Tobi Lütke's Book Recommendations
Tobias "Tobi" Lütke is the CEO of Shopify, a leading e-commerce platform. He is a programmer by trade and founded Shopify after struggling to create an online store for snowboarding equipment. Based on his book recommendations, he seems interested in stoicism, antifragility, game development, and business management.
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Game Engine Black Book
"Loved it."
book list View source ↗"@AWaselnuk @dan_abramov Grab the doom book by @fabynou to help guide you through"
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Permutation City
"The quality of the science in this book is exceptional."
book list View source ↗"Loved Permutation City by @gregeganSF . Hard science fiction. The quality of the science in this book is exceptional. Thank you for the recommendation @tobyordoxford"
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What's Our Problem?
"This book is truly remarkable. [The author] has spent 6 years on this. You must read it."
book list View source ↗"This book is truly remarkable. Tim has spent 6 years on this. You must read it."
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The Elements of Style
"[My] most frequently gifted book is The Elements of Style because I like good writing."
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The Design of Everyday Things
"Tobi Lütke mentioned this book on the "Invest Like the Best" podcast."
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Meditations
"My most read book."
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Mindset
"Mentioned on "The Knowledge Project" podcast."
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Thinking in Systems
"Mentioned on "The Knowledge Project" podcast."
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The Precipice
"Enjoyed The Precipice. Odd time to read about end-of-world scenarios."
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High Output Management
"Unapologetically almost a how to manual, but kind of deconstructs the world of business into first principles."
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Finite and Infinite Games
"It came up in twice today in different meetings."
book list View source ↗"Really love this book It came up in twice today in different meetings."
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The Box
"We all live in Malcolm’s world because the shipping container has been hugely influential in history."
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Tuxedo Park
"Really enjoyed it."
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A Guide to the Good Life
"One of the best books I’ve ever read."
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Losing the Signal
"Great book."
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Grit
"Great book. I think she actually talks about me in it ?"
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Way of the Warrior Kid 3
"I finished reading the three books of the Warrior Kid series by @jockowillink to my kids. They absolutely loved them. Highly recommended. Simple story construction but excellent philosophy."
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Marc's Mission
"I finished reading the three books of the Warrior Kid series by @jockowillink to my kids. They absolutely loved them. Highly recommended. Simple story construction but excellent philosophy."
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Way of the Warrior Kid
"I finished reading the three books of the Warrior Kid series by @jockowillink to my kids. They absolutely loved them. Highly recommended. Simple story construction but excellent philosophy."
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Way of the Warrior Kid (4 books)
"I finished reading [this series] to my kids. They absolutely loved them. Highly recommended."
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The Three-Body Problem (3 books)
"Loved the series."
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Reamde
"I did like Reamde a lot."
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Hell Yeah or No
"Instant buy. I’ve learned so much from [this author] in the formative Shopify years."
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Drive
"One of Tobi Lütke's favorite books according to "The Globe and Mail."
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"I read Cryptonomicon 20 years ago or so."
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Masters of Doom
"Wonderful."
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The Making of Prince of Persia
"Loved The Making of Prince of Persia."
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The Talent Code
"Tobi Lütke mentioned this book on the "Invest Like the Best" podcast."
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Antifragile
"It's so wonderful when books create the language that you need to better reason about the world. [This book] did that as well."
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Shoe Dog
"An autobiographical account of one of the world’s most recognizable brands."
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The Dream Machine
"I really love tech history books like this."
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The Timeless Way of Building
"@katarinabatina Read Alexander’s books back during full time programmer times. They were fantastic."
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Hackers
"Reading Hackers by @StevenLevy on recommendation by @ID_AA_Carmack with my son. How I wish I could time travel back and toss this book into my teenage hands. How did I miss this."
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Scale
"@photomatt @dhh Excellent book."
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