Which recent book has fascinated you and why? Leave a comment! 💬
With love, Raffaele
| Name | Status | Platform | Tag | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Design Tokens inVision Report | Ready to Start | PDF | DesignWork | |
Inspired: how to create products people love | To Read | |||
Building for Everyone (from Google) | To Read | DesignLife | Establishing diverse and inclusive organizations is an economic imperative for every industry. | |
The Mum Test | To Read | Design | ||
Design Org for Design Ops | To Read | Design | This practical guide provides guidelines for creating and leading design teams within your organization, and explores ways to use design as part of broader strategic planning. | |
Change your brain, change your mind | To Read | Kindle | ||
Project Management for Human | To Read | Kindle | PM | Project Management for Humans will help you estimate and plan tasks, scout and address issues before they become problems, and communicate with and hold people accountable. |
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success | To Read | Kindle | Self-Improvement | People with a fixed mindset—those who believe that abilities are fixed—are less likely to flourish than those with a growth mindset—those who believe that abilities can be developed. Mindset reveals how great parents, teachers, managers, and athletes can put this idea to use to foster outstanding accomplishment. |
Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights. | To Read | Design | ||
Radical Focus: Achieving Your Most Important Goals with Objectives and Key Results | To Read | Kindle | Self-Improvement | |
Lean Customer Development: Building Products Your Customers Will Buy | To Read | Business | ||
Badass: Making Users Awesome | To Read | Design | ||
Prioritize what Matters | To Read | iBooks | Self-Improvement | |
Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World | To Read | From acclaimed tech writer Clive Thompson comes a brilliant anthropological reckoning with the most powerful tribe in the world today, computer programmers, in a book that interrogates who they are, how they think, what qualifies as greatness in their world, and what should give us pause. | ||
Branded Interactions | To Read | Design | ||
Serendipity Machine | To Read | iBooks | LifeGrowthBusinessPassions | |
Move the Needle | To Read | Business | ||
Conversation with God | To Read | HobbiesSelf-Improvement | ||
Beginners | To Read | iBooks | Self-Improvement | THE JOY AND TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF LIFELONG LEARNING |
Expressive Design System | Reading | iBooks | DesignGrowth | |
Going Responsive | Reading | iBooksKindle | Design | |
Influence - powerful communication | Reading | Paper | Self-ImprovementBusinessPassions | How to speak, write and brand yourself as a leader |
THE SCHOOL OF LIFE | Reading | Paper | The School Of Life | School of Life Repo |
Beyond Design | Finished | Paper | DesignBusinessSelf-Improvement | Making socially relevant projects successful. Designer's novel + 10-step method |
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind | Finished | Paper | GrowthLife | Homo sapiens rules the world because it is the only animal that can believe in things that exist purely in its own imagination, such as gods, states, money and human rights. |
The good nutrition | Finished | Paper | PassionsHobbiesSelf-Improvement | La tradizione orientale e la filosofia occidentale sono concordi: siamo fatti di ciò che mangiamo. Vivere bene, quindi, dipende anzitutto da un'alimentazione corretta; conoscere noi stessi vuol dire conoscere carboidrati, proteine, vitamine, lipidi, minerali. |
Inspired | Finished | iBooks | DesignPMBusinessGrowth | Whether you’re an early stage startup working to get to product/market fit, or a growth-stage company working to scale your organization, or a large, long-established company trying to regain your ability to consistently deliver new value for your customers, INSPIRED will take you and your product organization to a new level of customer engagement, consistent innovation, and business success. |
Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus | Finished | Blinklist | Relationship | Improving communication |
How to win friends and influence people | Finished | Blinklist | Self-ImprovementGrowthLifeRelationship | Basic rules for how to make a good first impression |
Losing my virginity | Finished | Blinklist | Business | Made a fortune with my business |
The Code of the Extraordinary Mind | Finished | iBooks | Self-ImprovementLifeGrowth | This book is designed to disrupt the way you see the world and to give you the tools to shift the world through cognitive changes in your mind |
Outcomes over Output | Finished | iBooks | BusinessDesignPM | Why customer behavior is the key metric for business success |
