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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)...

Miguel Pinilla
Jan 15, 20241 min read


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


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


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


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


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


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....

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Nov 27, 20231 min read


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


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


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...

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Nov 15, 20231 min read


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


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


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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