Here are 15 books that will help you succeed in the tech world
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If you’re looking to fortify or launch a career, reading the canonical and formative as well as the provocative and emerging books in your chosen field is a quick way to glean a lot of valuable info in a little time.
A career in tech is not much different in this way. Books and their considerable, inexhaustible wisdom are not exclusive to other fields.
In fact, tech icons like Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates have even started their own book clubs. In 2015, Bill Gates said he reads more than 50 books a year and Zuckerberg was reading a new book every two weeks. They're both well-known for giving out ample reading recommendations.
In many ways, books allow for the same thing innovation and technology aim to do — create a place where everything you imagine can exist.
Below, you’ll find 15 books that help inform readers about the trends, skills, challenges, and predictions for a technological world. It includes many written by tech CEOs, like "Zero to One," "Lean In," "The Hard Thing About Hard Things," and "How Google Works," as well as scholars, biographers, and thought leaders.
Take a look at 15 of the best books available for those looking to succeed in tech:
Captions taken from Amazon and edited for length.
"Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products" by Nir Eyal
Why do some products capture widespread attention while others flop? What makes us engage with certain products out of sheer habit? Is there a pattern underlying how technologies hook us?
Nir Eyal answers these questions (and many more) by explaining the Hook Model—a four-step process embedded into the products of many successful companies to subtly encourage customer behavior. Through consecutive “hook cycles,” these products reach their ultimate goal of bringing users back again and again without depending on costly advertising or aggressive messaging.
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In "The Industries of the Future", Ross provides a “lucid and informed guide” (Financial Times) to the changes coming in the next ten years. He examines the fields that will most shape our economic future, including robotics and artificial intelligence, cybercrime and cybersecurity, the commercialization of genomics, the next step for big data, and the impact of digital technology on money and markets. In each of these realms, Ross addresses the toughest questions: How will we have to adapt to the changing nature of work? Is the prospect of cyberwar sparking the next arms race? How can the world’s rising nations hope to match Silicon Valley with their own innovation hotspots? And what can today’s parents do to prepare their children for tomorrow?
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"The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future" by Kevin Kelly
From one of our leading technology thinkers and writers, a guide through the twelve technological imperatives that will shape the next thirty years and transform our lives.
Much of what will happen in the next thirty years is inevitable, driven by technological trends that are already in motion. In this fascinating, provocative new book, Kevin Kelly provides an optimistic road map for the future, showing how the coming changes in our lives—from virtual reality in the home to an on-demand economy to artificial intelligence embedded in everything we manufacture—can be understood as the result of a few long-term, accelerating forces. Kelly both describes these deep trends—interacting, cognifying, flowing, screening, accessing, sharing, filtering, remixing, tracking, and questioning—and demonstrates how they overlap and are co-dependent on one another.
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