What is your area of expertise and what books still blew your mind?<p>I wanted to know the books (research, blog, podcast, really any medium of knowledge) that -
[] made you change your mind about strongly held beliefs in your area of expertise
or
[] strongly held personally views
or
[] helped you build a point of view
or
[] further expanded your thought process
or
[] made you go - "didn't know that was possible"<p>The books could be from any field - related/ unrelated, what matters is how it improved you in building better mental models about your expertise.
[] What would be THE ONE book you would suggest?
[] Your Top Picks (any number of, but be very selective)<p>I would say my area of expertise would be building products and managing teams (I have found 4 companies to date, as a tech-cofounder) - my list -
-- The One
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari
-- Top Picks -
- The Inevitable, Kevin Kelly
- What Technology Wants, Kevin Kelly
- Bhagavad Gita
- Hooked, Nir Eyal
- Inspired, Marty Cagan
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Ben Horowitz
- Where Good Ideas Come From, Steven Johnson
- The Innovator's Dilemma, Clayton m. christensen
- Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
- Predictably Irrational, Dan Ariely
- The Little Prince,
- Shoe Dog, Phil Knight