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I keep a list of book recommendations for people into #Bitcoin, Austrian economics, capitalism vs. socialism and personal development. I also started adding a list of books I don't recommend.

The Ascent of Money - Niall Ferguson

Seeing What Others Don't - Gary Klein

Safe Haven - M Spitznagel

On Dialogue - David Bohm

Thinking Fast and Slow - D Kahneman

A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism - HH Hoppe

Praxeology - K. Svanholm

Human Action - Ludwig von Mises

The Fatal Conceit - Hayek

Anatomy of the State - M Rothbard

The Law - F Bastiat

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism - Robert P. Murphy

Early Austrian economics - Israel Kirzner

The Theory of Money and Credit - L von Mises

Keynes Hayek - Nicholas Wapshott

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

When Money Dies - Adam Fergusson

Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order - Ray Dalio

Economics for Real People - Gene Callahan

The Black Swan - NN Taleb

Superforecasting - Tetlock & Gardner

The Sovereign Individual - Davidson & Rees-Mogg

Rules for Radicals - SD Alinsky

The Creature From Jekkyl Island - E Griffin

The Blocksize War - Jonathan Bier

The Bullish Case for Bitcoin - Vijay Boyapati

Layered Money - Nik Bhatia

The 7th Property - Eric Yakes

21 Lessons - der Gigi

The Price of Tomorrow - Jeff Booth

The Bitcoin Standard - Saifedean Ammous

The Fiat Standard - Saifedean Ammous

Principles of Economics - S. Ammous

Broken Money- Lyn Alden

Bitcoin is Venice - A Farrington & S Meyers

Check your Financial Privilege - A Gladstein

The Internet of Money - A Antonopoulos

Science Set Free - Rupert Sheldrake

Untethered Soul - M.A. Singer

Meditations - Marcus Aurelius

The Parasitic Mind - Gad Saad

LSD My Problem Child - A Hofmann

How to Change your Mind - M Pollan

Non Violent Communication - M Rosenberg

My Inventions - N Tesla

Hold me Tight - Sue Johnson

Permanent Record - Ed Snowden

Doors of Perception - A. Huxley

Walden - Thoreau

The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell

The Infinite Game - Simon Sinek

The Holy Grail of Investing - Tony Robbins

Storm of Steel - Ernst Jünger

If This Is a Man - Primo Levi

The Meme Machine - S Blackmore

The Selfish Gene - R Dawkins

A New Earth - E Tolle

Meetings With Remarkable Men - Gurdjieff

In Search of the Miraculous - Ouspensky

Lateral Thinking - E de Bono

Books I don't recommend:

The Man Who Solved the Market - G Zuckerman

Anti fragile - Nasim Taleb

The Fourth Turning - Howe and Strauss

Debt - David Graeber

Solid list. I love reading

I wonder: why 4th Turning not recommended?

I found it a useful frame, the idea of a saeculum

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It's full of prophetic conjecture and ideological framing, examples are cyclical determinism, arbitrary generational archetypes, dichotomy of purge by a fourth turning crisis and most of all the disturbing singular Anglo American perspective.

I think it's garbage.

Compare it to the neutral writing of the sovereign individual, which predicted outcomes that actually happened.