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Levels of Energy by Frederick Dodson, Alan Watts Books, The creature from Jekyll Island, 21 Ways by nostr:nprofile1qqsxu35yyt0mwjjh8pcz4zprhxegz69t4wr9t74vk6zne58wzh0waycpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsz9thwden5te0dehhxarj9ehhsarj9ejx2a303dstl2
Extreme Ownership by Jocko ... It's a Navy seal book but the lessons, I applied to my life and it helped me tremendously
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Moral Politics by George Lakoff.
Get Lucky: 13 Techniques for Discovering and Taking Advantage of Life’s Good Breaks by Max Gunther.
The Dharma Bums woke something up inside me as a youth. The Alchemist. The Theatetus. Democracy in America. Grokking Bitcoin.
Jesus on holly bible bible.com
Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber
The Fiat Standard and The Bitcoin Standard. Next one that will maybe affect my understanding of Bitcoin‘s potential is Softwar from J. Lowery.
Man's search for meaning. Viktor Frankl
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Atlas Shrugged. Stranger in a Strange Land Promethea - Alan Moore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promethea
The Church and the Market by Tom Woods
Anything from Osho. 👉transformational👈 nostr:note1aeaw07wsppt6qyeqkprxuwgmgwhu6ecyq4jr5as895mdnq5p0h5s283vjj
In no particular order: - Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand) - The 10 Natural Laws of Successful Time and Life Management (Hyrum W. Smith) - The Millionaire Next Door (Thomas Stanley) - Essentialism (Greg McKeown) - The Holy Bible (God et al) - Free to Focus (Michael Hyatt) - Soundtracks (Jon Acuff) - The Legacy Journey (Dave Ramsey)
Thinking Fast and Slow Freedom from the Known Meditations Intelligent Investor The monk who sold his ferrari nostr:nevent1qqswu7h8l8gqs4aqzvstq3nw8yd58t7dvuzq2ep6wcrj6dkes2qhm6gpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtczyzm7669svt0xkjsju50a22zurc0qa589z2xd4yatzx6p2z64a5e0cqcyqqqqqqgdp2l7j
Getting Things Done by David Allen, the original ~2002 edition. https://www.amazon.com/Getting-Things-Done-Stress-Free-Productivity/dp/0142000280
Human Action (Mises) Kritik der reinen Vernunft (Kant) Das Kapital (Karl Marx) Apology (Plato) Book of Woodcraft and Indian Lore; The Birch Bark Roll of Woodcraft (Setton) Not in any particular order.
Ego is the Enemy (R Holiday) Essentialism (G McKeown) Shoe Dog (P Knight) Obstacle is the Way (R Holiday) Open (A Agassi) Grit (A Duckworth)
- The dictionary of legal bullshit - Chrysalis - The dictators handbook - The book of five rings - Art of war - The Life of Mestre Bimba - Backyard Pharmacy - Bridge to Terrabethia - Hardening a Debian Server - 5th generation warfare - Pearl of the Stars - Demon Sermon on the Mound
Red Rising series
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
There were a lot of books that were informative or changed my mind on certain topics, but for what changed my life the most I'd have to say "Getting Things Done" by David Allen. Actually putting what that book taught me in practice really did change my life for the better. First I got all the day to day stuff organized, but the really cool part was what happened after that: I started being much more stoic about "stuff" in general, and way more strategic about what I want.
These books altered or expanded my perspective in a memorable way: Candide Seneca’s Epistles Epictetus’ Handbook (The Practicing Stoic is a great compilation/guide) Maxims of La Rochefoucauld Tao Te Ching (Red Pine translation) The Portable Nietzsche (Walter Kaufmann translation) Siddhartha, Demian by Herman Hesse The Myth of Sisyphus, The Rebel by Albert Camus How We Live and Why We Die: The Secret Lives of Cells The Unique and Its Property/The Ego and Its Own How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World The Cowboy Havamal Hayek’s Challenge Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism Economics in One Lesson The Bitcoin Standard, The Fiat Standard
Softwar by Jason Lowery
✓ Holy Bible ✓ What Has Government Done to Our Money? ✓ Human Action ✓ Thank God for Bitcoin ✓ The Sovereign Individual ✓ The Bitcoin Standard .............................................................................
