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Books like Sprint
The best books like Sprint are The Lean Startup, Competing Against Luck, and Designing Your Life. Sprint by Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, and Braden Kowitz is about product design, rapid prototyping, team decision-making. 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.
- The Lean Startup
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Eric Ries · Business
The Lean Startup is Eric Ries's argument that the biggest cause of startup failure is not building the wrong product — it's spending months or years building something before finding out whether anyone wants it.
A kindred business read.
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.
A kindred business read.
Read the summary → - Designing Your Life
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Bill Burnett and Dave Evans · Self-help
Designing Your Life borrows tools from Silicon Valley product design and applies them to the messier problem of building a fulfilling life.
A kindred business read.
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- The Design of Everyday Things
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Donald Norman · Psychology
The Design of Everyday Things began as The Psychology of Everyday Things when first published in 1988, and Donald Norman revised it substantially for a 2013 edition that updated the examples for a digital age.
A kindred business read.
Read the summary → - Don't Make Me Think
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Steve Krug · Business
Don't Make Me Think is Steve Krug's short, plainspoken guide to web usability.
A kindred business read.
Read the summary → - Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
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Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
Nir Eyal · Business
Hooked is Nir Eyal's framework for designing products that people return to without external prompting.
Both dig into product design.
Read the summary → - No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram
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No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram
Sarah Frier · Business
No Filter is Sarah Frier's account of Instagram's founding, its acquisition by Facebook, and the decade-long tension between Instagram's founders and Mark Zuckerberg over what the product should become.
Both dig into product design.
Read the summary → - The Elements of User Experience
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The Elements of User Experience
Jesse James Garrett · Self-help
The Elements of User Experience is Jesse James Garrett's attempt to give the field of web design a shared vocabulary and a structural framework at a moment — 2002 — when web design was still being understood as a single discipline rather than several interrelated ones.
Both dig into product design.
Read the summary → - Universal Principles of Design
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Universal Principles of Design
William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, and Jill Butler · Science
Universal Principles of Design is a reference book organized as an encyclopedia: 125 design principles, each given a two-page spread with a clear definition, a visual example, and a brief note on application.
Both dig into product design.
Read the summary → - 100 Baggers: Stocks That Return 100-to-1 and How to Find Them
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100 Baggers: Stocks That Return 100-to-1 and How to Find Them
Christopher Mayer · Business
Christopher Mayer built this book on research conducted earlier by Thomas Phelps, whose 1972 book 100 to 1 in the Stock Market studied stocks that returned one hundred times their purchase price.
A kindred business read.
Read the summary → - 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy
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7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy
Hamilton Helmer · Business
7 Powers is Hamilton Helmer's attempt to distill the full landscape of business strategy into a single rigorous framework.
A kindred business read.
Read the summary → - A World Without Email
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Cal Newport · Business
A World Without Email is Cal Newport's most targeted critique of modern knowledge work culture.
A kindred business read.
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Books like Sprint: quick answers
What are the best books like Sprint?
The best books like Sprint by Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, and Braden Kowitz are The Lean Startup by Eric Ries, Competing Against Luck by Clayton M. Christensen, Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans, The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman, Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Sprint, such as product design, rapid prototyping, team decision-making.
What should I read after Sprint?
A natural next read after Sprint is The Lean Startup by Eric Ries. A kindred business read. Other strong choices are Competing Against Luck by Clayton M. Christensen, Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans, The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman.
What books are similar to Sprint by Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, and Braden Kowitz?
Sprint centers on product design, rapid prototyping, team decision-making. Books with a similar feel include The Lean Startup by Eric Ries, Competing Against Luck by Clayton M. Christensen, Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans, The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman, Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
