(Part 3) Best biography & history books according to redditors
We found 1,380 Reddit comments discussing the best biography & history books. We ranked the 442 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 41-60. You can also go back to the previous section.
I will address your last question (the other one is too big for right now, and this is my last answer! For now anyway)
It takes a long, long time. Most folks outside of science and engineering don't have a good feel for this, so I am glad you asked. For reference, I suggest reading The Idea Factory, by Gertner, about Bell Labs (http://www.amazon.com/The-Idea-Factory-American-Innovation/dp/1594203288).
To go from an idea for something physically new, to implementation commercially, it usually takes a low number of decades. The Manhattan Project and the Apollo Missions are exceptions, but in my view there are two variables: time and effort (effort = money + person-years). In these cases, the Effort variable was WAY larger in the Manhattan Project and the Apollo Missions than for typical science and technology projects.
The reason we fool ourselves into thinking it only takes a short time is because of the rapid evolution of technology once the basis is there. An example is the advance in personal computing (up to and including smart phones) through the 80s, 90s, and 2000s. But, it took decades to understand and perfect the microchip before this series of rapid advances. (Remember, all integrated circuits are silicon, so advances have been incrementally based on this one material.) In batteries, we are trying to go to a completely different set of materials. We incorporate industry in our research to try to compress this long time scale.
Don't worry, it was republished this year. Warren can get a paperback copy for $13 on Amazon
PROBLEMS WITH HEDGE FUNDS
One thing you have to hand to hedge funds is that in 2008 and 2009, when investment and commercial banks were all begging for bailouts from the federal government because they were all "to big to fail", thousands of hedge funds died fast and anonymous deaths. Many of them lack the wealth, political connections, and systematic importance to influence the government. If people want to gamble with their money in financial markets, that isn't problematic as long as they are willing to suffer the losses they incur. (It is worth noting that money of them benefited indirectly from the various bank bailouts, and especially the bailout of AIG. Much of the bailout of AIG was to pay off credit default swaps (CDS) on mortgage backed securities, and the proceeds of those CDSs went to certain hedge funds.)
There has been some concern that some of the larger hedge funds could be systematically important, and could cause problems in the future if they place unmitigated bets in financial markets. The Dodd Frank Act made some effort to control them by having them register with the SEC and provide information on their bets to regulators, but as usual the regulation is watered down and many will comply with the letter but not the spirit of the law.
Also, in reviewing the results of most hedge funds, the investors don't seem to be getting a very good deal. First, it's incredibly expensive to pay someone 2% of your money up front and give them 20% of all returns that they earn on the remaining 98% of your money. Many investors would have been better off investing in more conventional vehicles, but the allure of investing in a hedge fund combined with the possibility of outsized returns lures in a lot of people.
The other risk of hedge funds is that they are frauds. Bernie Madoff was running a long short hedge fund, but it was actually a Ponzi scheme. A number of fund of funds were supposed to be diversifying their investor's assets, but were actually just giving it all to Madoff. (It's pretty insulting to pay someone to invest money for you, and give them 2% plus 20%, only to have them dump it all in a Ponzi scheme after performing no due diligence.) Another form of fraud might just be taking on asymmetrical risk. For example if, like AIG, you sell tons of insurance on the housing market, you can pocket a lot of money in the hopes that you never have to pay up on this insurance, and if you do, you just make vague statements about "once in a lifetime" financial calamities.
Further Reading and Sources:
The Economist Guide to Hedge Funds
More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite
When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
TL;DR: They are investment vehicles for rich people and institutions that invest in whatever they think will make money. They're supposed to make their investors a lot of money, but they definitely make themselves a lot of money.
More Money Than God is one that comes to mind though it is more of a narrative than a technical guide. It may be more useful to just skim through different books by managers who have written them, Alchemy of Finance, Stock Market Technique, The Intelligent Investor... etc etc
Not the olive oil OP, but here are a few sources:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/08/13/slippery-business
http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/olive-oils-dark-side
https://www.amazon.com/Extra-Virginity-Sublime-Scandalous-World/dp/0393070212
FWIW, he's the author of the book Digital Gold, one of the best accounts of the early days of Bitcoin I've read:
http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Gold-Bitcoin-Millionaires-Reinvent/dp/0062362496
I thought the article captured the essence of the issue as well as any piece written for a general audience could. Especially given the subject was Mike Hearn.
