📚 MOC — Books

Overview

All book-length works processed for the PUMA vault. Organised by theme. Use Template-Book-Note for new entries.

🤖 AI, Human-AI Collaboration & Society

LN-Lawrence-2024-AtomicHuman — The Atomic Human (Lawrence, 2024) — human uniqueness in the AI age; embodied intelligence; HITL theoretical framing
LN-Suleiman-2023-ComingWave — The Coming Wave (Suleyman & Bhaskar, 2023) — AI/biotech proliferation; containment problem; wide safety framework

LN-Shum-2025-PensarConPrompts — Pensar con Prompts (Shum, 2025) — CO-STAR framework; 20+ prompting techniques; structured output; generative cognition

LN-Beck-1999-XPExplained — Extreme Programming Explained (Beck & Andres, 2nd ed. 2004) — XP values, TDD, story points, planning game, adaptive development

LN-Carpenter-2025-WorkTheSystem — Work the System (Carpenter, 5th ed. 2025) — systems mindset; SOP documentation; working ON vs. IN the business
LN-Gerber-2009-EMythRevisited — The E-Myth Revisited (Gerber, 2009) — entrepreneurial myth; Technician/Manager/Entrepreneur; franchise prototype
LN-Wickman-2012-Traction — Traction (Wickman, 2012) — EOS; 6 components (Vision, People, Data, Issues, Process, Traction); Rocks; L10 meetings
LN-Harnish-2022-ScalingUp — Scaling Up (Harnish, Revised 2022) — Rockefeller Habits; Four Decisions; One-Page Strategic Plan
LN-Goldratt-2004-TheGoal — The Goal (Goldratt & Cox, 3rd rev. ed. 2004) — Theory of Constraints; bottleneck; throughput; Five Focusing Steps
LN-Price-2022-Frictionless — The Frictionless Organization (Price & Jaffe, 2022) — customer effort; friction mapping; DIRTFT; Customer Effort Score

LN-Wooldridge-2009-MultiAgentSystems — An Introduction to MultiAgent Systems (Wooldridge, 2nd ed. 2009) — BDI agents; reactive vs. deliberative; coordination and negotiation; formal agent definition
LN-Tunstall-2022-NLPTransformers — Natural Language Processing with Transformers (Tunstall et al., 2022) — Hugging Face pipeline; LoRA fine-tuning; GGUF quantization; local inference
LN-Shieh-2024-GenerativeAIAgents — Generative AI Agents (Shieh, 2024) — ReAct implementation; RAG pipelines; SDD and CDD for agents (Packt)
LN-Mavor-Parker-2024-AgenticAI — Agentic AI (Mavor-Parker, 2024) — LangGraph cyclical workflows; Bounded Autonomy levels; HITL handoff patterns (Manning)

LN-Ahrens-2017-SmartNotes — How to Take Smart Notes (Ahrens, 2017) — three-tier note system; atomic notes; link-over-folder; Zettelkasten slip-box (CreateSpace)
LN-Wohlin-2012-ExperimentationSE — Experimentation in Software Engineering (Wohlin et al., 2012) — factorial design; validity threats; Wilcoxon justification; PUMA experimental backbone (Springer)
How Big Things Get Done (Flyvbjerg & Gardner, 2023) — see LN-Books-KeyReferences
Getting Things Done (Allen, 2001) — see LN-Books-KeyReferences

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