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Engineering
An annotated collection of 2 books & articles on engineering, spanning 2005 to 2017. Featuring works by Robert N. Charette, Adrian Newey — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.
Why Software Fails
Robert N. Charette, 2005 · IEEE Spectrum, Vol. 42, No. 9
Charette compiles a catalogue of the largest software disasters in history — Denver's airport baggage system, the IRS modernisation, the FBI Virtual Case File — and extracts the structural reasons behind them. Most failu…
How to Build a Car: The Autobiography of the World's Greatest Formula 1 Designer
Adrian Newey, 2017 · HarperCollins
Adrian Newey has designed more winning Formula 1 cars than any other engineer alive, and the book is his account of how the work actually happens: the tradeoffs, the iteration cycles, the relationship between intuition a…