tldr: I’m starting a lending library at work, I work in software consulting, I would like recommendations about what EA books to include in the library and what well known business strategy or technology books to avoid.
Hello all! This is my first post so please let me know if there is a different forum/ area that I should move it to.
I have the approval, and likely some funding, to start a small lending library in the break room at work. I work at a large privet equity and corporate strategy consulting firm. Specifically, I am in the software strategy group. My office is in Boston, but the other software strategy groups are in SF and NYC. The goal is to expand the library to those offices soon. The lending library must include some business strategy and foundational technology books. Beyond that, there are very few constraints. To my knowledge, my coworkers have had no exposer to EA outside of conversations I’ve opportunistically had with some of them.
Current goals for the books:
Accessible introduction to EA concepts
Relevant to our work (i.e. technology focused)
Attention grabbing, likely to be chosen off the shelf
My coworkers are mostly early/mid career business and technology types
Most are 21-35 years old, have an undergrad or MBA as their highest level of education, and are high earners
Those that I know well have limited political/ethical/social engagement or identity but are slightly left leaning
EA and EA adjacent books I plan on adding:
The Alignment Problem
Doing Good Better
The Precipice
The Scout Mindset
80,000 hours
MIT Press Essential Knowledge: AI Ethics
Ethics in the Real World by Peter Singer
The Life you Can Save by Peter Singer
Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control by Stuart Russell
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty with Arthur Goldhammer
Robot Ethics by Mark Coeckelbergh
Technology and Business books, many were requested by colleagues/ managers (I will not be able to include all of these):
Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A. Moore
Competitive Strategy by By Michael E Porter
Inside the Tornado by Geoffrey Moore
The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen
Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne
The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim
The DevOps Handbook by Gene Kim
Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love by Marty Cagan
Hard Thing about Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
High Output Management by Andy Grove
7 Powers by Hamilton Helmer
Secrets of Sand Hill Road by Scott Kupor
The Outsiders by Thorndike
Zero to One by Peter Thiel
Idea Factory by Jon Gertner
Chaos Monkeys by Antonio Martinez
Machine Learning, Revised And Updated Edition by Ethem Alpaydın
Recommendation Engines by Michael Schrage
Algorithms by Panos Louridas
Spatial Computing by Shashi Shekhar and Pamela Vold
Virtual Reality by Samuel Greengard
Deep Learning by John D. Kelleher
Data Science by John D. Kelleher and Brendan Tierney
Computing: A Concise History by Paul E. Ceruzzi
Cloud Computing by Nayan B. Ruparelia
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion books:
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People—Mahzarin R. Banaji, Anthony G. Greenwald
The People’s History of the United States
The 1619 Project
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Davis
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by Bell Hooks
We Can Do Better Than This: 35 Voices on the Future of LGBTQ+ Rights
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock by Dina Gilio-Whitaker
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States ReVisioning American History by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
‘A Queer History of the United States for Young People’ by Michael Bronski Michael Bronski
Recommendations for the lending library at a technology strategy consulting firm
tldr: I’m starting a lending library at work, I work in software consulting, I would like recommendations about what EA books to include in the library and what well known business strategy or technology books to avoid.
Hello all! This is my first post so please let me know if there is a different forum/ area that I should move it to.
I have the approval, and likely some funding, to start a small lending library in the break room at work. I work at a large privet equity and corporate strategy consulting firm. Specifically, I am in the software strategy group. My office is in Boston, but the other software strategy groups are in SF and NYC. The goal is to expand the library to those offices soon. The lending library must include some business strategy and foundational technology books. Beyond that, there are very few constraints. To my knowledge, my coworkers have had no exposer to EA outside of conversations I’ve opportunistically had with some of them.
Current goals for the books:
Accessible introduction to EA concepts
Relevant to our work (i.e. technology focused)
Attention grabbing, likely to be chosen off the shelf
My coworkers are mostly early/mid career business and technology types
Most are 21-35 years old, have an undergrad or MBA as their highest level of education, and are high earners
Those that I know well have limited political/ethical/social engagement or identity but are slightly left leaning
EA and EA adjacent books I plan on adding:
The Alignment Problem
Doing Good Better
The Precipice
The Scout Mindset
80,000 hours
MIT Press Essential Knowledge: AI Ethics
Ethics in the Real World by Peter Singer
The Life you Can Save by Peter Singer
Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control by Stuart Russell
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty with Arthur Goldhammer
Robot Ethics by Mark Coeckelbergh
Technology and Business books, many were requested by colleagues/ managers (I will not be able to include all of these):
Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A. Moore
Competitive Strategy by By Michael E Porter
Inside the Tornado by Geoffrey Moore
The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen
Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne
The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim
The DevOps Handbook by Gene Kim
Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love by Marty Cagan
Hard Thing about Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
High Output Management by Andy Grove
7 Powers by Hamilton Helmer
Secrets of Sand Hill Road by Scott Kupor
The Outsiders by Thorndike
Zero to One by Peter Thiel
Idea Factory by Jon Gertner
Chaos Monkeys by Antonio Martinez
Machine Learning, Revised And Updated Edition by Ethem Alpaydın
Recommendation Engines by Michael Schrage
Algorithms by Panos Louridas
Spatial Computing by Shashi Shekhar and Pamela Vold
Virtual Reality by Samuel Greengard
Deep Learning by John D. Kelleher
Data Science by John D. Kelleher and Brendan Tierney
Computing: A Concise History by Paul E. Ceruzzi
Cloud Computing by Nayan B. Ruparelia
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion books:
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People—Mahzarin R. Banaji, Anthony G. Greenwald
The People’s History of the United States
The 1619 Project
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Davis
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by Bell Hooks
We Can Do Better Than This: 35 Voices on the Future of LGBTQ+ Rights
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock by Dina Gilio-Whitaker
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States ReVisioning American History by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
‘A Queer History of the United States for Young People’ by Michael Bronski
Michael Bronski
Whiteness by Martin Lund
Gender(s) by Kathryn Bond Stockton