What books are you all reading this weekend? Any topic counts!
Gradually, then suddenly šŸ”„
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good call, gotta get myself a copy
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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.
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Your recommendation reminded me of ā€œReasons to Stay Aliveā€ by Matt Haig. If you donā€™t 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: ā€œas a way of adding punctuation into the breathless sentence of your lifeā€. I donā€™t 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 didnā€™t she leave him? How did Matt choose to lean on her? Given that connections are the one factor that provide ammunition against lifeā€™s challenges, I thought describing how they coped with depression would add another dimension to the book.
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Thanks, I need to read this instead of doom-scrolling.
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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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Well done for recognising and taking action. Also thanks for the openness and vulnerability, I hope you are doing better šŸ„°
I'm about to start "The body keeps the score"
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Thanks for your kind words and for sharing
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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Worth reading!!! Get yourself a copy!!
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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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The Bitcoin Mining Handbook and Bitcoin Mining Economics. Both written by Daniel Frumkin.
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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!]
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Did not enjoy this book
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It was a bit slow...
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I enjoyed this.. but found it very depressing to imagine
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Black Rock by Larry Fink. This book teaches a lot
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ā€ž Rich father, poor fatherā€ by Robert Kiyosaki
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The Fabric of Civilization, was one of Marc Andreessenā€™s many recommended books
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Perfect for the xmas timešŸŽ…šŸ» šŸ°šŸ°
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Read it when i was a kid haha
The Great Taking - download available at thegreattaking.com
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Tao of the Gigolo
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How to live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe.
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King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine
Somebody recommended this to me at a BitBlockBoom several years ago and I'm finally digging in
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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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