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Ask HN: What are some of the best books you have read in 2022?
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#2Beyond Messy Relationships: Divine Invitations to Your Authentic Self
Really opened my persona in being gracious towards our partners platonic or otherwise.
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#3Bobiverse and Project Hail Mary
They're sci-fi but fun reads.
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#4The Technological Society by Jacques Ellul. You will not see the world the same way. You can then read Industrial Society by Ted Kaczynski and understand his desperation.
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#5The ones that stand out:
Fiction: Project Hail Mary.
Non-fiction: The Beginning of Infinity, David Deutsch
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#6I haven't read a single book in 2022. Somehow, over the years, I've lost the habit of reading.
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#7Leading in Ambiguity: How to Transform Uncertainty into Possibilities
by Katrin Elster
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#8The Unwomanly Face of War: A Oral Histoy of Women in World War II. By Svetlana Alexievich.
Thought it was timely, and wanted to know more about the soviet perspective, from a different angle. Easy to go through as it's a series of short oral accounts written down. Sometimes a person shares a single memory, sometimes a few. Hard to get through at points due to the subject, obviously.
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#9Bobiverse and Project Hail Mary They're sci-fi but fun reads.
Not a scifi guy, but really enjoyed Project Hail Mary. It felt almost like a puzzle, tickling the part of the brain that does problem-solving *amaze amaze*. Not the epitome of writing, but it got the job done, and first time I think I've felt something for a rock. *jazz hands*
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#10Designing your life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans.
How applying the principles of design thinking to our life can help us have a better life.