basic answer but The Bitcoin Standard really does stand so far above the rest for me
Dante in the inferno ruined my life 😂
Joseph Campbell gave me ‘permission’ to be my whole self. The Masks of God
Aparição - Vergílio Ferreira https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2605280-apari-o
these ones and a couple more https://stacker.news/items/681790
The description for Cracking the Code sounds like a cancerous justification for more govt & more theft, what benefit does that one have?
The Bitcoin standard! This book made dig deeper on the federal reserve
How to win friends & influence people - Dale Carnegie
"The Holographic Universe" by Michael Talbot "The Awakening of Intelligence" by Jiddu Krishnamurti "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius "Mastery" by Robert Greene And of course, the Bitcoiner classics: "The Sovereign Individual" by William Rees-Mogg, James Dale Davidson "The Creature from Jekyll Island" by G. Edward Griffin "The Fourth Turning" by William Strauss, Neil Howe "The Price of Tomorrow" by @Jeff Booth "The Bitcoin Standard" by @saifedean
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
- The Bible - Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell - The Aquinas Catechism by Saint Thomas Aquinas - O Jardin das Aflições by Olavo de Carvalho
Tao te Ching Virtue of selfishness (Ayn Rand) Six pillars of self esteem (it’s actually a truly good book on psychology) Almanac of naval ravikant Now I read atlas shrugged and I’d say indeed it changes my life :) Overall, the books change me, they shape my perspective on the world and myself. It’s my compensation of good intellectual conversation. It influences us :)
The Power Of Now - Eckhart Tolle.
4 Hour Work Week Outwitting the Devil Celestine Prophecy The Millionaire Masterplan The Fiat Standard Broken Money The Creature from Jeckyll Island Turning Pro Conversations with God Living with a SEAL have been the most influential for me
Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner Go Rin no Sho by Miyamoto Musashi
Lots of books changed my life. But Atlas Shrugged was THE book that ENTIRELY changed my life. I re-read it every year on January 1st (for 14 years now) as a gift to myself and to re-orient my moral compass. I find something new every time.
Tell us more. How has it changed your life?
I also re-read Atlas fairly regularly (I lost count somewhere beyond 20 times). There is always something to get out of that book. Gulag Archipelago is an amazing read too. With Gulag the abridged version is actually much better, they mostly just organize the book & they include explainations of what is cut out & where to find it.
By far one of the most remarkable books I've read, it has truly sparked a change in my thinking. https://m.primal.net/KpQO.jpg
so many pretty much everything by nietzsche, dostoyevsky and sartre sophies world when I was a kid the tao of physics celestine prophecy borges short stories a few books on ken wilbur's AQAL theory cien años de soledad don quixote pretty much everything by a.huxley, esp island and moksha the lean startup rob green 48 laws of power machiavelli's prince spinoza's ethics be here now by ram dass siddhartha by hesse many of shakespeare's plays, especially lear, othello i could go on, but they're a few off the top of my head 🫡
1) The Bible 2) Meditations by Marcus Aurelius 3) The Bitcoin Standard by @saifedean
Govopoly by Ed Seykota. He described what was coming in the US with system dynamics models and pictures (and text), in a way that anyone can understand, in 2010. Also the first person to introduce me to the idea of sound money.
- A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn - Great Expectations by Charles Dickens - The Network State by Balaji Srinivasan - When Money Dies by Adam Fergusson - Zero to One by Peter Thiel
the Way of the peaceful Warrior, by Dan Millman
Good book, & the movie is actually pretty decent too.
