A Sense of Where You Are
John McPhee · 1965
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Paul Graham
co-founder of Y Combinator
Co-founder of Y Combinator and founder of the ecommerce company Viaweb. Writes the influential essays on startups, programming, and thinking published at paulgraham.com.
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Barbarian Days
William Finnegan · 2015
"It's one of those rare books that divide your life into two parts: before you read it, and after."
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Founders at Work
Jessica Livingston · 2007
"Probably the single most valuable book a startup founder could read."
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Mathematician's Delight
W. W. Sawyer · 1943
"One of the best books I can think of to learn what math is really about."
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The Copernican Revolution
Thomas S. Kuhn · 1957
"Excellent book incidentally."
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