Tim O’Reilly
Tim O'Reilly is the visionary founder of O'Reilly Media, a leading advocate for open-source technology, and a pioneer in the movement for accessible knowledge sharing.
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Intermediate Microeconomics
Almost every economist learned from [this book]. - Tim O’Reilly
Hal R. Varian
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Pride and Prejudice
In terms of classics, you can’t do better than [this author] for understanding the human soul. - Tim O’Reilly
Jane Austen
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The Kabir Book
I love [this book]. - Tim O’Reilly
Robert Bly
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The Essential Rumi
The introduction alone [...] will make the hair stand up on your arms. - Tim O’Reilly
Jalal Al-Din Rumi
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The Discovery of the Mind
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Bruno Snell
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The Meaning of Culture
Talks about the interplay of culture and life, the way that what we read can enrich what we experience, and what we experience can enrich what we read. - Tim O’Reilly
John Cowper Powys
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Islandia
A personal passion project of a Boston lawyer. - Tim O’Reilly
Austin Tappan Wright
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The Way We Live Now
About the great railroad bubbles of the 1860s. - Tim O’Reilly
Anthony Trollope
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The Collected Poems
Maybe it’s too intellectual for some people, but [...] go find a couple of poems of [this author]. - Tim O’Reilly
Wallace Stevens
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Information Rules
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Carl Shapiro
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The Civil War
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Bruce Catton
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Night Train to Lisbon
Sometimes there was just a line in [this book] that changed my life in some way. - Tim O’Reilly
Pascal Mercier
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How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life
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Russ Roberts
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The Odyssey
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Homer
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The Warden
You read [this book] and you go, 'Oh, my God, I’m reading a novel about the moral quandaries of an 1850s British cleric, and it’s fricking fascinating.' - Tim O’Reilly
Anthony Trollope
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Liar's Poker
A time machine into this place when our financial economy went crazily wrong. - Tim O’Reilly
Michael Lewis
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AI Superpowers
If you care about the future being brought to us by AI, this is the one indispensable book of 2018. - Tim O’Reilly
Kai-Fu Lee
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The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
I learned [that 20 of these poems] do nothing for me, and there’s this one that just goes 'Bang!' - Tim O’Reilly
W. B. Yeats
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Can You Forgive Her?
It’s this sort of proto-feminist novel about these women who made choices that were unconventional in who they would marry. - Tim O’Reilly
Anthony Trollope
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Trilby
Everybody knows Charles Dickens, but only a certain number of people will have read [this book]. - Tim O’Reilly
George Du Maurier
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Riders of the Purple Sage
A time machine into how people felt about the world in [1915]. - Tim O’Reilly
Zane Grey
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Makers and Takers
All about the financialization of the economy. - Tim O’Reilly
Rana Foroohar
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The Lean Startup
[This book] isn't just about how to create a more successful entrepreneurial business, it's about what we can learn from those businesses to improve virtually everything we do. - Tim O’Reilly
Eric Ries
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Charlie Chan
Like a time machine with the casual racism. - Tim O’Reilly
Earl Derr Biggers
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The Second Machine Age
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Erik Brynjolfsson
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The Whole Internet User's Guide & Catalog
It had a catalogue in the back of interests to internet sites. If you tell that to this site, you’ll get earthquake information. [...] There were only 200 web sites. - Tim O’Reilly
Ed Krol
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The Way of Life, According to Laotzu
Most people who know me have heard me quote from this book. - Tim O’Reilly
Witter Bynner
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Unrig
I love [this book]. A graphic 'novel' explaining how to unrig the US's broken democracy. - Tim O’Reilly
Daniel G. Newman
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Rissa Kerguelen
Influenced me deeply. - Tim O’Reilly
F. M Busby
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Loving Every Child
A wonderful book. - Tim O’Reilly
Janusz Korczak
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Working Backwards
[The authors] dive deep into how Amazon has become the company to study if you want to succeed in 21st-century business. - Tim O’Reilly
Colin Bryar
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Babel-17 / Empire Star
I’d loved [this] little book. - Tim O’Reilly
Samuel R. Delany
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
[Gets you] into the world of psychedelia and that era of the ‘70s. - Tim O’Reilly
Tom Wolfe
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The Innovator's Dilemma
[A] business classic. - Tim O’Reilly
Clayton M. Christensen
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When Nietzsche Wept
An imagined story of early psychoanalysis about a guy who was a predecessor to Freud. - Tim O’Reilly
Irvin D. Yalom
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