jefallbright | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: What was a book that changed your life?
Alan Watts' Wisdom of Insecurity
Alan Watts' The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
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jefallbright | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: What was a book that changed your life?
Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny by Robert Wright about biological and cultural evolution shaped and directed by "non-zero-sumness" or synergetic interactions.
jefallbright | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: What was a book that changed your life?
Synergetics by Buckminster Fuller. An amazing and inspiring example of truly original and deep thinking.
jefallbright | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: What was a book that changed your life?
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter. Brilliant synthesis of thoughts on logic, reasoning, programming, artificial intelligence,…
jefallbright | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: What was a book that changed your life?
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig. The only book I've read twice (at about 18 and again in late twenties.) Deep thoughts on the contrast between "pragmatic" vs "romantic" perspectives on life, and the meaning of "Quality".
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