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Also trying my best to read some fiction - it's gotten progressively more difficult to do over the years (the programmer has become programmed). Best I could muster was to re-read "The First 20 Million is Always The Hardest" by Po Bronson. Precious read.
"Beautiful Data", a couple of chapters, i like the "Beautiful" series cause you can take any chapter as a more or less isolated topic.
Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software http://www.amazon.com/Dreaming-Code-Programmers-Transcendent... The Design of Everyday Things http://www.amazon.com/Design-Everyday-Things-Donald-Norman/d...
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> What's up with all the Ayn Rand? Misogyny, xenophobia and unvarnished greed aren't exactly admirable characteristics The big problem with Rand is that she's downright nasty to the other side. So people feel attacked and tune themselves out to her good ideas. Rand's anti-politicking, pro-individualism, pro-triumph, pro-innovation, pro-going against the grain, and so on. She rails against the very real, very nasty ba…
Oops. I just thought it was an amusing anecdote, but this isn't a constructive direction.
"The Selfish Gene" by Dawkins. This was a result of asking my Twitter friends to decide between this and Art of War for me, and this won overwhelmingly. It's been a great read so far, and I'm really looking forward to learning more about how evolution and computer science can mix.
The Art of War is good, too, though.
"How to Get Rich" by Felix Dennis ( http://www.amazon.com/How-Get-Rich-Felix-Dennis/dp/009191265... ) THE best get rich how-to guides that I've read (not that I've read too many of them, though :)
I wonder how Dennis would feel about the fractional ownership model for each of those items.
"The Four Steps to the Epiphany" by Steven Gary Blank http://www.amazon.com/Four-Steps-Epiphany-Steven-Blank/dp/09...
- The Black Company I: Glittering Stone by Glen Cook
I try to stick to two books at a time -- one fiction, one nonfiction.
Programming in Scala - Odersky et al. Code Complete 2- re reading, its a good read actually Godel Escher Bach - Hofstadter
You can read it free online.