What book are you currently reading? Looking for inspiration...
Discussion
I am about to start Atlas Shrugged 👀
Enjoy! Long read, but worth it.
Shape by Jorden Ellenberg
From the New York Times-bestselling author of How Not to Be Wrong, himself a world-class geometer, a far-ranging exploration of the power of geometry, which turns out to help us think better about practically everything
Circe 🏛️🏺
The kite runner ,very heavy story but its a book i meant to read for a long time
Same. Haven't started it yet.
Hidden Reality: The BioGeometry Physics of Quality https://a.co/d/2Xx2Ntq
"Origins of Money" by Carl Menger.
On the you have already read I guess!
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
Do audiobooks count, too? :)
After I finished Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, I was satisfied with it & immediately continued with my current experience, which is Speaker for the Dead by the same author. :D
Ender’s game was a fun read
Atlas Shrugged
Fall; or, Dodge in Hell - Neal Stephenson. Hits different to the usual sci-fi. Thoroughly enjoying it so far.
Here's my curated list
The theory of money and credit - L von Mises
A history of money and banking in the usa - MN Rothbard
The Revolution - Ron Paul
The history of money - Jack Weatherford
Democracy: the god that failed - HH Hoppe
Economics in one lesson - Henry Hazlitt
The 7th property - Eric Yakes
The black swan - NN Taleb
Superforecasting - Tetlock & Gardner
The sovereign individual - Davidson & Rees-Mogg
The bullish case for bitcoin - Vijay Boyapati
Principles for dealing with the changing world order - Ray Dalio
Layered money - Nik Bhatia
Economics for real people - Gene Callahan
Rules for radicals - SD Alinsky
When money dies - Adam Fergusson
The price of tomorrow - Jeff Booth
The bitcoin standard - Saifedean Ammous
The fiat standard - Saifedean Ammous
21 lessons - der Gigi
The last one. :D
It was the first on the list for me. I did read a lot of others but this is all recommended.
Great list! You should definitely check out #Fraudcoin - 1000 years with inflation as a policy, by nostr:npub1sv4zk080fvt4f3982u5kffzdkex3nm0kylky29um2xws5h4wsxvswtsrw4
I will, thank you
focus🤟
Novacene by James Lovelock had some gems.
Finished all available chapters of 21 Ways recently 😉
With so much things going on in Nostr I’m struggling to start reading anything new. Doubled down on learning - now in the middle of the next.js course and planning to go for the nostr:npub1an84q6c03wml5lf0uwcqcr20ydwv0t0lvv0xktlcfs9seattef8sdhz6yg ‘s Nostr dev course, but can’t figure out how to pay with bitcoin or lightning.
Planet Earth Catalog
The Alchemist
This thicc boi 
What type of inspiration? I have lots of recommendations. I am currently reading “Energy and Civilization: A History” to help me better understand how to value and build energy infrastructure on my homestead
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East of Eden by John Steinbeck.
He’s a fantastic writer and gives a whole different perspective of the world. It’s sort of a retelling of the book of genesis through normal people in the early 1900s.
I’m completely immersed in it and it makes me think more into life in general
Red Notice
The Myth of Sisyphus. Albert Camus 🤗
Living the Best Day Ever https://a.co/d/cxdbgfYhe - Hendri Coetze
A profound book of journal entries from one of the last great explorers of our generation. Highly recomend.
Finished „surrounded by idiots“
Starting „bitcoin is Venice“
Notes from the underground - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/600
and
The blue castle - L.M Montgomery
I think you already know all about Austrian economics 😃
#plebchain #coffeechain #noster
Going to be jumping into rust over the rest of the summer. Thanks for this suggestion!
Don’t know if you’re too into instructional courses or not. But would you suggest any?
I'm not into courses, I don't have the patience for them. But I learn by doing/tinkering, I know many people prefer instructions
Let's get rusty is a pretty good YouTube channel too
The Three Body Problem
The Paper Menagerie
The Grace of Kings
Angelehnt an den Daoismus und wie man Laozes Zitate in unserer Zeit in die Praxis umsetzen kann. Sehr verständlich und interessant geschrieben.
