1) Shogun
2) Noble House
3) Excel by Que Publishing
Ask HN: What three books impacted your career the most?
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Re: Ask HN: What three books impacted your career the most?
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is #2 a joke? I sincerely hope it is. Such a hateful ideology has no place on Hacker News
Pretty sad this got flagged. Honestly, I would flag the Bible before it. I think I understand your reasoning. While I don't agree with it, it's no worse than Ayn Rand or Timothy Ferris.
Could you explain that further please ?
Re: Ask HN: What three books impacted your career the most?
#731. "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" by Arthur Conan Doyle. This may sound like an odd one, but years ago, I almost never took the time to read. My girlfriend, who knew that I loved Sherlock Holmes books when I was younger, convinced me to try this book as an audiobook while I did my ~40 minute commute to work. I was skeptical, but within days, I was hooked. It made my work commute much more interesting (a British…
> "On Writing Well"
Love that book
Re: Ask HN: What three books impacted your career the most?
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is #2 a joke? I sincerely hope it is. Such a hateful ideology has no place on Hacker News
Pretty sad this got flagged. Honestly, I would flag the Bible before it. I think I understand your reasoning. While I don't agree with it, it's no worse than Ayn Rand or Timothy Ferris.
I don't think the books were the cause.
Re: Ask HN: What three books impacted your career the most?
#75Practical skills are easily acquired. Personal skills and greater self-awareness are what really fast-track you. 1) Scott Adams 'How to fail at almost everything' for life strategy. 2) Robert Glover's 'No more Mr Nice Guy' for assertiveness and being your authentic self no matter what. 3) As cliche as it is, 'The Power of Now' is a great source to return to in times of personal and professional woes. Good luck and Go…
>3) As cliche as it is, 'The Power of Now' is a great source to return to in times of personal and professional woes.
I tried reading The Power of Now but sometimes I felt it became really mumbo jumbo with all the spirituality. Would you advise me to just power through it?
Re: Ask HN: What three books impacted your career the most?
#76- The Pragmatic Programmer (Hunt/Thomas) - Computer Architecture - A Quantitative Approach (Hennessy/Patterson) - Expert C Programming - Deep C Secrets (van der Linden) I woud call the Pragmatic Programmer though by far the most influential.
Interesting that this book is mentioned in this thread several times. I didn't find this book bringing almost any value to me. What it did was giving names (e.g. orthogonality) that I didn't know before to the common programming concepts that all developers with some practical experience should be aware of anyway as a common sense. But that might just be due to a different approach to programming.
I find the books such as Andrew Tanenbaum's "Computer Networks" which are bringing historical perspective as well as a lot of technical information without going into the tiny details the best balance of useful and interesting.
Therefore "Computer Architecture - A Quantitative Approach" is much better for me in that aspect and the C programming should be really interesting too, although I haven't read it.
Re: Ask HN: What three books impacted your career the most?
#77Practical skills are easily acquired. Personal skills and greater self-awareness are what really fast-track you. 1) Scott Adams 'How to fail at almost everything' for life strategy. 2) Robert Glover's 'No more Mr Nice Guy' for assertiveness and being your authentic self no matter what. 3) As cliche as it is, 'The Power of Now' is a great source to return to in times of personal and professional woes. Good luck and Go…
>3) As cliche as it is, 'The Power of Now' is a great source to return to in times of personal and professional woes. I tried reading The Power of Now but sometimes I felt it became really mumbo jumbo with all the spirituality. Would you advise me to just power through it?
As someone who had an almost allergic reaction to Tolle or 'spirituality', I can now say that if you can get past his style/tone/voice, it's actually pretty good.
But for me it first took about two years of study into Zen Buddhism and easing into the 'spiritual' terminology and things like 'meditation'. Tolle can be a bit of a leap if you're not already comfortable with mumbo jumbo (even if it's mostly style and has real substance underneath).
Re: Ask HN: What three books impacted your career the most?
#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
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)
> (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) I should give up my dreams in order to have kids ? Two years ago, I had an idea ( that failed but that's not the point here ), I wanted to finish it so I simply walked into the office and quit. I worked 6 months on my project, I didn't care about someone…
Note: I'm not necessarily wise.
Having children don't preclude following personal dreams - for my own situation - children enhanced my ability(and necessity) to discern if any potential dream was plausible, actionable, and worth the extra effort.
For example, I've given up trying to become a billionaire - my financial security is fine, so it would be regrettable to trade away going hiking with my family for extra money.
And as a practical matter, children are only horribly disruptive when very small - and they're quite fascinating as a source of entertainment in themselves.
But... here's the problem... biologically, female humans seem to be designed to have children easily up until about their mid-thirties (apparently longer if the specimen is fit and active.)
Re: Ask HN: What three books impacted your career the most?
#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
> (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) I should give up my dreams in order to have kids ? Two years ago, I had an idea ( that failed but that's not the point here ), I wanted to finish it so I simply walked into the office and quit. I worked 6 months on my project, I didn't care about someone…
Note: I'm not necessarily wise. Having children don't preclude following personal dreams - for my own situation - children enhanced my ability(and necessity) to discern if any potential dream was plausible, actionable, and worth the extra effort. For example, I've given up trying to become a billionaire - my financial security is fine, so it would be regrettable to trade away going hiking with my family for extra mon…
I like your perspective.
Because this:
> And as a practical matter, children are only horribly disruptive when very small - and they're quite fascinating as a source of entertainment in themselves.
Is actually very insightful.
> But... here's the problem... biologically, female humans seem to be designed to have children easily up until about their mid-thirties (apparently longer if the specimen is fit and active.)
No one told us that we have to choose a female of our own age. That's societies attempt to brainwash us. While it looks quite disgusting when people are 20-30 years apart, 10 years is totally ok.
Re: Ask HN: What three books impacted your career the most?
#80There were different book that impacted different stages of my career:
As a programmer :
1. The C++ Programming Language by Bjarne Stroustrup.
2. Operating System Concepts by Silberschatz
3. Compilers by Aho
As an agile software developer:
1. eXtreme Programming by Kent Beck
2. Pragmatic Programmer by Hunt and Thomas
3. Continuous Delivery by Jez Humble
As an architect:
1. Domain Driven Design by Evans
2. Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture by Buschmann
3. Envisioning Information by Edward Tufte
As a CEO:
1. Good To Great by Collins
2. Lean Startup by Eric Ries
3. Beyond Budgeting by Pfläging