I'm not a shill, but I'm going to plug a book recommendation here.
I'm reading a book called Double Entry - How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance and I highly recommend it. Accounting systems developed around Renaissance Italy, with the help of Muslim scholars, who brought to the west Hindu numbers. It's like the entire world came together all at once perfectly at exactly the right time to develop modern accounting as we know it. Luca Pacioli is heavily featured in the book, and it surveys all of number theory, logical philosophy, math, history, banking, finance, and accounting through the ages.
I highly recommend this read, A+
Reasons for the ban
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/02/the-exchange-tom-mueller.html
http://www.amazon.com/Extra-Virginity-Sublime-Scandalous-World/dp/0393070212
http://www.oliveoiltimes.com/olive-oil-business/europe/olive-oil-european-commission/27285
TL;DR
People were cutting olive oil with everything from sunflower seed oil to mineral oils.
Too Big To Fail should be required reading for everyone. The blame for the problems that we are in now does not solely lie on the banks. Everyone had a piece in this. Over the course of the last 15 years, we've all lived happily on credit.
Fundamentally it came down to that instead of suffering through the financial crisis of the Russian Default and Dot-Com Bust we've tried to just paper our way through it. This smoothed out those bumps but in the end, it built up to an even bigger problem which resulted in the mortgage bubble.
This is the point that Freakonomics is trying to make... there are more than just one group to blame.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/1560259795
You need to read this book by Ralph Nader:
Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State. I think it ahould be required reading for any voting American.
My go to reading list,
Killing Hope, by William Blum
America's Deadliest Export Democracy, by William Blum
Who is William Blum?
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA, by Tim Weiner
Enemies: The History of the FBI, by Tim Wiener
Who is Tim Weiner?
The Secret History of the American Empire: The Truth about Economic Hitmen, Jackals, and How to Change the World by John Perkins
Confessions of an Economic Hitman, by John Perkins
Who is John Perkins?
Sure!
Here's one.
And another.
And a book on Madrid.
I got you covered dude. My company lives for this and provides books on the regular, but the ones below are pretty much the industry standard, and top companies all over the world recommend that every one read these. I have to admit, they've helped me:
Those are the quick ones I can think of. If I come up with more I'll add them to the list. Also, welcome to the corporate world - good luck in your career!
Edit: Holy shit, gold? This is my first time receiving so thank you for being gentle!
Hm, maybe they aren't so different after all.
http://www.amazon.com/Unstoppable-Emerging-Left-Right-Dismantle-Corporate/dp/1568584547
The Real Madrid Way
“The book magisterially penetrates through all the mystique of Real Madrid, football and sports. This is the ultimate look behind the regal velvet ropes and steel curtains both in the boardroom and locker room at the most successful and valuable team in sports, Real Madrid.”
—Ray Hudson
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0058DRUV6/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
not a novel
Jack was a cutthroat business man. He went on rants and threaten not to pay suppliers for any reason. He knew how to get shit done.
Read: One The Edge: The Rise and Fall of Commodore.
http://www.amazon.com/On-Edge-Spectacular-Rise-Commodore/dp/0973864907
Its a good book.
Interesting scene. My kind of crowd.
> The money was then passed to the phones of other people around the table once they had set up wallets. Anyone could have run off with Wences’s $250,000, but that wasn’t a risk with this particular crowd.
But what about AML?
I have to finish reading that book. Digital Gold.
Double Entry
Great read about how accounting came to be and the important people behind it. Including Luca Pacioli (who tutored Leonardo Da Vinci) and his enormous contributions and developments. It's a nice history lesson which helped me connect more dots about accounting.
> capable of displaying 4096 colors
Well, they certainly were, but the iconic Tutenkhamun demo image only used 32 of them at once out of the 12-bit palette - See this shot. Hold-and-Modify (HAM) mode allowed use of all 4096 at once, though with odd color fringe artifacts and performance limitations. Still, it meant Amigas could display digitised photos and videos in shockingly high quality for the era. Andy Warhol and Debbie Harry demoing the Amiga
Of course, what's most amazing was how CBM squandered the immense technical lead and then imploded. There's literally a book about it.
And... The Secret History of the American Empire by John Perkins.
http://www.amazon.com/Secret-History-American-Empire-Economic/dp/0452289572/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1215997835&sr=8-1
I would add:
The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History by Gregory Zuckerman
More Money Than God Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite by Sebastian Mallaby
There's quite a bit of commonality. The next few years could be exciting.
Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State - Ralph Nader
You can read more in The Real Madrid Way
As mentioned, this is mostly drama. It does not consider other players at the time. If you are interested in another perspective, I recommend reading On The Edge: the Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore. Talks mainly about Commodore - of course - but the state of competition really shines through. Apple is mentioned and discussed in detail, as the author seem to think they stole Commodore's thunder :) It's some years since I read it, I should really do it again.
The liquid oils work as an oil pass (polishing pass) at the end, but oils at the beginning interfere with the lather, at least for me. Olive oil is extremely good, FWIW. And I highly recommend Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil for a fascinating look at olive oil.
> Is there a comprehensive list somewhere of the loan types, lenders, loan amounts floating around?
Do you mean in general like kinds of loans and lenders, etc... Then I would start somewhere like investopedia or google.
Alt-A Loans, but it links to a number of other good definitions
Private Mortgage Backed Securities
CBO Report on GSEs
Banking and Finance Law Commons
If you mean in reference to the financial collapse there are lots of books and blog posts.
A good read is Dave Graber's book
The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
I came to that book from his article here
The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations
Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance
Not exactly technical stuff but they defnitely give more color and depth to this thing of ours (accounting)
A great read about Bell Labs is The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation.
I listened to the author's interview on the podcast The Ether Review. It was interesting as hell and I will be reading this book this summer.
Here is the interview: https://soundcloud.com/arthurfalls/the-ether-review-27-blockchain
Another great book I recommend that got me into cryptocurrency and bitcoin history was [Digital Gold] (https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Gold-Bitcoin-Millionaires-Reinvent/dp/0062362496?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0).
Interesting. The modern world was pretty much created by a monopoly. AT&T needed to automate their telephone system. So they (Bell Labs) invented electronic switching (and the transistor) and in the process the entire purification of materials industry that lead to the computer world. Cool book The Idea Factory
For a while there I'd use the Wikipedia Book Creator to aggregate a bunch of articles on a certain topic and then download it to my eInk e-Reader to peruse in bed until I fell asleep.
One such topic was early computing up through the Microcomputing era and the 1977 Trinity.
At that point of history I was reading Empires of Light about the AC/DC war, Where Wizards Stay Up Late about the birth of ARPANET, Dealers of Lightning, about PARC, Commodore: A Company on the Edge (about the rise of Commodore through the PET, slaying TI, and faltering after the C64), and Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet, which was enlightening, even though it was written for someone who couldn't tell a modem from a hub.
The utopia of rules, technology stupidity and bureaucracy
If you haven't read this: http://www.amazon.com/Blackwater-Rise-Worlds-Powerful-Mercenary/dp/1560259795 I highly recommend it. Extremely in-depth and absolutely terrifying.
Late to the party, but...
The story of the man who wrote the text commonly attributed to popularizing Indo-Arabic numerals (and zero) to the west is a part of the excellent book doubly entry, which is specifically about the history of accounting.
Also a much more interesting story than you might think.
For those of you that haven't already, check out the book Digital Gold by Nathaniel Popper on the backstory of Bitcoin. Started reading it yesterday and will be finished tonight. Excellent read.
Check out "The Idea Factory"
http://www.amazon.com/Idea-Factory-American-Innovation-ebook/dp/B005GSZIWG/ref=sr_sp-atf_title_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1375270560&sr=8-1&keywords=the+idea+factory+bell+labs+and+the+great+age+of+american+innovation
A very good read on the history of Bell Labs
Some thoughts came to my head while reading this... Make your name a reference from something you really like, or an important date, mix an important date with a word that refers to something important in you or in your design career, use "random word generator" and mix something, there are lots of ways.
On the other hand, I don't see the name itself as the most important thing. There is this company verynice, Casey Neistat started a new company some weeks ago and the name is 368. The most important thing is everything that your brand represents to anyone, the experience your brand can bring to any client. The feel they get when they see what your brand can do and the feel they get after working with you.
Some people just create a fake name. For example (you maybe laugh) my name is Matias Lapolla and Lapolla in Spain is a mix of 'La' + 'Polla'. That being said, 'La' stands for 'The' and Polla stands for 'Penis' or 'D*ck/C*ck'. So I wouldn't ever use my name that way but, Matias Lo for example is not bad for me if I want to use my name. I hope I could help you. A book about brands I always recommend is The Brand Gap.
