Also what skills have you acquired?
Ask HN: What books have you read in the first half of 2016?
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Re: Ask HN: What books have you read in the first half of 2016?
#2"The Art of Profitability" by Adrian Slywotzky
"The Myth of the Rational Voter" by Bryan Caplan
"Fanatical Prospecting" by Jeb Blount
"Fooling Some of the People All of the Time" by David Einhorn
"Confidence Game" by Christine Richard
"Mouth Matters; How Your Mouth Ages Your Body and What YOU Can Do About It" by Carol Vander Stoep
"Adventures in Stochastic Processes" by Sidney & Resnick
"The Great Deformation" by David Stockman
"Efficient Electrical Systems Design Handbook" by Thumann & Franz
"The Goal" by Eliyahu Goldratt
"Notes on Discrete Mathematics" by Miguel Lerma
"Stochastic Calculus with Infinitesimals" by Frederik S. Herzberg
"Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms" by David Mackay
"Coming Apart" by Charles Murray
"The Collapse of Complex Societies" by Joseph Tainter
"In Other Words: The Science And Psychology Of Second-language Acquisition" by Ellen Bialystok and Kenji Hakuta
Re: Ask HN: What books have you read in the first half of 2016?
#3Agincourt by Juliet Barker
The story of a nerd, who loved forensic accounting and was thought unwarlike; but was knew an innovation when it was shot through his face (during an earlier battle in Wales) and used it to end the Age of Chivalry - i.e. Henry V.
What I learned was "always take enough arrows": even if your (relatively few) knights have to walk 'cause the horses are laden with literally millions of arrows. I'll write up a review one of these days, fine book. He was fighting piracy (it wasn't a needless war) so I don't he'd have liked Tor.
Skills - need to exercise the ones I have, not pile on more, just now.
Re: Ask HN: What books have you read in the first half of 2016?
#4I have just finished the Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov, I can't believe it took me so long to get round to reading such classic sci-fi. Definitely recommended.
Re: Ask HN: What books have you read in the first half of 2016?
#5"The Wrecking Crew" by Thomas Frank.
"Liar's Poker" by Michael Lewis
"Alaska" by James Michener
"Merchants of Doubt" by Naomi Oreskes
"Pieces of Light: The New Science of Memory" by Charles Fernyhough
"Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How The Brain Codes our Thoughts" by Stanislas Dehaene
"The Future of the Brain: Essays by the World's Leading Neuroscientists" by Gary Marcus
This has been a busy year and I have not read nearly what I usually do.
Re: Ask HN: What books have you read in the first half of 2016?
#6Books: Manshu (Classical Chinese history book), Instrument Engineer's Handbook, lots of embedded books, some young child development books, Forgotten Masters of Thai Photography and a few other photography tomes, an airport trash novel.
Skills: Lots of hardware stuff (component sourcing/plumbing/pneumatics/etc.), additional detail in financial forecasting, video pitches, woodcut printing.
Re: Ask HN: What books have you read in the first half of 2016?
#7I'm not going to list all 42, but here are the highlights:
How to Read a Book (Adler)
World Order (Kissinger)
Der Grundrisse (Marx)
The Grand Chessboard (Brzezinski)
Manufacturing Consent (Chomsky)
Gulag Archipelago (Solhenitzyn)
On War (Clausewitz)
The Hidden Persuaders (Packard)
Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking (Dennett)
The Strategy of Desire (Dichter)
Skills acquired: intentional syntopical reading, prediction of geopolitical hinge points, and identification of absent context in media... I'm always looking for another book to read.
Re: Ask HN: What books have you read in the first half of 2016?
#8"The Art of Profitability" by Adrian Slywotzky "The Myth of the Rational Voter" by Bryan Caplan "Fanatical Prospecting" by Jeb Blount "Fooling Some of the People All of the Time" by David Einhorn "Confidence Game" by Christine Richard "Mouth Matters; How Your Mouth Ages Your Body and What YOU Can Do About It" by Carol Vander Stoep "Adventures in Stochastic Processes" by Sidney & Resnick "The Great Deformation" by Dav…
Unless you get paid to read for a living how could you possibly have completed all those? :) !
Re: Ask HN: What books have you read in the first half of 2016?
#9Blindsight (Watts)
Between the World and Me (Coates)
Economics in One Lesson (Hazlitt)
Corporate Confidential: 50 Secrets Your Company Doesn't Want You to Know---and What to Do About Them (Shapiro)
Los últimos españoles de Mauthausen (Hernández de Miguel)
Distributed Systems for Fun and Profit (Takada)
The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm (Dartnell)
Historia mínima de España (Fusi)
Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders (Marquet)
What I Learned Losing A Million Dollars (Moynihan)
Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems (Google)
Adventures in Human Being: A Grand Tour from the Cranium to the Calcaneum (Francis)
Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces (Arpaci-Dusseau)
Re: Ask HN: What books have you read in the first half of 2016?
#10"The Art of Profitability" by Adrian Slywotzky "The Myth of the Rational Voter" by Bryan Caplan "Fanatical Prospecting" by Jeb Blount "Fooling Some of the People All of the Time" by David Einhorn "Confidence Game" by Christine Richard "Mouth Matters; How Your Mouth Ages Your Body and What YOU Can Do About It" by Carol Vander Stoep "Adventures in Stochastic Processes" by Sidney & Resnick "The Great Deformation" by Dav…
Unless you get paid to read for a living how could you possibly have completed all those? :) !
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I want to know the answer to this one as well.