Ask HN: Which books do you wish you'd read sooner?

Posted by arikr on Friday May 11, 2018 @04:56PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Credit to Patrick Collison for the question https://s3.amazonaws.com/fs-lc/2018/Podcast/Transcripts/Patrick+Collison.pdf

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Re:Ask HN: Which books do you wish you'd read sooner? by greenyoda on Sunday May 13, 2018 @04:24PM (#17060869)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16296200 (submitted by same user)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14477851

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Re:Ask HN: Which books do you wish you'd read sooner? by eurticket on Friday May 11, 2018 @04:59PM (#17050758)

Fooled by Randomness by: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Audio book: https://youtu.be/eV7SupmEgFs

Favorite quote from his book, something along the lines of, "I'll only speak when the words are worth more than silence"

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Re:Ask HN: Which books do you wish you'd read sooner? by thankthunk on Friday May 11, 2018 @06:05PM (#17051074)

Sisper's Introduction to the Theory of Computation.

Bible.

Wheelock's Latin.

Why don't we teach the bible and latin from kindegarten through college to our kids? I'm an atheist but I would have benefited from reading the bible and learning latin in elementary/high school. And I think intro to computation should be the first CS class taught in college.

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Re:Ask HN: Which books do you wish you'd read sooner? by pizza on Friday May 11, 2018 @05:05PM (#17050803)

The Divided Self by RD Laing

Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher

Pretty much any book by Nassim Taleb, but the Black Swan was my first read of his, and then Antifragile

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