Ask HN: If I am 16 what should I learn? Which books should read?

How to Win Friends and Influence People.

Code by Charles Petzold. Greeat first book for anyone going down the techy path. Will fill in knowledge gaps missing from most new people.

I strongly urge you to read How to Read a Book

highly recommend Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss

read NN Taleb's books (the Incerto)

Some of my favorites include: a moveable feast, watership down, 11.22.63

Some of my favorites include: a moveable feast, watership down, 11.22.63

Read 1632 by Eric Flint, deeply embedded in it is a lesson about the infrastructure that keeps modern society going.

Some of my favorites include: a moveable feast, watership down, 11.22.63

and How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read (by Pierre Bayard)

How the world really works - Vaclav Smil