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Who are your favorite NON-Bitcoin authors?

6283 sats \ 37 comments \ @birdeye21 8 Sep 2023 meta

Not just looking for non-BTC books.

Wondering who some general thinkers are that you've really enjoyed spending a lot of time or multiple books with?

Which authors have the most value to share? (value can come in many forms)

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758 sats \ 0 replies \ @bitdern 8 Sep 2023

George Orwell CG Jung John Steinbeck Wendell Berry Alan Watts Itzhak Bentov

definitely others that I am forgetting ATM!!

1648 sats \ 3 replies \ @Natalia 8 Sep 2023

My top two:

Aldous Huxley - extra bonus: his wife ( Laura Huxley )'s books are also amazing. Richard Feynman - he is such a funny guy.

121 sats \ 2 replies \ @Michelson_Morley 9 Sep 2023

+1000 For mentioning Feynman. The pure and humble genius of this man, called "The Great Teacher", is in my view only rivaled by Professor Einstein himself.

When I want to introduce someone to Feynman, I often show them this video, "Why?".

The clip is a 7 minute outtake of an interview Feynman gave in his later years which focuses on what happens when the interviewer asks the question "Why do magnets work?". To answer this, Feynman meta-explains how explanations can be given in the first place, setting up the reason why the magnet so hard to directly answer. In this, he tells me more than I heard in my 5 years of studying physics.

(In short, about the magnet question: we are used to explaining/describing things by analogy to other, known, things. But you can't say "magnets attract when separated in the same way that rubber bands try to constrict if you pull them apart" because that's cheating, since the reason rubber bands act like that is because of the magnetic action of their atoms. So how can I answer a "Why?" when there is no other shared experience we have that I can analogize it to?)

PS: If anyone reading is interested in electricity, and perhaps is like me — very disappointed in the teaching of it, disappointed because it seems like magic to me, but is treated like "math" to the professors, I HIGHLY recommend reading a few pages of Feynmans work (which covers all of known physics) that deals specifically with Electricity: https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/II_01.html

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Natalia 9 Sep 2023

Humble, humorous, and real, haha.

I enjoy the way how he simplifies complicated things. For example, I used to find physics scary and something far away with so many big words, but it could actually be so practical and fun from Feynman.

And my favourite quote from him: once you teach people's names about something, that is the moment they stop learning! Knowing the name of something doesn't mean they actually understand it.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Michelson_Morley 9 Sep 2023

CORRECTION, SORRY: I couldn't edit in time: The final link (about electricity) should be this:

https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_28.html

The one I gave previously is also about electricity, but it is a link to the more advanced chapter in the second volume of his works.

This link I just gave is the one which tells you everything about electricity and how magic it is. It was what made me feel about Feynman that there are still highly trained ("educated") people who have curiosity about the strangeness of our incredible world. A feeling my years in university unfortunately had crushed.

673 sats \ 0 replies \ @tnuts420 8 Sep 2023

hunter thompson, ken kesey, kurt vonnegut, cormac mccarthy, john steinbeck, george orwell, phillip k dick...

i'm forgetting a bunch, but those are generally my favorites

1150 sats \ 4 replies \ @Michelson_Morley 8 Sep 2023

Damn everyone is so smart here jeez guys.

I love Brandon Sanderson!

Patrick Rothfuss! Don't even care that he'll never complete the story

The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher!! Freakin detective wizard

Steve King! Fuck, the Stand was one of the most immersive things I've read, not to mention the Dark Tower saga

The lord of the rings.

The never-ending story!

These are books I've read several times. I've also seen the entire Dragonball saga at least once per year for the past decade (I'm in my mid-30ies..). HunterxHunter every other year. We're nerds right? Don't gotta be the annointed intelligentia all the time (just when vitalik enters the room....)

50 sats \ 3 replies \ @SatsCats 9 Sep 2023

Might start watching the Dragonball saga again. I'm currently reading the Berserk and Death Note manga and want to watch some anime now

10 sats \ 2 replies \ @Michelson_Morley 9 Sep 2023

I don't read manga, literally only because my kindle can't display the color, but are they any good? As for the animes, I love Death Note and loved Berserk (until they suddenly made it a computer animated mess).

But yeah DragonBall.. It's just comfort food to me. I love it. When I was younger I loved Jack London, though wildly different the stories share the sense of entrepreneurship, of "becoming stronger for the sake of becoming stronger".

These days my favorite animes are Jujutsu Kaisen and Overlord. If anyone has recommendations, let me know! (anime or non-anime; ive also watched the wire 5 times, I love film in general:))

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SatsCats 9 Sep 2023

If you liked the Death Note anime you'd like the manga but it's just like most movie adaptations, the books have a lot more detail.

Berserk manga is intense as you may know from the anime lol but I really like the art work so it's an easy "read".

I haven't seen Jujutsu Kaisen or Overlord but will add it to my ever growing backlog.

