Best book you've read in the last 21 months?
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When google met wikileaks
Prodigal Summer
"Three body problem" and re-reading "The Dispossessed" (even better!).
Read The Dispossesed if you didn't. Do it.
Big sci-fi fan. Leave me some more recommendations if you can think of anything!
The diamond age.
Excession
Hyperion and fall of hyperion
I second The Three Body Problem. I'll pick up The Dispossessed now.
should one read the whole cycle or only the dispossessed?
Thank you for this. I grew up reading the (formative) Earthsea books without looking into her other works since, although I knew I had to revisit her works at some time. I will look into ‘The Dispossessed’ as a priority.
Ok will put this on my "to read"list. Thanks for the tip
Atlas Shrugged... Almost feels like we're living in that world today
Beneath a Scarlett Sky!!!
Historical semi biographical true story about an Italian teenager Pino Lella in nazi occupied Milan, who plays a critical role as a spy in the Italian resistance effort when he becomes the personal driver for an important nazi officer who oversees key infrastructure development including fortifications of the gothic line.
It’s a must read people!
Reality transurfing
It’s life changing.
The Law.
Return of the King
Man's search for meaning
Viktor Frankl
I found myself wanting to highlight every other sentence. Profound story and insights.
The Bullish Case For Bitcoin - Vijay Boyapati
I borrowed this to a coworker a year ago and just got it back from him this week. He didn't read it. It's like a 75 minute read...
man doesn’t know he needs bitcoin yet. oh well lol
He actually has (had?) some bitcoin along with shitcoins. That's why I gave it to him, to help him understand what he owned, and also to orange pill him. Last I talked to him, he was high on bonds for that sweet, sweet 3% yield on an asset that is depreciating 7% against other goods and services.
oh yeah, I got mates who have bitcoin as a stock investment - i sent them lightning payments and they didn’t understand.
the underbanked will show us true adoption 🤙🏽
The Lies of Locke Lamora
21 lessons ;)
Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville.
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
Really helped me sort out my own thinking on the fact/value distinction. Hume was right, you can't get an ought from an is. You can however get an is from an ought.
Have you read Lila too?
I started it, but it wasn't the right time and I had a hard time picking it up consistently. I'll get back to it soon. Got a bit of a synopsis?
I'd say his main thesis in the book is that value is fundamental, as in "electrons value positive charges, which is why they move towards them."
Hard to give a synopsis, though. It's not a simple book.
I get it, complexity is hard to convey with little time and mere words in text form to work with. But thanks, I think I've come to a similar conclusion in my own thinking, aided by his first book, Zen.
My take on it is that value is objective, but context-dependant. My main goal is to reconcile two strong intuitions:
1. There can be individual variation with respect to what ought to be valued and how
And
2. We can be more or less correct in our valuations
It's a difficult nut to crack, but I think it has helped me so much to think of value this way.
Looking forward to Lila.
How the world really works
Vaclav smil
The Ethics of Money Production
Cobalt Red- The ESG incentives now make total sense as does the collusion to sell out the USA in favor of China.
The Outsider by Albert Camus
Animal Farm
21 Lektionen
The End of the World is Just the Beginning
Ugh, no... fuck that trash & the propagandizing toolbag that wrote it.
The Brain by David Eagleman
Invicto by Marcos Vázquez
The Sovereign Individual. By far the most important book I've read in a long time.
Mandibles
The Moth in the Iron Lung is pretty damn good. Short & pretty eye opening - people are stupid & everything is a cluster fuck - the covid response (while somewhat more globally coordinated) may be pretty close to the norm.
But I rarely go 2 years without relistening to Atlas, so probably Atlas Shrugged
lords of easy money was a good one
"Things fall apart", by Chinua Achebe
Mandibles /s
I’d recommend The Luminous Dead by Caitlyn Starling.
I had to read this psychological thriller with the lights on.
The Mandibles
Eine kurze Geschichte der Menschheit - Yuval Noah Harari
Why Bitcoin by Tomer Strolight
The Birth of the Modern. World scociety from 1815-1830 by Paul Johnson
Sounds like it would be boring but it’s incredible — and totally relatable to today
1984
Best new read:
Modern Software Engineering
by David Farley
Best re-read:
Digital Cash
by Finn Brunton
Project Hail Mary - the reviews aren’t wrong. It’s good.
The gulag archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn followed closely by East of Eden by John Steinbeck.
Knowledge and Decisions by Thomas Sowell
Ordinary men
1984
Bitcoin’s Philosophy from Alvaro D. Maria.
The Bitcoin Standard
Softwar: A Novel Theory on Power Projection and the National Strategic Significance of Bitcoin
Human action
Bitcoin is Venice. This book does a fantastic job at explaining what is ‘Capitalism’ really. I would recommend it to anyone interested in economics and bitcoin as a monetary tool
The Ethics of Money Production.
Conversations with God
The Sovereign Individual
Yours , 21lessons , along with Jason Lowery’s thesis
The Social Contract
The Story of Money by Sean Cover
Followed by The 7th Property by Eric Yakes
…and despite the woke title, Check Your Financial Privilege was good.
Grundsätze der Volkswirtschaftslehre- Carl Menger
Why we sleep( matthew walker)
Virus Mania.
"The population is terrified by reports of so-called viruses. However, the authors of "Virus Mania", show that this fearmongering is unfounded and that virus mayhem ignores basic scientific facts: The existence, the pathogenicity and the deadly effects of these agents have never been proven."
Here is the most recently added chapter on covid: https://virusmania2020chapter12.tiiny.site/
Mi Primer Bitcoin for the change it represents and for my practice of Spanish.
Mandibles was quite good
Also Larken Rose „most dangerous superstition“
Fiat standard