Bryan
May 8, 2018, 8:05pm
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What books have you enjoyed, shaped your thinking, blown your hair back, or tickled your neurons? Anything is fair game here: guilty pleasures, journal articles, Wikipedia entries—basically, anything textual that made an impression.
I’ll start off with an obvious one: The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil
And a book that I devoured in my youth: “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”: Adventures of a Curious Character: Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard Feynman
And: The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg
On technical evolution and its setbacks: A Canticle for Leibowitz - Wikipedia
On the way we think:
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Thinking, Fast and Slow is a 2011 book by psychologist Daniel Kahneman.
The book's main thesis is that of a dichotomy between two modes of thought: "System 1" is fast, instinctive and emotional; "System 2" is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. The book delineates rational and non-rational motivations or triggers associated with each type of thinking process, and how they complement each other, starting with Kahneman's own research on ...
Because it is one of the coolest, funniest and most amazing books I know:
Probably only second to that:
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House of Leaves is the debut novel by American author Mark Z. Danielewski, published in March 2000 by Pantheon Books. A bestseller, it has been translated into a number of languages, and is followed by a companion piece, The Whalestoe Letters.
The plot is centered on a fictional documentary about a family whose house contains a seemingly endless labyrinth. The format and structure of House of Leaves is unconventional, with unusual page layout and...
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I am going to check these out! Thanks for sharing.
Hacker super hero. Lisbeth Salander - Wikipedia
This is a cool series to read.
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By David Lagercrantz:
Millennium is a series of best-selling and award-winning Swedish crime novels, created by journalist Stieg Larsson. The two primary characters in the saga are Lisbeth Salander, an asocial computer hacker with a photographic memory, and Mikael Blomkvist, an investigative journalist and publisher of a magazine called Millennium.
