What books are you all reading this weekend? Any topic counts!
522 sats \ 2 replies \ @TonyGiorgio 16 Dec 2023
Gradually, then suddenly š„
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @kr 16 Dec 2023
good call, gotta get myself a copy
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nemo 16 Dec 2023
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654 sats \ 5 replies \ @BitByBit21 16 Dec 2023
I have suffered from clinical depression most of my life. For those who have to deal with this mental disorder or may be interested in the subject, I recommend this book:
The Upward Spiral by Alex Korb PhD.
https://www.audible.com/pd/B00T3J3M54?source_code=ASSOR150021921000R
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146 sats \ 1 reply \ @cryotosensei 16 Dec 2023
Your recommendation reminded me of āReasons to Stay Aliveā by Matt Haig. If you donāt mind, I would like to share my IG review of his book.
I thought @mattzhaig did an excellent job writing about a topic as serious as depression in an easy-to-access manner. So easy that I dared to bring this book to an outdoor camp, where the student noise threatened to rupture my eardrums.
Back to the book. I used to think that anxiety leads to depression but after this book, I realise that anxiety and depression are 2 distinct conditions. Matt described the difference in a striking metaphorical manner: depression is like being stuck in a swamp while anxiety is like having whirlpools swirling in the swamp. I think I get it.
One of the greatest strengths of this book is how Matt writes poignant truths via breathtaking literary devices. I found myself dogear-ing the pages ever so often. Take his depiction of mindfulness for instance: āas a way of adding punctuation into the breathless sentence of your lifeā. I donāt mean to say that he romanticised depression, only that he made it relatable for those of us who are spared from its clutches.
Besides being vulnerable and sharing his struggles, he also wrote how undertaking various pursuits (running, reading, travelling) helped him manage his condition. I thought how remarkable he was to tackle depression from a position of resilience.
The thing that I thought was lacking in the book was his relationship with his then-girlfriend (now-wife), Andrea. How did Andrea support him? Why didnāt she leave him? How did Matt choose to lean on her? Given that connections are the one factor that provide ammunition against lifeās challenges, I thought describing how they coped with depression would add another dimension to the book.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @elysia 16 Dec 2023
Thanks, I need to read this instead of doom-scrolling.
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64 sats \ 0 replies \ @BononXD 16 Dec 2023
I must admit that I didn't want to just translate this text because I'm a Pole who doesn't quite know English but nothing, let these 200 satoshi serve well
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @SatsCats 16 Dec 2023
Well done for recognising and taking action. Also thanks for the openness and vulnerability, I hope you are doing better š„°
I'm about to start "The body keeps the score"
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BitByBit21 16 Dec 2023 freebie
Thanks for your kind words and for sharing
266 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 16 Dec 2023
All My Friends Are Going To Be Strangers by Larry McMurtry. I first read it years ago. It's my favorite novel of his, but I guess Lonesome Dove is the most famous. He was also a book collector, and opened a famous bookstore in his Texas hometown named Booked Up.
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371 sats \ 0 replies \ @NewsnNudes 16 Dec 2023 freebie
Worth reading!!! Get yourself a copy!!
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554 sats \ 0 replies \ @Signal312 17 Dec 2023
I finished The Case Against Sugar, by Gary Taubes. Last week I was reading Pure, White, and Deadly, also an anti-sugar book.
I've immersed myself in nutritional books recently. This book is another in my series which I'm calling "everything we 'know' about food is a lie". If you want a good starting point, I recommend The Big Fat Surprise, by Nina Teicholtz
I was just at a Christmas event last night, a potluck. It's really astounding how much sugar people eat. Even though it was supposed to be a dinner-type potluck, 80% of what people brought was sweets, of all descriptions. And a few raw veggie platters, with seed-oil sauce for dips.
Avoiding sugar and seed oils as well is tough - I'm finding I need to "pre-eat" before these types of events.
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233 sats \ 0 replies \ @dgy 16 Dec 2023
The Bitcoin Mining Handbook and Bitcoin Mining Economics. Both written by Daniel Frumkin.
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159 sats \ 0 replies \ @jasonofbitcoin 16 Dec 2023
Mastering Bitcoin, by Andreas M. Antonopoulos
[WARNING: Did you catch the "milk sad" incident a few months ago in which funds were lost due to people using the default 'bx seed' command to generate a bitcoin address? The default invocation of this command appears in the second edition of this book without any warning or disclaimer about its unsuitability for use with real funds! Always know the entropy source when generating seeds/keys for production use!]
https://milksad.info/
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107 sats \ 3 replies \ @kytt 16 Dec 2023
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @djmeistro 16 Dec 2023
Did not enjoy this book
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nout 16 Dec 2023
It was a bit slow...
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @itsrealfake 16 Dec 2023
I enjoyed this.. but found it very depressing to imagine
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106 sats \ 0 replies \ @linda024352 16 Dec 2023
Black Rock by Larry Fink. This book teaches a lot
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53 sats \ 0 replies \ @hyperfree 18 Dec 2023
2 Second Lean https://paulakers.net/books/2-second-lean
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53 sats \ 0 replies \ @BononXD 16 Dec 2023
ā Rich father, poor fatherā by Robert Kiyosaki
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33 sats \ 0 replies \ @kr 16 Dec 2023
The Fabric of Civilization, was one of Marc Andreessenās many recommended books
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8 sats \ 1 reply \ @Swagrid 16 Dec 2023 freebie
Perfect for the xmas timeš
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @NewsnNudes 16 Dec 2023 freebie
Read it when i was a kid haha
0 sats \ 0 replies \ @0348090484 17 Dec 2023
The Great Taking - download available at thegreattaking.com
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @02bcd3eeb0 17 Dec 2023
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Majere 17 Dec 2023
Tao of the Gigolo
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @roytheholographicuniverse 16 Dec 2023
How to live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @itsrealfake 16 Dec 2023
Somebody recommended this to me at a BitBlockBoom several years ago and I'm finally digging in
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Xlindo 16 Dec 2023
I still read The Richest Man in Babylon. These days I uploaded a summary of the book in case you are interested
#351790
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295 sats \ 0 replies \ @carlosfandango 16 Dec 2023
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @xsilentg 16 Dec 2023
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