Chaos by Tom O‘Neill
Sometimes it hits me really hard with how many interesting people are on the nostr already. It seems like organic growth with little hype. nostr:nevent1qqswu7h8l8gqs4aqzvstq3nw8yd58t7dvuzq2ep6wcrj6dkes2qhm6gpremhxue69uhkummnw3ez6ur4vgh8wetvd3hhyer9wghxuet59upzpdlddzcx9hntfgfw28749pwpu8sw6rj39rx6jw43rdq4pd276vhuqvzqqqqqqy7r5tty
Many of the books already listed here. One that I did not see mentioned was The Anarchist Handbook - Michael Malice A collection of essays that gives you a good taste of different breeds of anarchism from different time periods.
Atlas Shrugged & 1984
Jonathan Livingston Seagul by Richard Bach https://image.nostr.build/21310f49c2ef597fae07b87747b7e7c1cbf03b02885511d9686576d01ddbf6b0.jpg
Shantaram ❤️
¿Qué libros han cambiado tu vida? 📚 Los míos: - La rebelión de Atlas de Ayn Rand - 1984 de George Orwell nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzpdlddzcx9hntfgfw28749pwpu8sw6rj39rx6jw43rdq4pd276vhuqqswu7h8l8gqs4aqzvstq3nw8yd58t7dvuzq2ep6wcrj6dkes2qhm6gpmzuet
Macroscope by Piers Anthony. Reads like a somewhat trashy but engaging sci-fi but basically presages everything that's happened in 40 years since it was written (in a deep way, not as in "there will be an internet and flying cars" but as in "there will be waves of change which will look like bad things but will actually be good because they drive human adaptation"). Diceman by Luke Rhinehart Again seems a bit superficial but actually leaving decisionmaking to chance is totally mindblowing - illuminates what you are doing, or think you're doing, when you're taking decisions yourselves - and so illuminates what you are, really.
1) 1984 by Orwell was a pivot point back in school 2) The Power of Now by Tolle gave me a path to set towards 3) Democracy by Hoppe made me understand why government by force sucks balls 4) Siddharta by Hesse is just beautifully written Honourable mentions: 21 Lessons by Gigi, Doors of perception by Huxley and Die Welt von Gestern by Stefan Zweig
The Bitcoin Standard The price of tomorrow
25 Stories I would tell my Younger Self https://www.amazon.com/Stories-would-tell-Younger-Self/dp/9881485002
The Morning of the Magicians - Book by Jacques Bergier and Louis Pauwels - this is NOT a fantasy book but more a fact based histoiry of some things about mankind that not many people talk about... opened my eyes WIDE
Plato's #book, The Phaedo. I worked hard on that book in high school and that's why I took up #philosophy. nostr:note1aeaw07wsppt6qyeqkprxuwgmgwhu6ecyq4jr5as895mdnq5p0h5s283vjj
Mastering Bitcoin
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Primeiro mergulhando em Platão, deitado na rede, em algumas várias férias. Logo Hegel e mais Hegel, e Platão e mais Platão :)
1. Mystery of Capitol by De Soto fundamental changed how I view the world. 2. Book of Job changed how I viewed tough times in life 3. Knowing God by J I Packer also changed my who life from the ground up 4. Lord of the Rings Trilogy changed my taste in story telling when I was young. 5. Mere Christianity by c s Lewis had a huge impact on myself at the time I read it. first 5 that came to mind!
Atlas Shrugged
Tao Te Ching Finite and Infinite Games The Brothers Karamazov Slaughterhouse Five Man’s Search for Meaning Moby-Dick Blood Meridian Lolita The Book Thief East of Eden The Stranger Life of Pi
1984
all of them.. they don't always change your life for the good though. Infact, they just offer perspective. It's up to you to use your own brain to critically think about the point that's being made. Every single book changes your world view. Therfore every single book changes your life. Probably. https://image.nostr.build/4da9fa6427148aefce67b26827804e9506d9bc1f710482c1794e6c0c3f2234db.jpg
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig
You too eh? That book taught me more about patience and observation of my world than any other book.
Yeah Maybe cause it was also an amazing time when I was younger and traveling the world. I think he has some interesting philosophy like romantics and .... (Can't remember, but more structured people). The sequel Lola was also great.
