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I think that even if you disagree with him, it's worth reading because there are so many things you can take away from this book.

This book should be required reading for every programmer or aspiring programmer IMO.

The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell was a pretty good one.

This is worth reading because it is the motivation for basically all of modern philosophy of science (at least in the west).

"Borrow: The American Way of Debt" by Louis Hyman

Recommended to anyone who wants to understand the origins of credit cards / loans, and how society came to embrace being in debt.

I would recommend this to anyone who feels like they need a gentle intro to the ideas and motivation for them.

I think this is probably the clearest and easiest to understand explanation I've ever read of the underpinnings of mathematical foundations.