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I'm not a marketer but it certainly made a lot of seemingly incomprehensible status quos click.
Each trading strategy spread type comes with a legend icons that tell you their purpose, like a tropical island emoji tells you its for unlimited capital gains, and an arrow emoji tells you what market direction it is about, and you also get a feel for its risk before hand, and you could flip through many strategies and narrow down on something that meets your objectives even though you never heard of it before, and learn more deeply about it. Then you could see how other strategies were just variations and tweaks to the prior one.
But the real difference was that when I was trying to learn about options, most literature was telling me about what happened at the end of the trade, at "expiration", but practically nothing about options trading involves exercising an option, its so tone deaf. Options trading is about trading the price differences as they fluctuate through their life span. This book was good for acknowledging that.
The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli. Mind-bending read that made all the principles that had previously confused me (relatively, thermodynamics, entropy, etc) clear and awe-inspiring.
Cool to read for the layman or requires previous knowledge?
"Div, Grad, Curl, And All That: An Informal Text On Vector Calculus" This was "optional" reading in my Undergrad Calculus class at Brown, I probably was the only student who bothered to read it, and it made most of engineering a breeze for the next 3.5 years, whether electromagnetism, fluid dynamics, etc.
"The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work" by John Gottman was a book that I read after we'd separated that first started to make sense of the dynamics of my first marriage, and what caused it to spiral out of control. Unfortunately by that point it was basically too late (as the book predicted, actually); but it certainly helped a lot in my second marriage, and has helped make sense of the dynamics of a lot of other relationships as well. Definitely recommended reading.
Also the original perceptron stuff for why NNs work, but I don't think that has general utility. The tools work irrespective of knowing why they work so I wouldn't recommend that for a SWE.
What conceptually helped me out was the idea that behavior trees (BTs) are hierarchical finite state machines (HFSMs). I read that and thought "woah!"
I've been fascinated by behavior trees ever since I learned that they were a big thing in Halo. It's charming to me to think that video games are able to help out in robotics, as the book pontificates on briefly.