Ask HN: What books have made the biggest impact on your mental models?
Fantastic question.<p>The selfish gene - for understanding human behavior<p>Meditations of Marcus Aurelius - for understanding how to be content<p>Debt, the first 5,000 years - for understanding money and finance from the ground up<p>Wright Brothers - for understanding how technological breakthroughs happen<p>Snowball (Warren Buffet), Andrew Carnegie and Rockefeller biographies - for understanding the mental mindset to win in business (it's not what you think)<p>Hackers and painters - for understanding startups and how/why they work<p>Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance - for understanding beauty in the routine<p>Essentialism, the disciplined pursuit of less and Walden - for understanding how "stuff" gets in the way of happiness<p>Les Miserables - for understanding love