Steven Sinofsky Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Steven Sinofsky

Happy 35th Birthday PowerPoint 🎂 Final disk images created on April 20, 1987. There's a wonderful history of PowerPoint called "Sweating Bullets" by co-founder Rob Gaskins. Perhaps the last product actually coded on Sand Hill Road :-) PDF here - https://www.robertgaskins.com/powerpoint-history/sweating-bullets/gaskins-sweating-bullets-webpdf-isbn-9780985142414.pdf https://t.co/GuJqacLFqR

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Who is working on #slideGPT to put McKinsey out of business? i just read When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm 🔥https://t.co/5QAfCl5XX2

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@Austen In Jimmy Soni's book "The Founders" about PayPal he paints a wonderful picture of downtown PA and the offices of all the startups there in the 2000 era.

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9/ In his book "What Technology Wants" Kevin Kelly researches over 2000 years attempting to uncover technologies that were significant and banned/precluded from development. There were almost none, and none that lasted more than a short time (few years). https://t.co/QbZWs6bvyg

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Thich Nhat Hanh on Life, War and Happiness https://t.co/AIitjPpzLA 🙏 🙏 🙏

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19/ Liberalism: The Classical Tradition by Ludwig von Mises https://t.co/Z886ZReDWf I spent this year often going back to more primary sources. Super interesting to read the “classic” definitions and how they might have morphed more recently. https://t.co/MhZITpTXw0

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17/ The Mind Is Flat: The Remarkable Shallowness of the Improvising Brain https://t.co/VCSrKgt2nN by Nick Chater really makes you think especially in this world of ever-changing “facts” and ever-charging media “bias”. Nothing is the same after this.

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13/ Like a Rolling Stone: A Memoir https://t.co/pTLEI8ZY5J by Jann Wenner. From Berkeley to New York to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, this memoir tells a story of an era of music, culture, and magazines—building and creating. So much fun, though a bit name-droppy at end.

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This is too much. ❤️ BTW, there's a fun book on the history of word processing in literature called "Track Changes" https://t.co/PiOK5DWnFu by @mkirschenbaum https://t.co/XVEWeG5opt

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"Working Backwards" is a very good book for product leaders to read. It builds on 6 core Amazon principles AND tells the story of 4 key amazon projects. Written by @cbryar (12+) and @BillCarr89 (15+ yrs) of Amazon. 1/ https://t.co/6HmOloRHfM