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Ask HN: What interesting books are you reading now?

10 pointsby sun123about 12 years ago
I'm reading Richard Feynman's 'QED' right now. It is fascinating to know how much we don't know :)

20 comments

grnabout 12 years ago
<i>Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister</i> - a great book about software projects management<p><i>Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days</i> by Jessica Livingstone - fascinating stories of founders of companies both young and old
navaitabout 12 years ago
"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.
toumhiabout 12 years ago
Book Yourself solid.<p>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.
chris_dcostaabout 12 years ago
The Half Life of Facts<p>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.
milkcircleabout 12 years ago
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.
samiur1204about 12 years ago
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.
woodruffcabout 12 years ago
I'm reading "The Launch Pad Inside Y Combinator, Silicon Valley's Most Exclusive School for Startups" by Randall Stross
orangethirtyabout 12 years ago
Security Analysis - 1940 Edition.<p>Re-reading it for the one millionth time. Always learn something new from it.
duggieawesomeabout 12 years ago
The Cuckoo's Egg. It's Clifford Stoll's story of chasing a hacker who broke through LBL during the late 80's.
meeritaabout 12 years ago
I just finished The Checklist Manifesto. Jack Dorsey gift this when you enter Square.
manojiabout 12 years ago
The Brothers Karamazov . Incredible insight into human psyche .
tr0ssabout 12 years ago
The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman
keiferskiabout 12 years ago
"The Story of My Life" by Giacomo Casanova.
canatan01about 12 years ago
'Laravel: Code Happy' by Dayle Rees
atlanticabout 12 years ago
Algernon Blackwood's short stories.
woodruffcabout 12 years ago
Also "Start With Why" Simon Sinek
Maven911about 12 years ago
Beginner's guide to HTML5/CSS
clockwork_189about 12 years ago
The $100 startup.
Nightriderabout 12 years ago
Just finished Alfred Lansing's incredible classic Endurance. Highly recommended.
notdrunkatallabout 12 years ago
The Souls of Black Folk by WEB Dubois.