It seems the book hit us at the same age. I can remember reading it on “our last family vacation” and thinking the freedom the author had still had physical limits but it was enjoyed as ones life should be. Also Sequel? Interesting.
You can reach the top - Zig Ziglar
Character Building by Booker T Washington
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
Honor Thy Father is a 1971 book by Gay Talese, about the travails of the Bonanno crime family in the 1960s, especially Salvatore Bonanno and his father Joseph "Joe Bananas" Bonanno.
Jesus from Holy Bible
"Psychologie der Massen" von Gustave LeBon.
The Power Broker by Robert A Caro, really gave me insight into how the world works. A stunning read. Probably my favourite book of all time. The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, all the evils of socialism laid bare.
‘Changed’ interpreted as shaped or formed *“Bible Old Testament”* *“Bible New Testament”* *“On Liberty” - John Stuart Mill* “Euthyphro” - Plato “Meditations of First Philosophy” - Rene Descartes “Critique of Pure Reason” - Immanuel Kant *“Fear and Trembling” - Kierkegaard* “Repetition” - Kierkegaard *“Economics textbooks”* “Ethics” - Dietrich Bonhoeffer Probably others Significance in *this* #bookstr #books #grownostr
I like your list. How has Kierkegaard influenced you?
So following Kant and Descartes I was left with the limits of what can be known and understood by reason and experience from the senses. What I got out of Kierkegaard was what you do with yourself in that state. Without verifiable deductive proof and with imperfect senses, uncertainty permeates everything. And that’s just it. That’s the state you live in. You exist, you can’t know much more, and there is no fool proof way out to anything else. For a young, very too much, rational person as I was at the time, the obliteration of logic as “the path” to truth was disruptive. Kierkegaards embrace of the aesthetic, and the “leap of faith”, based on nothing more than will and the generation of passion to live according to a choice despite there being no proof for it and the absurdity you will confront in it was important in maturing myself beyond the purely logical limited existence I would have tried to live otherwise.
I'm sure they all change me in some respect, but two recent books come to mind that have changed my perspective on life somewhat * How to Know a Person - David Brooks (becoming better at understanding people and relationships) * Four Thousand Weeks - Oliver Burkeman (time is the most scarce resource)
Bible: saved my soul, made me a better person and improved my relationships. Facebook: sapped my soul, made me a narcissist and killed my marriage.
Fear and loathing in las vegas
The Sovereign Individual The Bitcoin Standard
Philosophy: Lao Tzu - Dao de Ching Aristotle - Nichomachean Ethics Leonard Peikoff - Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (I was first influenced by Rand's fiction which is good to get a sense of her spirit, especially Anthem which is concise, but for a non-fiction treatment I think Peikoff best) Richard Dawkins - The Selfish Gene (but ignore his baseless protests to reject the moral implications of his scientific work and his pleas to retain Christian morality) Language: Marshall Rosenberg - Nonviolent Communication Investing: Ben Graham - The Intelligent Investor Jim Rogers - Hot Commodities Money & Banking: G. Edward Griffin - The Creature from Jekyll Island (among many others, but this was first)
The Bitcoin Standard
Man's Search For Meaning - Viktor E Frankl It will help alleviate your depression.
How to win friends and influence people.
These books changed everyone's lives, whether they know it or not: Disquisitiones Arithmeticae Elements of Algebra
Hans Hoppe: Democracy the God that Failed. Mises: Socialism
The Gospel.
Atomic Habits - James Clear
Atlas Shrugged by Rand. First read it when I was 14...
Social Conquest of Earth by Edward O. Willson
Other than BTC/libertarian books: 1. The Betrothed (Manzoni), any time you read it is different 2. Der Zauberberg (Mann), read it while in a hospital bed, perfect place for that book 3. Divine Comedy (Dante), tough to read even for Italians, but you can find in it anything about human nature
Art of living by William hart . Free available https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHRr1O_LkUQ&list=PLqJKEJ86Yr6BWUy7XAvS08TAY78c-h4HN
The Last Lecture. I read it twice, which is a rare occurrence. Could easily pick it up again. nostr:note1aeaw07wsppt6qyeqkprxuwgmgwhu6ecyq4jr5as895mdnq5p0h5s283vjj
The Bible.
