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Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2022?

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Re: Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2022?

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jen729w wrote: post #146
BasilPH wrote: post #4

Reading it right now, but I already think it's the test thing: Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals I was (and still am) obsessed with productivity. But I more and more my tasks had felt like something I needed to get done, to afterwards finally be able to relax and profit from them. But this time never came and I just got busier. The book does a great job at explaining how much of our daily grind is base…

The audiobook, read by the author, is terrific.

I can imagine. He has a short, spoken course on the Waking Up mediation app that closely mirrors the book and I found it amazingly well done.

Re: Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2022?

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Post by anthomtb »

"Mathematics for the Non-Mathematician" - Morris Kline. An oldie but a goodie. Don't expect a gripping writing style. Actually, don't expect to read more than a few sections at a time. But if you get through it you will come away with a much better mathematical intuition.

"The Body Keeps the Score" - Bessel Van Der Kok. tl;dr on this one is: the DSM V is woefully inadequate.

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Post by skoocda »

powersnail wrote: post #125

Favorite Technical: The Pragmatic Programmer . This is something that I should have read much earlier. Favorite Fiction: Pale Fire . Just pure astonishment. Left me speechless with how he made the language sing. Also great (in no particular order): - The Sewing Girl's Tale (non-fiction) - The Odyssey (poem) - Tropic of Cancer (novel) - Tenth of December (short story collection). - Endurance (non-fiction) - The Billio…

+1 for The Odyssey. I started it during an off year, almost as an intentionally-irrelevant book to pick up and forget about, but it ended up being a genuine gem; one I remember fondly, and often.

Re: Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2022?

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Post by ratg13 »

baseballdork wrote: post #21

I realize this isn't really the intent of the question, but I read "The Count of Monte Cristo" this year for the first time and it's now my favorite book. It's a classic that I just had never bothered with and the story sucked me in. The redemption, revenge, scheming, secrecy. It was phenomenal.

This was also my favorite 2022 book.

I don’t think it would have been on my list without others recommendations

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