Old book are normally called the timeless – what marketers call nowadays: the evergreen.

Like in Natural Selection, old books are books that proved their fitness. They proved their ability to survive.

For me, and in no particular order, nor exhaustive, these books are:

It would be the The Mythical Man-Month or Cormen’s Algorithms or anything from Paul Strassmann.It would be Bruno Munari’s books.It would be the 60 pages book of Vignelli’s Cannon or his *Design is One. (*Vignelli taught me how to look at any space, whether its a paper, an app or a building and know how to play with it.)It would be any book from **Edward Tufte (I can’t thank Tufte enough to release me from all the dogma of vulgar designs, anywhere.)The great Edward TufteIt would be The Minard System or Brockmann’s Grid Systems.It would be Cicero or Cato on politics, humanity, and virtues.It would be anything from Bastiat, Hayek, Von Mises and Hazlitt in economics.It would be Russel and Wittgenstein in thinking, philosophy and history.It would be Howard Zinn’s books, Marx and Adam Smith.It would be Karl Popper for falsification and questioning myself in every belief.It would be anything from Imam Ali or Nassim Nicholas Taleb. They both taught me on being righteous, to always look for truth, to think for myself, to be unwavering on what I stand for.It would be ..

I should read a timeless everyday.

Salam, peace.