Thinking
An annotated collection of 3 books & essays on thinking, spanning 1982 to 2017. Featuring works by Donald C. Gause & Gerald M. Weinberg, Paul Krugman, Carlo Rovelli — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.
Are Your Lights On? How to Figure Out What the Problem Really Is
A short, funny book that is mostly a sequence of anecdotes making a single argument: most problems people try to solve are not the problems they actually have, and the work of defining the problem is usually harder and m…
How I Work
Krugman's short essay about his own methodology — the four "Krugman rules" for doing serious work in a fuzzy field. Listen to the Gentiles (take seriously ideas outside your discipline), question the question, dare to be…
The Order of Time
Rovelli is an Italian physicist who writes about his discipline with unusual literary grace. The book dismantles the common-sense picture of time — flowing, universal, one-directional — and replaces it with the stranger…