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Zen and the Art of MotorCycle Maintenance
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Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
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May 5, 2022
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How to Read a Book
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Rationality: From AI to Zombies
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Zen and the Art of MotorCycle Maintenance
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Beautifully captures the pleasure of building something that works well
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May be hard to find the relation for some
This is an abstract read, and some may find it relates nothing to programming.
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Helps the reader find the 'zen' that lays dormant inside them
Instead of focusing on the 'how-to' aspect of programming, Zen and the Art of MotorCycle Maintenance focuses on the mindset one must maintain to excel in the ever changing world of computer programming.
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A wonderful riff on 'gumption'
How do we know how much to tighten a nut, and then stop? Lovely stuff on fixing things.
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Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
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Gives you a deeper understanding for UX and interaction design
The book is not about these topics, but it is about people's mental habits and behaviors. It explains the psychology behind the UX idea "Don't make me think!"
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Fascinating and fun to read
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How to Read a Book
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Allows for understanding of comprehension in order read and retain any other books
Quote from the book: "Reading, like unaided discovery, is learning from an absent teacher. We can only do that successfully if we know how." - chapter 2 The Levels of Reading.
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Programmer-friendly
Clear, logical, well laid out, whilst including well-told stories. Reasonable contents/summary section at the start. Available both in dead tree and kindle formats.
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Entertaining
A good read to dip in to.
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Backed up by evidence
Every piece of advice is backed up by evidence from peer-reviewed studies that are clearly referenced.
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Easy to follow
Split into manageable chapters, with clear, brief summaries than you can genuinely use in under a minute.
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Rationality: From AI to Zombies
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
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It successfully explains the underlying truths and paradoxes of music, art and mathematics
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The author prefers belief systems over statistics
The author often argues over scientifically proven things by trying to reverse them or showing disbelief in the statistics. This article here is a great example.
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Your Brain At Work
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Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff
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The Willpower Instinct
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Naive Set Theory
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Easy read
For a math book. It's barely over a hundred pages.
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Linear Algebra
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Helps develop visual intuition
Understand what the math means geometrically.
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Probability Theory: The Logic of Science
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A Pattern Language
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A profound and powerful way to define Quality and the features that make it
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