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Creativity, Inc.

Ed Catmull

A look inside the creative culture at Pixar

The Secret History

Donna Tartt

The Samurai Detectives - Vol 1

Shotaro Ikenami

Chip Wars

Chris Miller

The race to design and manufacture semiconductor microchips

The Design of Everyday Things

Don Norman

Material World

Ed Conway

Six materials that make the modern world; the copper chapter is the best thing I've read on the subject.