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I am sure it's not this way for everything but, for my own experience, I will answer with no. I would also doubt anyone in recent times who said they had a book

I am sure it's not this way for everything but, for my own experience, I will answer with no. I would also doubt anyone in recent times who said they had a book or course like that. I've found competition to be so intense that, for example, my university restricts access to course syllabi and class information of certain courses because so many people would go through it and try to get a head start on it, sometimes years in advance, so they could have a shot at an A. There are old course notes and syllabi from 2012 that float around the internet that people use now since it's mostly the same. It's hard to picture a book that could give you an edge without anyone else knowing about it.

muzani 5y ago
There are so many books that have given me an unfair advantage. I could easily list a dozen but the question asks for one. I'd say we live in an age of overinformation. There are books that give you an edge, like Never Split the Difference, and then everyone reads it, and then everyone reads the summary of it, then everyone criticizes the summary (which the original book itself has addressed), then everyone reads the criticism and concludes that the book is bad. You can ask people what a startup is, or what a MVP is, or TDD, and I assure you most would not have the original definitions or purposes from the books. A lot of people think TDD is 100% test coverage or that a startup is a business, but these are all wrong by definition.