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Books by Venkatesh Rao
A catalog of books by Venkatesh Rao, with free online editions and buy links for print and ebook formats.
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# Books by Venkatesh Rao
> A catalog of books by Venkatesh Rao, with free online editions and buy links for print and ebook formats.
Venkatesh Rao ([@vgr](https://venkateshrao.com)) is a writer, consultant, and blogger at [Ribbonfarm](https://www.ribbonfarm.com). He writes about strategy, technology, and the nature of modern life.
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- [Full Catalog](https://books.venkateshrao.com/): Browse all books with covers, descriptions, and links.
## Online Books (free to read)
- [The Yakverse Chronicles](https://books.venkateshrao.com/artofgig-vol3/): Thirteen absurdist consulting tales — yaks, gigsters, and capricious clients in increasingly surreal engagements.
- [vgr: The Twitter Years (2007–22)](https://books.venkateshrao.com/twitterbook/): 102 chapters: a curated compendium of 396 singles plus 101 threads — the complete Twitter writings of Venkatesh Rao (@vgr).
- [Breaking Smart: How Software is Eating the World](https://books.venkateshrao.com/breakingsmart/): 21 essays on the software revolution — how agile, networked approaches are disrupting industries and remaking society. In English, German, and French.
- [Mediocratopia](https://books.venkateshrao.com/mediocratopia/): 13 essays on mediocrity as aspiration — optimization resistance, withheld reserves, and the courage to slouch toward a mediocracy utopia.
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- [Foundations](https://books.venkateshrao.com/artofgig-vol1/): Thirty-two essays on the basics of surviving and thriving as an independent: getting oriented, bootstrapping a practice, and managing the consulting psyche.
- [Superstructures](https://books.venkateshrao.com/artofgig-vol2/): Thirty-four essays on the wider landscape of free agency: the history and future of the gig economy, creative frames for client work, and the long haul.
- [The Gervais Principle](https://books.venkateshrao.com/gervais-principle/): The definitive Ribbonfarm series on organizational life through the lens of The Office — sociopaths, clueless middle management, and losers navigating institutional reality.
- [Be Slightly Evil](https://books.venkateshrao.com/be-slightly-evil/): A Machiavellian guide to organizational life — essays on power, leverage, and strategic imperfection for those who live and work in institutions.
- [The Art of Refactored Perception](https://books.venkateshrao.com/rust-age-vol1/): Collected Ribbonfarm essays on perception, cognition, and how we construct and reconstruct our mental models of the world.
- [Towards an Appreciative View of Technology](https://books.venkateshrao.com/rust-age-vol2/): Collected Ribbonfarm essays on technology, progress, and the challenge of developing a mature, appreciative relationship with the tools we build.
- [Getting Ahead, Getting Along, Getting Away](https://books.venkateshrao.com/rust-age-vol3/): Collected Ribbonfarm essays on social dynamics, organizational life, and the art of navigating institutions and relationships.
- [The Mysteries of Money](https://books.venkateshrao.com/rust-age
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