Re:Ask HN: Which books do you wish you'd read earlier in life?
by jrs95 on Saturday February 03, 2018 @01:15AM
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+1 for The Selfish Gene, one of the best books I've read. If you have any interest in the process of evolution/natural selection, I highly recommend it. It's not as "political" or explicitly atheistic as some of Dawkins' more recent work either, so people who have a negative opinion of that sort of thing shouldn't be turned off by his name being on it.
Re:Ask HN: Which books do you wish you'd read earlier in life?
by whatyoucantsay on Saturday February 03, 2018 @04:30PM
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It really is sad how many people would use a man's political leanings in the 2010s to dismiss the scientific book that made him famous in the 1970s.
"The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins
"Deep Work" by Cal Newport
"Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed" by Jared Diamond