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• ravenstine · Dec 18, 2021 · Recommends

  Here are mine: - "The 48 Laws of Power" by Robert Greene - "The Gift of Fear" by Gavin de Becker - "Left of Bang" by Patrick van Horne and Jason Riley - "Influence" and its follow-up "Pre-suasion" by Robert Cialdini - "Courage is Calling" by Ryan Holiday (yes it was published this year but I found it helpful)…

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• nonrandomstring · Feb 22, 2024 · Recommends

  Recommend "Left of Bang" In strategic sysadmin and cybersecurity this is staple thinking, and a useful part of what I teach now. Problem for vigilant thinkers is the rewards, as explained in TFA, are perverse. People are…

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• aalhour · Dec 28, 2017 · Recommends

  …Obstacle is the Way, Ryan Holiday * The Daily Stoic, Ryan Holiday * The Effective Engineer, Edmund Lau * The Lean Startup, Eric Ries * The Personal MBA, Josh Kaufman * Certain to Win, Chet Richards * Left of Bang, Patrick Van Horn & Jason A. Riley * Native Set Theory, Paul R. Halmos EDIT: list formatting

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• aalhour · Jan 2, 2018 · Recommends

  …Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl * Siddhartha, Herman Hesse * The Personal MBA, Josh Kaufman * The Effective Engineer, Edmund Lau * The Lean Startup, Eric Ries * Certain to Win, Chet Richards * Left of Bang, Patrick Van Horn & Jason A. Riley * Native Set Theory, Paul R. Halmos * Introducing Go, by Caleb Doxsey. If you'd like to read what I think of these books, you can read my blog post about them here:…

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• ravenstine · Dec 5, 2021 · Recommends

  …left high school: - 48 Laws of Power (and pretty much everything by Robert Greene) - The books "Influence" and "Presuasion" by Robert Cialdini - The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F** by Mark Manson - Left of Bang (Van Horne, Riley) - No One Ever Told Us That (John D. Spooner) Those books alone provided way more value than my entire high school education (which was really a retread of everything learned in middle…

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• aalhour · Jul 10, 2017 · Mentions

  So far I have read: - Left of Bang. - The Obstacle is the way. - The Daily Stoic. - High-Output Management. - The Effective Engineer. - Managing Humans. - Introducing Go. Currently going through "Designing Data Intensive Applications"…

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