(Part 2) Best it business books according to redditors
We found 414 Reddit comments discussing the best it business books. We ranked the 148 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
31. Fleshing Out Skull & Bones: Investigations into America's Most Powerful Secret Society
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http://www.amazon.com/dp/007802935X
You should buy this book:
Ringside: A History of Professional Wrestling in America https://www.amazon.com/dp/027598401X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_bJ5kxbHKX6P8F
It wasn't overnight, but for a shorter read here's a good look at perhaps the most important change agents in wrestling:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Dust_Trio?wprov=sfsi1
I recommend you read Web Marketing for Dummies, it has a really well written Adwords section.
There's a good sample workflow in Advanced Google Adwords 3rd Ed that I stole.
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Granted how often you do these will depend on the size of the account and how much control over the target website you have.
It's often easier to do one thing at a time (especially keyword research, which breaks up my mental flow for any other task) or copywriting. Also, I think it's easier to plan ad ad groups around relevant keywords rather than picking the ad groups first and then doing keyword research.
What it often looks like for me is
I would start with Cover & Thomas' book, read concurrently with a serious probability book such as Resnick's or Feller's.
I would also take a look at Mackay's book later as it ties notions from Information theory and Inference together.
At this point, you have a grad-student level understanding of the field. I'm not sure what to do to go beyond this level.
For crypto, you should definitely take a look at Goldreich's books:
Foundations Vol 1
Foundations Vol 2
Modern Crypto
Also, I think the edition before that is 30 Rock.
You'll notice the Photoshopping of the cover on the cover of the book they're holding, on the cover of the book they're holding...
If you enjoy reading about what it takes to build / engineer cars, I highly reccomed this book:
https://www.amazon.com/Car-American-Workplace-Mary-Walton/dp/0393318613
This book is also pretty good.
https://www.amazon.com/Critical-Path-Automobile-Reinventing-Corporation/dp/0316967084
No they are lost. Even Freemasons historians themselves admit the deeper Mysteries disappeared when the Knights Templar were destroyed. Of course they could be lying to keep it secret. Basically from what I've read it's really all based off the Kabbalah anyway.
Book to read
Born in Blood: The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry https://www.amazon.com/dp/0871316021/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_5Pi-BbBEEQFQY
A Pilgrim's Path: Freemasonry and the Religious Right https://www.amazon.com/dp/087131732X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_OOi-BbWS9R8EE
Masonic Enlightenment - The Philosophy, History and Wisdom of Freemasonry https://www.amazon.com/dp/1887560750/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_FPi-BbRGPWBW3
Billingsley,
Resnick, and
Chung are probably the 3 standards, each with their own advantage. Resnick's is the easiest to read from, Chung's has the most rigor, Billingsley is a balance of the two. You'll probably want Resnick (it seems to be the favorite of young people), but Billingsley is the only one I've used for a class. It's OK. If it weren't for lectures it would have been unreadable for me.
Edit: these are all grad level probability books. You'll need your analysis knowledge to make any use of them.
Data Smart and Data Science for Business
Here's the first edition: 30 Rock
> They attend certain mosques (generally Saudi funded) and they are absolutely on a religious quest rather than a political one.
It's not at all clear that 1) a religious motivation precludes a political motivation or 2) a religious motivation at an individual level precludes a structural political problem (for instance, doing a poor job of integrating foreigners from certain parts of the world) that produces a pipeline that tends to send more people towards terrorist groups.
> With 911 nearly all of the terrorists had PHds and were doctors and engineers.
Yes, I know. It's actually quite common for suicide bombers to be relatively better educated than the general population, but that is not inconsistent with the claim that suicide terrorism tends to be associated with political (useful descriptive study methodological failings aside) and economic grievances (or a disconnect between what one's expected returns are and the economy of the country in question, which is my pet theory about what's underlying this study). Nor is it even useful to lump terrorist groups together as an analytic category.
> It's not wrong to say that certain factions are dangerous. Certain factions of Christian identity movement are dangerous too. And we have no problem labeling and blaming the propagators of these Christian beliefs as bigots, so why the double standard?
I'm not defending their ideology. I'm just saying fixating on what we call it is pointless. And the analogy to Christian extremists breaks down where we do not come close to generalizing from, say, abortion clinic bombers to Christians in the way people tend to about terrorists and Muslims.
