OVERLAP · 8 SHARED BOOKs
Books both Hacker News Top 40 and Tobi Lütke recommend
Hacker News Top 40 and Tobi Lütke both positively recommend these books.
Shared positive books
8 BOOKs-
[001]
Why We Sleep
Popular Science
Hacker News Top 40hackernewsbooks.com · top books on hacker news
#2 on the all-time Hacker News books list.
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[002]
Antifragile
Philosophy
Hacker News Top 40hackernewsbooks.com · top books on hacker news
#38 on the all-time Hacker News books list (Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder).
Tobi Lütke“Shopify is practically built on that book”
Lütke has repeatedly credited Taleb's Antifragile as a foundational framework for how Shopify is engineered to benefit from volatility.
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[003]
Influence
Psychology
Hacker News Top 40hackernewsbooks.com · top books on hacker news
#6 on the all-time Hacker News books list.
Tobi Lütketim.blog · the tim ferriss show transcripts tobi lutke
“The most mind-bending book you can imagine, because it essentially taught you always humans are flawed and influential.”
Lütke pairs Influence with High Output Management as the two foundational business books he read as a young CEO.
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[004]
A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
Philosophy
Hacker News Top 40hackernewsbooks.com · top books on hacker news
#20 on the all-time Hacker News books list.
Tobi Lütkeshopify.com · best startup books
Appears on Shopify's official list of startup books selected by Tobias Lütke; he has called it one of the books he gifts most often.
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[005]
The Design of Everyday Things
Technology
Hacker News Top 40hackernewsbooks.com · top books on hacker news
#12 on the all-time Hacker News books list.
Tobi Lütkeinvestorfieldguide.com · tobi lutke building a modern business invest like the best ep 173
Tobi Lütke mentioned the book on the Invest Like The Best podcast (episode 173).
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[006]
The Dream Machine
History
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#27 on the all-time Hacker News books list.
Tobi Lütke“Great book published by Stripe Press. Love tech history.”
Tobi Lütke recommended the book in a tweet.
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[007]
Code
Technology
Hacker News Top 40hackernewsbooks.com · top books on hacker news
#1 on the all-time Hacker News books list.
Tobi Lütke“This book is so good. Great present for curious teens.”
Tobi Lütke recommended the book in a tweet.
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[008]
Thinking in Systems: A Primer
Academic
Hacker News Top 40hackernewsbooks.com · top books on hacker news
#37 on the all-time Hacker News books list.
Tobi Lütkehappyscribe.com · 41 tobi lutke the trust battery
Discussed on The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish; Lütke uses systems thinking as a core mental model for running Shopify.