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Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 26 May 2013 12:16:02AM 4 points [-]

Second the recommendation of Lawvere and Schanuel. It really communicates the categorical way of thinking without requiring a lot of mathematical background (more traditional texts on category theory will talk about things like algebraic topology which historically motivated category theory but aren't conceptually prior to it).