The art of doing the f**k you want | Finished | Paper | LifeGrowth | Framework of life |
Don't overthink it! | Finished | iBooks | LifeGrowthPassions | Actionable Advice to thrive your decisions forward according to your values |
The Side Project Report | Finished | Paper | Magazine 📙 | Better understanding of our work and ourselves |
The Go-Giver | Finished | Kindle | Self-Improvement | |
On Being Nice | Finished | Paper | LifeSelf-Improvement | Niceness deserves to be rediscovered as one of the highest of all human achievements |
UX Strategy | Finished | Paper | DesignGrowthBusiness | How to Devise innovative digital Products that people want |
How to Think More Effectively | Finished | Paper | DesignSelf-ImprovementBusinessLife | A guide to greater productivity, insights and creativity |
Flow: the psychology of optimal experience | Finished | Paper | Self-Improvement | "Optimal experience" have revealed that what makes an experience genuinely satisfying is a state of consciousness called flow. During flow, people typically experience deep enjoyment, creativity, and a total involvement with life. |
Radical Candor | Finished | Kindle | Business | |
Measure What Matters | Finished | Kindle | BusinessGrowth | Stories and experiences in setting OKRs and CFRs |
Mindless Eating | Finished | Kindle | Life | |
Good Services | Finished | Paper | Design | How to design services that work |
Launching a Product | Finished | iBooks | DesignBusiness | |
Emotion driven design | Finished | iBooks | ||
Shape Up | Finished | iBooks | DesignPM | Stop running in circles and ship works that matter. |
Atomic Habits | Finished | Kindle | Self-ImprovementDesign | Changing your life with habits |
Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle | Finished | Kindle | BusinessGrowth | How is it that Israel -- a country of 7.1 million, only 60 years old, surrounded by enemies, in a constant state of war since its founding, with no natural resources-- produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful, and stable nations like Japan, China, India, Korea, Canada and the UK? |
Build Better Products | Finished | Kindle | DesignSelf-ImprovementGrowth | Its easier than ever to build a new product. But developing a great product that people actually want to buy and use is another story. |
Say What you Mean | Finished | Paper | A mindful approach to non-violent communication | |
How to find the right words | Finished | Paper | The School Of Life | A guide to delivering life's most awkward messages |
Leading from Anywhere | Finished | Blinklist | WorkLeadershipSelf-ImprovementBusiness | Unlock the power and performance of remote teams |
The Making of a Manager | Finished | iBooks | What to do when everyone 👀 you | |
Articulating Design Decisions | Finished | Paper | GrowthDesignSelf-ImprovementBusiness | |
Design Leadership inVision | Finished | PDF | DesignBusiness | Design Lead a Team |
InVision eBooks | Finished | PDF | PMDesignBusinessGrowthWorkCommunication | Books from Invision about Design, DesignOps and best practices. |
The Long-Distance Teammate | Finished | Blinklist | WorkCommunicationRemoteGrowth | Close gaps with your teammates even while working remotely |
Design Workshops | Finished | Paper | How to design & teach workshops that work every time | |
SPRINT | Finished | Paper | How to solve big problems and test new ideas in just five days | |
Continuous Discovery Habits | Finished | iBooks | PMGrowthBusiness | How do you know that you are making a product or service that your customers want? How do you ensure that you are improving it over time? How do you guarantee that your team is creating value for your customers in a way that creates value for your business?
Learn a structured and sustainable approach to continuous discovery that will help you answer each of these questions, giving you the confidence to act while also preparing you to be wrong. You'll learn to balance action with doubt so that you can get started without being blindsided by what you don't get right. |
Lean Startup | Finished | Paper | How today's entrepreneurs use continuous innovation to create radically successful business | |
Show your work! | Finished | Paper | 10 ways to share your creativity and get discovered | |
Habits Power | Finished | Paper | How habits take form, how they work on us, how to change them. | |
The Miracle Morning | Finished | Returned | ||
10 Laws of Semplicity | Finished | Paper | ||
The Best Interface is No Interface | Finished | Paper | ||
Ackoff's Best | Finished | ePubKindle | ||
The Source | Finished | Paper | Self-Improvement | Open your mind, change your life |
The Psychology of Winning | Finished | Blinklist | Self-ImprovementLifeGrowth | How to become a winner in life |
Who Not How | Finished | Kindle | LifeGrowthPassions | Focus on Whos and not Hows |
