Ask HN: What books have made the biggest impact on your mental models?
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vpribish · Sep 2, 2017Goedel, Escher, Bach -- If you're reading this page you will dig this book.
dwaltrip · Sep 2, 2017I only made it half way through GEB
arc_of_descent · Sep 2, 2017Godel, Escher, Bach - Douglas Hofstadter
omnibrain · Sep 2, 2017Nonfiction: Gödel Escher Bach
pbhjpbhj · Sep 3, 2017Zen and the Art ... - what is value, what is valuable to me
RockyMcNuts · Sep 2, 2017Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert M. Pirsig
BeetleB · Sep 2, 2017Thinking, Fast and Slow
palerdot · Sep 2, 2017Thinking fast and slow by Daniel Kahneman
vpribish · Sep 2, 2017The Selfish Gene -- as everyone else has said.
1001101 · Sep 2, 2017Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! - Feynman
Ronsenshi · Sep 2, 2017Blindsight (Peter Watts) - read it some time in university and it has completely changed how I think about things.
omnibrain · Sep 2, 2017Fiction: Peter Watts - Blindsight
edpichler · Sep 3, 20171984, by George Orwell
wizzerking · Sep 2, 2017The Foundation Series Isaac Asimov
stinkytaco · Sep 2, 2017You would probably enjoy Anathem by Neal Stephenson.
vpribish · Sep 2, 2017Fun storytelling even if it's a bit too "just-so".
whalesalad · Sep 2, 2017Influence by Robert Cialdini.
BeetleB · Sep 2, 2017Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion