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Academic Books
Capitalism and Freedom - Milton Friedman (1962)
Diffusion of Innovations - Everett Rogers (1962)
Emotional Design - Donald Norman (2003)
Language in Thought and Action - S. I. Hayakawa (1949)
McKeachie's Teaching Tips - Wilbert McKeachie (1951)
On Writing Well - William Zinsser (1976)
Out of the Crisis - W. Edwards Deming (1986)
Policy Paradox - Deborah Stone (1997)
The Design of Everyday Things - Donald Norman (1988)
The Invisible Computer - Donald Norman (1998)
The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education - W. Edwards Deming (1993)
Experience Books
Prepared: What Kids Need for a Fulfilled Life - Diane Tavenner (2019)
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement - Eliyahu M. Goldratt (1984)
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up - Marie Kondo (2014)
Unreasonable Hospitality - Will Guidara (2022)
Papers
The Computer for the 21st Century - Mark Weiser (1991)
The Five Orders of Ignorance - Phillip G. Armour (2000)
A relational model of data for large shared data banks - Edgar F. Codd (1970)
Thriving in a crowded and changing world: C++ 2006–2020 - Bjarne Stroustrup (2020)
Reflections on Trusting Trust - Ken Thompson (1984)
The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge - Abraham Flexner (1939)
What Goes Around Comes Around - Michael Stonebraker & Joey Hellerstein (2005)
What the Schools Teach and Might Teach - John Franklin Bobbitt (1916)
Essays
Ur-Fascism - Umberto Eco (1995)
Literature
American Gods - Neil Gaiman (2001)
Animal Farm - George Orwell (1945)
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (1932)
Demon Princes - Jack Vance (1964)
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card (1985)
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury (1953)
Foundation - Isaac Asimov (1951)
Going Postal - Terry Pratchett (2004)
I, Robot - Isaac Asimov (1950)
Neuromancer - William Gibson (1984)
Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell (1949)
Rainbows End - Vernor Vinge (2007)
Ringworld - Larry Niven (1970)
Starship Troopers - Robert A. Heinlein (1959)
The Chronicles of Amber - Roger Zelazny (1970)