Books & Writing
Books and writing: reading lists, essays, authors, the craft of writing, and literature.
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Learning Technical Writing Using the Engineering Method cs.tufts.edu
An alternative approach, involving a weekly meeting of a writing group. An interesting dynamic to gather feedback and experience.
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Tips for Writing Technical Papers cs.stanford.edu
Another set of tips, specifically using the example of a technical paper describing an improvement of an algorithm.
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If management isn't a promotion, then engineering isn't a demotion charity.wtf
This essay deconstruct why management ends up being seen as a promotion, how its new acquired privileges and powers creates an implicit hierarchy, which in turns creates bad incentives because of loss aversion. At the end, the only way forwards is to change the organization's…
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A Career Cold Start Algorithm boz.com
The author developed an algorithm to ramp-up quickly when joining an existing team where he had a massive knowledge deficit and no pre-existing relationships.
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Ten simple rules for structuring papers biorxiv.org
“Focusing on how readers consume information, we present a set of 10 simple rules to help you get across the main idea of your paper.”
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Operations and Internal Communication Strategies For Effective CEOs archive.ph
After insisting on the importance of context and narratives, the author provide an interesting template (good for inspiration) of ritual and recurring internal communication devices.
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What do executives do, anyway? apenwarr.ca
Paraphrasing Andy Grove's book, High Output Management, “the job of an executive is: to define and enforce culture and values for their whole organization, and to ratify good decisions.” The article also details the failures modes of a CEO: forcing his own decisions downstream…
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Meeting everyone on a new team annashipman.co.uk
Right after inheriting a position at the top of an organization of 50 engineers, the author bootstrapped the relationship with that big team by meeting everyone in 30 minutes 1:1s. It was a huge time investment, and despite fears of being boring, it allows for recognizing…
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BLUF: The Military Standard That Can Make Your Writing More Powerful animalz.co
“BLUF is a military communications acronym—it stands for “bottom line up front”—that's designed to enforce speed and clarity in reports and emails.”
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It's time to start writing alexnixon.github.io
On “Jeff Bezos's dotcom-era policy of banning PowerPoint within Amazon”, and how “this is neither about powerpoint nor about reading - it's about thinking.”
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Susan Davis en.wikipedia.org
Co-authored books on on social enterprise and highly active in community.
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David Bornstein en.wikipedia.org
Wrote several popular books on social entrepreneurship.
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What culture is right for you? swardley.medium.com
Jul 31, 2019.
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Wardley maps - Topographical intelligence in business medium.com
Creative Commons book by Simon Wardley.
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LearnWardleyMapping.com learnwardleymapping.com
Video chapter summaries of Simon Wardley's book, 15-minute introductory course, and a quick reference.
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An illustration from Gerstner's book - Part 2 juliusgamanyi.com
Mapping "Who Says Elephants Can't Dance" by Louis Gerstner. Jun 18, 2019.
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Mapping Crypto: Common Pitfalls blog.agostbiro.com
Mapping the challenges of launching novel payment solutions. Jun 14, 2019.
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https://land-book.com/guidelines land-book.com
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OKR Mistakes eleganthack.com
This is an important article that descrives the most common mistakes while writing OKRs and how to fix them.
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UnitTesting wiki.ros.org
This page lays out the rationale, best practices, and policies for writing and running unit tests and integration tests for ROS.
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Python wiki.ros.org
Style guide to be followed in writing Python code for ROS.
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Building open source hardware books.google.com
Book by Alicia Gibb, on building open source hardware from 2014.
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Free to Make books.google.com
Book by Dale Dougherty, how the maker movement is changing our schools, our jobs, and our minds.
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Open-source Lab books.google.com
Book by Josua M. Pearce, how to build your own hardware and reduce costs.
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The Hardware Hacker books.google.com
Book by Andrew "bunnie" Huang, how to design and manufacture open hardware products.
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Pens for EggBot wiki.evilmadscientist.com
Egg- and glass-focused pen recommendations but still generally applicable information.
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Tools, Tricks, and Hacks: Exploring Novel Digital Fabrication Workflows on #PlotterTwitter dl.acm.org
Research paper on the novel workflows of the plotter community (Video Summary).
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SEGA SP-400 Operation Manual archive.org
This doesn't present as a flippable book on the archive, but the original page scans are still available for download.
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Auerbach On Digital Plotters And Image Digitizers (1972) archive.org
A book about plotters and digitizers.
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Ultimate Electronics: Practical Circuit Design and Analysis ultimateelectronicsbook.com
Free online book with interactive schematics & simulations by CircuitLab (under development).
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Soldering is Easy mightyohm.com
Comic book that goes over the basics of soldering that has been translated into quite a few languages.
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Lessons In Electric Circuits ibiblio.org
Free high quality textbooks and worksheets with emphasis on theory, simulation, and the socratic method.
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Student Handbook cbseacademic.nic.in
Language used in this book easily understandable covers evolution, fundamentals, diode, rectifiers, transistors and its applications, SCR, DIAC and TRIAC.
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Electronics circuits and systems aems.edu.sd
Quality free e-book covering all topics under circuits and systems, highly recommended for conceptual understanding.
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INTECH Books intechopen.com
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Writing Bulletproof Database Migrations youtube.com
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Why you should update your website to Craft CMS 3 weareabstrakt.com
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Why Content Managers Love Craft CMS weareabstrakt.com
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Building a Smarter Craft Commerce Website speakerdeck.com
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The Art Of Plugin Development speakerdeck.com
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Storing Secrets in Craft CMS putyourlightson.com
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Craft 3 Plugins plugins.craftcms.com
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A Review of Craft Commerce newmediacampaigns.com
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3 Things to Know About Craft Plugin Development mijingo.com
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11 Things You Need to Know About Craft 3 mijingo.com
by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo
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A love letter to Craft CMS medium.com
by Harry Keller/diesdas.digital - 18 Apr 2017
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Why you should be considering Craft over WordPress madebykind.com
by Sam Goddard/Kind - 21 Mar 2017
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20 Principles for Craft CMS hackernoon.com
by Knut Melvær - 30 Sep 2017
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Quick Tips: Craft CMS gregorterrill.com
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