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Books like Creative Selection
The best books like Creative Selection are Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration, Steve Jobs, and The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution. Creative Selection by Ken Kocienda is about design, innovation, software craftsmanship. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
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Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace · Business
Creativity, Inc.
Shares innovation and creativity with Creative Selection.
Read the summary → - Steve Jobs
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Walter Isaacson · Biography
Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs was authorized by Jobs himself, who gave Isaacson more than forty hours of interviews and opened up his family, friends, and colleagues to the same scrutiny.
Shares innovation and creativity with Creative Selection.
Read the summary → - The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
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The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
Walter Isaacson · Science
The Innovators is Walter Isaacson's history of the digital revolution, tracing the development of computers and the internet from Ada Lovelace's conceptualization of programming in the 1840s through the emergence of the modern internet, personal computer, and smartphone.
Both dig into innovation.
Read the summary → - Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
Steven Levy · Science
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution is Steven Levy's account of the community of computer enthusiasts who drove the digital revolution from the late 1950s through the early 1980s — the original hackers of MIT's Tech Model Railroad Club and later AI lab, the hardware hackers of the Bay Area Homebrew Computer Club, and the software entrepreneurs who built the early PC industry.
Both dig into creativity.
Read the summary → - Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
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Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
Adam Grant · Psychology
Originals is Adam Grant's examination of how people champion new ideas without losing their jobs, their relationships, or their nerve.
Shares innovation and creativity with Creative Selection.
Read the summary → - The Timeless Way of Building
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Christopher Alexander · Philosophy
Christopher Alexander's The Timeless Way of Building is a strange and ambitious book.
Shares design and creativity with Creative Selection.
Read the summary → - Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination
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Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination
Neal Gabler · Biography
Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination is Neal Gabler's authorized biography, drawing on Disney's personal papers and company archives that had been closed to researchers for decades.
Shares innovation and creativity with Creative Selection.
Read the summary → - Blue Ocean Strategy
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W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne · Business
Blue Ocean Strategy is Kim and Mauborgne's case that the most successful companies don't compete in existing markets by beating rivals at their own game — they create new market spaces where competition is irrelevant.
Both dig into innovation.
Read the summary → - Competing Against Luck
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Clayton M. Christensen · Business
Competing Against Luck is Clayton Christensen's most complete development of the Jobs to Be Done framework, which he introduced briefly in The Innovator's Solution.
Both dig into innovation.
Read the summary → - Continuous Discovery Habits
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Teresa Torres · Business
Continuous Discovery Habits is Teresa Torres's practical guide to making product discovery a sustainable, weekly team practice rather than a periodic research event.
Both dig into innovation.
Read the summary → - Dealing with Darwin
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Geoffrey Moore · Business
Dealing with Darwin is Geoffrey Moore's 2005 argument that established companies face a form of Darwinian selection pressure that startup logic cannot address, and that surviving it requires a clear understanding of where a company sits in its technology lifecycle and what kind of innovation is appropriate at each stage.
Both dig into innovation.
Read the summary → - Disciplined Entrepreneurship
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Bill Aulet · Business
Bill Aulet's Disciplined Entrepreneurship is a structured walkthrough of 24 steps for building a new venture, developed from MIT's entrepreneurship curriculum and Aulet's own experience as a serial entrepreneur.
Both dig into innovation.
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Books like Creative Selection: quick answers
What are the best books like Creative Selection?
The best books like Creative Selection by Ken Kocienda are Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace, Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson, Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy, Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World by Adam Grant, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Creative Selection, such as design, innovation, software craftsmanship.
What should I read after Creative Selection?
A natural next read after Creative Selection is Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace. Shares innovation and creativity with Creative Selection. Other strong choices are Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson, Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy.
What books are similar to Creative Selection by Ken Kocienda?
Creative Selection centers on design, innovation, software craftsmanship. Books with a similar feel include Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace, Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson, Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy, Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World by Adam Grant, The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
