The Hacker News Top 40 books of 2023hnreads.com/post/top40_2023/
3480 sats \ 8 comments \ @elvismercury 18 Jan BooksAndArticles
I historically get so much value (and a bunch of FOMO, tbh) from HN book recs. Every so often somebody compiles a list of 'em, and here's the latest I've seen of that.
Obviously this indexes heavily on HN readers, but that's just fine for me. If you have zero interest in dev / math / science you may be bored, though.
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1143 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 18 Jan
How to Solve it was great. Highly recommend.
I read The E-Myth really early in my e-journey and found it depressing. I don't recall why exactly, but I think the book was over-indexed on the lame parts of running a business. The lame parts are real but it's like describing life as brushing your teeth, showering, and tying your shoes.1
Founders at Work is a much better book for e-truth.
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  1. It's not surprising to see this referenced frequently on HN. I probably found it there. It also fits the big brain pessimism that can rule there. ↩
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1021 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 18 Jan
I'm not a techie, and even I see some interesting books on here, a few of which I have read. Gödel, Escher, Bach is a golden oldie. I used to be a fan of the e-myth. Believe it or not, I was recently thinking e-myth ideas about running territories!
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @elvismercury OP 18 Jan
GEB is another one that will change how you see the world. I'd never recommend it, though, unless someone was willing to read it over the course of the year. I say that about a lot of things these days, but that one really is true.
Well, it's true for anyone other than the most obsessive and fixated, who might be able to read it faster. For sort-of-normal people, though, it's basically the Gravity's Rainbow of theoretical computer science / computational philosophy.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @turker 18 Jan
"The Matrixis a world within the world, a global consensus- hallucination, the representation of every byte of data in cyberspace..." Cyberpunk culture is a part of Bitcoin community. If you want to read a novel these days, try Neuromancer. With William Gibson's creativity, this book will show you futuristic dystopia with an original story.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @yfaming 18 Jan
Awesome! Just put SICP and Crafting Interpreters into my 2024 reading plan.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @elvismercury OP 18 Jan
I've worked through half of SICP years ago and can personally vouch for it as the single biggest mind-blowing computer science (in the best, original sense of the word) book I've ever read. Just staggeringly good. There's a reason the some of the biggest alpha hackers on earth swear by it.
It's practically a book on philosophy, too. You see the matrix afterward.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Chep 18 Jan
I've been enjoying the Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. Highly recommend
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DiedOnTitan 18 Jan
I love that Euclid's Elements is included. The very foundation of Geometry. Constrained by well conceived axiomatic principles (rules), Euclid starts simple and builds a masterpiece of geometric design.
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