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"How Buildings Learn: What happens after they're built" by Stewart Brand (ok, it's about systems and software arch) "Walt Disney: Triumph of the American Imagination" by Neal Gabler (This is awesome because the 1st third is about his multiple failures) Any David Macaulay book (breathtaking deconstruction construction) Any book on child crafts and games, vintage better. (The writing is superb and a lot of activities are excellent) Any book on network marketing (I'm not involved but have been pitched many times. The talk about funnels for recruiting is realistic).

Highly recommend Neal Gabler's biography, "Walt Disney: The Triumph of The American Imagination". Fascinating and underpinned by seven years of exhaustive research. The first fifth is about his failures. His failed animation and film companies. The entire 633 page book is about one man's obsession (with the biz ops help of his brother) with bringing reality to fantasy and fantasy to reality. It may not seem to be your typical startup-type book but it's all about entrepreneurship, failure, and pushing the limits of technology and enthusiasm. "But for all Walt's continuing assurances of improvement, and for all his genuine desire to make outstanding films, the Alice movies, even with Iwerks's contributions, were only slightly better than routine" p.86 "In creating a world of his own from scratch, Walt Disney demonstrated, more fully and for…

"Becoming a Technical Leader" by Gerald Weinberg Unconventional perspective on management "How Buildings Learn" by Stewart Brand One of the best books about designing long-term architectures. Excellent coffee table book "Envisioning Information" by Edward Tufte "Walt Disney" by Neal Gabler Excellent biography of maybe the greatest imagineer ever "The Art of Software Testing" by Glenford J. Myers ~100 page classic. The central premise is that the successful test is one that finds bugs/issues not one that doesn't.