"The art of electronics" by Horowitz and Hill
Dense, wordy, incomprehensible.
Ask HN: Which non-fiction books had the biggest impact on you?
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#62Finite and Infinite Games - James P. Carse
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#63If you're not a person who tends to get sucked into a book, and has every waking thought resonate with what you've read, then read some Chomsky. You may not agree with his views (it's so far to the left, that it makes your head spin) but rather read it for how he writes. His terse words are a window into his psyche. Everything is presented in a very "matter-of-fact" way. I've read most of his books and it's surprisin…
Does he have a specific book that would relate to the hollowing out of the middle class?
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#64Future Shock by Alvin Toffler
I read it in 1970. It sparked my interest in technology; an interest that is very much alive and kicking all these years later.
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#65How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World by Harry Browne
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#66Howard Zinn: A People's History of the US
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#67electric cool aid acid test
the code book
warped passages
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#68A Mind for Numbers by Barbara Oakley. I’ve ingrained many of her lessons as habits.
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#69LSD my problem child by Albert Hoffmann
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#70I'm assuming this thread is non-programming related since that's like everything else on this website Probably Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. And it didn't impact me in a way where I agreed with it, it was more the opposite. It sort of made me realize "oh, this is what bullshit looks like" and I was able to take that and apply it elsewhere I'll give an example... Hegel sort of works like this: person X says A, pers…
Sounds about right, actually