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A number of my friends have been expressing an interest in personal finance of late. Let me strongly recommend the book Barron's guide to making investment decisions. It will help you familiarize yourself with what the basic terms all mean (what is a stock, an option, what's an index fund, how do mutual funds work, etc, etc).
I have two fairly lightweight econ books to recommend, The Undercover Economist, which is about the basics, and also A Beginner's Guide to the World Economy, which spends rather more of it's time talking specifically about international economics, globalism, etc.
The most interesting management related book I've run across recently has been Managing Humans, written by the software development manager who wrote that wonderful article about figuring out what is actually going on in meetings. If you manage people, or want to manage people, or are managed by people, this is a useful book to read.
I've been reading various other intro to investment books recently that I want to recommend, but will need to post about later, and also some fun fiction (notably Jennifer Morgue and Crooked Little Vein) and also San Francisco Noir, a fun little book about all of the Film Noir movies that have been set in San Francisco, and the actual parts of the city that were featured in them. CLV will seriously Not Be To Some People's Tastes, but the Noir book was enough to make me want to go on the Dashiell Hamment tour of SF, but I'm probably not enough of a die-hard Hammet fan for the tour operator to want me to do so.
I have two fairly lightweight econ books to recommend, The Undercover Economist, which is about the basics, and also A Beginner's Guide to the World Economy, which spends rather more of it's time talking specifically about international economics, globalism, etc.
The most interesting management related book I've run across recently has been Managing Humans, written by the software development manager who wrote that wonderful article about figuring out what is actually going on in meetings. If you manage people, or want to manage people, or are managed by people, this is a useful book to read.
I've been reading various other intro to investment books recently that I want to recommend, but will need to post about later, and also some fun fiction (notably Jennifer Morgue and Crooked Little Vein) and also San Francisco Noir, a fun little book about all of the Film Noir movies that have been set in San Francisco, and the actual parts of the city that were featured in them. CLV will seriously Not Be To Some People's Tastes, but the Noir book was enough to make me want to go on the Dashiell Hamment tour of SF, but I'm probably not enough of a die-hard Hammet fan for the tour operator to want me to do so.
