I'm surprised that Chris Anderson appears here. Besides him noticing that the Pareto principle also applies to the web most of the talks I've seen and his books have been largely content free. Especially his latest book "Free" (no pun intended).
Also, a few things I would recommend that were not on here:
Steve Blank - Four Steps to the Epiphany
Venture Hacks (the blog)
Mark Suster (http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/)
A good place to start is to read the only four books on the list:
* Dale Carnegie: How to Win Friends and Influence People
* Edward Tufte: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
* Paul Graham: Hackers and Painters
* Jessica Livingston: Founders at Work
Those had a pretty big impact on me. I'd already read 3 of the 4 when I came across the list and I read Carnegie's book just because it was on there, after having previously written it off by judging it from the huckster-sounding title. I'm glad I did end up giving it a chance - it should be a required textbook in every high school and college.
Surprised to see How to Win Friends as one of the 4 recommended books just because of how old and infrequently mentioned it is these days. I just read it recently and it's full of some gems. Also surprisingly has got some good bits in here about persistence.
Not on the list: Guy Kawasaki's "Rules for Revolutionaries". It's been one of my guides for a long time, and it's responsible for changing the way I think about business enough to make me want to run my own.
It was posted as a direct answer to a question that came up recently. The example of reposting links that have been posted before I learned from another HN participant who opened up a "new" thread just yesterday. Some eyeballs never reach the bottom of the page.
But, yes, if I were to post about your metaissue on the Feature Requests thread
(which is perhaps an even more rarely noticed link at the bottom of the page), I might suggest some way to periodically "bump" threads of high reference value such as that thread itself or the page (re)submitted in this thread, as is possible on sites on which recency of last post is the primary criterion for moving threads to the top of the main page. Lacking that interface feature here, another user discovered a work-around for drawing attention to classic webpages of likely interest to new HN readers, and I noticed that the page submitted here would also likely be of interest.
Rands in Repose, Erik Sink, and Joel (he gets only one mention) should all get a similar amount of play as pg, I'd say. Rands is a fantastic writer, Erik's just as start-up focused as Paul Graham, and a lot more practical and Joel is (or at least, was) the sharpest business / software writer around (and he hosts the business of software wiki - http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/?W1 ).
Startupping is defunct now for more than a year.
The Reddit link points to a list that doesn't seem very active (top is one month old, lower items many months old).
The Red Herring link 404's on the site.
Digg's "startup" matches in December 2009 are probably not of interest or use to HN readers.