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Ask HN: What is the best book a company has ever produced about itself?
saw this question on twitter and thought of asking it here
- authorfly 2y agoThe books by 37 signals (Rework) come to mind: https://37signals.com/books/ https://37signals.com/books/ Especially "It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work" - directions towards greater productivity through greater QoL and not in the Silicon Valley Nursery Color Complex way.
- falcor84 2y agoI would put a vote for Google's SRE book [0]. While it was originally published by O'Reilly[1], to the best of my knowledge, the authors were all SRE Googlers who were paid for their time working on it. Some very good war stories and advice there. [0] https://sre.google/sre-book/table-of-contents/ https://sre.google/sre-book/table-of-contents/ [1] https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/site-reliability-engineering/9781491929117/ https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/site-reliability-e...
- gsu2 2y agoMoore Tool Company -- manufacturer of some of the machines that NIST uses to measure stuff[1] -- published a book called Foundations of Mechanical Accuracy that's pretty good: https://archive.org/details/FoundationsOfMechanicalAccuracy/mode/1up https://archive.org/details/FoundationsOfMechanicalAccuracy/... [1]: https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2016/09/meet-bob-pmls-second-primary-coordinate-measuring-machine https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2016/09/meet-bob-pmls-...
- Bluestein 2y agoI don't know if this answers matches the question but, could be interesting anyway: My take would be the book that Jobs received on NeXT and it's logo. Granted, it was not "by a company about itself", but, rather, "about a company by an agency". Still ...
- comprev 2y agoFor the home cycle mechanic Park Tools make a good guide book which utilises their products. https://www.parktool.com/en-int/product/big-blue-book-of-bicycle-repair-4th-edition-bbb-4 https://www.parktool.com/en-int/product/big-blue-book-of-bic...
- aaron695 2y agoI'll go off topic to documentaries where the hustlers did themselves - "Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened" was made by the Fyre Fest people. Similarly the hilarious tech failure "Riot On!" was made by themselves. The director was a pseudonym. A bit more on topic but meta it's interesting the US military has sent historians to current engagements since WW2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_detachment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_detachment
- randcraw 2y ago"Creativity Inc" about Pixar should be a candidate.
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- anon1094 2y agoResend's recently published handbook: https://resend.com/handbook https://resend.com/handbook
- zenorocha 2y ago(Resend founder here) We definitely spent a _ton_ of time putting that together. Happy to answer any questions about it.
- ethnologica 2y agoLet my people go surfing - Patagonia
- Steffajos 2y ago[dead]