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To Engineer Is Human
by Henry Petroski
An examination of engineering failures and what they teach about successful design.
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Steven Sinofsky
Software engineer; former Microsoft Office and Windows leader
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Documented citation: Steven Sinofsky praises this book for explaining how engineers learn from failures and why well-intentioned designs can go wrong.
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Andreessen Horowitz · 2017-12-28 · accessed 2026-10-01
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