Ask HN: Books that impacted your work that few other people seem to care about?

I have about half a dozen translations of the Meditations and i suggest the following;

Meditations, Marcus Aurelius

“The Design of Everyday Things”. The book that sparked a change in my career (to be honest)

I recommend reading A Philosophy of Software Design.

"Prometheus Rising" by Robert Anton Wilson

I found the Illuminatus Trilogy via reading the Jargon File

“How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World” by Harry Browne.

Robin Hard also has a translation of Epictetus' Discourses/Enchiridion/Fragments and Sayings and Anecdotes of Diogenes in the same Oxford series, both of which are also excellent.

Also, "The Death of Ivan Ilych" [3] by Tolstoy.

Robin Hard also has a translation of Epictetus' Discourses/Enchiridion/Fragments and Sayings and Anecdotes of Diogenes in the same Oxford series, both of which are also excellent.

Conquest of Bread by Kropotkin

when I discovered Principia Discordia

Principles of Product Development Flow, Donald G. Reinertsen