Ask HN: Which books do you wish you'd read sooner?

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Credit to Patrick Collison for the question https://s3.amazonaws.com/fs-lc/2018/Podcast/Transcripts/Patrick+Collison.pdf

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Fooled by Randomness by: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Audio book: https://youtu.be/eV7SupmEgFs

Favorite quote from his book, something along the lines of, "I'll only speak when the words are worth more than silence"

The Divided Self by RD Laing

Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher

Pretty much any book by Nassim Taleb, but the Black Swan was my first read of his, and then Antifragile

Sisper's Introduction to the Theory of Computation.

Bible.

Wheelock's Latin.

Why don't we teach the bible and latin from kindegarten through college to our kids? I'm an atheist but I would have benefited from reading the bible and learning latin in elementary/high school. And I think intro to computation should be the first CS class taught in college.