Atlas Shrugged
David Icke: Trigger
The Fabric of Reality - David Deutsch
Principles of economics nostr:npub1gdu7w6l6w65qhrdeaf6eyywepwe7v7ezqtugsrxy7hl7ypjsvxksd76nak
Three books that I keep on Repeat. #Bookstr #Plebchain
Right now in the sun at the lake:
Ken Follett - Edge of Eternity
Perfect vacation thriller 👍
Last book:
Lionel Shriver - The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047
I guess, you know that already 😉
A Secular Age by Charles Taylor and
Die Gesellschaft der Singularitäten von Andreas Reckwitz
On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are - Alan Watts
This note thread is a treasure trove of good suggestions 😃
I recently finished "The Ten Equations That Rule the World: And How You Can Use Them Too" by David Sumpter and enjoyed it!
#bookstr
De nada! 😃
Going Home. First book of a great serieshttps://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_3227806790635906261690119874.webp
The power of Now - Eckhart Tolle
I've read that a couple of years ago and enjoyed it, which was surprising to me at the time.
Unfortunately, I completely ignored this topic when I was young. In addition to Bitcoin, I have been immersing myself in more spiritual books for several years now.
In this book I saw a nice analogy with fiat world: most people are slaves to the fiat clown world but equally slaves to their minds.
Liberation from the self, thinking mind (live in the now) AND from the fiat world (bitcoin) leads to ultimate freedom.
I think fans of this book should in principle be good candidates for adopting bitcoin
Currently reading The Moon is a Harsh mistress. Great stuff.
Just finished ”Röde orm” (The long ships in english). Fantastic language and way of words in the swedish version, not sure How well it carries over to English but I’ve heard its still good. Viking badassness all the way!
The Constitution of Liberty by Hayek 🥰
Tale of love and darkness by Amos Oz. (Currently reading). You should also read Sumchi by the same author.
I love 1984 by Orwell
Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Mii by Zamyatin
Have you read
The Tender Among You, And The Very Delicate, an interview with Z, by Amos Oz?
I also like Amos Oz
non bitcoin books
just finished: orange: one color, major results by david bassitt. excellent quick read, heart felt, and very inspirational
next: outlive, the science & art of longevity by peter attia
ordered: entangled life: how fungi make our worlds, change our minds, & shape our future by merlin sheldrake (nostr:npub1jdwujjpaxmeyg44fz5xa87yhtrnvg8lzqnv9hprk5sdkx6h58gjqwtujzl req)
Die Zeit, die Zeit_Martin Suter
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I just started “The War of Art” by Steven Pressfield again. Excellent book and a quick read.
Walden
Brave New World. Up next is Mediations and The moon is a harsh mistress
Pandora’s Star
Currently reading Project Hail Mary and Scary Smart. Just finished Mind Fuck by Christopher Wylie
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Hans-Hermann Hoppe
The Economics and Ethics of Private Property
Here you go Gigi.
Open with tor :
From the summary:
Americans should move to the 'third plate,' a cuisine rooted in seasonal productivity, natural livestock rhythms, whole-grains, and small portions of free-range meat.
This is basically the preamble to the globalist/UN sustainable development diet.
I believe in large portions of free range meats. 🙏
A study of the damage fiat chefs inflict by losing sight of their food supplychains.
It is indeed an UN-sustainable diet. Funny how they put it in the name.
Mastering the lightning network
Slapstick by vonnegut
I'm just about done with Slapstick and thinking mandibles is gonna be my next fiction.
The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years
The Sovereign Individual 
The Kaufmann Protocol: Why We Age And How To Stop It
Conversations With God, part 3
Works of Love
-SK
Starting The Odyssey for the 3rd time (never finished), inspired by nostr:npub1paxyej8f8fh57ny0fr5w2mzp9can9nkcmeu5jaerv68mhrah7t8s795ky6
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami. Very good so far! 
even the cowgirl get the blues
Read Neal Stephenson… pretty much anything by him!
