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1. Debt: The First 5,000 Years
by David Graeber
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2. C Programming Language, 2nd Edition
by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie
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3. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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4. Creativity, Inc. (The Expanded Edition): Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
by Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace
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5. Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas
by Seymour A. Papert
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6. How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life
by Thomas Gilovich
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7. Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
by Steven Levy
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8. The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must
by Robert Zubrin, Richard Wagner
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9. Designing for Scalability with Erlang/OTP
by Francesco Cesarini, Steve Vinoski
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10. Jessy Irwin on making security understandable for everyone
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11. Programming Perl, 3rd Edition
by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant
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12. Tweets loud and quiet
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