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“The Nature & Art of Workmanship” by David Pye.

I picked it up related to my woodworking hobby, but also thought it was an interesting way to think about Risk in a tech company, and how (for example) more and more structure is built around releasing software to minimize risk and increase certainty of success.

I also really enjoyed:

“Joinery, Joists and Gender: A History of Woodworking for the 21st Century” by Deirdre Visser

“Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back” by Cory Doctorow, Rebecca Giblin

“Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World” by David Epstein

“How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States” by Daniel Immerwahr (this one prompted by honeymooning in Panama and learning the US used to control the canal)



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