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Re: Ask HN: Books you plan to read in 2020?

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Post by plahteenlahti »

Currently, my list of to-reads looks like this:

Non-fiction:

The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity

Bad Science

I'm Afraid Debbie From Marketing Has Left for the Day: How to Use Behavioural Design to Create Change in the Real World

Fiction:

This Is How You Lose the Time War

Catch-22

The Wanderers

I could definitely use some more fiction. Any suggestions?

Re: Ask HN: Books you plan to read in 2020?

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Post by yboris »

beaconstudios wrote: post #30

For me: - On the Genealogy of Morality, Nietzsche - Simulcra and Simulations, Jean Baudrillard - The Ruling Class, Gaetano Mosca - Finish off the Enchiridion and Shobogenzo For work: - Envisioning Information, Edward Tufte - Antifragile, Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I find it so disappointing that people are reading Nietzsche ... why not read practical philosophy like Practical Ethics by Peter Singer? I strongly recommend any of Peter Singer's writings.

https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Ethics-Peter-Singer/dp/0521...

Re: Ask HN: Books you plan to read in 2020?

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Post by lumannnn »

- Nassim Taleb's Incerto Box Set:

    - Antifragile (already started)
    - The Black Swan
    - Skin In The Game
    - (there are 2 more books which I've already read)
- The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith

- Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman

- Reread: E-Myth, Michael E. Gerber

Re: Ask HN: Books you plan to read in 2020?

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Post by dmos62 »

plahteenlahti wrote: post #141

Currently, my list of to-reads looks like this: Non-fiction: The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity Bad Science I'm Afraid Debbie From Marketing Has Left for the Day: How to Use Behavioural Design to Create Change in the Real World Fic…

> This Is How You Lose the Time War Catch-22 The Wanderers

At first I thought "wow that's a crazy book title", but then I realised that this is just markdown shenanigans.

Re: Ask HN: Books you plan to read in 2020?

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Post by Balgair »

USMC Commandant's 2020 Reading List.

This year I am finishing up the Harvard Classics and am looking for a new view point. https://www.myharvardclassics.com/categories/20120612_1

Unfortunately, the military only publish on New Years Day (traditionally as a sort of holiday gift to those under command), so the 2020 list is not out yet. Every title is free via either the base library or the Navy Digital Library. Most have free audio book narration. There are discussion guides also provided for free. The website is very easy to use and poke around in, I'd suggest looking at it from a Dev standpoint alone. That said, the 2019 list is here: https://grc-usmcu.libguides.com/usmc-reading-list

There are a LOT of titles so here are the Poolee through PFC levels:

Poolee:

BATTLE CRY by Leon Uris

CORPS VALUES by Zell Miller

GATES OF FIRE: AN EPIC NOVEL OF THE BATTLE OF THERMOPYLAE by Steven Pressfield

GRIT: THE POWER OF PASSION AND PERSEVERANCE by Angela Duckworth

STARSHIP TROOPERS by Robert A. Heinlein

PFC through Lance Corporal:

CHESTY by Jon T. Hoffman

ENDER'S GAME by Orson Scott Card

THE LAST STAND OF FOX COMPANY: A TRUE STORY OF U.S. MARINES IN COMBAT by Bob Drury

THE MARINES OF MONTFORD POINT: AMERICA'S FIRST BLACK MARINES by Melton Alonza McLaurin

ON CALL IN HELL by Richard Jadick; Thomas Hayden

READY PLAYER ONE by Ernest Cline

RIFLEMAN DODD: A NOVEL OF THE PENINSULAR CAMPAIGN by C. S. Forester

THE WARRIOR ETHOS by Steven Pressfield

The 2020 list should have some froth in it (Greitens likely won't stay, but who knows, judge the art not the artist). I think it'll be a good look into a Corps that has been punched for a long time in Afghanistan. Still, some great titles in there.

Re: Ask HN: Books you plan to read in 2020?

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Post by Brajeshwar »

I've read over 38 books till now, so, it will be about 40 by the year-end. I have a long list of Book Wishlist on Amazon. I try to buy (both physical and Kindle) about 5 books ahead. Twitter has become a very good source of my Books to Read.

I also tend to and try to re-read quite a few books from before. I never have any specific books lined up for a year but I'm sure, I won't be able to finish my current wishlist.

The comment thread on this post is going to be another good source for my book wishlist.

I wish to be rich enough to have all the time to read so many books. :-)

Re: Ask HN: Books you plan to read in 2020?

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Post by beaconstudios »

yboris wrote: post #142
beaconstudios wrote: post #30

For me: - On the Genealogy of Morality, Nietzsche - Simulcra and Simulations, Jean Baudrillard - The Ruling Class, Gaetano Mosca - Finish off the Enchiridion and Shobogenzo For work: - Envisioning Information, Edward Tufte - Antifragile, Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I find it so disappointing that people are reading Nietzsche ... why not read practical philosophy like Practical Ethics by Peter Singer? I strongly recommend any of Peter Singer's writings. https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Ethics-Peter-Singer/dp/0521...

You're not helping your recommendation by starting it with a condemnation.

What makes you think I want to read this book at all? Or that I'm reading Nietzsche for practical ethical advice? I have no idea who would do such a thing.

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