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Zero To One by Peter Thiel
The Art Of Profitability by Adrian Slywotzky
The Singularity Is Near by Ray Kurzweil
After Dark by Haruki Murakami
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I just finished reading Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan and found it quite fascinating.
Every review of this I've seen by an actual historian says that it's basically fanciful nonsense.
`Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance` The book looks at what it means to say something has 'quality'. It didn't teach me any new philosophical methods or theories, but it did make me look at my own work differently and start asking: how can I make something with the highest quality? What compromises that quality? What is a method that leads to the highest quality? Translating that to my business life: in the st…
I'm 46 and have read it 3 times over the past 25 years. Definitely a book that changed my life!
Looks like it's my turn to provide the cliche hipster answer: The Wind Up Bird Chronicle , by Haruku Murakami: http://www.amazon.com/The-Wind-Up-Bird-Chronicle-Novel/dp/06... If you're familiar with Murakami, it's par for the course and considered one of his pivotal novels. If you're not: surrealist, dreamlike modern fiction often centering around ideas of masculinity, post-war fallout, and urban ennui. Incredibly st…
If you're lining up possible other books to read by him, I suggest Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World.
Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Currey. It describes the daily schedule of almost every famous creative person you can think of in a few paragraphs, from Bach to Tesla to Ayn Rand. Peering into the day to day lives of well known people was fascinating, but I was most interested in how efficient they were with their time. Many of the people featured in the book, especially the writers, sat down and worked for…
If you write one page a day, you would write a ~400-page book every year.
`Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance` The book looks at what it means to say something has 'quality'. It didn't teach me any new philosophical methods or theories, but it did make me look at my own work differently and start asking: how can I make something with the highest quality? What compromises that quality? What is a method that leads to the highest quality? Translating that to my business life: in the st…
Also contains the best description and explanation of the scientific method I've ever read - so good that I put the book on the curriculum of a course on online advertising I ran this year!
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Every review of this I've seen by an actual historian says that it's basically fanciful nonsense.
I would be interested in reading these reviews. If you have a link that would be great.
I would say that there is some value in Mr. Aslan's book, but while it is presented as unbiased, there as just as much bias in his book as in Wright's that I noted above.
"The Circle", by Dave Eggers. Narrowly edging "Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore" by Robin Sloan. I've been in tech a long time. I came up in the early 90's when the Internet was a tool for collaboration, meeting new people, and taking down the evil bastards. But since the advent of Facebook, Google, and "pervasive computing", I've been haunted by the sense that what was once good is being perverted in ways that are d…
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid Finally got around to reading it and I'm kicking myself for not doing it earlier. I'm honestly considering staying in school and going for a masters or PhD in computer science after reading it(about to graduate and have job in industry lined up).
He is also incredibly receptive to emails; as a first semester freshman he responded in depth to my email to him.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20980987-the-art-of-askin...