YC's Winter Reading List
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YC's Winter Reading List
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#2Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13117521
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#3Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13117521
The majority of discussion on the previous post was about how many/most of the books conflicted with the 1-week ban on highly charged topics.
Since that's over (right?) - perhaps people can now share their opinions on the book list itself...
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#4Cannot recommend "City of Gold" enough. Great writing and a page-turner. Full disclosure: I knew Jim Krane in the 80s when he played guitar in hardcore punk bands like Starvartion Army.
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#5In case you're wondering about how we knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing, sexist, racist, homophobic conservatives really think, "Strangers in their own land" is not a good representation. Anything by bestselling authors such as Mark Steyn Dinesh D'Souza, Mark Levin, or Ann Coulter would be a much closer approximation. Reading "Strangers in their own land" would be like one of those people writing a book about why Hillary failed. You wouldn't trust it, because they are not committed, thoughtful followers of her principles. "Strangers" is the height of condescension and a severe misfire.
That said, I do appreciate the effort.
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#6I actually pre-ordered Grit based on the excerpt I had read with Pete Carroll. It sounds fascinating but I have yet to read it.
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#7Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13117521
The majority of discussion on the previous post was about how many/most of the books conflicted with the 1-week ban on highly charged topics. Since that's over (right?) - perhaps people can now share their opinions on the book list itself...
It was "politics" not "highly charged topics" - eg a post about javascript frameworks was fine. And I have no idea how to tell if it's over or not.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
The majority of discussion on the previous post was about how many/most of the books conflicted with the 1-week ban on highly charged topics. Since that's over (right?) - perhaps people can now share their opinions on the book list itself...
It was "politics" not "highly charged topics" - eg a post about javascript frameworks was fine. And I have no idea how to tell if it's over or not.
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#9Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13117521
The majority of discussion on the previous post was about how many/most of the books conflicted with the 1-week ban on highly charged topics. Since that's over (right?) - perhaps people can now share their opinions on the book list itself...
Yes, it's over: https://medium.com/a-change-is-coming/learning-from-hacker-n...
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
The majority of discussion on the previous post was about how many/most of the books conflicted with the 1-week ban on highly charged topics. Since that's over (right?) - perhaps people can now share their opinions on the book list itself...
It was "politics" not "highly charged topics" - eg a post about javascript frameworks was fine. And I have no idea how to tell if it's over or not.
The week-long experiment was terminated early. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13131251
It would have been over by now regardless.