Ask HN: What book changed your life in 2014?

Introduction to Systems Biology - Design Principles of Biological Circuits, by Uri Alon.

It opened my eyes to a whole new field that will become a massive industry over the coming decades. Much like a Systems course in engineering covers recurring design patterns in physical systems (feedback loops, noise filters, pulse generators, etc), this book uses the same approach for biological systems. It is written from an engineer's perspective using engineering language, which for me makes biology much easier to understand.

Antifragile or The Obstacle Is The Way - are probably the most influential

Two:

1)Antifragile by Taleb. It has given me a whole new framework with which to think about the world. He is consistently one of the only "modern thinkers" that I trust, and who delivers no b.s.

2)Confessions of an Economic Hitman by Perkins. Not a new book, and I didn't read it this year, but when I did read it, it made me realize that the world works much differently than I understood it to on the surface, and that you should never trust any business or government at face value.

If you want to harness your own habitual behavior you should check out Minihabits. Using some of the techniques in the book got me writing every day

http://www.amazon.com/Mini-Habits-Smaller-Bigger-Results-ebo...

I discovered Jiddu Kirshnamurthi in 2014.

My thought patterns have been permanently altered.