Tobi Lutke

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Tobi Lutke

Tobi Lütke is a German-born Canadian billionaire entrepreneur, and the founder and CEO of Shopify. He was also part of the core team of the Ruby on Rails framework and has created open source libraries such as Active Merchant.

Scale

Scale

Geoffrey West

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Stewart Brand: “This spectacular book on how logarithmic scaling governs everything is packed with news—from the self-similar dynamics of cells and ecosystems to exactly why companies always die and cities don’t.

I dog-eared and marked up damn near every page.”

Marc Benioff: "Geoffrey West's Scale is filled with brilliant insights.

He illuminates the laws of nature underlying everything from tiny organisms and humans to cities and companies, and provides a quantitative framework for decoding the deep complexity of our interconnected world.

If you want to know why companies fail, how cities persist and what is needed to sustain our civilization in this era of rapid innovation, read this amazing book.”

Bill Miller: “If there were a Nobel Prize for transdisciplinary science Geoffrey West would have won it for the work covered in Scale. 

This is a book of great originality and deep importance, containing startling insights about topics as seemingly unrelated as aging and death, sleep, metabolism, cities, energy use, creativity, corporations, and even the sustainability of our existence. 

If you are curious about how the world really works, you must read this book.”

Nassim Taleb: “Each human should learn to read and write, to count, and for those who know how to count, scalability.

Scaling is the most important yet most hidden and rarely discussed attribute—without understanding it one cannot possibly understand the world.

This book will expand your thinking from three dimensions to four. Get two copies, just in case you lose one.”

Vinod Khosla: "The physics behind biology, cities, economics and companies.

Do they grow, scale and die by the same math equations? New insights that are enlightening and delightful."

Tobi Lutke: "Excellent book."

Losing The Signal

Losing The Signal

Jacquie McNish
Cryptonomicon

Cryptonomicon

Neal Stephenson
Tuxedo Park

Tuxedo Park

Jennet Conant

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Patrick Collison: "It's very good."

Tobi Lutke: "Really enjoyed it"

Drive

Drive

Daniel Pink

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One of Tobi Lutke's favorite books.

Reamde

Reamde

Neal Stephenson

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The Pattern Seekers

The Pattern Seekers

Simon Baron-Cohen

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Tobi Lutke: "Excellent book"

Game Engine Black Book

Game Engine Black Book

Fabien Sanglard

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Tobi Lutke: "Loved it"

High Output Management
Shoe Dog
Snow Crash
The Three Body Problem
Influence
The Lessons of History
Antifragile
Scale
The Courage To Be Disliked
Mindset
Masters of Doom
A Guide To The Good Life
Grit
The Dream Machine
What's Our Problem?
The Box
Thinking In Systems
Losing The Signal
The Talent Code
The Design of Everyday Things
Finite and Infinite Games
The Precipice
Cryptonomicon
Tuxedo Park
Permutation City
The Elements of Style
Clear Thinking
The Messy Middle
Drive
Way of the Warrior Kid
Marc's Mission
Way of the Warrior Kid 3
Reamde
Hell Yeah or No
The Making of Prince of Persia
Code
A Timeless Way of Building
The Pattern Seekers
Game Engine Black Book

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