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Practice

An annotated collection of 4 books, essays & articles on practice, spanning 1999 to 2024. Featuring works by Andrew Hunt & David Thomas, Andrea Goulet, Ken Norton and 1 more — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.

The Pragmatic Programmer

Andrew Hunt & David Thomas, 1999 · Addison-Wesley

A craft manual for software as a discipline. Hunt and Thomas codify decades of tacit knowledge about how working programmers actually build things well: broken windows, tracer bullets, orthogonality, the discipline of DR…

Goulet, an engineer and communications consultant, argues that empathy is an engineering practice — not a personality trait, but a set of disciplines that change how code reviews, pair programming, incident post-mortems…

Empathy and Product Management

Ken Norton, 2021 · Bring the Donuts Newsletter

Ken Norton spent a decade running product at Google Ventures and writes one of the more humane newsletters in the product management space. This piece is about empathy as a working practice — not a posture but a set of s…

Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI

Ethan Mollick, 2024 · Portfolio / Penguin

AI not as a tool but as a cognitive companion that transforms how you work, decide and organise. Mollick, from Wharton, argues that AI changes the nature of work not because it performs tasks for you, but because it alte…