What book did you read >10 years too early?
What book did you read >10 years too late?
What book did you read at about the right time?
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I read Cognition in the Wild almost exactly 10 years after I bought it which turned out to be the right time
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Interesting how that works. We know enough to buy but also sense not yet for reading
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I bought Godel, Escher, Bach 5 years ago. I think I may wait 5 more years for it to be just right.
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GEB is ideally college or right after. It’s a bit dated now given recent advances so likely won’t have as much effect.
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Too early: The structure of scientific revolutions
Too late: HHGTTU
Right time: Influence
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Too early: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Didn’t get it first time.
Just right: Les Miserables, Walden
Too late: The Fountainhead/Ayn Rand generally. I would have loved it when I was 16 and angsty.
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Wow! Mine was the exact opposite of yours. Posted, then started reading the thread.
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read animal farm, 1984, and a brave new world at the beginning of high school
Completely different both as an adult and in a tech forward age
Read the career guide way way too late: pmarchive.com/guide_to_caree
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This is meaningless without respondents providing ages of reading
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