Working Backwards
by Colin Bryar, Bill Carr · first published 2021
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…relief. Non-Fiction, work: - The Pragmatic Programmer, 20th Anniversary Edition by David Thomas, Andrew Hunt: I’m not a programmer and still found this one of the most useful books I read this year. - Working Backwards by Colin Bryar, Bill Carr: The Amazon/Bezos love choked me a couple of times but I’ve put in practice some of what learned in this book to good effect. Non-Fiction, history: - Bloodlands: Europe Between…
on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2022 and recommend for 2023” ↗Working backwards Visual MBA
on “Ask HN: Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2021?” ↗I think "Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon" by Bill Carr puts this better. Their idea is that you start with what the press release might be, something everyone can get excited about, and then…
on “Write documentation first, then build” ↗…about familiarity for ex-Google employees. There must be a lot of ex-Amazon talents, but I haven't heard or read this outside the context of Amazon. If this is unique to Amazon, why? Maybe the book "Working Backwards" [1] is changing the situation? I'm very curious, and honestly, a bit envious. [1] https://www.amazon.com/Working-Backwards-Insights-Stories-Se...
on “The Document Culture of Amazon” ↗“Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon” - https://www.amazon.com/dp/1250267595 by Amazon executives. Gives overview of Amazon’s core practices that made them successful.
on “Ask HN: Most interesting, mildly impractical, well-written books on software?” ↗This is just Amazon's "Working Backwards" methodology [1] expressed simplistically. There's also a book about written by key Amazon people. [2] A core part of the Working Backwards idea is to start out by writing a fake press release, even…
on “Headline Driven Development” ↗