Ask HN: What are some interesting books you read in 2017? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are some interesting books you read in 2017?

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Post by bovermyer » Tue, Jan 02, 2018, 6:33 PM UTC

nestorherre wrote: post #18

Read quite some. Here are my favourites: -Poor dad rich dad -Elon Musk's biography -The republic (Plato) -Man's search for meaning -Autobiography of a yogi

Rich Dad, Poor Dad is really terrible advice. There are much better books on personal finance that don't give misleading or outright illegal advice. The Millionaire Next Door is a good one.

Re: Ask HN: What are some interesting books you read in 2017?

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Post by lappet » Tue, Jan 02, 2018, 7:10 PM UTC

I published my top 10 here: https://raviramanujam.com/post/blog/2017books.html

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Post by misterioss » Tue, Jan 02, 2018, 8:38 PM UTC

'Antifragile' by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Post by pruthvishetty » Tue, Jan 02, 2018, 9:30 PM UTC

The World Is Flat by Tom Friedman.

Digital Gold by Nathaniel Popper.

Inner Engineering by Jaggi Vasudev.

Sapiens by Yuval Harari.

Zero to One by Peter Thiel.

Re: Ask HN: What are some interesting books you read in 2017?

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Post by aalhour » Tue, Jan 02, 2018, 10:03 PM UTC

In no particular order:

* The Obstacle is the Way, Ryan Holiday

* The Daily Stoic, Ryan Holiday

* Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl

* Siddhartha, Herman Hesse

* The Personal MBA, Josh Kaufman

* The Effective Engineer, Edmund Lau

* The Lean Startup, Eric Ries

* Certain to Win, Chet Richards

* Left of Bang, Patrick Van Horn & Jason A. Riley

* Native Set Theory, Paul R. Halmos

* Introducing Go, by Caleb Doxsey.

If you'd like to read what I think of these books, you can read my blog post about them here: http://aalhour.com/blog/2018/01/02/review-of-my-2017-reading...

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Post by throwaway636 » Tue, Jan 02, 2018, 10:04 PM UTC

my favorite books http://cherrypick.club/post/QmxvZ1Bvc3QtLS0xMw==

Re: Ask HN: What are some interesting books you read in 2017?

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Post by aalhour » Tue, Jan 02, 2018, 10:06 PM UTC

koolhead17 wrote: post #9

These are my 10 favourites: - Total Freedom by J Krishnamurti - Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard’s Almanack: Benjamin Franklin - Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio - The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius by Marcus Aurelius - 10% Human: How Your Body’s Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness by Alanna Collen - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert Pirsig - What I Talk About…

Can you please share your opinion on "Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio"? It has popped up several times on HN and I am curious about what people think of the book.