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Books like Clean Code
Clean Code by Robert C. Martin is about software craftsmanship, readability, refactoring. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- The Mythical Man-Month
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Frederick P. Brooks Jr. · Business
Frederick Brooks managed the development of OS/360, IBM's operating system for the System/360 mainframe, in the early 1960s.
Read the summary → - The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
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The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford · Business
The Phoenix Project is a business novel — structured like The Goal, which it explicitly acknowledges — that applies the Theory of Constraints and lean manufacturing principles to IT operations and software delivery.
Read the summary → - An Elegant Puzzle
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Will Larson · Business
An Elegant Puzzle is Will Larson's guide to the craft of engineering management, written from his experience leading engineering teams at Digg, Uber, and Stripe.
Read the summary → - A Mind for Numbers
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Barbara Oakley · Self-help
A Mind for Numbers is Barbara Oakley's guide to learning hard subjects effectively, written primarily for students struggling with mathematics and science but drawing on cognitive science principles that apply to any demanding field.
Read the summary → - Working in Public
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Nadia Eghbal · Business
Working in Public is Nadia Eghbal's examination of open source software as a window into a broader shift in how creative and technical work is organized online.
Read the summary → - A Brief History of Time
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Stephen Hawking · Science
A Brief History of Time is Stephen Hawking's attempt to explain the biggest questions in physics — where the universe came from, how it behaves, and where it might be going — to readers with no scientific training.
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