Career & Work

EssayCareer & Work2016

How to Write a Great Research Paper

Simon Peyton Jones

Peyton Jones on writing papers people actually read, and most of it carries over to any technical writing. His inversion — write the paper first, do the research second — genuinely helps.

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EssayCareer & Work2012

Why I left my last job

John Siracusa

A precise, unsentimental account of why a good engineer left a good job. No grievance, no moral, just the actual reasoning laid out — rare in a genre built on tidy hindsight.

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BookCareer & Work1956

The Organization Man

William H. Whyte

Whyte diagnosed the conformist, belonging-hungry corporate culture of the fifties before anyone had the words for it. Grounded in what he saw rather than management theory, which is why it still bites.

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BookCareer & Work1950

The Human Use of Human Beings

Norbert Wiener

The father of cybernetics thinking through what automation would do to human work and dignity, with a seriousness that reads as contemporary. He's reasoning toward consequences, not predicting gadgets.

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