Also, I still need to watch the wire. Currently watching Hannibal the series which is different but good

60 sats \ 0 replies \ @nemo 9 Sep 2023

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2030 sats \ 1 reply \ @nkmg1c_ventures 8 Sep 2023

Not hating on OP for posting a book thread, but there have been a bunch of these. Anyone who wants more recs, use the search function, past book threads from posters here had a lot of good suggestions!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @birdeye21 OP 8 Sep 2023

I used search to find non-btc authors, didn't find anything on authors, not books, specifically, and didn't feel like sifting through a bunch of separate posts

Asking stackers and rewarding them is much more fun anyway, and lets newcomers speak up

637 sats \ 0 replies \ @TomK 8 Sep 2023

Friedrich Nietzsche - to get a perspective of the individual in the human black box

Marc Aurel, Epikur and Lao Tse - to find inner peace even in tough times when the sea is rough

E. Hemingway - for building character

Charles Bukowski - for not drinking alone

594 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 8 Sep 2023

I mostly read non-fiction but I have a few fiction

Fiction

Daniel Suarez - Near future sci-fi (Daemon and Freedom TM are my favorites but his last two books are also very good)
J. R. R. Tolkien - no explanation needed.
Ayn Rand - Start with Anthem

Non-Fiction

David Pietrusza - Historian love all his books
Victor Sebestyen - Historian - 1946 & Revolution 1989 (Highly recommend this one)
Arthur Herman - Historian - 1917 (Great book on Lenin and Woodrow Wilson)
Michael Malice - Dear Reader, The Anarchist Handbook, & The White Pill
Thomas Sowell - Economics

594 sats \ 1 reply \ @heytimapple 8 Sep 2023

My favorite to this day is Edward Abbey. I also enjoy Corey Doctrow.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @birdeye21 OP 8 Sep 2023

Edward seems like a dude I could hang with. Will have to read more into him

543 sats \ 1 reply \ @anon 8 Sep 2023

Brandon Sanderson. Start with Mistborn: The Final Empire

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bitcoinisawesome 8 Sep 2023

When I was in dive school I had at that point only read what ever books were mandated by junior years but a fellow classmate was always reading something in every second of spare time. I just randomly asked if he had anything extra I could read and he did. Mistborn. It changed my life forever and I have never stopped reading since.

613 sats \ 2 replies \ @SatsCats 9 Sep 2023

Anything by Ayn Rand, or start with Atlas Shrugged or We The Living

30 sats \ 1 reply \ @OC 9 Sep 2023

Zaps for you

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SatsCats 9 Sep 2023

Appreciate the zaps now take it back

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31 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 8 Sep 2023

Vonnegut Rothbard Heinlein Ayn Rand Arthur C. Clarke Jared Diamond Jonathan Haidt

31 sats \ 0 replies \ @shaunpmartin 8 Sep 2023

A few favorites (with my favorite by them in parens) Walter Isaacson’s biographies (Steve Jobs) Ryan Holiday (Ego Is The Enemy) Robert Greene (48 Laws of Power) Jocko Willink (Extreme Ownership) Brené Brown (Rising Strong) Dan Heath (Upstream)

42 sats \ 0 replies \ @2bithits 9 Sep 2023

Robert Pirsig

Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Lila

25 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 8 Sep 2023

Murray Rothbard is a good one. He probably would have been a Bitcoiner if he lived today.

My favorite book in the past 5 years though was Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self by Carl Trueman.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nkmg1c_ventures 15 Sep 2023

I really enjoy Murray the book "Betrayal of the American Right" is really good. He basically outs National Review as a CIA rag even though he worked there as the token libertarian lol

24 sats \ 0 replies \ @locomancell 8 Sep 2023

Dan Brown is one of the Autors I have read the most. I like his writing composition and his novels are real thrillers for me. I believe some people have found or might find lots of value on his works

71 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bitcoinisawesome 8 Sep 2023

I'm a fantasy nerd so, Brandon Sanderson. I have read 90+% of his work. AMAZING.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @jarednxx 9 Sep 2023

Aldous Huxley

21 sats \ 2 replies \ @teodor 8 Sep 2023

Robert T Kiosaki, for Rich Dad Poor Dad
Craig Hill, for Wealth, Riches, and Money
Henryk Sienkiewicz, for Quo Vadis
Fyodor Dostoevsky, for The Brothers Karamazov, The Idiot, Crime and Punishment.

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @birdeye21 OP 9 Sep 2023

Love these but kiosaki feels like a meme to me now 😂 much respect tho

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @teodor 9 Sep 2023

You're right. I've read it about 30 years ago... But still is in my mind! 🙈

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @nkmg1c_ventures 8 Sep 2023

No particular order:

Neal Stephenson Alexandre Dumas Milan Kundera Vonnegut Orwell Chinua Achebe

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @faithandcredit 8 Sep 2023

For me its Charles Dowding.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Signal312 8 Sep 2023

One of my favorites is Nevil Shute. Just really great stories, mostly with a proto-libertarian bent. Start with A Town Like Alice, which is the one that got me into him. I found A Town Like Alice on a webpage I found somewhere of neglected books.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @fm 30 Jan

Jose Rodrigues dos Santos - for his investigative work