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

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Post by nireyal »

techstrategist wrote: post #106
pjmorris wrote: post #98

I hilariously overestimate the number of books I can get through when I make these lists, but my current list for 2020 is as follows: Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution Book of Proof Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems Seeing Like a State: How Certa…

Depending on your current habits, starting with Digital Minimalism will help get through the others in one year.

Have you read my book, Indistractable, @techstrategist? Would love to know what you think of it! I spent 5 years researching and writing a tech positive guide to the deeper psychology of distraction.

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

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Post by sentientforest »

On my list to read in 2020:

    The Visual Display of Quantitative Information 
    The Rust Programming Language 
    Progressive Web Apps 
    Permaculture: Principles and Pathways beyond Sustainability 
    Farming the Woods 
    Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms 
    Affinity Designer Workbook 
    The Age of Surveillance Capitalism 
    Walden 
    A Guide for Desert and Dryland Restoration 
    Ernest Hemingway On Writing 
    The Two Hands of God (Alan Watts) 
    The Anarchist's Design Book and/or With the Grain: A Craftsman's Guide to Wood 
    Dune 
    Some other fiction reading I'll decide on after I finish Dune
Books/Authors I've read that I would recommend:

    Tao of Physics, Web of Life, Systems View of Life, etc. (Fritjof Capra) 
        ^Capra's work has heavily influenced my worldview and ability to think in systems

    Designing Data Intensive Applications (just finishing this week)
    Permaculture One & Two, Gaia's Garden, Edible Forest Gardens I&II
    Black Swan, Antifragile, etc. (Nassim Taleb) 
    Cloud Hidden: Whereabouts Unknown (Alan Watts, written late in life) 
    Ishmael, Story of B, etc. (Daniel Quinn) 
    You are Not a Gadget, Who Owns the Future, etc. (Jaron Lanier) 
    Goethe's Italian Journey   
    Vonnegut, Hemingway, Steinbeck 
    The Wheel of Time

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

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Post by derangedHorse »

matsemann wrote: post #122
douglaswlance wrote: post #73

My top priority books: Software Requirements - Karl Wiegers Programming TypeScript - Boris Cherny Associate Cloud Engineer Study - Dan Sullivan Design Patterns - Gang of Four Refactoring - Kent Beck, Martin Fowler Programming Pearls - Jon Bentley Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture - Martin Fowler The Pragmatic Programmer - David Thomas, Andrew Hunt CSS: The Definitive Guide - Eric A. Meyer, Estelle Weyl…

You have quite overlap between some stuff. I would recommend "Clean Code", but then skip the rest from the same author, at least for a while. While "Code Complete" is good, it's loooong and also a lot of the same stuff. For patterns, "Head First" is a bit childish maybe, but the content is fine for someone learning to recognize patterns. "Patterns of Enterprise..." is also good, but more dry. I'd stick with one of th…

Code Complete seemed to be a book with a lot of dense, redundant content. Reading what was written had me feeling like I was reading information that could have been written by myself. Clean Code on the other hand (along with Refactoring by Martin Fowler) changed the way I write code for the better.

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

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Post by derangedHorse »

peacemaker wrote: post #7

I'm moving back into a team leadership role after working for myself a while so probably The Managers Path and Managing Humans. Would love to hear other suggestions for software development managers too!

Managing Humans was hilarious and definitely insightful. I saw myself in some of the stories he mentions lol.

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Post by Ashleyvivian »

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Post by Ashleyvivian »

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

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Post by tren »

nireyal wrote: post #311
techstrategist wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Depending on your current habits, starting with Digital Minimalism will help get through the others in one year.

Have you read my book, Indistractable, @techstrategist? Would love to know what you think of it! I spent 5 years researching and writing a tech positive guide to the deeper psychology of distraction.

Hey Nir, I just finished your book (loaned from the library). I feel like it has a lot of good information, however the people who are most likely to benefit from it are least likely to read it, or read anything at all for that matter.

I'd already implemented most of your recommendations before reading it, and this year I feel like I've finally balanced tech consumption so that it's at a healthy level. It's allowed me to read over 20 books, pursue my hobbies in more depth and spend more time with my kid.

Things that worked for me:

- no tech in the bedroom, I leave my phone in the living room every night. - start a morning routine without tech every day, I meditate, do stretches and a light work out. - i try to read as much as possible in hard copy from the library. 3 week loans push me to finish things. I look forward to getting a notification that one of my reserves has arrived. If the library doesn't have a book it will inter library loan or purchase it for me most of the time. - all phone alerts turned off except for text msg/calls - only use FB messenger light if I'm going to use FB at all - plenty of time to do nothing. I don't think the human machine is meant to be on all the time

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

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Post by Simmo »

I would like to start with:

High Output Management Grove, Andrew S.

7 Habits Of Highly Effective People Covey, Stephen R

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship,(Robert C. Martin)

Clean Architecture: A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design (Robert C. Martin Series)

Building Evolutionary Architectures: Support Constant Change by Neal Ford, Rebecca Parsons, Patrick Kua

If you have read any of them and you would like to share your thoughts, I will be truly happy to listen!:)

Happy reading

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

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Post by habnds »

alkylketone wrote: post #253
habnds wrote: post #155

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A book to read immediately after Guns Germs and Steel is Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu. It's also useful to know that Diamond does not have a degree in Geography and many geographers aren't particularly on board with his ideas. I think of him the same way I do Malcom Gladwell, a good story teller but he does this by cherrypicking anecdotes more than by a robust assessment of reality.

I'm curious what you think of The Narrow Corridor, also by Acemoglu and Robinson. I finished Nations recently, not sure I should jump right to Corridor next?

haven't read it. I generally don't think it's a good strategy to read one author exhaustively though.
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