As a whole, I doubt a book like this would be of much use to a non-programmer. There are some high level tricks that might be fun to learn, and could be loosely

As a whole, I doubt a book like this would be of much use to a non-programmer. There are some high level tricks that might be fun to learn, and could be loosely applied to day-to-day thinking (should this be solved in a brute force way, or is there some shortcut). Overall the book (I assume, I haven't read it) is technical and precise solutions to technical problems. Algorithms are just ways of solving technical problems in the most efficient way possible (for various definitions of efficiency). They are deep programming which even most programmers don't use frequently.