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Eljay-Adobe • • Edited

I wasn't even aware of any of those books. They're on my book queue now!

Here's my four non-computer books that I have helped my programming:

  • The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
  • The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
  • Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (1st edition) by Gary Gygax, et al
  • To Do Doing Done by Snead & Wycoff
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Umakant Vashishtha •

The Goal is a great book!

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Jordi •

Thanks for sharing. I’ll add them to my list 🙏🏻

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Andy Delso •

I am curious what you learned from AD&D? Good list!

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Ulises Escamilla •

Yeah! I'm also interested

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Eljay-Adobe •

I learned how to work as a team. And to communicate with others in a group, over long periods of time, arguing minutia of ambiguous rules (sometimes genuinely ambiguous, other times merely misunderstood). Without everything devolving into fisticuffs.

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Andy Delso •

Cool cool, sounds about right for DnD! I like how you related it to business teams as I’d never thought of it.

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Tony Pellicccio •

I've read Donald Norman's Design of Everyday Things too. Plus I've read a lot about the history of the Bell System, or the Internet for that matter. Plus read about Kevin Mitnick and his story.