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Make It SoBook

by Nathan Shedroff and Christopher Noessel

Who uses, recommends or left Make It So, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Ryan J. Salva
VP of product at GitHub when he spoke to Lenny's Podcast in 2022, leading GitHub Copilot.
loved

a book on user experience called Make It So. Uh it's a reference back to Star Trek, and the idea here is essentially that uh user experiences that are presented to us in sci-fi often make their way into our everyday, you know, products and tools, you know, 20, 30 years down the line. It is a great eye-opening, illuminating, and just really fun book.

Lenny's Podcast, "The role of AI in new product development", lightning round, asked for the books they recommend most; the guest's own spoken answer (YouTube captions).

2022-09-04·youtube.com ↗

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The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

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