What books are you all reading this weekend? Any topic counts!
995 sats \ 0 replies \ @dgy 10 Feb
The Lessons of History by Will Durant
Conclusion so far: Some arguments for the twentieth century are based on questionable assumptions. For instance you can never trust any economic growth numbers published by a socialist country.
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Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable by Tim Grover
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @kr 10 Feb
that’s a great book
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Yes this book is great! Can't believe I'm just now reading it for the first time. Highly recommend it.
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970 sats \ 1 reply \ @Se7enZ 10 Feb
Instead of threadjacking this post with a huge text, I wrote up my weekly review of Mircea Eliade's A History of Religious Ideas Vol. 1 in a separate post.
I'm also planning to read Meditations by Marcus Aurelius and there are a few other stackers interested in discussing via an online book club as per this post. Let us know if you're interested!
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The compact musings in Meditations are always good for a quick positivity boost.
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Plan to pick up the highly recommended Bronze Age Mindset- by Bronze Age Pervert after I finish a couple of tech related books i'm reading rn.
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The Mandibles
Follows what happens to an American family after the United States defaults on its debt.
In this world, treasury is slang for bull shit.
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35 sats \ 1 reply \ @nout 10 Feb
I like the premise and the details, but oh boy was that long and tiring to read
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I 45% agree. I wouldn't go that far, but do agree it had some dry stretches I needed to get through on audiobook at 1.2-1.5x speed.
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The Creative Act by Rick Rubin. He's a great music producer. With short chapters it seems fitting to read one per day and see what happens.
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The Garden Within: Where the War with Your Emotions Ends and Your Most Powerful Life Begins by Dr. Anita Phillips.
Too often we’ve been taught to view our emotions with suspicion, seeing them as something to be suppressed, managed, or mastered. This isn’t true. Emotions are not your enemy. Internal war is not your destiny. You were created to flourish. I know it’s hard to keep them in check and with young kids I struggle at times!
In this game-changing book, trauma therapist and mental health expert Dr. Anita Phillips reveals how embracing emotion is the key to living your most powerful life. Just as gardens thrive in good ground, the abundant life you’ve been seeking can only be grown in the soil of your heart.
Think about it and you’ll change deeply!
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These 2 (or at least 1...it depends on my "free time") is on the "to do" list for the next week:
Bitcoin Standard: A decentralized alternative to central banks
This is a book in Hungarian language (I'm sure it is available on English too)
BITCOIN: Freedom, FInance, Future by TIMI AJIBOYE, LUIS BUENAVENTURA, ALEX GLADSTEIN
This book is in Romanian language, and dik if it is available on other languages.
Both of these books I borrowed it from a friend, but I'm sure I will buy it asap :)
Happy reading guys!
Gradually, Then Suddenly by Parker Lewis
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Taking some time off from economic/monetary policy and murder stuff to read Orthodoxy by GK Chesterton.
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87 sats \ 0 replies \ @kr 10 Feb
Put Read Write Own on the back burner this week and instead started reading Where Is My Flying Car?
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Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
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The Purpose Driven Life
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The genesis book
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Bitcoin is Venice by Allen Farrington
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An excellent revisionist biography of Joseph McCarthy informed by, among other sources, the VENONA decrypts, is M.Stanton Evans [Blacklisted by History]
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Currently enjoying The Fountainhead.
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if you're in to fiction, "daemon" by Daniel Suarez
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I was amazed by "Gigi's 21 Lessons"
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