

+1. It's a page turner.

Re: Ask HN: What book did you read in 2016 that was so good you gifted it to others?

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Post by i0nutzb »

Oh, that's easy: Code, by Charles Petzold [1]. One of the best book I ever read, that teach you about how computers work. The best thing is that it doesn't starts with any assumption and it gets you from the very basic - how a CPU works, how memory works - to fairly complex things (how video graphics work, how color video works and so on).

[1]: http://amzn.to/2g6Lcfo

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