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Open Source Everything (excellent) & The Monkey King (graphic novel) 👌 
Imagine making a deal with the Dark, making you immortal. The price is, that everybody you know and meet fully forgets you immediately when out of sight. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invisible_Life_of_Addie_LaRue
"The Creative Act: A Way of Being" by Rick Rubin
I cannot stomach walking into a commercial bookstore, nothing but wall to wall pulp.
David Graeber 5000 Years of Debt
Journey to Ixtlan by C. Castaneda. 2d time read, want to refresh and compare what I think of it now after 10 years when I've read it for the 1st time. You know how it is, sometimes books hit differently or don't hit at all when being read again in another period of life.
Atomic Awakening
why we sleep by matthew walker
Reading Ultralearning. Fantastic dive into how to learn things in the modern world. Applying it to learning Rust.
Also crawling my way through Sanderson's Cosmere. Done with Mistborn and Stormlight Archive. Now reading Warbreaker. Cannot recommend Sanderson's writing enough if you are a fan of fantasy, and don't mind length.
Principles of Economics by Saifedean
Atlas Shrugged. Whish I had read it earlier. Book for makers (so far).
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Fossil Future by Alex Gladstein
About to finish Sovereign Individual
‘The Everlasting Man’ - G. K. Chesterton
The Master and Margarita, a re-read after a long time
Ask A Librarian BooksLibrarianLove.com 
The three body problem. It's brilliant
Just started REAMDE. NEAL STEPHENSON
Just finished Demons by Dostoyevsky. A 1871 book that saw it coming re communism. The why, how, and what of horrors that were about to happen.
Mein Kampf. Don't be inspired. Not really because of who wrote it and such. I mean it's pure and utter trash even if I put the ideology aside.
Republic of Plato hard copy, possibly for the second time but I can’t remember for sure if I’ve actually read it or just seen so much reference to it that I just thought I had. Just finished Gaia’s Garden by Toby Hemenway hard copy the other night. Started a biography on John Locke on my kindle last week, and just finished Earth Awakens by Orson Scott Card on audio Thursday. Next audiobook is “Lies My Doctor Told Me” by Dr Ken Berry.
Richard Hamming: The art of doing science and engineering
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Julian Assange: The Unauthorised Autobiography
You forgot the #bookstr
(The rules of dating...) series
Besides some academic books that no one really wants to read but they have to anyway
#bookstr
Rama series, Arthur C. Clarke
A workmate published this book last week.
#bookstr 
Praxeology by nostr:npub1jt97tpsul3fp8hvf7zn0vzzysmu9umcrel4hpgflg4vnsytyxwuqt8la9y
Recently enjoyed:
How the World Thinks by Julian Baggini
The Elephant in the Brain by Hanson & Simler
Wanting by Luke Burgis
On my shelf:
American Default: The Untold Story of FDR, The Supreme Court, and the Battle Over Gold by Sebastian Edwards
You can read anyone — David Lieberman
-The Doomed City
by the Arkady and Noris Strugatsky
I enjoyed Roadside Picnic and wanted to see why it took them more than 25 years to publish The Doomed City.
Bitcoin is Venice
The art of being by Erich Fromm
https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_7756882203193221901690139586.webp HotWheels sound book. Not bad, especially robo dinosaurs, but story feels rushed.
It is very difficult to obtain. But the book is amazing. True story, autobiography.
A story from WW2. Stolen Polish child to be re-educated in Germany. The child is the author himself. He describes the cultivated hatred for the Slavs. He later finds out that he is Polish.
If anyone manages to get hold of this book, you'll be mesmerized by the incredible story. Really amazing.
☝️It's also for lazy people, you can read it in one day.
https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_1652580474331839661690140083.webp
The one thing
Capitalism (1990) by George Reisman. A huge 1000 page tome full of economics red pills.
