Ask HN: Recommendations on books and docs on tech companies/people? (Repost)

2 points by bk146 2 years ago | 3 comments

Came across this amazing thread from a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17204467

And wanted to ask again to hear people's latest recommendations! I've read a number of the recommendations and found them fascinating.

pamoroso 2 years ago |

In "Sweating Bullets: Notes about Inventing PowerPoint" PowerPoint creator Robert Gaskins tells how he designed and developed the most famous slide presentation application. The book is available at the author's site: https://www.robertgaskins.com/powerpoint-history/sweating-bu...

bk146 2 years ago | |

Wow. This is amazing, thank you so much for sharing. Disappointed that it's not strictly a PPT though!

glokta 2 years ago |

For an account of early Silicon Valley, "Accidental Empires" by Robert Cringely.

It's free on his website (https://www.cringely.com), but you need to search for it.