Ask HN: What interesting books are you reading now?
I'm reading Richard Feynman's 'QED' right now. It is fascinating to know how much we don't know :)
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Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister - a great book about software projects management
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days by Jessica Livingstone - fascinating stories of founders of companies both young and old
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days by Jessica Livingstone - fascinating stories of founders of companies both young and old
"This is Running for Your Life", a collection of essays by Michelle Orange. She writes about a trip to Beirut and her grandmother's death to discuss our cuture's relationship with nostalgia and death. Very witty and fascinating - I ook forward to reading her next book.
Book Yourself solid.
Very interesting if you're a freelancer or building products. I'm 1/3 through the book. Goes a lot into how to create trust and how to adjust your sales and marketing based on the trust you've created.
Very interesting if you're a freelancer or building products. I'm 1/3 through the book. Goes a lot into how to create trust and how to adjust your sales and marketing based on the trust you've created.
The Half Life of Facts
Most useful explanation I have found to explain why the pre-internet age grown-ups (that would also be me) get stuck thinking that facts remain always the same.
Most useful explanation I have found to explain why the pre-internet age grown-ups (that would also be me) get stuck thinking that facts remain always the same.
The Emperor's New Mind by Sir Roger Penrose. It's a very accessible and highly fascinating discussion about whether machines will ever be able to emulate the human mind.
Reading Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. It's an incredible novel, but very dense and over 1000 pages. It's a trek, but has been so worth it so far.
I'm reading "The Launch Pad Inside Y Combinator, Silicon Valley's Most Exclusive School for Startups" by Randall Stross
Security Analysis - 1940 Edition.
Re-reading it for the one millionth time. Always learn something new from it.
Re-reading it for the one millionth time. Always learn something new from it.
The Cuckoo's Egg. It's Clifford Stoll's story of chasing a hacker who broke through LBL during the late 80's.
I just finished The Checklist Manifesto. Jack Dorsey gift this when you enter Square.
The Brothers Karamazov . Incredible insight into human psyche .
The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman
"The Story of My Life" by Giacomo Casanova.
'Laravel: Code Happy' by Dayle Rees
Algernon Blackwood's short stories.
Also "Start With Why" Simon Sinek
Beginner's guide to HTML5/CSS
The $100 startup.
Just finished Alfred Lansing's incredible classic Endurance. Highly recommended.
The Souls of Black Folk by WEB Dubois.