ITT: books programmers recommend but not really read :) . I'm guessing SICP would be recommended, Dragon book, TAOCP, some super famous philosophers centuries b

ITT: books programmers recommend but not really read :) . I'm guessing SICP would be recommended, Dragon book, TAOCP, some super famous philosophers centuries back and finally modern day self improvement books. As for me, I can't really say that any single book was worth it in the sense - if I didn't read it, would I have been in the worse position or would I have missed some crucial and/or unique (only in that book) knowledge? Probably not. PS: just not to sound entirely negative, I can recommend two ideas. Idea 1: there are marks in Wikipedia, which denote especially good articles. And there is a meta page with a list of top10, top100, top1000 and so on pages. I made myself a personal project to read eventually through top1000 articles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vital_articles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vital_articles Idea 2: find a good in-depth history channel on youtube or a streaming service, explaining in-depth certain historic evens and the whole timeline. I wager a lot of things will turn out not quite as you may have remembered or imagined. It teaches a lot about social conflicts, wars, money etc. I can recommend a series of streams but they are in Russian. Don't have an English equivalent at the moment. https://www.youtube.com/user/ButKorn https://www.youtube.com/user/ButKorn