So, Sunday evening Twitter: which five books have influenced you the most? (In terms of shaping your worldview.)
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A bit late to chime in, but it's Sunday evening Twitter somewhere right? :) — a quick thought; the five books that have influenced me the most are surely the ones read by those with the greatest influence over the design of the world I live in. (e.g. The Whole Earth Catalog)
(not sure how to extract that list, but it's certainly one I'd like to see!)
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As best I can tell, these 5 books had the greatest personal influence. - Sources of Innovation, and Democratizing Innovation (combined as the "Eric von Hippel collection") - Hackers & Painters - Women Don't Ask - A Tandy book on building circuits - HTML by Thomas Powell
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von Hippel was formative about the nature and spread of good ideas and which inventions end up catching on, and how. (Great case studies on innovation as it spread in steam power, kitesurfing and mountain biking.) Total refutation of Farnsworth-style Lone Inventors.
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(Feels very paradoxically difficult to effectively answer questions about influence without surprising recency bias)
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