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Ask HN: What are your favorite books of all time, and why?
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#2The Art of electronics. Learned more from that than I did doing an EE degree at university. It gets used to this day even though I bought this copy in 1995. I have the latest edition arriving today.
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#3Yertle the Turtle, by Dr. Seuss. It taught me early to question authority and resist popular movements that are built on my back.
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#4The Art of electronics. Learned more from that than I did doing an EE degree at university. It gets used to this day even though I bought this copy in 1995. I have the latest edition arriving today.
I don't know. I'm doing an EE degree at the moment (second year) and AoE isn't that helpful from my view to understand the theoretical side. It'll tell me what an op-amp bandwidth is and the significance of 3dB but it won't tell me why it's that way, or go into why there is a decay at 20dB/decade. It's been more helpful on the practical side of building circuits rather than their analysis, but I don't know if that's the point or not.
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#5Benjamin Lee Whorf - Language, Thought, and Reality
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/language-thought-and-reality-...
This little collection of essays from the 20s by a chemical engineer is astounding. For anyone interested in cognition, engineering, language, there are mind-blowing insights packed throughout.
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#6The art of game design: Even if you're not aspiring to be a game dev, this book teaches you a lot about project scope, management, psychology, mechanics, balance and user experience.
Flight of the buffalo: An excellent book about leadership.
Moneyball: I'm not into novels, so this might be the closest thing to it. It's a fantastic book about thinking creatively and working with what you have. It's about baseball, but even if you don't like it, it's quite entertaining and insightful.
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#71. Thinking fast and slow - Kahneman
2. Godel, Escher and Bach - Hofstadter
3. On Intelligence - Jeff Hawkins
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#8The Incerto series by Nassim Taleb. They taught me about the importance of tail events, and started my interest in probability theory. More importantly, they taught me how to live a good life.
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#9accelerando - Charles Stross
It blew my mind from beginning to end. Loved every shred of concept and potential.
Glasshouse is close 2nd
Demon Haunted World is a solid 3rd
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#10The Masks of God, Joseph Campbell.
Deep examination of the human meta-mind.