"The Art of Learning" by Josh Waitzkin
Ask HN: What three books impacted your career the most?
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#321. "Meditations" – Marcus Aurelius
2. "The Practicing Mind" – Thomas Sterner
3. "Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance" – Atul Gawande (I'm not a surgeon; the principles herein are universal)
(honorable mention: "How to Win Friends and Influence People" – Dale Carnegie; various biographies by Caro and Chernow)
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#33"Cracking the Coding Interview" (probably wouldn't even have a career without this book)
"The Little Schemer"
"Stories of Cats and the Lives They Touch" by Peggy Schaefer
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#34The Pragmatic Programmer, Dave Thomas, Andy Hunt
Fooled by Randomness, Taleb
Linchpin, Seth Godin
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#35"The Art of Learning" by Josh Waitzkin
I didn't realise he wrote a book. His chess videos in Chessmaster made me a much better player, I'll definitely have a look at the book.
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#361. Start with why, Simon Sinek - to get my younger self to figure out why I am doing what I am doing
2. Drive, the surprising truth..., Daniel Pink - to understand happiness and motivation
3. Crucial Conversations, to learn how to talk and listen and talk to people without ruining the conversation and the possibilities from it
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#37"The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter" by Meg Jay
Is this going to make me sad if I read it by the age of 32 ?
Perhaps not. I'm 42 and I'm tend to think of my station in life as just being delayed by 15 years - I had to get over a rather crappy childhood and a protracted adolescence.
(That said, I'd admonish anyone your age that if you don't have children, have them now rather than a series of compensating house-pets for the rest of your life)
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#381) The Art of Unix Programming
2) TCP/IP Illustrated
3) 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know
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#391. Peopleware
2. The C Programming Language
3. Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
Honorable mention: Compiler Design in C
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#40- The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong by Lawrence J. Peter & Raymond Hull
- The Upside of Irrationality by Dan Ariely
- Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons In Life by Sir Richard Branson