Europe Central by William Vollmann

The only book in the world that will make you enjoy Shostakovich's music.

In typical Vollmann style, obsessively researched. It's a long book, but very worth the read. And if you have never read anything by Vollmann, it's an excellent place to start.

Yet to begin reading, highly recommended by my circle of trust.

I like Gretchen’s conversational way of writing. She also takes into account personality differences, which makes her suggestions more feasible. So I want to learn from her how else I can better my habits

"The Blocksize War" by Jonathan Bier

An in-depth account of the “blocksize war”: the debate on a block’s ideal storage capacity. The implications of this seminal argument would affect network fees, transaction times, and the future viability of bitcoin as the true Global Reserve Currency.

Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism by Anne Applebaum. It looks at democracies demise and the rise of right-wing populist authoritarian politics as a result.

The Conquest of America (La Conquête de l'Amérique) Tzvetan Todorov; Trans. by Richard Howard

This is a great book. It explores what happens when two different cultures meet.

The French writer and critic, Tzvetan Todorov, approaches the subject as a semiotician, a student of signs, interested in the systems of signification through which cultures articulate the world and enable it to have meaning.

Spain's conquest of America in the 16th century, he says, led to ''the greatest genocide in human history.''

An estimated 90 percent of Central America's population perished in 50 years. Last year, Jonathan Culler remarked in these pages that ''The Conquest of America,'' translated by Richard Howard, is ''an engaging book that presents fascinating and often disturbing material clearly." -- New York Times.

This one changed my life via self reflection and trying to be the best version of myself year after year. It’s why I met my wife and live a balanced life. I met Harry and he’s an amazing man!

From Values to Action: The Four Principles of Values-Based Leadership By Harry Kraemer.

In this highly-anticipated book, Harry Kraemer argues that today's business environment demands values-based leaders who, in "doing the right thing," deliver outstanding and lasting results. The journey to becoming a values-based leader starts with self-reflection. He asks, "If you are not self-reflective, how can you know yourself? If you do not know yourself, how can you lead yourself? If you cannot lead yourself, how can you lead others?" Kraemer identifies self-reflection as the first of four principles that guide leaders to make choices that honor their values and candidly recounts how these principles helped him navigate some of the toughest challenges he faced in his career.

Remi Adeleke!

The best book of all times is

This is the that everyone read must in his life and take it as a guide to life. Read it, if you already haven't, and thank me later.

this one is on my reading list, not sure if i’ll get around to it this weekend though

Poor Charlie’s Almanack.

Despite his hatred for bitcoin, his lattice work of ideas that he uses as a framework for analyzing business and finding value would have made him a bitcoiner, had he had a different sphere of competence and perhaps born later.

His lattice work of ideas is what every bitcoiner utilizes to become convicted. Take a wide range of subject matter and basic knowledge, history, psychology, economics, sociology, chemistry, mathematics etc… to find a lollapalooza event, ie, massive tailwinds that leads to something significant.

Halfway through. Some of the stories are kind of gimmicky.

But fun to read what potential future bitcoin worlds would look like.

Spoilers

A kid finds an opendime in a space station thrift store with like .25 btc in it. They refer to sats as “a whole satoshi” in the story. Uber rich.

Reading Pieter Hintjens' "Culture and Empire" , and its without a doubt one of the best things i've ever read. Software, economics, geopolitics, freedom, its all there. Avaliable to read online here: https://hintjens.gitbooks.io/culture-empire/content/

Really interesting and well-written look at the current and recent state of Hong Kong.

Introduction to Bitcoin by Florin Hilbay. It is a up to date introduction to bitcoin also covering the lightning network and mentioning Nostr. Further it is hinting at the implication that the fusion of the communication and the money protocol will bring to world.

Started listening to a book called Ghost by Jason Reynolds. Need to start preparing myself and working down the list of books the student aged book club needs to read next school year.

Started with the shortest and moving up. Most can be found from our library so can listen driving or walking the dog.

The Invisible Government by Dam Smoot

The flavour thesaurus, a great book about food pairings. I will experiment some new cocktails!

Finished reading The Fiat Standard, rereading Broken Money since it was such a good read, and in order to prepare myself to eloquently explain our broken monetary system as all these bull market, "should I buy btc?" texts and DMs are beginning to fly in.

Gone Girl" by Gillian Flynn - A gripping psychological thriller about a woman's disappearance and the twisted secrets that unravel in its wake