Ask HN: Are there any good self development/hacking books out there

For programming, I like "The Productive Programmer"<p><a href="http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596519544" rel="nofollow">http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596519544</a><p>And for Sysadmin, it would be hard to beat "The Practice of System and Network Administration"<p><a href="http://everythingsysadmin.com/" rel="nofollow">http://everythingsysadmin.com/</a>

make big changes gradually, make small changes frequently. respect that self-control is a limited resource. measure your progress.

Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware by Andy Hunt<p><a href="http://pragprog.com/titles/ahptl/pragmatic-thinking-and-learning" rel="nofollow">http://pragprog.com/titles/ahptl/pragmatic-thinking-and-lear...</a><p>Worth a look.

<a href="http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html</a>

eHow have a book called How To Do Just About Everything. <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Just-About-Everything-Ehow/dp/0007172303" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Just-About-Everything-Ehow/dp/00...</a><p>Lifehacker have Upgrade Your Life. <a href="http://lifehackerbook.com/" rel="nofollow">http://lifehackerbook.com/</a><p>They seem to be collections of articles from their websites.

Hacking: The art of Exploitation by Jon Erickson <a href="http://nostarch.com/hacking2.htm" rel="nofollow">http://nostarch.com/hacking2.htm</a>

Try <a href="http://www.zerotosuperhero.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.zerotosuperhero.com</a>

four steps to the epiphany