The Art of the Good Life | Finished | Paper | BusinessSelf-Improvement | Clear thinking for business and a better life |
Mind Over Money | Finished | Blinklist | Business | |
The bulletproof diet | Finished | Blinklist | LifeSelf-ImprovementPassions | Upgrade your life and reclaim energy and focus |
The Magic of Thinking Big | Finished | |||
Clearer, Closer, Better | Finished | Blinklist | BusinessSelf-ImprovementLife | How Successful people see the world |
Body Kindness | Finished | Blinklist | Self-ImprovementLifeGrowth | Body |
Game Changers (biohacking) | Finished | Blinklist | Self-ImprovementLifeGrowth | What Leaders and Innovators do to win at life |
Essentialism | Finished | Blinklist | Self-ImprovementLife | Do less, but better |
The Serendipity Mindset | Finished | Blinklist | Self-ImprovementLife | Optimism. Open-mindedness. Curiosity. Adaptability. |
Start with Why | Finished | Blinklist | Self-ImprovementLife | It's your why that matters. |
Effective Executive | Finished | Blinklist | Self-Improvement | Examples through practice. |
Indistractable | Finished | Blinklist | BusinessDesign | |
The Long Tail | Finished | Blinklist | Self-ImprovementGrowthBusiness | Low products to a niche and loved audience |
Make Time! | Finished | Blinklist | DesignGrowth | Start making time counts |
The Age of Crypto | Finished | Blinklist | Hobbies | What's Crypto? |
How will you measure your life | Finished | Blinklist | Self-ImprovementPassions | Your metrics |
Doing the right thing RIGHT | Finished | Blinklist | Self-ImprovementDesignLife | What's supposed to be right? |
The Bitcoin Standard | Finished | Blinklist | Self-ImprovementPassions | History of bitcoin |
Benjamin Franklin Task List Priorities | Finished | Blinklist | Self-Improvement | Created Paper template too |
The Art of Stopping Time | Finished | Blinklist | BusinessLife | Great book |
Conquering Distractions | Finished | Blinklist | Self-ImprovementBusinessLife | |
Employee Engagement | Finished | Blinklist | Self-ImprovementDesignBusinessPM | |
Rich Dad Poor Dad | Finished | Blinklist | Self-ImprovementBusinessLifeGrowth | Suggested by Ch ang. Work for what you Learn, not ear. |
Principles (Ray Dalio) | Finished | Blinklist | Self-ImprovementBusinessLifeGrowth | Ch Ang. Truth, trust and transparency. |
VCs Lifecycle | Finished | Blinklist | Business | Who is a VCs and how does it work to get founded? |
Venture Deals | Finished | Blinklist | Business | Understand interest of investors |
How to make sense of any mess | Finished | Kindle | DesignLife | Everything is getting more complex. Get out from overwhelming. |
Be a positive leader | Finished | Blinklist | BusinessLife | Clarify your values with practical examples |
The Body Keeps The Score | Finished | Blinklist | Life | Recovering from Trauma |
I'd rather be reading | Finished | Blinklist | Hobbies | Books power |
Leadership is "Communication" | Finished | Blinklist | Self-ImprovementGrowth | Curiosity-driven approach to learn, grow and improve |
The Happiness Lab | Finished | Blinklist | Shortcast 🎤 | |
4 Body Hour | Finished | Blinklist | HobbiesPassionsSelf-Improvement | Tim Ferris' bestseller |
DO:Listen | Finished | iBooks | Self-ImprovementLifeGrowth | Rediscovering the art of listning. |
The ONE Thing | Finished | Blinklist | Self-ImprovementLifeGrowth | Success comes from focusing on ONE thing, not many things. |
Forever Employable | Finished | Kindle | BusinessSelf-ImprovementGrowthLife | From the “Lean UX” author |
Think Again | Finished | Blinklist | BusinessSelf-Improvement | Think better. |
Let my people go surfing | Finished | Blinklist | GrowthBusinessLife | Patagonia's success beyond profit and products. |
USER FRIENDLY: How the hidden rules of design are changing the way we live, work, and play | Finished | Paper | DesignLifeGrowth | |
Design Engineering Handbook | Finished | PDF | DesignGrowthSelf-Improvement | Design Engineering handbook |
Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products | Paused | iBooks | Self-ImprovementDesignBusinessPMLife | |
How to avoid a climate disaster | Paused | Kindle | PassionsHobbies | As Bill Gates makes clear, achieving zero emissions will not be simple or easy to do, but if we follow the plan he sets out here, it is a goal firmly within our reach. |
The Infinite Machine: How an army of crypto-hackers is building the next internet with Ethereum | Paused | Paper | PassionsHobbiesGrowth | The story of Ethereum as a crypto-currency |
DO:Open | Paused | iBooks | GrowthDesignSelf-Improvement | How a simple newsletter can transform your business |
Lean Analytics | Paused | Kindle | BusinessGrowth | Unlocking data potential |
Design Ops Handbook | Paused | iBooks | DesignBusiness | |
Startup Marketing | Paused | Business | ||
Domain-Driven Design | Want to Read | |||
Beyond Sticky Notes | Want to Read |
