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As a teenager I read 'Catch 22' over and over.

I read Feynman's 'Surely You're Joking', and that led to me becoming a physicist.

For software engineering, all the essays in Fred Brooks' 'Mythical Man Month' were formative.

Rand's 'Fountainhead' and 'Atlas Shrugged' were also thought-provoking.

For investing, reading Warren Buffet's 'Letters to Investors' shaped what I believe works.

The best business book I've read is 'Invent and Wander' and 'Working Backwards' about Amazon culture.



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