Books
Fiction and non-fiction that changed how I look at something.
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1
The Design of Everyday Things
by Don Norman · 1988
Once you've read it you cannot un-see a badly designed door, or a badly designed API.
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2
Thinking in Systems
by Donella Meadows · 2008
The clearest explanation I know of why fixing the obvious thing often makes it worse.
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3
The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov · 1967
The devil visits Moscow and the bureaucracy is the part that frightens him.
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4
Ways of Seeing
by John Berger · 1972
Thirty pages in and you're looking at every image differently. Still true fifty years on.
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5
The Pragmatic Programmer
by Hunt & Thomas · 1999
Aged better than almost anything else on the shelf, because it is about habits, not tools.
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6
Snow
by Orhan Pamuk · 2002
A poet stuck in a snowed-in town while everyone argues about what the country is.