Ask HN: What book that you read in 2015 significantly affected how you think?

## Things I've been doing this year that's a change from last year:

* switched jobs from full time permanent to better paying less interesting contract work

* moved house to reduce expenses

* growing vegetables

* donating to crowd sourced environmental lobbying campaigns, attending the odd climate change rally

## Thinking that's influenced these actions

+ our civilisation is geared towards pursuing economic growth, that was a reasonable idea in earlier times, but is now an arguably terrible one, as we near/exceed planetary environmental boundaries. changing reality, old thinking. our goals are wrong.

+ if i learn to be more self sufficient and live modestly i can retire in a few years, and will be more resilient against things going amiss with the economy / society.

## Books I've read that have influenced my thinking:

* a stack of climate-change related books. e.g. here's a few book recommendations from a post i made earlier this year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10053960

* personal finance blogs

Warning: it's probably best not to read a bunch of climate change books if you are in a place in your life where you are prone to depression.

Not sure about "significantly affected how I think", but here are a couple of the standouts from 2015 that come to mind:

The First World War: A Complete History

Predictable Revenue

Superforecasting

The Master Algorithm

Natural Born Heroes

Climate change does make for difficult reading, I just finished Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change by George Marshall. It was a fascinating read but pretty grim.

Honest question: Does any of these books predict any positive change due to climate change ? I can hardly believe that climate change will be a catastrophic event, without any further qualifier.

Other than that, your lifestyle change is something that has been on my mind for years now. Kudos for "shipping".