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Tobi Lutke
Jun 30, 2021This 25th anniversary edition of Steven Levy's classic book traces the exploits of the computer revolution's original hackers -- those brilliant and eccentric nerds from the late 1950s through the early '80s who took risks, bent the rules, and pushed the world in a radical new direction. With updated material from noteworthy hackers such as Bill Ga...
Tobi Lutke
Jun 28, 2021The former head of the Sante Fe Institute, visionary physicist Geoffrey West is a pioneer in the field of complexity science, the science of emergent systems and networks. The term “complexity” can be misleading, however, because what makes West’s discoveries so beautiful is that he has found an underlying simplicity that unites the seemingly compl...
There are at least two kinds of games, states James P. Carse as he begins this extraordinary book. One could be called finite; the other infinite. A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.Finite games are the familiar contests of everyday life; they are played in order to be won, wh...
Tobi Lutke
Nov 17, 2020What happens when your digital self overpowers your physical self?A life in Permutation City is unlike any life to which you’re accustomed. You have Eternal Life, the power to live forever. Immortality is a real thing, just not the thing you’d expect.Life is just electronic code. You have been digitized, scanned, and downloaded into a virtual reali...
Tobi Lutke
Jul 02, 2020Way of the Warrior Kid 3
Where there's a Will... Kids Fitness, Martial Arts and Empowerment
A new summer brings new challenges.Marc shouldn’t have a single complaint as he finishes seventh grade. He’s done really well in his classes, his friends Kenny and Nathan have joined him at jiu-jitsu, and most important, he’s been staying on the Warrior Kid path. There’s just one problem and that problem is named Danny Rhinehart. It seems like ever...
Tobi Lutke
Jun 21, 2020Also recommended by
Jake EllenbergerThere’s more to life than pull-ups.Marc’s life has changed since last summer, when his for-real, super-cool Navy SEAL Uncle Jake came to visit. He’s eating healthy, practicing jiu-jitsu, and working hard in school. Marc’s had a great year…until the very last day of school, when he gets into trouble because of Nathan James. Nathan is mean and annoyi...
Tobi Lutke
Jun 21, 2020National Bestseller Fifth grade was the worst year of Marc's life. He stunk at gym class, math was too hard for him, the school lunch was horrible, and his class field trip was ruined because he couldn't swim. But what was most awful thing about fifth grade? Kenny Williamson, the class bully, who calls himself the King of the Jungle.When Marc's mot...
Tobi Lutke
Jun 21, 2020Losing the Signal
The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry
In 2009, BlackBerry controlled half of the smartphone market. Today that number is one percent. What went so wrong?Losing the Signal is a riveting story of a company that toppled global giants before succumbing to the ruthlessly competitive forces of Silicon Valley. This is not a conventional tale of modern business failure by fraud and greed. The ...
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERFar more than a superb memoir about the highest levels of professional tennis, Open is the engrossing story of a remarkable life.Andre Agassi had his life mapped out for him before he left the crib. Groomed to be a tennis champion by his moody and demanding father, by the age of twenty-two Agassi had won the first of his eight...
The Three-Body Problem is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience this multiple award winning phenomenon from China's most beloved science fiction author, Liu Cixin.Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization o...
Tobi Lutke
May 08, 2020Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
The Precipice by Toby Ord
High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove
The Evolution of Everything by Matt Ridley
Thinking in Systems by Donella H. Meadows
The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
Tuxedo Park by Jennet Conant
Influence by Robert B. Cialdini
Mindset by Carol S. Dweck
The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr.
Game Engine Black Book Wolfenstein 3D by Fabien Sanglard
Grit by Angela Duckworth
Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi
Drive by Daniel H. Pink
The Box by Marc Levinson
A Guide to the Good Life by William B. Irvine