expandMind : THE COMPLETE LIST OF INTERESTING BOOKS
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Errors are useful, innovate using them.
As software test practitioners we revel in finding bugs, and as managers and engineers we are focused on fixing these.
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Necessary but not Sufficient
I have been a great fan of Dr Goldratt having read all this books, my favourite being his first book “The Goal”. This book “Necessary but not Sufficient” is written as a “business novel” and shows the fictional application of the Theory of Constraints to Enterprise resource planning (ERP) and operations software and organizations using that software.
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Black box thinking
Learning from failures .The inside story of how success really happens and how we cannot grow unless we learn from our mistakes.
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The Laws of Medicine: Field Notes from an Uncertain Science
Siddhartha Mukherjee investigates the most perplexing cases of his career ultimately identifying three principles that govern modern medicine.
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Approximate thinking
A beautiful book that taught me “Approximate thinking” of how to rapidly approximate and get facts to analyse further.
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Sketchnote
Sketchnotes are purposeful doodling while listening to something interesting. Sketchnotes don’t require high drawing skills, but do require a skill to visually synthesize and summarize via shapes, connectors, and text. Sketchnotes are as much a method of note taking as they are a form of creative expression.