The calendar.
Are you referring to Duncan's book?
Ask HN: What books do you recommend reading once a year?
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#12I read Neuromancer every two years.
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#13SICP - alway something new
TAOCP - esp. the latest fascicles about book 4, crazy combinatorial problems, esp. exciting solving unsolvable problems.
Anti Patterns - never gets old
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#14SICP - alway something new TAOCP - esp. the latest fascicles about book 4, crazy combinatorial problems, esp. exciting solving unsolvable problems. Anti Patterns - never gets old
You read TAOCP once a year? Or you scan it? I could see perusing it periodically and doing a dive into a few sections. But not reading the whole thing. I read and mostly worked through all of volume 1 once, that took enough time (and a detour through Concrete Mathematics). Volumes 2 and 3 I scanned and did a few exercises here and there on areas I found interesting.
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#15Joel on Software - I learn new things every time I read it, but the best part is how insanely funny Joel is when he tells stories about working on the early microsoft products. Stardust - My favorite last page of all time, but it only works if you read the whole thing. Which is fine, since it's a seriously fun story that's short one, and can be taken in over a long afternoon. Antifragile - Simply amazing, and I learn…
Antifragile is a great one For fiction necromancer and snow crash are great
Omg those are cyber-punk royalty and both incredible, engaging reads. Great suggestion.
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#16The Dude and the Zen Master
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#17Whatever book that inspires or lights a fire in you. For me it use to be "Hackers" by Steven Levy, I will go on massive coding binges after reading that. Doesn't work anymore tho. :-D
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#18Whatever book that inspires or lights a fire in you. For me it use to be "Hackers" by Steven Levy, I will go on massive coding binges after reading that. Doesn't work anymore tho. :-D
My equivalent to that would probably be The Soul Of A New Machine.
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#19The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank would probably top my list.
Some other books that I find deserving of the at least occasional re-read (if not yearly)
The Soul of a New Machine - Kidder
Hackers - Levy
False Memory - Dean Koontz
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Nineteen Eighty-Four - Orwell
The Mysterious Island - Jules Verne
Re: Ask HN: What books do you recommend reading once a year?
#20The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank would probably top my list. Some other books that I find deserving of the at least occasional re-read (if not yearly) The Soul of a New Machine - Kidder Hackers - Levy False Memory - Dean Koontz The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand Neuromancer - William Gibson Nineteen Eighty-Four - Orwell The Mysterious Island - Jules Verne
I have read Four Steps. Although it is meant for early-stage founders, I believe an experienced founder would learn more from it because it is experiential and exhaustive. On the other hand, an experienced founder will not like to read a book on early-stage startups, especially as exhaustive as this one. There are many alternatives to it for him, such as Hard Things about Hard Things by Ben Horrowitz. I am writing this to know your purpose of reading it every year.