6 new books every software testing engineer should read Meaghan Lewis, Quality Engineer, Github Testing is continuously evolving, which means that there are constantly new trends, tools, and practices to keep up with. Sep 13, 2018 The Master List Of 50+ Must-Read Books Every Growth Hacker Should Read Written by Justyna Ciecierska on September 13, 2018 At RockBoost, reading books and self-development is the highest priority above all else.
Link dead for me. Found the list republished here: http://thenextbigtechthing.com/10-books-every-entrepreneur-s...
'The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Business Law' --LLC vs C-corp vs S-Corp? Founder’s vesting? Liquidation Preferences? Equity vs Debt financing? This book will educate you enough to be able to answer these and many other important questions.
'Bootstrapping Your Business' --From the founder of RightNow. The amazing story of how a geographically-challenged (Montana) entrepreneur built a world class business.
'Purple Cow' --Dead simple premise, the key to marketing is to build something remarkable.
'The Art of the Start' --The Art of Pitching, Marketing and Funding your Startup.
'The Innovator’s Dilemma' --If your startup beats all the odds and becomes hugely successful prepare yourself for the innovator’s dilemma, cannibalize your product before someone else does.
'The E-Myth Revisited' --How-to create a business not a job.
'Permission Marketing' --The greatest marketing asset your startup can build is the permission to market to your customers and prospects.
'Growing a Business' --Sincere advice for creating a company culture that your team and customers will love.
'The Cluetrain Manifesto' --Successful marketing is a conversation.
'Bottom-up Marketing' --Pure bottoms-up execution. Marketing tactics to grow your business.
Some people know how to quit a book as soon as they stop liking it. But many of us feel some sort of completist pressure to stick with every book we start, even when reading for pleasure. We struggle through stuff we don’t actually like, and so we’re less likely to pick up the book and more likely to pick up our phone. We start reading less.
If you wish you could read more books, try quitting the one you’re on. If it’s not calling to you every minute that you’re away, maybe you should drop it and find a book that does. In fact, whenever a book bores you for two (or five, or ten) pages in a row, quit it. Move on. If you end up wondering what happened next, you can always come back.
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The catch is, the moment you quit a book, you have to start reading another book. Ideally that very minute. You have to keep reading, but you can read whatever you want.
If the second book’s boring, you can quit it too. There’s no limit on how many you can quit in a row. You will never run out of books. Your local library alone holds more free books than you could read in your lifetime.
I recently read the collected short stories of Kafka—well, most of them. The stories are ordered chronologically, so at first I was wading through minor stories that even lit majors aren’t asked to read. When a friend asked me what I was reading, I went off on a litany of anxiety about not feeling “smart enough” for Kafka. He gently asked the obvious question: Why not just skip to the good stuff?
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So I did, and it was fantastic, and my reading pace picked up as I only read the stories that engaged me. I didn’t read every Kafka story, but I read all the ones that matter, and I got to move onto A Wizard of Earthsea that much sooner. Good book!