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2581 sats \ 26 comments \ @sn 27 Jan BooksAndArticles

What books are you all reading this weekend? Any topic counts!

Still chipping through Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell, but also reading The Mandibles by Lionel Shriver as part of a bitcoiner book club

592 sats \ 4 replies \ @TNStacker 27 Jan

Black Knights: The Story of the Tuskegee Airmen

https://m.stacker.news/13921

My grandfather was an Airman. I am proud, but he never spoke of it. He could not forgive America for the treatment he received after proving his worth, manhood, bravery, and citizenship over Italian and German skies.

692 sats \ 1 reply \ @Doo_Deux 28 Jan

I wish I could zap this so much you feel static electricity.

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @TNStacker 28 Jan

🙏🏾

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 27 Jan

That is very cool, and very sad. Have you ever tried to get his military record?

81 sats \ 0 replies \ @TNStacker 27 Jan

We have it. My dad was career USAF, too. Two tours in Vietnam. His dad was so disenchanted he didn't speak to my dad when he joined. They made up later.

126 sats \ 0 replies \ @kr 27 Jan

this weekend i’m digging into Zoning Rules to better understand the world of land zoning regulations.

321 sats \ 0 replies \ @dgy 27 Jan

I picked up another book from bitcoin-resources.com: It Doesn'T Have To Be Crazy At Work by David Heinemeier Hansson

234 sats \ 2 replies \ @kurszusz 27 Jan

I just finished this one yesterday:

https://m.stacker.news/13917

Rich Dad Poor Dad Robert T. Kiyosaki, 2022

and starte this today:

https://m.stacker.news/13918

Think and Grow Rich Napoleon Hill, 2005

And the next will be (hopefully next weekend I cant start it to read):

https://m.stacker.news/13919

The Intelligent Investor Benjamin Graham, 2006

554 sats \ 0 replies \ @cleaningup12 27 Jan

Wasn't until I read RdPd that the phrase 'the rich don't work for money, they make money work for them' really resonated with me

If you've got $10m and it earns 2% = $200K

That money figuratively gets up at 5am goes to work for 8hrs in a stuffy office with bad A/C drives home in rush hour traffic, while you wake up at 10am being fed grapes by a gorgeous blonde 🤣

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Doo_Deux 28 Jan

'Rich Dad, Poor Dad's' Robert Kiyosaki Says He's $1.2 Billion In Debt Because 'If I Go Bust, The Bank Goes Bust. Not My Problem'

I mean, he's not wrong.

729 sats \ 1 reply \ @lumps 27 Jan freebie

Programmed To Kill by David McGowan.

This was on my Kobo forever and I'm not sure what motivated me to download it but if you want a glimpse into mind control, pedophile rings, corrupt government, Satanic ritual abuse, mass murder, and how they are tied together, this book is for you.

Makes you wonder to make of the underground Jew tunnels, innumerable high profile gov't officials/celebs/etc labeled as pedos, etc etc

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @lumps 28 Jan freebie

I want to give you a taste of how tangled this web is and who you may (not) think is participating.

Let's take the Best Friends Animal Society - https://bestfriends.org/

Seems like a good cause, right? Keep reading...

Looking at Wikipedia, we can see that they were formerly called - Best Friends Animal Sanctuary; Foundation Faith of the Millennium; and Process Church of the Final Judgement.

Let's examine the Process Church as described in the book:

"In the early 1960s, two ranking members of the Church of Scientology—Robert Moore and Mary Anne MacLean, better known as the DeGrimstons—split off from London’s Hubbard Institute to form the Process Church of the Final Judgment *** —a group whose official logo is a modified swastika and whose literature included glowing tributes to Nazism, Satan, gore and necrophilia"

*** "A February 2004 report from Denver’s Rocky Mountain News revealed that the Process Church is alive and well today after a series of name changes (Lou Kilzer “Friends Find Their Calling,” February 28, 2004)."

STILL ALIVE AND WELL!?

"From its inception, the Process made no effort to hide its infatuation with death, destruction and cultural terrorism. .... Another essay that appeared in the official Process publication urged readers to experience the pleasures of grave robbing and necrophilia."

"The group, which still includes many original members, is now known to rub shoulders with various Hollywood celebrities."

