Catch-22 is always worth a look. I read at least once a year. That's some catch that Catch-22.

I started to read Dead Souls novel by Nikolai Gogol

I just finished The Hebrew Goddess by Raphael Patai today. Patai is an ethnographer, historian and anthropologist and the book explores the influence and presence of a feminine component to God within and throughout patriarchal Judiasm.

Goddess worship was quite the norm during Biblical times and a lot of the history contained in the Old Testament consists of the old prophets admonishing the people for reverting to the pagan worship of their neighbors.

By including a frequent lens of Jungian psychological principals in his analysis, Patai demonstrates how the psychological needs for both father and mother divine projections were dealt with culturally and religiously. He suggests that the pagan goddesses of ancient times were integrated symbolically among the Jews as the Shekinah. It is also interesting to roughly compare the role of sexuality in religion rituals between the pagans and the early monotheists.

I'm not Jewish myself, but consider the Bible and Judaism to have a remarkable and foundational impact on the structure of western civilization and, of course, monotheism. As such, reading about this stuff seems pertinent to understanding the personal and collective psychology of today.

Just started writing and somehow this turned into a mini book review, so I'll post it.

My paperback copy of 21 Futures just arrived: https://21futures.com/

Gotta prepare for whatever the fuck is coming our way.

I recommend it to all, if you want to read about economic environment.

Roaring Twenties 1920-1929 has a lot of similiarities with what we're experiencing now

Cultural boom Technology boom High inflation A pandemic for start Civil war in the US(birth of KKK) High immigration rate (reason for KKK)

Here you can read: https://sites.austincc.edu/caddis/roaring-20s/

Relaxing Weekend plans : Jasmine tea 🫖, Chopin 𝄞 & reading our wonderful Christmas gifts from Mises & our beloved Erik Voorhees!

Halfway through "Broken Money" by Lyn Alden. Great read until this point. Totally worth the money.

https://braiins.com/books/bitcoin-mining-handbook

If you like Science Fiction, Adventure, Esoterim, Crime with real facts (writer ex-biologist) i recommand Empire of the Ants from Bernard Werber

Plot The plot begins as two stories that take place in parallel: one in the world of humans (in Paris), the other in the world of ants (in a Formica rufa colony in a park near Paris). The time is the early 21st century (the near future, relative to the time when Werber wrote the book). The human character receives a house and a provocative message as inheritance from his recently deceased uncle. He begins to investigate his uncle's life and mysterious activities, and decides to descend into the cellar of the house but does not return. His family and other people follow, and disappear. The ant character is a male whose foraging expedition gets destroyed in one strike, by a mysterious force that comes from above. He suspects that a colony of another ant species has attacked them with a secret weapon, and attempts to meet with the queen and to rally other ants to investigate the disaster. However, he attracts the attention of a secret group of ants within the same colony that appear to want to conceal this information. As the plot unfolds, the humans and the ants encounter new mysteries and participate in challenging events, including a war between different ant species.

Tuareg - Vazquez Figueroa Amazing plot twist. Not bitcoin related but an amazing book

I like books in classic formats (not e-books), and I read regulary. Tomorrow (or maybe on Monday) I will finish the "Sándor Mátyás" book (it is a Hungarian historical book), and the next will be "Franz Beckenbauer" by Torsten Körner

I definitely recommend you to read the book Tongue Fu. It is a pocket book that I always carry with me. It explains how to overcome situations with verbal skills by keeping both ourselves and the other person respectful in various situations that may be encountered in daily life.

I haven't been reading a while now, too much world problems

"21 Lessons" by Gigi

Chamath Palihapitiya recommended Americana a while ago, and my copy arrived this week

The Big Short

Karamazov Brothers, Dostoevsky. Once you read some high quality russian literature you realize that you can't have enough of it. Dostoevsky is a must.

The Lord of the Rings

The audiobook narrated by Andy Serkis is a masterpiece

I'm starting The Two Towers today but obviously I recommend starting with The Fellowship of the Ring.

Happy reading!

I recently read a reaaaal good one from the imo most important german philosopher of our days, Peter Sloterdijk: In The World Interior Of Capital

this unique work follows on from the so-called spheres trilogy and gets to the bottom of the psychopolitical background of the modern economy. a unique, linguistically unbelievably moving work by the great philosopher.