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What recent books should I be reading?

12 points by pdelgallego ↗ HN
I remember the big impact that books like "The pragmatic programmmer", "Hackers & Painters", "SICP", or "PoEAA" cause in me.

What recent books about computers, hackers and entrepreneurship should I be reading?

Let's say, for the sake of the argument, that we are talking about books published in the last 2-3 years.

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andrewtbham
seems like delivering happiness, by tony hsiesh, the ceo of zappos is getting a lot of buzz. although i haven't read it.
_delirium
Ted Nelson's Geeks Bearing Gifts: How the Computer World Got This Way (2009) is an interesting read, though of a particular variety. It's fairly negative and contrarian, as usual with his stuff, and also pretty disorganized and rambling, not really well edited. Some of his opinions aren't really backed up, either. It's sort of like someone had taken notes on a long interview with him asking: what do you think about the entire history of computing, and why are things the way they are? But, it's got a lot of thought-provoking stuff buried in it, if you're the kind of person who likes the idea of Ted Nelson going on about all of computer history in an opinionated way for an hour or two.

link: http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/geeks-bearing-gifts/43...

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You are Not a Gadget, by Jaron Lanier.