A Thousand Plateaus
Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
15 people recommended it in 5 threads, 2017–2026.
What people on Hacker News said
More than any of those individual terms though, I took from the book a sort of gestalt of expansive, additive, richly intellectual ideation, one based not on truth values, but in thinking new thoughts.
This is the only case in my life where I wanted to adopt author's philosophy and learn to see the world the way they do.
It has been justifiably criticized by many people on many grounds, but as with OP and Freakonomics, certain of the concepts in that book frequently appear in my thoughts 20 years after I worked through some of it.
per above, it remains the case for me that images and terms from that book have never stopped working in my ideation processes since I picked it up.
Read the book to see how they are used, and why the selected language is actually sensible in its given context.
Books like that, I think there is a lot of value in just diving in and seeing what happens.
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