KimSia Sim (I tweet business & software stuff) Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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A Technique for Producing Ideas
James YoungKimSia Sim (I tweet business & software stuff)@robkhenderson I feel like the best explainer of this phenomenon and also with the clearest step by step is James Webb Young’s a technique for producing ideas 💡 Nothing else comes close
Paperback, 2003
$11.00$5.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters
Richard RumeltKimSia Sim (I tweet business & software stuff)I highly recommend both books Rumelt’s Good Strategy Bad Strategy and Bungay’s Art of Action https://t.co/J1CJbAq4oP
Hardcover, 2011
$32.00$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Collective Illusions: Conformity, Complicity, and the Science of Why We Make Bad Decisions
Todd RoseKimSia Sim (I tweet business & software stuff)@p_millerd There's a book called collective illusions by Todd Rose. I like that terminology. It fits the Saudi men situation. https://t.co/wyXQ9E05Fe Also related but in a different tangent is this concept of surprisingly popular when you apply wisdom of crowds https://t.co/P2MtybGvle
Paperback, 2023
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
Nassim Nicholas TalebKimSia Sim (I tweet business & software stuff)Reality doesn’t care about winning arguments; survival is what matters. —Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life https://t.co/mReWUkwejS
Paperback, 2020
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Smart Brevity: The Power of Saying More with Less
Jim VandeheiKimSia Sim (I tweet business & software stuff)Recently I have read the book Smart Brevity by the people behind Axios That specifically targets 🎯 writing more concise content Looking fwd to implementing its ideas https://t.co/34AqztBFy2
Hardcover, 2022
$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective
Kenneth O. StanleyKimSia Sim (I tweet business & software stuff)Whenever I read literature focused on objective-based planning (e.g. OKR, etc), I get a funny feeling something's off. Then, I read the book "Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned" and it's probably the best book I have read so far that explains that funny feeling
Paperback, 2015
$32.99$16.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Dealing with Darwin: How Great Companies Innovate at Every Phase of Their Evolution
Geoffrey A. MooreKimSia Sim (I tweet business & software stuff)I think about Geoffrey Moore's Core vs Context dichotomy in Dealing with Darwin a lot. The hook I use to remember it is the Tiger Woods make 90% of money from sponsorship example. Typical 80/20 advice is to focus on sponsorship. Core vs Context recommends otherwise. https://t.co/yxkILgftRk
Paperback, 2008
$24.00$12.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
How to Engineer Software: A Model-Based Approach
Steve TockeyKimSia Sim (I tweet business & software stuff)@asmartbear @cheerfulpaige @adamrochette I am persuaded by Steve Tockey's book How to Engineer Software that it can be. Like you, I am less sure it "should" be. Slightly more sure that it's more useful to learn "when it should be" or "when it should not be" And now I'm stepping into meta territory 🤷🏻♂️
Hardcover, 2019
$113.00$88.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
A Technique for Producing Ideas
James Webb YoungKimSia Sim (I tweet business & software stuff)@robkhenderson I feel like the best explainer of this phenomenon and also with the clearest step by step is James Webb Young’s a technique for producing ideas 💡 Nothing else comes close
Paperback, 2021
$4.99$2.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - A Raw Youth: "To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's"
Fyodor DostoyevskyKimSia Sim (I tweet business & software stuff)"To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's" -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky Impulsively, I like to agree with my boy Fy here. If I slow down to think, the real aim of the game is to go right in my own way. That includes how I define right is.
Paperback, 2019
$19.24$9.62 + Free shipping50% off your first book