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The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn

Richard W. Hamming

Technology

Hamming's collected lectures on how great engineers and scientists actually do great work - taste, persistence, the courage to attack important problems.

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  • “"The Art of Doing Science and Engineering" by Hamming is great, but the actual quality of the physical book is so much better than typical that I looked up the publisher -- I had no idea that [Stripe Press] was a thing!”

    Public Twitter recommendation from June 2020, both for the content and for the physical edition (the post that put many engineers onto Stripe Press).

  • “Not for everyone but recommend for tech folks.”

    From a tweet by Keith Rabois recommending the book.

  • Flagged green (particularly great); Collison has publicly referenced Hamming's ideas on doing important work as formative.

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