Programming is about representing the world with structures that are adaptable to how the world really changes, so it pays off to read books about human psychol

Programming is about representing the world with structures that are adaptable to how the world really changes, so it pays off to read books about human psychology (normal and abnormal), statistics, game theory, and war. When you get a intuitive feeling for how the world morphs and changes around you according to stimuli, then better code structures strike you, and those superior code structures will have much longer lifespans and will be more adaptable to the needs that the users don't know they have yet. It's all about predicting the future, and in order to predict the future of a complex worldly system, you have to KNOW it inside and out.