+1 to the Debt book. It changed my fundamental thought process and I consider the book to be more of a framework. For example; I now realize how natural it wa

+1 to the Debt book. It changed my fundamental thought process and I consider the book to be more of a framework. For example; I now realize how natural it was for my mother to constantly exchange groceries and food with our neighbors and how formally keeping track of them was considered to be a bad thing. Or how we deliberate and take time while gifting someone we know (e.g on their marriage), we gift them in kind. Where as it’s totally OK to gift money in envelopes in Indian marriages if you don’t know the bride/groom that well but got invited to the marriage anyway through some distant relatives. Money here kind of takes away the personal touch, like you have to fulfill a gifting obligation but don’t care much about it because you don’t know the marrying couple. I could go on for a while because I re-read different parts of the book once every month :-) It’s difficult to put into words how good it is in terms of the wide range of space-time it covers and the depth of the discourse. It’s like climbing a mountain several times from different paths, some of which are deliberately dead end just to present an alternative view point and why it’s not good enough. The bibliography could be made into a book of its own.