All of these are ones that I own and would recommend:
https://www.amazon.com/Shooters-Toughest-Men-Professional-Wrestling/dp/1770410406/ref=sr_1_38?ie=UTF8&qid=1493334562&sr=8-38&keywords=pro+wrestling+books
https://www.amazon.com/Greatest-Professional-Wrestlers-All-Time/dp/1770411046/ref=sr_1_55?ie=UTF8&qid=1493334635&sr=8-55&keywords=history+of+pro+wrestling
https://www.amazon.com/Ringside-History-Professional-Wrestling-America/dp/027598401X/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1493334676&sr=8-4&keywords=history+of+professional+wrestling
https://www.amazon.com/Pioneers-Professional-Wrestling-Tim-Corvin/dp/1480804584/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1493334676&sr=8-8&keywords=history+of+professional+wrestling
Sounds like you are interested in Operations Research as a discipline.
If you are looking for something to give you ideas about what longterm projects and outcomes look like, something like this book here(The Applied Business Analytics Casebook: Applications in Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, and Operations Research) might be good.
If you are looking for something more hands on, then either the Rardin or Nocedal and Wright books might be a good starting point.
Here are the ideas I could think of:
That's all I got....Maybe if there are other people in the family, they might be able to give ideas of other things that the couple like besides Harley Davidson...Because sometimes people like to do something but they don't want their entire life to become that one thing. But if they really love everything Harley...then there are a lot of home decor things...Dish Towels, Welcome, Rugs, Key Hooks, Wall Art, Sculptures, Wood Carvings, Etched Glassware.
Since you are obviously trolling at this point, without even trying to back up your claims - like i said; Go read the books about it.
I have better things to do then arguing with someone who's attitude is right out of a trashbin. (:
Whaddaya wanna know?
Books can help
http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Harley-Davidson-Model---Model/dp/0760303266/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1405429006&sr=8-9&keywords=history+of+harley+davidson
http://www.amazon.com/100-Years-Harley-Davidson-Willie/dp/0821228196/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1405428944&sr=8-2&keywords=history+of+harley+davidson
Yeah, what do you now think of the historical efforts to turn the british empire into an Imperial federation?
>Supporters of Imperial Federation regarded the United Kingdom as having two possible futures; imperial union and continued long-term importance or imperial dissolution and the reduction of the status of the UK to a second-class nation.
The latter seems to have come to fruition. How do you feel about this when considering that many of the good things in this world surfaced in England( respect for the individual, and the effective separation of religious, political and economic powers) ? It's outlined to some extent in the Anglosphere challenge.
OKcupid did a huge study on this a few years back and the book Dataclysm goes into more detail about their findings.
By and large, men have no sexual interest whatsoever in women over 25 when younger girls are present.
It's a little dated, but I used the techniques in this book to beat SEARS for top rankings in adwords for google searches for my appliance repair business.
The vast majority of what it teaches is timeless and I'm sure much of it will apply to doing a banner campaign.
Also, fun fact, when one company called me to try to sell me Adwords services, I was in a smart assed mood. I asked for the supervisor and and started asking specific questions about Adwords techniques, seriously highly advanced stuff. I was playing with him for fun. Halfway through, he started taking notes. I jokingly asked if he wanted me to come in and train his staff on Adwords :D
https://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Google-AdWords-Brad-Geddes-ebook/dp/B00K49GO4S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1511022380&sr=8-1&keywords=advanced+adwords
Same author also has a book with a pretty funny title: "The Terrorist's Dilemma: Managing Violent Covert Organizations".
I remember a few months ago Moktar Belmoktar was fired by Al-Qaeda partly over his sloppy expense reporting.
Must be a tough racket.
My favorite measure-theoretic probability book is A Probability Path
Thanks. I actually found a separate SHRM-CP/SCP study guide coming out on October 2016 that's a lot cheaper on Amazon. Not sure how reliable it'll be but I think I'll invest in that:
http://www.amazon.com/SHRM-CP-SHRM-SCP-Certification-All-Guide/dp/1259583422/ref=oosr
BONUS:
I didn’t really use the learning system too much, tbh. I used the flash cards and this book.
Edit: I skimmed this one as well.
