What books are you all reading this weekend? Any topic counts!
648 sats \ 4 replies \ @Natalia 16 Sep 2023
I'm rereading meditations by Marcus Aurelius đź“–
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5 sats \ 2 replies \ @grayruby 16 Sep 2023
It's great but it's a tough read.
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @scottathan 16 Sep 2023
Worth it though
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 16 Sep 2023
Absolutely.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 16 Sep 2023
Always helps me refocus. Simplifies what often seems so complicated
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620 sats \ 0 replies \ @TheWildHustle 16 Sep 2023
Praxeology - Knut Svanholm
Its like a condensed version of Human Action
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606 sats \ 0 replies \ @Jestopher_WOS 16 Sep 2023
Just finished reading Rocket Fuel about successful cofounder dynamics -- visionaries and integrators.
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634 sats \ 4 replies \ @birdeye21 16 Sep 2023
Beyond Good and Evil - Nietzsche
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368 sats \ 3 replies \ @bitdern 16 Sep 2023
I am reading Twilight of the Idols -- super interesting perspective, especially in his commentaries on German society at that time... very similar to what we are currently experiencing in the US
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230 sats \ 2 replies \ @birdeye21 16 Sep 2023
He saw the trend humanity was going down so vividly, actually wild.
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368 sats \ 1 reply \ @bitdern 16 Sep 2023
man it is WILD how tapped in he was. something about being so close to the edge of insanity that seems to give a person "insights" from beyond...
(hard to put that into words, but I think you know what I am getting at)
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230 sats \ 0 replies \ @birdeye21 16 Sep 2023
"No great mind ever existed without a touch of madness"
I know exactly what you mean
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521 sats \ 0 replies \ @lightwalker 16 Sep 2023
Haven't done reareading yet.
"The Broken Money" by Lyn Alden
"Fiat Ruins Everything" by Jimmy Song
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461 sats \ 0 replies \ @lumps 16 Sep 2023
Entering chapter 5 of Lord of the Flies.
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461 sats \ 6 replies \ @grayruby 16 Sep 2023
I am reading Gibby- Tales of a Baseball Lifer. You said any topic counts.
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20 sats \ 5 replies \ @siggy47 16 Sep 2023
For a minute I thought this was a Kirk Gibson memoir- another guy for whom I hold a many decade grudge.
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20 sats \ 3 replies \ @grayruby 16 Sep 2023
I heard the original script for the movie the Grudge was just a list of the players and teams you hold 30 year grudges for but the film was going to be too long so they turned it into a silly horror flick.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 16 Sep 2023
This is the kind of quality content I commit to producing if we decide to roast someone.
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20 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 16 Sep 2023
Well, he's no Lanny McDonald.
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 16 Sep 2023
What I found interesting is that the year Gibby was drafted the Mets had 4 first round picks and they picked Strawberry first but also picked Billy Beane, John Gibbons back to back and just in front of Beane and Gibbons the Expos drafted Terry Francona.
What are the chances that 3 big name baseball managers/executives get drafted back to back to back?
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 16 Sep 2023
Haha no. John Gibbons, former Met (try not to hold that against him), and 2x Blue Jays manager. I bought the book for my dad for his birthday and he said it was good so I borrowed it. It's ok.
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416 sats \ 0 replies \ @Michelson_Morley 16 Sep 2023
The beginning of Infinity - David Deutsch
long scale perspective on the coolness of humans (AGIs in general), the idea of the multiverse. A pop-sci book from a giant in the field of quantum computing (Deutsch in quantum computing is comparable to Hawking in astrophysics)
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417 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 16 Sep 2023
Fear and Loathing On The Campaign Trail. I read this book years ago. I'm going to see if it's still as entertaining to me as it once was.
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @lumps 16 Sep 2023
I still find myself digging out an odd book of his, opening to a random page, and getting lost in his work. They will always hold a special place on my bookshelf. He was the reason I got interested in reading. Have fun.
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456 sats \ 0 replies \ @ama 16 Sep 2023
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, by Oliver Sacks and TeologĂa del dinero, by Jorge Majfud.
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429 sats \ 0 replies \ @bordalix 17 Sep 2023
Reading "The Quantum Labyrinth: How Richard Feynman and John Wheeler Revolutionized Time and Reality" by Paul Alpern.
Next will be "The Broken Money" by Lyn Alden
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651 sats \ 0 replies \ @SatoshisVoice 16 Sep 2023
I am reading “ Dark Psychology and Manipulation” by Margaret Morrison
Only to be able to manipulate the fiat peasants and orange pill them
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625 sats \ 0 replies \ @badabing 16 Sep 2023
Rereading Blood Meridian
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359 sats \ 0 replies \ @pow 17 Sep 2023
The Psychology Of Money by Morgan Housel
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359 sats \ 0 replies \ @Shinn21 17 Sep 2023
Started reading The Salt Fix by James DiNicolantonio 🧂
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497 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 16 Sep 2023
Here you have guys, something quick, a short book, for just taking your coffee in the morning.
Be careful not to spill the coffee, is really funny (in pdf and epub format here to download):
The basic laws of human stupidity
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272 sats \ 0 replies \ @chaoticalHeavy 17 Sep 2023
Not a book, but I'm reading about rocket pioneer, libertarian and occultist Jack Parsons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Parsons
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271 sats \ 0 replies \ @btcphoto 16 Sep 2023
Sing, Unburied, Sing - Jesmyn Ward
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @bitdern 16 Sep 2023
Really fun read: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/769729.At_Play_in_the_Fields_of_the_Lord
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @PRA3S3NT1A 17 Sep 2023
Depends on.. If I wish to understand how money works and thus society then I read the Bitcoin Standard from Saifedean Ammous. If I wish to understand more about my self then I may choose to read White Fire from Mooji.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @czechnostradamus 17 Sep 2023
Hello book lovers. I just finished Lightning Network book from czech author Michal Novák. Now i'am finishing Terry Pratchet's book Witches Abroad and tomorow i will start Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Wade 16 Sep 2023
Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
https://www.amazon.com/Number-Go-Up-Cryptos-Staggering/dp/0593443810
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20 sats \ 2 replies \ @nemo 16 Sep 2023
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306 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 16 Sep 2023
Great one, Nemo! For some reason I have a thing about Zimbabwe stories. I really enjoyed it.
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190 sats \ 0 replies \ @nemo 16 Sep 2023
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