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I think finding the topic is the harder issue. Or picking a topic among those you are interested in. If you are interested in a specific topic, then usually yo
by gexla 9y ago
I think finding the topic is the harder issue. Or picking a topic among those you are interested in.
If you are interested in a specific topic, then usually you can find discussions of "game changing" books in that topic. Or trace the "tree" of current books to earlier books in the topic.
If you want to know what influenced an author, take a look at the sources the book cites. A quick Google search revealed a bunch of sites which offer search for book / pub citation info. Maybe that's a good place to start.
An interesting service might be to take this a step further and add some sort of visualization for a given topic.
- tristanho 9y agoInteresting! For myself, I tend to already know what topics I care about, e.g Entrepreneurship, History of Computing, Stoicism, etc. These topics usually become quite apparent when I look at my goals in life. Can you explain more about how you decide on topics? As for the "game changing" books, I definitely agree! It seems that most areas seem to have those "seminal" books that most of the other books in the genre reference non-stop. One example that jumps out at me is Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, which seems to be referenced by every book I can get my hands on. The visualization of a tree is definitely interesting: I suppose the goal of it would to be able to find the roots.