Also Die Prinzipien des Wohlstands by Florian Homm and Moritz Hessel, to learn how to shift Bitcoin into a long-term value stonk portfolio after the next BTC 10x.
Mises' socialism. again. like 4th time.
Who owns the future - Jaron Lanier
Lanier might not know it yet, but looks to me #Bitcoin and #nostr can empower at least part of the model he suggests… 
“The Portable Jung” edited by Joseph Campbell
The Joke by Milan Kundera.
Der Preis der Zukunft-Jeff Booth👍
Raphaela Edelbauer: Die Inkommensurablen.
»Was für ein Buch! Raphaela Edelbauer verwandelt den August 1914 in eine Traumnovelle. Wir schlafwandeln mit ihr durch ein erregtes Wien voll höherer Mathematik und niederem Wahn. Und wir galoppieren mit ihren vier apokalyptischen Reitern Adam, Hans, Klara und Helene in eine Zukunft, die diese schon als Vergangenheit erinnern. Ja, man stürzt in dieses Buch und in die letzten Tage des alten Europa, als fiele man in einen wilden Fiebertraum.« Florian Illies
https://www.amazon.com/American-Prometheus-Triumph-Tragedy-Oppenheimer/dp/0375726268
The Book to the movie 'Oppenheimer'
The Future of Ecstasy from Alan Watts
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never too late to learn. 
The secret to attracting money by joe Vitale. Very inspiring using the law of attraction
Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake. Makes me think of the complexity of the bitcoin network and the diversity of disciplines that intersect with it.
A read that's a little out of my wheelhouse, The One World Tartarians , the Greatest Civilization ever to be erased from history. by James W. Lee
Dune: The Heir of Caladan
The Biology of Belief
Had a look at this. Thanks for the recommendation. This was actually exactly what I believed for a good portion of my life. I have spent a lot of time studying these exact topics over the years so I took the time to write get my thoughts out in writing. I believe the following to be especially important to any truth-seeker reader of this book.
At first glance I couldn't help noticing that he avoids Genesis 1:1 completely. Probably because it unambiguously refutes his work entirely. He underemphasizes the importance of plurality in Hebrew functioning completely differently to the way it does in English. Plural nouns can be either to signify more than one member or a single member of great importance or magnitude. You know which it is by the verb. In Genesis 1:1, the verb for "created" is ברא which is, with no shadow of a doubt, a singular masculine verb. So it definitely means "he created".
https://void.cat/d/7KkurEiUWjrMEFBzhRVPmT.webp
https://void.cat/d/3ripwtrJNPGoRwVhbKvuYN.webp
Note that it cannot be either "they created" nor "she created", that would require a load more letters (Hebrew is very specific on verbs, much more so than English. Ancient languages tend to be non-ambiguous on verbs as they are more concrete than abstract.)
https://void.cat/d/HqdFFFrT5qjxwYEZgXVd6d.webp
He's jumping to conclusions fast without analysis. It shows that he's more of an essayist than a scholar. I do suspect some preconceived agenda, though, as even the parts he does discuss he seems to get wrong, despite the simplicity of the verses. For example, in chapter 2 he discusses Exodus 3:13, and misleads the reader into believing that there's some doubt about whether the verse is discussing one or multiple gods.
https://void.cat/d/DcarvTs6tvmWjUJZriVZpe.webp
If you know how to translate Hebrew, there is no doubt:
https://void.cat/d/RhU51Up9f3dbsfVGpVsmv6.webp
The word שלחנו here can only mean "he sent". (Note again that there is no ambiguity here in the Hebrew about either the gender or that it is singular, but in English the noun "Elohim" or "God" replaces "he" making the gender less clear.)
https://void.cat/d/DQDZvtjevXFx1dUtLDEprn.webp
Again, see that in order for this verb to be plural and perfect tense, the letters would have to be different:
https://void.cat/d/r27NGZWzngf9XLQhnuoKQ.webp
The word שמו that I highlighted in red is consistent being also singular and masculine, meaning "his name":
https://void.cat/d/LqRWvQecXL2Lk1MHijSmGg.webp
There is just no doubt about this. These two verses are about one God.
