Does anyone have any book recommendations? Preferably non-fiction (like business, self-help, finance, tech, etc). What are the best books to read? I'm going on a learning/reading binge, and I want to get the best stuff.
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#2Recently read and thoroughly enjoyed "Elon Musk"; good insight into both starting unicorns and how much of a genius Elon is.
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#3The Goal.
If you're interested in project management, Making Things Happen is good.
I've just started High Output Management and so far it seems good. Of course there are always the classics like Good to Great, What Color Is Your Parachute, etc
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#4>Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: An excellent book with autobiographic content about Richard Feynman, contains many funny stories and interesting insights of this brilliant man.
>J. Hromkovic: Theoretical Computer Science: An excellent introduction to complexity theory, kolmogorov complexity, automata and turing machine, language and grammar theory
>Harris & Harris: Digital Design and Computer Architecture: Introduction to electrical engineering, graudally builds your knowledge until you could implement a simple little CPU in e.g. Verilog.
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#5My recent favorites: Jobs, The Hard Thing About Hard Things, High Output Management, Innovator's Dilemma, Lean Startup, On The Shortness Of Life, How Google Works, Zero To One, Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Power of Habit, Things Fall Apart, Stoner
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#6I am reading CTM by Van Roy/Haridi and watching Van Roy's edx vids. Very nice explanations that require a lot of filling in the holes.
If someone else is familiar with Oz/Van Roy stuff, I have a question.
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#7This comes up quite often, here are two helpful links:
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#8Domain Driven Design by Eric Evans.
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#9If you're about to work for the federal government. I suggest catch 22 and Kafka.
Now that I'm working with them,I realize those books aren't fiction: they're documentaries.
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#10Self-help/personal development/philosophy:
- The obstacle is the way (Ryan Holiday)
- Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)
- Level up your life: how to unlock adventure and happiness by becoming the hero of your own story
- the six pillars of self-esteem
- so good they can’t ignore you
- the power of habit
- how to fail at almost everything and still win big
Business:
- soft sell: the new art of selling
- essentialism: the disciplined pursuit of less
- the magic of thinking big
- everything is negotiable
- making things happen
- lean customer development
- what customers want
- inspired: how to create products customers love
- delivering happiness