Ev Williams

Ev Williams is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur who has founded several Internet companies

131 books they recommend

Books they recommend 131

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Book recommendations listed on their Good Books profile 120

Fiction 40

Atlas Shrugged

Ayn Rand · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Dune

Frank Herbert · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Snow Crash

Neal Stephenson · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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The Fountainhead

Ayn Rand · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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The Catcher in the Rye

J.D. Salinger · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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The Martian

Andy Weir · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Ender's Game

Orson Scott Card · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Lord of the Flies

William Golding · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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The Diamond Age

Neal Stephenson · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Richard Bach · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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On the Road

Jack Kerouac · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Milan Kundera · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Cat's Cradle

Kurt Vonnegut · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Einstein's Dreams

Alan Lightman · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Cumulus

Eliot Peper · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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The Da Vinci Code

Dan Brown · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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The Corrections

Jonathan Franzen · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Cryptonomicon

Neal Stephenson · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Mark Haddon · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Anthem

Ayn Rand · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Goo

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Judith Viorst · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Airframe

Michael Crichton · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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The Bonfire of the Vanities

Tom Wolfe · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Adverbs

Daniel Handler · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Wool

Hugh Howey · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Jitterbug Perfume

Tom Robbins · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Michael Chabon · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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The Power of One

Bryce Courtenay · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Shopgirl

Steve Martin · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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You Shall Know Our Velocity!

Dave Eggers · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Microserfs

Douglas Coupland · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Sphere

Michael Crichton · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Absurdistan

Gary Shteyngart · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Xenocide

Orson Scott Card · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Mating

Norman Rush · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Jimmy Corrigan

Chris Ware · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Speaker for the Dead

Orson Scott Card · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates

Tom Robbins · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Business and Management 14

The Innovator's Dilemma

Clayton M. Christensen aggregator only

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High Output Management

Andrew Grove aggregator only

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Good to Great

Jim Collins aggregator only

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The Dip

Seth Godin · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Built to Last

Jim Collins aggregator only

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The Long Tail

Chris Anderson aggregator only

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Holacracy

Brian Johnson · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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The Halo Effect

Phil Rosenzweig aggregator only

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Winning

Jack Welch · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Get Back in the Box

Douglas Rushkoff · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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In Search of Excellence

Thomas J. Peters · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Slack

Tom DeMarco · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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The Seven-Day Weekend

Ricardo Semler · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Seeing What's Next

Clayton M. Christensen aggregator only

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Technology and Computing 12

Hackers & Painters

Paul Graham aggregator only

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Out of Control

Kevin Kelly · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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You Are Not a Gadget

Jaron Lanier · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Hackers

Steven Levy aggregator only

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Wired

Gary Wolf · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering

Robert L. Glass · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Future Perfect

Steven Johnson · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Small Pieces Loosely Joined

David Weinberger · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Joel on Software

Joel Spolsky · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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In the Beginning...Was the Command Line

Neal Stephenson · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Smart and Gets Things Done

Joel Spolsky · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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The Social Life of Information

John Seely Brown · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Psychology and Behaviour 6

Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman aggregator only

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Mindset

Carol S. Dweck aggregator only

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Stumbling on Happiness

Daniel Todd Gilbert · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Blink

Malcolm Gladwell · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Mind Wide Open

Steven Johnson · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Sales and Marketing 5

Crossing the Chasm

Geoffrey A. Moore aggregator only

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Positioning

Al Ries aggregator only

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Focus

Al Ries · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Ogilvy on Advertising

David Ogilvy aggregator only

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The Cluetrain Manifesto

Rick Levine et al. · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Productivity and Habits 5

Mastery

George Leonard aggregator only

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Getting Things Done

David Allen · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Ready for Anything

David Allen · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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What Should I Do with My Life?