Now, with that said, there is some truth in the ideas presented in the book but there's so much dangerously misleading misinformation that it's just not worth reading. You just don't know which is lies (or ignorance, if you want to give the benefit of the doubt). One thing which is quite correct is that other "elohim" are mentioned often in the Bible. But it is clear that there is one God that created everything, including those other elohim.
I would recommend the work of Michael Heiser for more on this, especially his work titled "The Divine Council". When you realise that Psalm 82:1 should be translated this way...
"God has taken his place in the divine council;
in the midst of the gods he holds judgment."
...then the whole Bible really starts to make sense, alleged inconsistencies fall away, and stories like the tower of Babel suddenly make sense.
Greg Lukianoff, Jonathan Haidt: The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
Paul Bloom: Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion
Carol Tavris, Elliot Aronson:
Mistakes Were Made (but Not By Me)
“Knowledge and Decisions” by Thomas Sowell
The Trial by Kafka
Quick read for a classic & absolutely relevant today. It should be mentioned right there with 1984
The Trial by Kafka
A short read for a classic, and absolutely relevant in today's world. Should be mentioned in the same breath as 1984
12 rules for life by Jordan Peterson
Complexity
The emerging science at the edge of order and chaos
By M Waldrop
With the growth, popularity, and need for decentralization I’m seeing, the self organization of systems , and bottom up design throughout this book has me thinking about the open source, decentralization movement differently
Theory of Money and Credit, highly recommend
Everyday Anarchy by Stephan Molineux
i´m reading some trading stuff, but after watching some movies about Hemingway movies I will read The old man and the sea again, one of my favorites books i read when i was young.
Life Inc. from Douglas Rushkoff
"A Deepness in the Sky" by Vernor Vinge
not reading it now - but i recommend "The Music of the Primes"
"Zen Guitar".
"Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape our Futures" by Merlin Sheldrake
"Muscle-Tendon Changing and Marrow-Brain Washing Chi Kung: The Secret of Youth" by Jwing-Ming Yang
"The Fourth Industrial Revolution" by Klaus Schwab
lol, I read this as "what block are you currently on"... I'm clearly too much bitcoining
Complex PTSD by Pete Walker
“It appears to me that just as many children acquire Cptsd from emotionally traumatizing families as from physically traumatizing ones.” 
1 Peter
The Art of Mastery - by my incredible contemplation teacher Peter Ralston
I love how many responses this note got. Thank you 🙏🫂
Treasure Island
To Have or to Be?
The Little Engine that Could.
And apply to thinking about startups, protocols and communities
Blocksize war
The Master and Margarita
Hemingway
Principles of Economics by Saifedean Ammous
Anarchy in the UKR - Serhiy Zhadan
Government is Violence: Essays on Anarchism and Pacifism - tolstoy
The Fiat Standard
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn, which is very thought provoking and would breaks a normie's worldview.
Suicide of the West - James Burnham
Can't imagine you haven't read it, but...
Just finished The Art of Invisibility by Kevin Mitnick. Started reading a few days before he passed away.
Too many people reading Atlas
Shrugged, not enough people reading Fountainhead.
Ultra-processed people
Atlas Shrugged (sorry nostr:npub13nfdp7p3pacqn6202q33sur4djeehf50xagxq3y3pchhzjptz7yqenvn7c fountainhead is next on my list). This book perfectly describes the world we are in now, waaaay ahead of it's time. For me BTC/NOSTR are Galt's Gulch, without giving too much away.
Just finished reading The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho in 2 days. Truly amazing and inspiring book!
#Bookstr
One that I should've read long ago:
"The sovereign individual"
Praxeology by Knut Sullivan.
Many good reads listed on this thread 👇🏾👇🏾
Just read The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck by Don Rosa already! Best #bitcoin comic 😉