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Books like Where Wizards Stay Up Late
The best books like Where Wizards Stay Up Late are The Innovator's Dilemma, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, and American Prometheus. Where Wizards Stay Up Late by Katie Hafner & Matthew Lyon is about internet history, computer networking, innovation. 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 Innovator's Dilemma
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Clayton M. Christensen · Business
Christensen's argument, published in 1997, is deceptively simple: the very practices that make companies excellent at serving their current customers — listening carefully, investing in proven technologies, targeting the most profitable segments — are precisely what causes them to miss disruptive innovations.
Both dig into innovation.
Read the summary → - Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
John Carreyrou · Business
Bad Blood is Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou's account of Theranos, the blood-testing startup founded by Elizabeth Holmes that claimed its proprietary technology could run hundreds of diagnostic tests from a single finger-prick of blood.
A kindred history read.
Read the summary → - American Prometheus
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Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin · Biography
Kai Bird and Martin J.
A kindred history read.
Read the summary → - Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Peter Thiel · Business
Zero to One began as notes from a Stanford course Thiel taught on startups in 2012, assembled into a book with co-author Blake Masters.
Both dig into innovation.
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.
Shares innovation and collaboration with Where Wizards Stay Up Late.
Read the summary → - Americana
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Bhu Srinivasan · History
Americana is Bhu Srinivasan's attempt to tell the history of American capitalism through its defining industries and the entrepreneurs who built them.
Both dig into innovation.
Read the summary → - Empires of Light
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Jill Jonnes · History
Empires of Light is Jill Jonnes's history of the War of Currents — the late-nineteenth-century battle between Thomas Edison's direct-current electrical system and George Westinghouse's alternating-current system, with Nikola Tesla as the third figure whose genius made AC practical.
Both dig into innovation.
Read the summary → - How the Internet Happened
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Brian McCullough · History
How the Internet Happened covers the commercial history of the internet from the release of Mosaic in 1993 to the launch of the iPhone in 2007 — the window in which the web went from academic experiment to the defining infrastructure of modern life.
Both dig into innovation.
Read the summary → - How We Got to Now
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Steven Johnson · History
How We Got to Now traces six innovations — glass, cold, sound, clean, time, and light — and follows each one through unexpected chains of consequence into the present.
Both dig into innovation.
Read the summary → - The Last Days of Night
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Graham Moore · History
The Last Days of Night is Graham Moore's historical novel about the legal and commercial war between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse over the electrification of America.
Both dig into innovation.
Read the summary → - Thunderstruck
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Erik Larson · History
Thunderstruck interweaves two narratives set in Edwardian England and the North Atlantic: the story of Guglielmo Marconi's obsessive drive to make wireless telegraphy work across the Atlantic Ocean, and the story of Hawley Harvey Crippen, a mild-mannered American doctor who murdered his wife in London in 1910 and fled with his mistress — only to be captured at sea because of a wireless telegraph message, the first criminal caught with the technology's help.
Both dig into innovation.
Read the summary → - Articulating Design Decisions
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Tom Greever · Business
Articulating Design Decisions addresses a gap that most design education ignores: knowing how to make good decisions is necessary but not sufficient.
Both dig into collaboration.
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Books like Where Wizards Stay Up Late: quick answers
What are the best books like Where Wizards Stay Up Late?
The best books like Where Wizards Stay Up Late by Katie Hafner & Matthew Lyon are The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou, American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel, The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Where Wizards Stay Up Late, such as internet history, computer networking, innovation.
What should I read after Where Wizards Stay Up Late?
A natural next read after Where Wizards Stay Up Late is The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen. Both dig into innovation. Other strong choices are Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou, American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel.
What books are similar to Where Wizards Stay Up Late by Katie Hafner & Matthew Lyon?
Where Wizards Stay Up Late centers on internet history, computer networking, innovation. Books with a similar feel include The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou, American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel, The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson, Americana by Bhu Srinivasan — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
