Curious if people have recommendations on books regarding:
- BTC
- Economics
- History
- Historical Fiction
- Sci Fi
- Math/Sci
- Anything else
I will offer a few I've been reading lately:
- "Quiksilver" by Neal Stephenson (Historical Fiction about English Civil Wars, founding America, calculus, money, gold, alchemy, etc)
- "Manias, Panics, and Crashes" by Kindleberger & Aliber (Title is self-explanatory, no comment, just started)
"The revolt of the public" by Martin Gurri Written in 2014 regarding the decentralisation of communication. I'm half way through it and covers the Arab Spring as an example of what's happening with changes in our communication tools.
I am creeped out thinking over last 20 years from 9/11 and Iraq War, to Libya, to Wikileaks etc... some of it was so charged and electric at the time re: coverage, and now seems so distant and drowned out by level of hack journalism today, like everything's a distraction
That acknowledgement that 'everything's a distraction' is becoming popularised. When a critical mass of people become conscience of what ideas they let in, propaganda loses its effect which in turn diminishes the State's power. Super pumped about the future.
I'm reading Digital Gold right now. Good history of bitcoin
Tore through that one!
Gulag archipelago
The Man from the Future
Going through the current reading lists on https://www.leftybookclub.org/
Lonesome Dove
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"The attraction of #bitcoin is that payments do not leave a record in the form of a paper trail or in the form of electronic records."
"Manias, panics, and crashes: a history of financial crises." 7th edition 2015
Totally underwhelmed by the smug ignorance and sneering sarcasm.
"The incumbent structure is hierarchy, and it represents established and accredited authority—government first and foremost, but also corporations, universities, the whole roster of institutions from the industrial age. Hierarchy has ruled the world since the human race attained meaningful numbers. The industrial mind just made it bigger, steeper, and more efficient. From the era of Rameses to that of Hosni Mubarak, it has exhibited predictable patterns of behavior: top-down, centralizing, painfully deliberate in action, process-obsessed, mesmerized by grand strategies and five-year plans, respectful of rank and order but contemptuous of the outsider, the amateur."
(from "The Revolt of The Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium" by Martin Gurri)
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Next:
Deep Work by Cal Newport
The only one productivity book you need. I couldn't stand anything else. Cal's attitude is very down-to-earth and not coachy at all
Currently reading https://www.fimfiction.net/story/298834/fallout-equestria-homelands
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The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some are So Rich and Some So Poor
By David Landes
History: Anything regarding nazi germany and Hitler's rise to power or the history of the 1960's in the United States. Great topics. Can't go wrong really.
I forgot to mention "Cryptonomicon" by Neal Stephenson, when I recommended "Quiksilver". Stephenson gets some divided reviews for his style and endings, but his books are usually thoughtful, full of math/sci-comp esoterica, alternate history etc.
"Cryptonomicon" is a fun pseudo-historical fiction with a lot of math and cryptography throughout -- it takes place in the 1990s and WWII era, moving between the two often. Has lots of stuff about WWII cryptography, also the 1990s stuff is very cypherpunk. It is, I think one of the earliest (idk if it has precursors), examples of cryptocurrency and freedom / humanistic movements figuring in the plot.
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