How to Lie with Statistics
Darrell Huff and Irving Geis
4.5 on Amazon
8 HN comments
Game Programming Patterns
Robert Nystrom
4.8 on Amazon
8 HN comments
An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management
Will Larson
4.5 on Amazon
8 HN comments
The Federalist Papers
Alexander Hamilton and James Madison
4.6 on Amazon
8 HN comments
Calculus Made Easy
Silvanus P. Thompson and Martin Gardner
4.5 on Amazon
8 HN comments
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer - translator, et al.
4.5 on Amazon
8 HN comments
The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility" (Incerto)
Nassim Nicholas Nicholas Taleb
4.5 on Amazon
8 HN comments
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Jonathan Haidt and Gildan Media, LLC
4.6 on Amazon
8 HN comments
The Unicorn Project
Gene Kim
4.6 on Amazon
8 HN comments
The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
4.3 on Amazon
7 HN comments
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
4.5 on Amazon
7 HN comments
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
Jonathan Haidt, Greg Lukianoff, et al.
4.7 on Amazon
7 HN comments
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (2nd Edition) (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler))
Martin Fowler
4.7 on Amazon
7 HN comments
The Forever War
Joe Haldeman, George Wilson, et al.
4.4 on Amazon
7 HN comments
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Joe Ochman, et al.
4.5 on Amazon
7 HN comments
dfgdghdfonMar 25, 2021
rchaudonJune 28, 2021
Some of crypto's loudest voices are young, college-aged people who've recently read Atlas Shrugged or Catcher in the Rye and are certain that they will never be the ones to lose their keys.
_RPL5_onJuly 6, 2021
https://www.ozon.ru/highlight/top-200-knig-po-mneniyu-chitat...
Of the Top-12, 6 to 8 are some form of a self-help book:
* 1st: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fck.
2nd: Say Yes To Life, a self-help book from an Austrian Holocaust surviver.* 4th: Ben Graham's Intelligent Investor.
* 5th: A Russian-author book on the art of "convincing" & "influencing" people (sound familiar?).
* 6th: Another American book, "Radical Forgiveness: A Guide to Spiritual Healing"
* 8th: Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.
* 11th: Women Who Love Too Much: If Love is Causing Suffering. Also a US book.
* 12th: Atlas Shrugged. I suppose it's not a self-help book, but it's very much in line with the spirit of "open-your-eyes" literature.
* If you go down the list, there is a bunch of other titles like Rich Dad Poor Dad, the full set of Nassim Taleb's quasi self-improvement books, etc.
We can sort of argue whether some of these books are self-help adjacent or not (like Ben Graham or Nassim Taleb), but the trend is clear: self-improvement literature is very popular in Russia.
This shows that the self-help cottage industry is not limited to the US. I think people just like the idea of self-improvement.
edit: formatting
samsolomononMar 25, 2021
But the hate is mostly for the ideas, not the writing. The worlds are certainly fictional. Things are not as black and white as she paints them. The heroes are small minority of supremely talented, hard-working people battling bureaucracy and incompetence. Rand assumes everyone is born on a level playing field and the choices people may determine where they land.
My advice is that anyone Atlas Shrugged is a must read for anyone with an ounce of entrepreneurial spirit. Take it with a grain of salt though.
pjmorrisonMar 25, 2021
“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs." - John Rogers
yokazeonMar 26, 2021
Some people really buy into Objectivism.
deaditeonJune 20, 2021
>Rand’s simplistic Objectivist worldview couldn’t be better designed to appeal to sheltered middle-and-upper-class suburban white boys like me
>As soon as I befriended people who were not suburban white dudes, and once I understood that they had to work five times as hard to enjoy half of the privilege that I enjoyed, I realized that Rand was singing a heroic ode to the comfortable.
Stop posting racism that's wrapped up as self-flagellation. It's getting tiresome.