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Thinking, Fast and Slow
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Gödel Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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Dec 9, 2018
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How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
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Apr 29, 2019
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Zen and the Art of MotorCycle Maintenance
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Dec 9, 2018
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Sophie's World
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Jun 8, 2016
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Includes insight into how to achieve happiness
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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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Maintainence and Refactoring
How many studies of code have been done that only cover cutting new code? What happens to code across time? What are the trade offs between easy to maintain and easy to update/upgrade.
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Zen and the Art of MotorCycle Maintenance
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Because he has 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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Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
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Agile Development
Though not related to programming, a lot of the book's content is about delivering projects on time and on budget, prototyping to fail early, and putting people in the same room to aid communication.
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Rationality: From AI to Zombies
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The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail – But Some Don’t
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Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
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To Mock a Mockingbird and Other Logic Puzzles: Including an Amazing Adventure in Combinatory Logic
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