I've taught with that book before in a previous edition. And it had the 30 Rock cover
Looking it up on Amazon shows that these guys like to use movies and tv for their books: http://www.amazon.com/Organizational-Behavior-Improving-Performance-Commitment/dp/007802935X?tag=ap0a7eddd0-20
Surprised they haven't gotten in trouble.
Sure. For the Brotherhood of Death I would recommend reading this book and this book.
Politicians, businessmen and bureaucrats talk about the New World Order all the time. You just have to listen:
Henry Kissinger in 1994: "The New World Order cannot happen without U.S. participation, as we are the most significant single component. Yes, there will be a New World Order, and it will force the United States to change its perceptions"
George Bush Sr in 1990, also a member of the Brotherhood of Death: "The crisis in the Persian Gulf, as grave as it is, also offers a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective—a New World Order—can emerge: a new era, freer from the threat of terror, stronger in the pursuit of justice, and more secure in the quest for peace. An era in which the nations of the world, east and west, north and south, can prosper and live in harmony."
I would perhaps recommend this book or this one but there are many more...
Note that none of the authors are "conspiracy theorists". Antony Sutton was an economist at the Hoover Institution. Caroll Quigley was a professor at Georgetown. Sean Stone is an actor and director, etc.
For those who enjoy the OKCupid style data check out their co founders book 'Dataclysm', I am currently on the last chapter and have loved it, great book on data.
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Pilgrims Path, by Robinson
http://www.amazon.com/Pilgrims-Path-Freemasonry-Religious-Right/dp/087131732X
> Surprising to me because growing up in the 80's Chrysler was always perceived as the ones lacking serious quality control.
The minivan changed a lot of that, this is a really good read if you can get it cheap from one of the used sellers: http://www.amazon.com/The-Critical-Path-Reinventing-Corporation/dp/0316967084
Best book on The Order of Skull and Bones:
https://www.amazon.com/Fleshing-Out-Skull-Bones-Investigations/dp/0975290606
I am currently taking a Optimization & Control course, using this textbook: https://www.amazon.com/Numerical-Optimization-Operations-Financial-Engineering/dp/0387303030
I haven't spent much time with it yet, but I have had several people tell me it's a highly recommended book.
The surprising thing about this whole freelance writing world is that you have to find your special niche.
I have very similar credentials as you, but couldn't find work as a "Jill of All Trades." Instead, I had to narrow it down.
The other thing: just start applying.
You won't learn what you want, what you can handle, or what you really need until you get into the game. I started on oDesk and currently pay all of my bills from there. Sure, my expenses are low, but that's quite an achievement since I've been doing this less than a year.
Also, either get a domain name or start a free blog on Wordpress or Blogger. Add a portfolio, About page, and more relevant information. Even if this isn't big right away, you want people to have a place to find YOU.
Currently, I tend to work as a social media manager and blogger with a few odd jobs in between (and I mean odd). To prepare myself, I read Web Copy That Sells - major eye-opener for me, The Social Media Bible - incredible asset, and quite a few others. There are tons of wonderful resources, and many great places to work.
Really, the very first place I went to get experience as an online writer was HubPages. I was too nervous to write a hub at first, so I read and answered questions, posted comments on other peoples' articles, and just scoped out the scene.
Then, I made the jump into writing, and realized there was absolutely nothing to be scared of. It's a natural segue for people like us, and is a doable, worthy job.
You might want to start there. It's very simple, but even those 10-15 minutes you've been allotting can be used to create a deeper, stronger profile. It's perfect for those of us on the cusp of entering the freelance workforce, and there are many writers on there offering advice and expertise.
Check it out!
A Pilgrim's Path by John J. Robinson. He wrote it as a non-mason and then joined.
https://www.amazon.com/product-reviews/087131732X
Also, Kevin Carson's Organization Theory is a great read...
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This book by the head data scientist at MailChimp goes through a bunch of sophisticated analyses exclusively in Excel.
Dataclysm is an interesting read in case you haven't read it. Written by the creator of OKCupid.
I just published a book on this, sorry for the plug but it’s here if you are interested https://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Guide-commerce-Growth-Unexpected-ebook/dp/B07L6NFZMD/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?keywords=ultimate+guide+ecommerce+growth&qid=1556920325&s=gateway&sr=8-1
We have scaled a lot of fashion stores over the past ten years and I wrote this book to condense a lot of the learning
> it's interesting that you consider the government part of the "free market." Most people don't.
