Comment by spyhi

I went to school for CS, and decided to add on a BBA since I could do it basically for free. Prior to school, I was extensively read in the category of books you describe. While you're not wrong that you can get most knowledge from reading famous business books and using some intuition, you also don't know what you don't know, and that little bit has outsized value because it is important, non-intuitive, and hard to find--I suspect it's the secret sauce everyone keeps to themselves and isn't talked about by virtue of being relatively boring. Sure, you could read it in any old textbook, but you probably wouldn't think to.