Why read How To?

Book cover of How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems

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Randall Munroe is . . .'Nerd royalty' Ben Goldacre

'Totally brilliant' Tim Harford

'Laugh-out-loud funny' Bill Gates

'Wonderful' Neil Gaiman

AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the million-selling What If?…

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1 author picked How To as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Jono Hey

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Randall Munroe brings a magic combination of impressive science and fun cartoons that make me laugh. I found this book great fun throughout.

As I read Randall's absurd methods of solving problems—for example, literally moving a house by lifting it with multiple helicopters —I also have a sense that I'm actually learning, if not helpful science exactly, at least intelligent ways of thinking about problems.

Munroe had a job building robots at NASA—reading the book, you can tell he's a brilliant guy—and his charming and disarming distinctive stick men picture style keeps things fun all the way through.

From Jono's list on changing how you look at the world and yourself.