The Haitians in Tech Reading Stack

Haitian success stories, local innovation, and 101 actionable business ideas for visionary founders reimagining Haiti’s future.

A practical playbook for product inclusion—how to design, test, and launch products that work for underserved users. Actionable frameworks from Annie Jean-Baptiste’s work leading Product Inclusion at Google.

Explores how the most revolutionary ideas emerge from “loonshots” — those wild, fragile projects that thrive when organizations learn to balance stability with bold experimentation.

A founder-driven guide to redefining success on your own terms. Drawing from her experience building and scaling Blavity, Morgan DeBaun challenges traditional career and startup playbooks and offers a framework for intentional growth, strategic decisions, and sustainable leadership.

A timeless guide to the art of making. Music producer Rick Rubin distills decades of creative practice into principles that help innovators, founders, and artists nurture ideas from spark to execution. A meditation on focus, intuition, and the craft of creation itself.

Demystifies creativity — showing how timing, pattern recognition, and iteration drive breakthrough ideas.

A practical guide to testing, iterating, and validating ideas fast. Introduces concepts like the Minimum Viable Product and Build-Measure-Learn loop that power modern entrepreneurship.

Grounded in years of research and real-world data, Accelerate reveals the key metrics that drive elite software delivery performance. It shows how high-performing tech teams achieve both velocity and stability — and how culture, automation, and measurement make innovation repeatable.

Explains what real strategy is — focus, coherence, and diagnosis — and how to cut through fluff to make bold, effective moves.

A playbook for turning ambitious ideas into measurable outcomes. Doerr introduces OKRs — Objectives and Key Results — the framework behind Google’s and countless startups’ ability to align teams, track progress, and deliver results with discipline and speed.

A classic on why great companies fail and how disruptive technologies reshape industries.

The foundational guide to understanding feedback loops, leverage points, and complex systems — essential for policy design, innovation, and sustainability.

Builds a framework for courageous leadership rooted in clarity, trust, and accountability. Practical lessons for innovation teams learning to lead with both empathy and precision. Badge: Courageous Leadership

A founder-driven guide to redefining success on your own terms. Drawing from her experience building and scaling Blavity, Morgan DeBaun challenges traditional career and startup playbooks and offers a framework for intentional growth, strategic decisions, and sustainable leadership.

A brutally honest guide to navigating the toughest parts of leadership—when every decision feels impossible. Horowitz distills hard-won lessons from building and scaling companies, sharing real strategies for managing chaos, firing friends, and staying steady when everything breaks.

Examines how connected infrastructure, open data, and grassroots innovation can redefine urban life. Townsend blends technology, policy, and design to imagine cities built for people—not bureaucracy.

A groundbreaking look at how innovation — not aid — transforms nations. The authors argue that market-creating innovations can lift entire economies, spark new industries, and reshape opportunity in places like Haiti and across the Global South.

Demonstrates how data, analytics, and user-centered design can make city governments smarter and more accountable. A foundational text for civic technologists and public innovators.