The lean startup. How to win friends and influence people.
This book changed my life.
Which one of these, out of curiosity? The post above references two books :)
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#22The Art of Learning by Joshua Waitzkin. I was definitely in the right place to take in the topic, but it was, more or less, a book on how you can be "good" without much effort, but to be great or the best, it takes a lot of hard work and time. This book helped me learn that lesson.
On top of that, some of Tim Ferriss' stuff on accelerated learning. Learn how to learn first, then learn everything else.
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#23I wish I'd read some good books on fitness and nutrition when I was younger. It could have saved me a whole host of health issues.
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#24A popular recommendation here, but Getting Things Done by David Allen.
This. I learned to use Emacs' built-in org-mode at the same time, and they've helped me survive grad school.
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#25Autobiography/Memoirs: Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! - Richard Feynman What Do You Care What Other People Think? - Richard Feynman Crime and Guilt: Stories - Ferdinand von Schirach Fiction: The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov Technical: Bulldog: A Compiler for VLIW Architectures - John Ellis
I have never heard of Ferdinand von Schirach, but since the two other books of Feynman are really good, I would also like to know, why you recommend the third book. Could you tell more why his autobiography is worth reading?
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#26A People's History of the United States
Yes absolutely. Howard Zinn—rest in power—is one of the few historians who could 1) detail political arguments and rationales 2) without becoming obtuse in language or overly complex in reasoning and 3) without diminishing in any way the academic integrity of his work. Read this in 9th grade, and it truly did grant a focus to my life that I still carry.
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#27Mans Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl, especially good if you're feeling down or disallusioned.
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#28How To Win Friends And Influence People by Dale Carnegie - a timeless classic for people skills, useful in almost all circumstances.
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#29"How to Prove It" by D. Velleman. Introduces logical reasoning, set theory, functions, relations, and proofs. It is the base for understanding any mathematical subject.
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#30The bible