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Part of the Stone Age is that the good stuff is already out there in books nobody reads, rather than fancy Medium posts.
by p0nce 7y ago
Part of the Stone Age is that the good stuff is already out there in books nobody reads, rather than fancy Medium posts.
- bobbiechen 7y agoDo you have any book recommendations?
- p0nce 7y agoYes. This is only one of these "must-read book list", what you can do is search several of them and see which ones are quoted by almost everyone! About "everything" I would rate the following books very highly, for their sheer usefulness: - Thinking Fast and Slow (really do the exercises!) - then Neuroleadership which describes the purpose of brain structures, it's somehow wider than kahneman - A Mind for Numbers (include very useful data points for knowledge workers) - Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste - Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism About programming I would rate the following books highly, but at the same time it seems a bit fruitless to me to read about programming, rather than spending more time reading about psychology or sociology: - the Economics of Software Quality - Peopleware - Pragmatic programmer - Mythical Man month ^you'll see that these books are hardly kept secret, it's just that people quote them but don't actually read them, or so it seems.
- ctchocula 7y agoDo you happen to have a list of such books off the top of your head?
- p0nce 7y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20043965 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20043965