The government is part of the free market insofar as it purchases wanted goods and services.
> ...has just as great a claim to utility...
We all do. We all seek to maximize utility. And the decisions that we make to maximize our utility is studied in a social science called "economics".
So I'm not sure your point there.
>It's up to the People to decide...
Yes, and whether it's in government-managed or private-sector, "the people" decide. They decide by voting. You vote, and I vote; we vote on everything from what suits us best for lunch today to whether we prefer Japanese or American cars to what types of professions are most useful to us. And our ballots are in the form of US dollar bills.
Cumulatively, the summation of our collective voting IS the free market deciding.
>We restrict what the free market can sell (e.g., child prostitutes and heroin)
And this is short-sighted. Not the child prostitution, of course, but probably not for the reason you might think: not because prostitution is evil/immoral/wrong/"bad for society", but because children - not having reached a level of maturity to enter willingly into rational, informed consent, should therefore be prohibited from entering into contracts.
As for heroin, this shouldn't be illegal. The government has (in my opinion) no right to tell me what I can cannot do with my body. I am a rational adult. My body and my destiny is mine and only mine by the mere fact of my existence. As long as I don't violate the rights of anybody else, why is me using heroin anyone's business?
>and we also create products the free market would not provide on its own (paved roads in poor areas, expensive war planes, etc.) So it's really all about what society decides it wants or needs.
This is not correct. At all.
The "government" doesn't pave roads. The government doesn't build war planes. The government doesn't make or do anything of the sort.
The government has been set up to manage projects. These jobs (paving, civil engineering, building of war planes) are put out to bid. And private enterprises (Northrup-Grummon, Lockheed-Martin) offer their specialized goods and services to fill those needs.
Designed, sold, engineered, built, tested, trained, by civilians. At a profit.
>I happen to think society needs more people figuring out how to fix social injustice than it does people figuring out how to make Wall Street even richer.
Then you would be surprised to learn the following:
Name for me a democracy (defined as private ownership of resources and freedom to trade) that has ever had a famine.
The answer is "there hasn't been one". The only places in the world that are starving - we're talking real starvation here, not "American starvation" - are dictatorships and oligarchies. Nations that don't have the following fundamental factors:
These two things are the solution to social injustice; world hunger; and in many cases...war.
Without property rights, you can't farm your land and provide for yourself and your family. Because you don't own the land. And if you did, there is no rule of law to enforce your claim on it, and your work to raise crops (or sheep, or cattle, or pigs, or whatever) can and will get marauded. So why bother?
Within property rights is the notion of private ownership of resources. This means that you can also sell your surplus crop to those willing and able to purchase it.
I choose to grow a half-acre of corn: you might choose to grow a half-acre of wheat: our neighbor chooses to grows a half-acre of melons. Another neighbor raises pigs.
Why? because it's most efficient: each of us is better able to become an expert in growing one crop than we are at doing a mediocre job at three or four. This increases crop yields. And surpluses. And with that comes the opportunity to TRADE.
Each person, working to maximize his/her own utility (also known as working in our own "enlightened self interest") winds up benefiting each other.
These precepts have been around since the dawn of civilization, but were described and codified by John Locke and Adam Smith in the late 1600/early 1700s. The "fathers of modern economics".
It's unfortunate that those who only mock what they don't understand have been successful in spreading the caricature of capitalists as the "evil corporate/wall street fat cats", the Ebeneezer Scrooges out to screw you out of a buck.
Because capitalism is the fundamental lynchpin to raise people out of poverty, out of injustice, and into better lives.
Before you go any further with your political activism, I suggest you read this:
http://www.amazon.com/Anglosphere-Challenge-English-Speaking-Nations-Twenty-First/dp/0742533328/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1421449989&sr=8-1&keywords=the+anglosphere
You'll find that although based on the title one might think this book is filled with jingoism, racism, elitism, and the like, you'll find that instead it boils down to this:
The "english-speaking" countries (The United States, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) are successful - and will continue to be successful - in terms of economic prosperity and improving the lives of its citizens - because they uniquely have established and a profound respect for.....
Intro To Objectivist Epistemology
Man, Economy, and State
Organization Theory
And possibly surprisingly: Friday
Here you go.