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Re: Ask HN: Best books you read in the past decade?

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Post by yesenadam » Sat, Dec 28, 2019, 8:52 PM UTC

SirensOfTitan wrote: post #15

Probably Robert Anton Wilson’s Cosmic Trigger or Prometheus Rising back in 2010. The “reality tunnel” concept has defined much of my personal and intellectual exploration of the past 10 years. “ When we meet somebody whose separate tunnel-reality is obviously far different from ours, we are a bit frightened and always disoriented. We tend to think they are mad, or that they are crooks trying to con us in some way, or…

That sounds exactly what this Lippmann quote from Public Opinion is talking about! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21897532

Re: Ask HN: Best books you read in the past decade?

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Post by 6700417 » Sat, Dec 28, 2019, 8:54 PM UTC

stocktech wrote: post #2

https://www.amazon.com/Nonviolent-Communication-Language-Lif... Nonviolent Communication. I think it was linked on HN where it caught my attention. This book teaches a great way to communicate, but for me, it has also helped me think about my feelings and how I can communicate those feelings better. I feel more in touch with my feelings and more empathetic as a direct result from following what the book is teaching.…

I recently purchased Say What You Mean which is about Nonviolent Communication and Mindfulness. I’ve only read the introduction but it really resonates with me.

Actually connecting with people rather than just talking past them and having them talk past me is something that I find very appealing at this point in life after realizing how much people seem to ignore what I am actually saying (and realizing I am almost certainly doing the same to them).

Re: Ask HN: Best books you read in the past decade?

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Post by kaycebasques » Sat, Dec 28, 2019, 8:54 PM UTC

The Six Pillars Of Self-Esteem. Even if you think you already have high self-esteem, there's no such thing as too much self-esteem. Someone here on HN first made me aware of it. It's such a great framework for self improvement. I've read it 3 or 4 times and did all of the exercises the first 2 times.

Re: Ask HN: Best books you read in the past decade?

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Post by void_nill » Sat, Dec 28, 2019, 8:55 PM UTC

- The Mysterium: David Bramwell, Jo Keeling

- Digital Minimalism: Cal Newport

- How Democracies Die: Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt

- How to Disappear: Akiko Bush

- Bullshit Jobs: David Graeber

- Its basic Income: Amy Downes and Stewart Lansley

- Utopia for Realists: Rutger Bergman

- Human Rigths and the uses of History, Samuel Moyn

- Too much Stuff: Kozo Yamamura

Re: Ask HN: Best books you read in the past decade?

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Post by jrs235 » Sat, Dec 28, 2019, 8:55 PM UTC

The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development http://amzn.to/2DK6kVP

Re: Ask HN: Best books you read in the past decade?

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Post by 4NDR10D » Sat, Dec 28, 2019, 8:56 PM UTC

The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure [1] by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt

I didn't necessarily agree with all of it but it helped me understand the changes I've seen across workplaces, colleges and beyond. It was also a nice way of thinking more "grey" in terms of the current political climate, and trying to understand the reasons behind people's actions regardless of their political stance.

[1] https://www.thecoddling.com/

Re: Ask HN: Best books you read in the past decade?

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Post by santa_boy » Sat, Dec 28, 2019, 8:58 PM UTC

The Mind Illuminated (from HN), Non-Violent Communication, Antifragile, Atomic Habits and The Growth Mindset come to my mind immediately

Re: Ask HN: Best books you read in the past decade?

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Post by juddlyon » Sat, Dec 28, 2019, 9:01 PM UTC

Essentialism - Greg McKeown

Deep Work - Cal Newport

Value-Based Fees - Alan Weiss

Technology Strategy Patterns - Eben Hewitt

The Road Less Stupid - Keith J Cunningham

The Business of Expertise - David C Baker

Atomic Habits - James Clear

Re: Ask HN: Best books you read in the past decade?

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Post by sien » Sat, Dec 28, 2019, 9:01 PM UTC

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think - by Hans Rosling.

Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, 1921-1933 - by Anne Applebaum.

Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Phillip Tetlock.

The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance by David Epstein.

Re: Ask HN: Best books you read in the past decade?

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Post by vowelless » Sat, Dec 28, 2019, 9:04 PM UTC

* Elements of Statistical Learning - Hastie, Tibshisrani

* (Lot's of machine learning books to list: PRML, All of Stats, Deep Learning, etc.)

* Active Portfolio Management - Kahn, Grinold

* Thinking, fast and slow - Kahneman

* Protein Power (the Eades') / Why we get fat (Taubes)

* Why we sleep (Walker)

* Deep Work / So Good They Can't Ignore You (Newport)

* Flowers for Algernon (Keyes)

* Getting to Yes (Fisher)