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книги, що залишилися.

The Theory of Constraints, as a novel. The reason Faktorist obsesses over the throughput-limiting step in every distributor we onboard.

The handbook every operator returns to. Read it once a year. Pretend you understood it less last time.

How Amazon writes PR/FAQ documents before building. We adopted this for every Faktorist feature in 2021.

Enron, in detail. Read alongside any whitepaper that uses the word "innovative" twice.

Bill Campbell on the management of managers. One chapter is worth the book.

Now obvious in retrospect, but the model still explains why incumbents miss the next layer.

Not the most flattering author to cite, but the central distinction (robust vs antifragile) is load-bearing for me.

A book the war made you re-read with different eyes.

Shackleton in the Antarctic. The clearest model I have for how leadership reads under months of bad news.

Every operator should have read this before forty. Stop optimizing what you can't change.

Twenty short lessons. Each one survives the news cycle that prompted it.

The history of Ukraine in one volume. Should be required reading for anyone writing about the region.

How Russia framed the relationship. Helps you read the present.

Heavy, necessary. The single best argument for why Made-in-Ukraine matters as a project of memory.

The novel I recommend when someone asks me what Kyiv feels like.

A beekeeper in the grey zone. Read it slow.

The book about performance under pressure. Translates exactly to refereeing and to founder calls.

The honesty about a job he didn't want is the part that stays with you.

On building a "Standard of Performance." The closest sport gets to a management book.

A short essay collection that improved how I read tactical patterns. Useful as a referee too.

A quiet novel about quietly choosing what to spend your life on. Re-read every two or three years.

On the work of being a friend for forty years. I think about this book a lot when ranking calendar.

Timshel.

A Kyiv-born writer's great novel about Moscow. Read it in Russian if you can.

On the failure mode of well-intentioned people. Brutal.

I edit Faktorist marketing copy against this book's rules. It works.

The best book on rhythm in prose I've found.

Essays. The DFW you can finish. The one I open before writing my own essays.