Ask HN: What are you reading?

  • I'm reading a book called "γ˜γ‚‡γ†γΆγͺε­γ©γ‚‚γ‚’γ€γγ‚‹εŸΊζœ¬ι£Ÿ": Joubuna Kodomo-o Tsukuru Kihonshoku. ("Base Diet for making Strong/Healthy Kids").

    It's a book about child nutrition that disparages all foreign influences in Japanese eating and encourages everything traditional. Steamed rice, miso soup, tsukemono and so on. Plus various parenting advice around food as well as not.

    Non-traditional foods influenced by foreign cultures, in particular Europe and America, are blamed for all sorts of ills and ailments of the skin, bowel and whatnot, not to mention cancer.

    Quite entertaining.

    https://www.amazon.co.JP/γ˜γ‚‡γ†γΆγͺε­γ©γ‚‚γ‚’γ€γγ‚‹εŸΊζœ¬ι£Ÿ-εΉ•ε†…-秀倫/dp/4072292281

  • 1) Man’s Search For Meaning - Viktor Frankl 2) Can’t hurt me - David Goggins 3) Meditations -Marcus Aurelius

    #LifeChanging

  • Programming on Purpose - best book I read on software design so far.

    Behave: the biology of humans at our best and worst - explaing human behavior from many points of view, well written and mind blowing.

  • I am currently reading How to Read a Book. I would recommend it as it covers how to read different kinds of text and analytical reading.

    Its a practical book

  • Superintelligence - Nick Bostrom

    The most cogent survey of the existential risk posed by superintelligent AGI that I’ve come across.

  • The Hidden Life of Trees https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Life-Trees-Communicate_Discove...

  • City of a Million Dreams: A History of New Orleans at Year 300 -> Great insight into the history of New Orleans, and how the diverse culture from its beginning has shaped the city we love today.

    and

    A Confederacy of Dunces -> Hilarious yet well-written book.

  • The messy middle by Scott Belsky

    The founder of Behance covers the journey towards product market fit. It's where most startup's fail and yet very little has been written about that part of the software entrepreneurs journey.

  • Seveneves. By Neal Stevenson. Lots of great ideas. A bit slow at times.

  • I recently read the short story Omnilingual by H Beam Piper (1957).

    A planet becomes extinct due to climate change and a team of archaelogists are sent to study its civilisation.

  • Why we sleep

    Great readable book with lots of experiments, results and conclusions. It also made me stop drinking coffee after ~2 pm

  • Lean Startup.

    This is an eye opener for me as a SaaS newbie. A must read for anyone trying to build a startup.

  • Right now I'm reading Essentials of Discrete Mathematics and going through the exercises.

  • The Go Programming Language

  • Skin in the Game by Taleb

  • 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do by Amy Morin

  • The Fractal Geometry of Nature, by Benoit Mandlebrot

  • - Thinking Fast and Slow - Dollar Trap.

  • Permutation city

  • Egypt Before The Pharaohs - Michael A Hoffman

  • Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • The Transparent Society by David Brin.

  • Dune

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