Books

Greg Wilson's Teaching Tech Together is ostensibly about teaching computer programming, but contains a wonderfully written section on how humans learn.

Charles Duhigg's book on habits introduces valuable ideas from academic literature, but is ultimately not very useful to the practitioner.

Amy Hoy's guide to shipping side projects, books, businesses and software — basically, any product you'd like to launch.

Seth Godin's 2005 book is about the practice of marketing in a world of noise. Most of these ideas are now conventional wisdom.

Kim Scott's 2017 book is a how-to guide for the people-side of management. Read as a follow-up to Andy Grove's High Output Management.

Cal Newport's 2016 book Deep Work is a guide to doing valuable work in a world of digital distraction.

Following your passion is the worst career advice you can get. Cal Newport argues for a more effective alternative.

A how-to manual for being effective by Ray Dalio, founder of the most successful hedge fund in the world.

Strategic inflection points can kill businesses and careers. How do you identify them and prepare your careers in reaction to them?

Machine intelligence and globalisation means some of us will be big winners and others, big losers in the economy of the future.