"Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers" by Geoffrey A. Moore and also his recent "Zone to win". His books explain some of the "deeper structure" to tech business, and is one of the few business-related books I've read that has any depth. By "depth", I mean in the sense that I'm used to from research mathematics (I'm a number theorist by training), where you learn something about a problem that lets you think about problems in a more detailed way.
Ask HN: Books you wish you had read earlier?
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#32Re: Ask HN: Books you wish you had read earlier?
#33Flow
https://www.amazon.com/Flow-Psychology-Experience-Perennial-...
Antifragile https://www.amazon.com/Antifragile-Things-That-Disorder-Ince...
High Output Management https://www.amazon.com/High-Output-Management-Andrew-Grove/d...
The Master Switch https://www.amazon.com/Master-Switch-Rise-Information-Empire...
Thinking Fast and Slow https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp...
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#34How To Be A 3% Man by Corey Wayne [0]
I'm 30 now. I wish I had read this when I was 20. It would've made dating in my 20s so much easier. I came across it last year and it's probably the single most important book I'll ever read in my entire life, for the sole reason that understanding women will allow me to have a successful marriage one day. I cannot recommend this enough.
[0] Free online: https://www.scribd.com/doc/33421576/How-To-Be-A-3-Man
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#35Re: Ask HN: Books you wish you had read earlier?
#36A Short History of Nearly Everything -- Bill Bryson
Re: Ask HN: Books you wish you had read earlier?
#37I love all the answers in here but please, please answer with more than just a title! I want to know why I should care about a book -- sell it to me, don't just throw it out there and ask me to do the work.
Re: Ask HN: Books you wish you had read earlier?
#38Flow https://www.amazon.com/Flow-Psychology-Experience-Perennial-... Antifragile https://www.amazon.com/Antifragile-Things-That-Disorder-Ince... High Output Management https://www.amazon.com/High-Output-Management-Andrew-Grove/d... The Master Switch https://www.amazon.com/Master-Switch-Rise-Information-Empire... Thinking Fast and Slow https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp...
Upvote for The Master Switch. It's one of the few books that manages to brilliantly cover a large territory within a small number of pages (<300).
Re: Ask HN: Books you wish you had read earlier?
#39I wish as a kid I had access to the following:
"More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite" https://www.amazon.com/More-Money-Than-God-Relations/dp/0143...
Market Wizards, Updated: Interviews With Top Traders https://www.amazon.com/Market-Wizards-Updated-Interviews-Tra...
The New Market Wizards: Conversations with America's Top Traders https://www.amazon.com/New-Market-Wizards-Conversations-Amer...
Hedge Fund Market Wizards: How Winning Traders Win https://www.amazon.com/Hedge-Fund-Market-Wizards-Winning/dp/...
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#40Deep Work + Flow [0] - [0] https://www.robinwieruch.de/lessons-learned-deep-work-flow/
Thanks for sharing the summary. Deep Work was recommended to me recently so this is super helpful. It seems consistent with common thinking that attention is a muscle to be strength trained regularly.
I've been gathering my own book notes in a GitHub repo [1] and added a link back to your post for when I read the book.