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Re:Changing my operating system by idle_processor on Monday March 18, 2013 @12:11AM (#5392401)
>"Reading lots of books. Lots of non-fiction books. Particularly a lot about psychology, behavioural economics, studies of happiness"

Mind sharing your top picks from that crop, sivers?

Re:Changing my operating system by autodafe on Monday March 18, 2013 @02:21AM (#5392737)
He goes into quite a bit of detail here: http://sivers.org/book
Re:Changing my operating system by sivers on Monday March 18, 2013 @02:47AM (#5392794)
Yep ^ that's the link.

Those books are default sorted in order with my top recommendations at the top. A little blurb on each, then detailed notes inside.

Re:Changing my operating system by RyanMcGreal on Monday March 18, 2013 @06:26AM (#5393358)
If you haven't yet read Steven Pinker's book The Better Angels of our Nature, I can't recommend it highly enough. It's a long read, but the writing is crisp and often hilarious, and I challenge anyone to come away from it without a sizable dent in their worldview.