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1. imakwanaMay 2019
   # Intuition Pump and other tools for thinking by Daniel Dennett

   # Books edited by John Brockman - 1) This Explains Everything, 2) This Idea is Brilliant, 3) This Will Make You Smarter, 4) Thinking

   # Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman

   Also second the recommendation of other books based on Charlie Munger's wisdom and farnam street's reading list.

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2. rayalezJul 2018
   Here are the best books I've read over the last few months:

   - Lost and Founder - the founder of Moz shares his advice and experience from building a 40M/year company. I found the things he says about building a startup extremely insightful and practically useful. Reading it feels like having a dinner with a friend who shares with you the things he has learned in a very honest, down to earth way. Highly recommend it.

   - Rationality from AI to Zombies - probably the most influential book I've read in my life, profoundly changed the way I think. It's a collection of LessWrong essays on science and rationality. (recently they've released an an audio version by the way).

   - "A Short History of Nearly Everything" and "Our Mathematical Universe" - two general popular science books I'm enjoying a lot. Haven't finished reading them yet, but so far they're brilliant(and very easy to understand, authors do an amazing job explaining complicated things in a simple, accessible way).

   - Hacking Growth - an AMAZING book on "growth hacking". It provides a framework for marketing a startup, gives a ton of practical advice and specific tactics. It breaks down step by step how startups and big tech companies grow their products. Most of the books I've read on the subject were bullshit, but this one is absolutely fantastic, can't recommend it enough.

   Other great books I should mention: This Idea is Brilliant, Actionable Gamification, The Design of Everyday Things, The Master Algorithm (great overview of machine learning techniqes), Springfield Confidential (fun behind the scenes from one of the writers on Simpsons), Homo Deus(from the author of Sapiens).

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3. gmiller123456Jan 2018
   1. Geek Girl Rising: Inside the Sisterhood Shaking Up Tech

   2. The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World

   3. Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft’s Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone

   4. The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google

   5. This Idea Is Brilliant: Lost, Overlooked, and Underappreciated Scientific Concepts Everyone Should Know

   6. A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution

   7. Easternization: Asia’s Rise and America’s Decline from Obama to Trump and Beyond

   8. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

   9. The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America’s Enemies

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