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Books. A few handfuls of them, combined, made a magnitude of a difference in my quality of life. An incredible amount of similar content is available now in vi

Books. A few handfuls of them, combined, made a magnitude of a difference in my quality of life. An incredible amount of similar content is available now in video and text form for free, but I think that the same ideas non-book form wouldn't have had the same impact on me.

macobo 6y ago
Examples, suggestions?
- statquontrarian 6y ago
  I've never created a reading list, so this was a fun exercise. Programming: * Analyzing Computer System Performance with Perl::PDQ - Gunther * The Mythical Man Month - Brooks Philosophy: * A Journey Around my Room - de Maistre * Anger, Mercy, and Revenge - Seneca * Schrödinger - What is Life? * Man's Search for Meaning - Frankl * Essays - Montaigne * Ethical Intuitionism - Huemer * The Consolations of Philosophy - de Botton * A Manual for Living - Epictetus * Meditations - Aurelius Psychology / Meaning / Purpose / Science: * Purpose and Meaning in the Workplace - Dik, Byrne & Steger * The Case Against Education - Caplan * Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids - Caplan * Dawkins - The Selfish Gene * A Confession - Tolstoy * Enlightenment Now - Pinker * The Better Angels of our Nature - Pinker * The Improving State of the World - Goklany * The Skeptical Environmentalist - Lomborg * Religion for Atheists - de Botton * Ending Aging - de Grey * Gut Feelings - Gigirenzer Fiction: * Heart of Darkness - Conrad * Candide - Voltaire * Brave New World - Huxley * Selected Works - Goethe * 1984 & Animal Farm - Orwell Politics: * Obedience to Authority - Milgram * The Problem of Political Authority - Huemer * The Communist Manifesto - Marx * Socialism - von Mises * Just One Child - Greenhalgh * The God That Failed - Crossman * Death by Government - Rummel Thought-provoking: * Free to Learn - Gray * The Beautiful Tree - Tooley * Education and the State - West * The Machinery of Freedom - Friedman * Against Intellectual Monopoly - Boldrine & Levine * From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State - Beito * The Not So Wild, Wild West - Hill * More Guns, Less Crime - Lott * Race & Economics - Williams * Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men - Hummel
97amarnathk 6y ago
What books would you recommend one must read?
nestorD 6y ago
My variation on that is realizing that I know have enough money to buy the expensive, specialized, books I want to read without having to debate it with myself. Getting one or two book I love every month fills me with both joy and knowledge.
- znpy 6y ago
  My variation on that is realizing that I can now buy the more or less expensive books that I downloaded illegally when I was a teenager. Most people in the publishing industry don't realise that I probably wouldn't have got into the industry or wouldn't have reached my current level without some pirated books. I can now afford without many problems to spend 60+ euros on a book and I'm doing it. Not often, but I'm doing it (books take time to read :) ). My last purchase was advanced programming in the Unix environment (~65 euros), about one month ago, I'm currently at about page 200 out of ~970. O'Reilly is going to get so much money from me in the next years... They kinda deserve them lol.

macobo 6y ago

Examples, suggestions?

statquontrarian 6y ago
I've never created a reading list, so this was a fun exercise. Programming: * Analyzing Computer System Performance with Perl::PDQ - Gunther * The Mythical Man Month - Brooks Philosophy: * A Journey Around my Room - de Maistre * Anger, Mercy, and Revenge - Seneca * Schrödinger - What is Life? * Man's Search for Meaning - Frankl * Essays - Montaigne * Ethical Intuitionism - Huemer * The Consolations of Philosophy - de Botton * A Manual for Living - Epictetus * Meditations - Aurelius Psychology / Meaning / Purpose / Science: * Purpose and Meaning in the Workplace - Dik, Byrne & Steger * The Case Against Education - Caplan * Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids - Caplan * Dawkins - The Selfish Gene * A Confession - Tolstoy * Enlightenment Now - Pinker * The Better Angels of our Nature - Pinker * The Improving State of the World - Goklany * The Skeptical Environmentalist - Lomborg * Religion for Atheists - de Botton * Ending Aging - de Grey * Gut Feelings - Gigirenzer Fiction: * Heart of Darkness - Conrad * Candide - Voltaire * Brave New World - Huxley * Selected Works - Goethe * 1984 & Animal Farm - Orwell Politics: * Obedience to Authority - Milgram * The Problem of Political Authority - Huemer * The Communist Manifesto - Marx * Socialism - von Mises * Just One Child - Greenhalgh * The God That Failed - Crossman * Death by Government - Rummel Thought-provoking: * Free to Learn - Gray * The Beautiful Tree - Tooley * Education and the State - West * The Machinery of Freedom - Friedman * Against Intellectual Monopoly - Boldrine & Levine * From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State - Beito * The Not So Wild, Wild West - Hill * More Guns, Less Crime - Lott * Race & Economics - Williams * Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men - Hummel

97amarnathk 6y ago

What books would you recommend one must read?

nestorD 6y ago

My variation on that is realizing that I know have enough money to buy the expensive, specialized, books I want to read without having to debate it with myself. Getting one or two book I love every month fills me with both joy and knowledge.

znpy 6y ago
My variation on that is realizing that I can now buy the more or less expensive books that I downloaded illegally when I was a teenager. Most people in the publishing industry don't realise that I probably wouldn't have got into the industry or wouldn't have reached my current level without some pirated books. I can now afford without many problems to spend 60+ euros on a book and I'm doing it. Not often, but I'm doing it (books take time to read :) ). My last purchase was advanced programming in the Unix environment (~65 euros), about one month ago, I'm currently at about page 200 out of ~970. O'Reilly is going to get so much money from me in the next years... They kinda deserve them lol.