What's the strangest non-fiction book where you said "this changes *everything*"?
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@GeePawHill Have to mention Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid (1979) by Douglas Hofstadter. I was very young when I read that, and I'm still twisted by it.
@GeePawHill _Finding the Mother Tree_ by Suzanne Simard
@jadp Oooo. I've never heard of it. I will check it out.
@GeePawHill her work helped me understand why I was so uncomfortable with most system architectures
@GeePawHill her work also inspired The Overstory by Richard Powers, a factionalized account of Dr. Simard’s life. It’s also a good read.
@jadp Powers is one of my beloved, and _Overstory_ is one of his greatest works.
@GeePawHill “Entangled Life” by Merlin Sheldrake
@Saket Sheldrake is so hard to get one's head around, yes.
I think mine would be Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen's _The Entropy Law and the Economic Process_.
@GeePawHill I like that you picked one I have read, although I may not remember it very well. _theory in practice _ by Argyris and Schon is my suggestion.
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/728706
I mean, *serious* obscure, *serious* weird.
@GeePawHill only moderately obscure and not particularly weird, but “The Religion of Technology” by David F Noble completely flipped how I looked at the aspirations of tech. Still feels correct in this AI era.
@randomgeek Adding it to my queue.