Ask HN: 'Must read' books

9 points·juanrossi··11 comments

What are the best programming/entrepreneurial/etc books you've read in the last years? Anything interesting counts!

A few I read:

Design is Job - Mike Monteiro by A Book Apart (Really basic stuff for people starting with agency/freelance work, but really good).

Learn Ruby The Hard Way for people starting.

Applied Cryptography, Second Edition: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C

Baked In from Alex Bogusky and John Winsor (About C+P agency)

I'll try to think of a couple more.

Rework: http://37signals.com/rework/

There are probably > 100 topics in the past two years with a similar title/vein. You'd likely enjoy reading through those - lots of good suggestions in the previous threads.

Yeah, I thought so. I did a fast search and couldn't find many of those, but I'm gonna search a little longer. Thanks :)

-Stumbling on Happiness -Free Software, Free Society -Masters of Doom (not finished, just started reading it, great so far)

A great scifi book that also mixes in entrepreneurial concepts is "Infoquake."

"Do more faster" by David cohen and Brad feld. A must have book.

The 4 Hour Workweek

http://www.amazon.com/The-4-Hour-Workweek-Anywhere-Expanded/...

That book only applies to you if you have a very flexible schedule.

It's not that you should read and implement it verbatim. It's a great read in terms of getting you into different mindset.

running lean

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