When I was young we read books like Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard Feynman, Neuromancer by William Gibson and So You Want to be a Mathematician by Paul Halmos. What books are popular with young technically minded people today?
Ask HN: What are young technically minded people reading?
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#3I just got through Abundance by Ezra Klein and thoroughly enjoyed it.
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#4Mostly the Kardashian book club recos. Learn video editing in 3 days etc.
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#5I'm pretty technically minded, but first I should probably ask: what's the age cut-off for "young"?
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#6I just got through Abundance by Ezra Klein and thoroughly enjoyed it.
Do you believe in his ideas? I think the abundist philosophy is a fake moustache and a coat of paint on third way neoliberalism, which has proven time and again to have utterly failed as a political strategy in our current era. Ezra Klein’s ideas mostly feel tired, recycled, boring, outdated, and rudderless. We need true labor reform in this country, not less regulations and more trust in “altruistic developers”.
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#7I'm pretty technically minded, but first I should probably ask: what's the age cut-off for "young"?
My secret agenda is to get gift ideas for my college aged child
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#8I just got through Abundance by Ezra Klein and thoroughly enjoyed it.
Do you believe in his ideas? I think the abundist philosophy is a fake moustache and a coat of paint on third way neoliberalism, which has proven time and again to have utterly failed as a political strategy in our current era. Ezra Klein’s ideas mostly feel tired, recycled, boring, outdated, and rudderless. We need true labor reform in this country, not less regulations and more trust in “altruistic developers”.
Pretty rude response, right?
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#9Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
by Yuval Noah Harari
Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
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#10your mind