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Ask HN: Books on the inside stories of big tech?
It's been really interesting seeing some of the discussions in the internal emails from senior tech leaders that are getting published - e.g. https://twitter.com/TechEmails
Does anyone know of any books of other resources that contain similar insights or show the history/inner-workings of big tech companies?
Some good examples I've come across in the past include:
- The One Device
- Show Stoppers!
- hindsightbias 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_a_New_Machine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_a_New_Machine
- hindsightbias 5y agohttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1101290.Dealers_of_Lightning https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1101290.Dealers_of_Light... https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Centaur-Glenn-Henry/dp/B01FSZU6FK https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Centaur-Glenn-Henry/dp/B01FSZU6F...
- bwb 5y agoYou might like this list Joanne McNeil did on "The Best Books On The Origins Of The Tech Industry" https://shepherd.com/best-books/the-origins-of-the-tech-industry https://shepherd.com/best-books/the-origins-of-the-tech-indu... She wrote a book called "Lurking: How a Person Became a User" that is really interesting and explores the internet from the POV of the user. This is more about the origins of the tech industry so a little older focus, but still had some cool stuff.
- bwh2 5y agoI enjoyed these books: * Strategy Rules * How Google Works * Founders at Work
- 5cott0 5y agoHatching Twitter - Nick Bilton Bad Blood - John Carreyrou How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars: The Snapchat Story - Billy Gallagher Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork - Reeves Wiedeman Whistleblower: My Unlikely Journey to Silicon Valley and Speaking Out Against Injustice - Susan Fowler Uncanny Valley - Anna Wiener What Tech Calls Thinking: An Inquiry Into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley - Adrian Daub The Scapegoat - René Girard
- yesenadam 5y agoIn Search of Stupidity: Over Twenty Years of High Tech Marketing Disasters is a history of computing told by its terrible business decisions. Reading this book, it seems the whole history of computing is made of astoundingly terrible business decisions. Maybe that's almost true. Very entertaining and informative. I learnt a lot, extremely highly recommended. Chapters on IBM, Digital Research, Apple, Microsoft, OS/2, Borland, Intel, Motorola, Google, Novell, Netscape, etc. Second edition 2006.