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

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Post by Breza » Tue, Jan 07, 2020, 3:33 PM UTC

Insanity wrote: post #38

The best books in the past decade, that's a hard one! It's also hard to pinpoint what I learned where, but I'll just list the most memorable ones. I read a lot of software engineering books to learn language X or technology Y. But that's just o'reilly books and probably not that interesting to list here. - Jobs by Walter Isaacson. To learn about the Apple and Steve Jobs himself. I thought it was great - Zen and the a…

What are the best O'Reilly books you read? I've read some excellent books from them and some meh.

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

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Post by Breza » Tue, Jan 07, 2020, 3:36 PM UTC

tmaly wrote: post #389

Getting Things Done - the 2001 version I read two years ago, I use the general idea and it helps to have a clear head when your fighting fires daily. Never Split the Difference - some very practical negotiation strategies. Mini Habits by Stephen Guise - short book but awesome method. I am still doing the one pushup habit since last March. How to Shoot Video That Doesn't Suck by Steve Stockman - I wanted to improve my…

Never Split the Difference was really useful. I don't apply the exact methodology, but the general principles are useful in many different situations.

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

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Post by me_me_me » Wed, Jan 08, 2020, 10:25 AM UTC

Breza wrote: post #428

me_me_me wrote: post #424

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Yes it does. It is also great source of knowledge of what to do for example: how to beat up your slave so to not offend god what to do if your daughter is raped (spoiler alert sell her to the rapist). what to do to people having tattoos or wearing mixed fabrics. It is also a great that non of it contradicts itself: https://infidels.org/library/modern/donald_morgan/contradict... Bible is what it is, but its not a sour…

You have to remember that The Bible isn't one book. It's a collection of a bunch of different books in one convenient binding. I finally finished reading the whole thing last year and was surprised by how many different perspectives it contained. Anybody who says "The Bible says x!" is at risk of missing the point. It's far more accurate to say something like "In one of his letters, Paul said x" or "Esther told her f…

Yes agreed, there were a lot of studies done on the bible its origins and authors, its undisputable that it was written by several authors in several different historical periods (Including new testament).

Problem with bible is that people clam it was divinely inspired - written by god through human hand. Well it is clearly not. But all it really is a tool in hands of extremists justifying their evil deeds. That's how you have 'thou shall not kill' but wanting all gays to be killed etc.

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

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Post by gotoeleven » Tue, Jan 14, 2020, 6:08 PM UTC

charliepinto wrote: post #422

gotoeleven wrote: post #142

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I'm not sure why everyone is so excited about Taleb. Whatever wisdom there is in it is buried in page after page of bizarre chest thumping and silly stories. Reading it gives me a constant feeling of "ok he's finally going to get to his point.." but he never does. I'd recommend reading one book before buying the whole stupid boxed set. If you want mine you can have it!

May I have your entire stupid boxed set, please?

Sure let me know where to send it.