As a teenager I read 'Catch 22' over and over. I read Feynman's 'Surely You're Joking', and that led to me becoming a physicist. For software engineering, all

As a teenager I read 'Catch 22' over and over. I read Feynman's 'Surely You're Joking', and that led to me becoming a physicist. For software engineering, all the essays in Fred Brooks' 'Mythical Man Month' were formative. Rand's 'Fountainhead' and 'Atlas Shrugged' were also thought-provoking. For investing, reading Warren Buffet's 'Letters to Investors' shaped what I believe works. The best business book I've read is 'Invent and Wander' and 'Working Backwards' about Amazon culture.