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My Summer Reads 2016/2017

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My selection of Summer reads It is officially Summer in Australia, and I have selected the following books to be read during Summer. A Paperboy's Fable by Deep Patel   Image: from Google Books A young man learns that there is more to being successful than the bottom line.A Paperboy's Fable is a concise, entertaining fable that makes revolutionary points using age old principles. Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston Image: from Google Books Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days is a collection of interviews with founders of famous technology companies about what happened in the very earliest days. These people are celebrities now. What was it like when they were just a couple friends with an idea? Founders like Steve Wozniak (Apple), Caterina Fake (Flickr), Mitch Kapor (Lotus), Max Levchin (PayPal), and Sabeer Bhatia (Hotmail) tell you in their own words about their surprising and often very funny discoveries ... Purple Cow by Seth God