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Ask HN: What books have made the biggest impact on your mental models?
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#32Object Thinking by David West
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#33Two that I almost never see on these kinds of lists, but really think they should get more acknowledgement:
"Crucial Conversations" - breaks down how to have what might otherwise be an uncomfortable conversation about anything. I really think everyone should read it.
"The Enchiridion" - A stoic guide, boiled down, short, and very very relatable even in the modern age.
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#34Meditations - Marcus Aurelius https://g.co/kgs/PkoSGf
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#35From AI to Zombies by Yudkowsky. Interesting framework and thoughts about knowledge, perception and how we deal with biases.
Can be downloaded for free/pay what you want here https://intelligence.org/rationality-ai-zombies/
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#36https://www.amazon.com/Art-Reading-Minds-Henrik-Fexeus/dp/91...
Learned how to read peoples emotions more reliably.
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#37The Emperor's New Mind, by Roger Penrose The Tao of Physics, by Fritjof Capra Dancing Wu Li Masters, by Gary Zukav The Naked Ape, by Desmond Morris The Road to Serfdom, by Friedrich Hayek The Worldly Philosophers, by Robert Heilbroner The Story of Philosophy, by Will Durant Grammatical Man, by Jeremy Campbell Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert M. Pirsig Flow, by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Not aimed at only you, but a trend in posts like these: When it's no particular order and you don't comment on what a book is or why you recommend it, I feel the list becomes kinda useless. And when a post is upvoted much that contains a lot of elements, I don't know which book gained those votes.
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#38Marshall McLuhan's "Gutenberg Galaxy" and "Understanding Media".
Buckminster Fuller's "Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth" (and other books and essays of his).
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#39Life:
The Disappearance of the Universe
Programming:
Effective Java - straight forward pragmatism
Learn You a Haskell for Great Good - took me down the rabbit hole of Haskell, which is just a natural mindbender
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#40The Ender's Series - For the essence of xenophobia and subjective realities.