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Thing Explainer by Randall Munroe
What it is about: If you are wondering what a Food-Heating Radio Boxes (Microwaves) or The big flat rocks we live on (Tectonic Plates)...

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Jan 15, 20241 min read
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Relativity by Albert Einstein
What it is about: In his own words, A. Einstein builds the intuition and foundational concepts of the special and general theories using...

Miguel Pinilla
Jan 8, 20241 min read
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Relevance Lost by H. Thomas Johnson and Robert S. Kaplan
What it is about Kaplan later published The Balanced Scorecard that was a precursor to ESG investing and other big changes in corporate...

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Jan 2, 20241 min read
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Distributed Systems by Sape Mullender
What it is about Before AWS, GCP, Docker and Kubernetes, people were already building µ-service architectures, they just did not call...

Miguel Pinilla
Dec 18, 20231 min read
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Object Oriented Software Construction by Bertrand Meyer
What it is about: Although nominally is about a mostly defunct Object Oriented Language (Eiffel), the book describes all the fundamentals...

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Dec 11, 20231 min read
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Factory Physics by W.J. Hopp & M.L. Spearman
What it is about: A tour de force of the science behind manufacturing and supply chain operations, from classic inventory optimization to...

Miguel Pinilla
Dec 4, 20231 min read
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
What it is about: A classic. Absolute must read about how knowledge is created, communicated and accepted in societies and communities....

Miguel Pinilla
Nov 27, 20231 min read
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Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter
What it is about: An accessible and quasi narrative description of the foundations of computing, algorithms and formal representations...

Miguel Pinilla
Nov 20, 20231 min read
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Jokester (Earth is room enough) by Isaac Asimov
What it is about: A short story in the book, "Jokester", written in 1956 (!), is surprisingly relevant to today's Generative AI and...

Miguel Pinilla
Nov 17, 20231 min read
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The Database Relational Model by C. J. Date
What it is about: The core, rigorous concepts that underlie modern RDBMS technology with a clear derivation from first principles and...

Miguel Pinilla
Nov 15, 20231 min read
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Strategic Logic by J. Carlos Jarillo
What it is about: A description "from first principles", without any buzzwords of what makes companies competitive in the long term and...

Miguel Pinilla
Nov 15, 20231 min read
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The No Asshole Rule, by Robert Sutton
What it is about: A thoroughly researched, compelling case of the disastrous effects that toxic personalities have in the workplace and...

Miguel Pinilla
Nov 15, 20231 min read
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The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
What it is about: In the form of a novel, following a plant manager, the goal walks you through the essentials of operations management,...

Miguel Pinilla
Nov 15, 20231 min read
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