Po Bronson · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Bit Literacy

Mark Hurst · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Biography and Memoir 5

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Dave Eggers · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Me Talk Pretty One Day

David Sedaris · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Gates

Stephen Manes aggregator only

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The Know-It-All

A.J. Jacobs · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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The First American

H.W. Brands · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Biography of Scientists 3

"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"

Richard P. Feynman · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Dancing Naked in the Mind Field

Kary Mullis · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Tesla

Margaret Cheney · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Economics 3

Freakonomics

Steven D. Levitt aggregator only

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Revolutionary Wealth

Alvin Toffler · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Why Most Things Fail

Paul Ormerod · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Sociology and Culture 3

The Tipping Point

Malcolm Gladwell · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Working

Studs Terkel · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Everything Bad is Good for You

Steven Johnson · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Art and Design 3

Understanding Comics

Scott Mccloud · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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User Interface Design for Programmers

Joel Spolsky · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Infinite Creativity

Silvia Hartmann · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Sport 3

Moneyball

Michael Lewis aggregator only

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The Blind Side

Michael Lewis aggregator only

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It's Not About the Bike

Lance Armstrong · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Philosophy 2

Antifragile

Nassim Nicholas Taleb aggregator only

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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Robert M. Pirsig aggregator only

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Science 2

The Selfish Gene

Richard Dawkins aggregator only

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Emergence

Steven Johnson · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Decision Making 2

Fooled by Randomness

Nassim Nicholas Taleb aggregator only

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The Wisdom of Crowds

James Surowiecki aggregator only

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Company Histories 2

Delivering Happiness

Tony Hsieh aggregator only

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The Perfect Store

Adam Cohen aggregator only

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Entrepreneurship and Startups 2

The Monk and the Riddle

Randy Komisar · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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The Art of the Start 2.0

Guy Kawasaki · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Health and Fitness 1

The China Study

T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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General History 1

Nonzero

Robert Wright aggregator only

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Artificial Intelligence 1

On Intelligence

Jeff Hawkins · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Environment and Energy 1

Reinventing Fire

Amory Lovins · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Religion and Spirituality 1

Mindfulness for Beginners

Jon Kabat-Zinn · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Travel and Exploration 1

Travels

Michael Crichton · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Mathematics and Statistics 1

Fuzzy Thinking

Bart Kosko · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Food 1

We the Eaters

Ellen Gustafson · not in an entry yet aggregator only

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Fiction 3

Fight Club

Chuck Palahniuk · not in an entry yet

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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament

John Crowley · not in an entry yet

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All Fours: A Novel

Miranda July · not in an entry yet

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Business and Management 1

The Effective Executive

Peter F. Drucker

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Psychology and Behaviour 1

Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away

Annie Duke · not in an entry yet

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Decision Making 1

Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions W

Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts

Annie Duke · not in an entry yet

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Productivity and Habits 1

The 4-Hour Workweek

Timothy Ferriss · not in an entry yet

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Philosophy 1

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: A

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values

Robert M. Pirsig · not in an entry yet

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Artificial Intelligence 1

Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of

Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective

Kenneth O. Stanley, Joel Lehman · not in an entry yet

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Science 1

The One: How an Ancient Idea Holds the Futur

The One: How an Ancient Idea Holds the Future of Physics

Heinrich Pas · not in an entry yet

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Sociology and Culture 1

What's Our Problem? A Self-Help Book for Soc

What's Our Problem? A Self-Help Book for Societies

Tim Urban · not in an entry yet

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Ev Williams

Books they recommend 131

Book recommendations listed on their Good Books profile 120

Fiction 40

Business and Management 14

Technology and Computing 12

Psychology and Behaviour 6

Sales and Marketing 5

Productivity and Habits 5

Biography and Memoir 5

Biography of Scientists 3

Economics 3

Sociology and Culture 3

Art and Design 3

Sport 3

Philosophy 2

Science 2

Decision Making 2

Company Histories 2

Entrepreneurship and Startups 2

Health and Fitness 1

General History 1

Artificial Intelligence 1

Environment and Energy 1

Religion and Spirituality 1

Travel and Exploration 1

Mathematics and Statistics 1

Food 1

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Fiction 3

Business and Management 1

Psychology and Behaviour 1

Decision Making 1

Productivity and Habits 1

Philosophy 1

Artificial Intelligence 1

Science 1

Sociology and Culture 1

Where they publish 2