The Lean Startup
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Comments and mentions from HN threads:
Ask HN: What three books impacted your career the most?
brikis98: Eric seemed like a humble, down-to-earth person and helped dispel the notion that to be a successful entrepreneur, you need to be a prescient, superhero, god-like visionary. Instead, what you need to do is to treat your startup and product ideas as hypotheses and test them, as quickly and cheaply as you can (i.e. lean development, MVPs, etc).
Ask HN: What language-agnostic programming books should I read?
beat: The best work you do is the work you find you don't need to do. Learn how to fail fast and save time on projects and product development, by building what customers want rather than what you think they need.
Ask HN: What books have made the biggest impact on your mental models?
Mentions by: fillskills : ellius : edpichler
Ask HN: What are your go-to blogs and books on building business applications?
Mentions by: drewmassey
Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything?
time0ut: Got me thinking about applying the scientific method to things I never thought of before.