"Author Michael Newton has written: “If law-enforcement spokesmen are correct, the cult is also deeply involved in white slavery, child pornography, and the international narcotics trade.”"

Absolutely insane, and I'm not saying this book should be taken as the gospel, but when you start to do your own fact-checking, and take into consideration some of the absurd sentencing some criminals receive now-a-days, it becomes more and more plausible that this world is a lot more fucked than you might imagine.

671 sats \ 0 replies \ @elvismercury 27 Jan

The Power Broker by Robert Caro. Enough people have said that Caro is basically the best biographer to have ever lived, and the books are the best biographies ever written, to have got me to bite. I'm plotting and scheming how to make the most of it.

117 sats \ 2 replies \ @Scoresby 27 Jan

I've been reading some of the cyberpunk classics lately, and enjoyed William Gibson's Neuromancer.

Here's a little review if you want to know more about it.

624 sats \ 1 reply \ @2d 27 Jan

I almost got this yesterday and am taking this as a sign, thank you

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @2d 12 Feb

Bumping this, have been taking it slower than usual but loving it so far

763 sats \ 1 reply \ @BitcoinIsTheFuture 28 Jan

I Will Teach You to Be Rich

As the title of the book suggests, this book delivers on a plan to be rich. The author, Ramit Sethi, has a background in personal finance and provides a detailed six-week plan for living out a “rich life.”

This book on money covers a wide variety of aspects like using credit cards and maximizing rewards from them, opening a high-yield savings account, and automating accounts where you can save money with no effort from you at all. This book is filled with nothing but pure actions that are outlined and sectioned off in a good way.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei 28 Jan

Incidentally, I loved Ramit’s show on Netflix. So much so that I reviewed it on my IG

During a recent outing, I learnt that a friend had changed her job. Another friend chimed in to state that she had embarked on a job I would be interested in. Without missing a beat, I mentioned something about linking people and developing the capacity of rural communities. It turned out that my friend had undertaken a job with Providend. I guess I do have a keen interest in money because I binge-watched all 8 episodes of “How to Get Rich” on Netflix. What struck me most was the easy way in which Ramit Sethi interacted with his clients and people on the streets. Everyone just seemed to pour their financial worries on him. Yet he remained unfazed by it all, maintaining his clarity and giving good analogies and making people laugh. Honestly I hope to be like him. I love meeting people from all walks of life too. Though I doubt if many would be interested to learn from the expertise I have acquired wrt English Teaching all these years lol. The title of his show sounds crass but after realising how he relates his advice to the concept of a “rich life”, it kinda grew on me. Ramit Sethi met clients from a multitude of backgrounds in the show: soon-to-be-married couples, struggling couples, successful single millennials, a rich socialite. Their money worries are as varied as day and night, but Ramit puts everyone at ease, getting them to consolidate their finances and come up with a conscious spending plan and visualise their rich life. Over the course of the show, his clients develop a glow that’s compelling to watch. It’s amazing how people can turn their financial narrative around in just six weeks. And how Ramit manages them with a unique blend of sensitivity and assertiveness, getting them to shed their flawed money personalities and develop better money habits.

524 sats \ 0 replies \ @Fabs 27 Jan

Have a look at my post earlier this day:

#403152

My book recommendation is titled: "What is Life" by Paul Nurse, and it looks like it's his first book, inducing me with hopes for many more to come! (Yay!)

75 sats \ 0 replies \ @Malachi17 27 Jan

Borderless by Design. Quite relevant at the moment.

37 sats \ 0 replies \ @Roll 27 Jan

This is a manga, not a book, hope it can enter in this section :

VAGABOND BY TAKEHITO INOUE Although Inoue is well-known for his sports manga, Vagabond is his foray into the historical samurai genre. This series is a fictionalized account of Miyamoto Musashi’s life. If his name sounds familiar, there’s a good reason. He’s the legendary Japanese historical swordsman who wrote The Book of the Five Rings

16 sats \ 0 replies \ @OT 27 Jan

Richest Man in Babylon

Its interesting to see what life was like back then. I think bitcoin has broken some of the wisdom in the book (chasing yield). Still quite a fascinating book IMO