Ask HN: What books have most influenced the way you see the world?

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Post by samcgraw » Fri, Jan 26, 2018, 6:18 PM UTC

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Post by matchmike1313 » Fri, Jan 26, 2018, 6:29 PM UTC

Start With Why - Simon Sinek

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Post by meri_dian » Fri, Jan 26, 2018, 6:30 PM UTC

The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins. None of his militant atheism. Just a brilliant and engaging work on evolutionary biology.

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Post by spinlock_t » Fri, Jan 26, 2018, 6:37 PM UTC

Lying - Sam Harris.

Behave - Robert Sapolsky.

Gene: An Intimate History - Siddhartha Mukherjee

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Post by tooltalk » Fri, Jan 26, 2018, 6:38 PM UTC

The Elusive Quest for Growth by W. Easterly -- read it when I was in college hoping to study development (poverty, growth) economics; changed the way I look at poverty, economics and politics in general. Likewise I helped me ditch modern liberalism for classical one.