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
Alcoholics Anonymous
Fit For Life A Course in Miracles
Born to Run got me started with barefoot running.
Empire Of The Sun
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Turtles All The Way Down: Vaccine Science and Myth
Nassim Taleb‘s Incerto Series. Especially „Antifragile“. It eventually got me looking into #Bitcoin again. Which I find ironic because he is pretty anti bitcoin nowadays 🤷♂️ But it got me thinking: „if the whole financial system is on the brink’s of collapse, could #Bitcoin be the one thing that gets stronger if all else fails?“ And the journey into the rabbit hole began. Slowly at first, of course. Then I didn’t fing my way back out :)
Sacred Marriage by Gary Thomas - changed my mental model for marriage The Power of Bad by John Tierney & Roy Baumeister - I quit poker despite being profitable after realizing I was turning into an ass Manifesto by Mike Busch - gave me the framework to buy an airplane Mere Christianity by CS Lewis - fundamental in my coming to Christ nostr:nevent1qqsp40v44e8kn638k794tjjy4ppsnuv5t7ks3jj4z8sr4nxw754zl3spr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmp0qgstrlj8m9dnzt8ltaacf3325s6qaz208vxrjl2qhetvdm5j0p5xw8qrqsqqqqqpt0ttrd nostr:nevent1qqswu7h8l8gqs4aqzvstq3nw8yd58t7dvuzq2ep6wcrj6dkes2qhm6gpr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmp0qgst0mtgkp3du662ztj3l4fgts0purksu5fgek5n4vgmg9gt2hkn9lqrqsqqqqqpsnjp06
The bible
Biopiracy - vandana shiva Killers of the flower moon - david grann. Passage to India - e m forester A long way gone - ishmael beah Pedagogy of the oppressed- paulo freire Last chance to see - mark cawardine douglas adams Three body problem - cixie liu A wrinkle in time - lengle madeleine Band aid for a broken leg - daimiam brown Medium is the message - marshall mcluhan Small is beautiful - e f schumacher Brave new world - aldous huxley Em and the big hoom - jerry pinto Flowers for algernon - daniel keyes Fountainhead Walden Calvin and hobbes Hitchhikers guide The god of small things - arundhati roy
- Waking Up by Sam Harris
- Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
- The Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous
- FIAT Food by Matthew Lysiak why we sleep is probably the most impactful book i’ve come across for health and performance improvement. any non-fiction as the fifth pick on your list?
Here are some absolute masterpieces that have left a lasting impression on me: - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami - A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara - Conversation in the Cathedral by Mario Vargas Llosa - Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry - Stoner by John Williams - The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt - Confessions by Jaume Cabré - A Treatise on Shelling Beans by Wiesław Myśliwski - The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco - Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Thanks to your recommendation, I just finished ALOWM, which made me purchase the bible. Let's see were that leads me to... (no spoilers, please!)
Nice! What do you think about A Lodging of Wayfaring Men?
Just added this to my book buying list!
To think it was published in the mid 2000s and before the whitepaper! It reminded me again how we are standing on the shoulders of giants and free-thinking minds, who conceptualized fictional places like Galt's Gulch (physical) or Gamma (digital), then created digital reality (Bitcoin or nostr), giving us the chance to shape our physical reality and become wayfaring giants ourselves, utilizing our full potential and inspire others.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Development as Freedom Freedom from the Known Nonviolent Communication Siddharta Man's Search for Meaning Atlas Shrugged The Untethered Soul Consciousness Medicine Anna Karenina The Drowned and the Saved Madness and Civilization Conversations with David Foster Wallace Principles Let My People Go Surfing
Sovereign Individual - if you think about when it was written and compare it with nowadays, absolut fantastic.
Saved for later. lol nostr:note1aeaw07wsppt6qyeqkprxuwgmgwhu6ecyq4jr5as895mdnq5p0h5s283vjj