1
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman, 2011 openlibrary.org
After this you'll catch yourself mid-bias about four times a day. Annoying, useful.
8 things, ranked
3
The Design of Everyday Things
Don Norman
Every badly designed door you push will now make you angry. Worth it.
5
Seeing Like a State
James C. Scott, 1998 openlibrary.org
Explains why so many well-meaning plans fail. Dense, skim the middle.
7
Gödel, Escher, Bach
Douglas Hofstadter, 1979 openlibrary.org
I've never finished it. It's still on this list.
2
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor Frankl, 2017 openlibrary.org
Short enough to read on a Sunday. You'll reread it for years.
4
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari, 2011 openlibrary.org
Big, sweeping and occasionally too confident, but the section on shared myths stuck.
6
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas Kuhn, 1955 openlibrary.org
8
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius, 2020 openlibrary.org
Get the Gregory Hays translation.
1
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman, 2011 openlibrary.org
After this you'll catch yourself mid-bias about four times a day. Annoying, useful.
4
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari, 2011 openlibrary.org
Big, sweeping and occasionally too confident, but the section on shared myths stuck.
7
Gödel, Escher, Bach
Douglas Hofstadter, 1979 openlibrary.org
I've never finished it. It's still on this list.
2
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor Frankl, 2017 openlibrary.org
Short enough to read on a Sunday. You'll reread it for years.
5
Seeing Like a State
James C. Scott, 1998 openlibrary.org
Explains why so many well-meaning plans fail. Dense, skim the middle.
8
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius, 2020 openlibrary.org
Get the Gregory Hays translation.
3
The Design of Everyday Things
Don Norman
Every badly designed door you push will now make you angry. Worth it.
6
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas Kuhn, 1955 openlibrary.org
1
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman, 2011 openlibrary.org
After this you'll catch yourself mid-bias about four times a day. Annoying, useful.
3
The Design of Everyday Things
Don Norman
Every badly designed door you push will now make you angry. Worth it.
5
Seeing Like a State
James C. Scott, 1998 openlibrary.org
Explains why so many well-meaning plans fail. Dense, skim the middle.
7
Gödel, Escher, Bach
Douglas Hofstadter, 1979 openlibrary.org
I've never finished it. It's still on this list.
2
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor Frankl, 2017 openlibrary.org
Short enough to read on a Sunday. You'll reread it for years.
4
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari, 2011 openlibrary.org
Big, sweeping and occasionally too confident, but the section on shared myths stuck.
6
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas Kuhn, 1955 openlibrary.org
8
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius, 2020 openlibrary.org
Get the Gregory Hays translation.
1
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman, 2011 openlibrary.org
After this you'll catch yourself mid-bias about four times a day. Annoying, useful.
4
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari, 2011 openlibrary.org
Big, sweeping and occasionally too confident, but the section on shared myths stuck.
7
Gödel, Escher, Bach
Douglas Hofstadter, 1979 openlibrary.org
I've never finished it. It's still on this list.
2
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor Frankl, 2017 openlibrary.org
Short enough to read on a Sunday. You'll reread it for years.
5
Seeing Like a State
James C. Scott, 1998 openlibrary.org
Explains why so many well-meaning plans fail. Dense, skim the middle.
8
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius, 2020 openlibrary.org
Get the Gregory Hays translation.
3
The Design of Everyday Things
Don Norman
Every badly designed door you push will now make you angry. Worth it.
6
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas Kuhn, 1955 openlibrary.org
3 comments
Jun Park 2d
Seeing Like a State at #5 is criminal. Top three, easily.
Nadia Haddad 2d
Finally reading Frankl because of this list. Halfway through and it's already stuck with me.
Maya Okafor 2d
@devjun the middle third is a slog and you know it.
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