I haven't read this yet but I have been meaning to get around to it. http://www.amazon.com/Extra-Virginity-Sublime-Scandalous-World/dp/0393070212
For the rare person that wants to read quite a bit more about this:
http://www.amazon.com/Extra-Virginity-Sublime-Scandalous-World/dp/0393070212
I found the book quite interesting, enlightening and a good read overall.
Absolutely! Here's a short list of non-magic books that I commonly see recommended to magicians.
Understanding Comics - Scott McCloud
Purple Cow - Seth Godin
Delft Design Guide - multiple authors
An Acrobat of the Heart - Stephen Wangh (shouts out to u/mustardandpancakes for the recommendation)
In Pursuit of Elegance - Guy Kawasaki
The Backstage Handbook - Paul Carter, illustrated by George Chiang
Verbal Judo - George Thompson and Jerry Jenkins
Be Our Guest - Ted Kinni and The Disney Institute
Start With Why - Simon Sinek
Lots of common themes even on such a short list. What would you add to the list? What would you take away?
Okay, bullshit might be a slight exaggeration but it does give a fairly single sided view of the early period of home computing. From a dramatic point of view it makes sense to focus on Microsoft and Apple, but during that period they were both fairly small players.
To complete the view on the period I'd suggest reading Priming the Pump and On the Edge. Both of these are also probably very biased and at least the latter is hilariously anti-Apple at parts, so apply the usual amounts of grain-of-salt.
For a British perspective The Micromen. I'm not aware of any good documentaries on the Japanese side of things or the Atari line of computers but I guess there exists some.
The early Byte magazines are also a good source.
Guys, do yourselves a favor and read Zappos's CEO book. It really changed my life.
If you don't own it already, the Brian Bagnall book on Commodore, Commodore: A company on the edge, is superb.
Sounds like they've grown too fast, and their processes can't keep up.
Which if they were selling cat food, meh, I'll cut them some slack. Guns & ammo? Nope. Needs to be perfect every time. They should read this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Delivering-Happiness-Profits-Passion-Purpose/dp/0446563048/
I highly recommend you read Jemery Scahill's book, Blackwater
Describes everything about Blackwater. From its history of its founder being a christian fundamentalist who donates exclusively to republicans, to how deeply involved they are in operations in Iraq as well as Katrina and elsewhere.
I really enjoyed the following. Essentially a chronological collection of biographies on some of the historical hedge fund all-stars, so you are introduced to contextual history of the industry, their different philosophical approaches to trading, etc.
More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite (Council on Foreign Relations Books (Penguin Press)) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0143119419/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_Bktbub1E58ATW
For something much more technical (i.e. If you are interested because you are considering a fund of your own):
Taxation of U.S. Investment Partnerships and Hedge Funds: Accounting Policies, Tax Allocations, and Performance Presentation https://www.amazon.com/dp/0470605758/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_Tntbub0Q4ZTYN
Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy is insightful and a good read. It won the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award last year.
Sorkin's Too Big to Fail will teach you the who's who in finance, and is a captivating read.
Read Confessions of an Economic Hitman, then The Secret History of the American Empire. These killings didn't just happen in the Middle East but in Asia, the Pacific and South America. Greedy and self-motivated behavior by the Corporatocracy.
Halfway through the Too Big to Fail book so I kind of understand the whole affair, but yes - some of the characters in the book act as alcoholics.
There are so many factors I think it's impossible to point a finger at any one person or institution and say "they did it". Real estate provided the fuel and to the degree Freddie and Fannie relaxed what had historically been sensible lending requirements, they were a big if unwitting participant in that. Ultimately letting the investment banks leverage up to 40:1 ratios was insane, and the explosion of CDO's , blessed by the ratings agencies and hedged with Credit Default Swaps ended up being a recipe for financial armageddon.
What's sad is that virtually nothing has changed to prevent the same thing from happening again. By the way if you find this topic interesting you should read Too Big To Fail
You can read more about this in The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation by Jon Gertner.
Il problema di Commodore è che non hanno mai creduto nell'importanza del software con Tramiel e senza di lui non hanno poi più avuto nemmeno una logica nelle scelte aziendali...
Lettura consigliata: http://www.amazon.com/Commodore-Company-Edge-Brian-Bagnall/dp/0973864966/
Thanks for the recommendation. I've got a lot of "left-leaning" books (well, some of them) on my list now that all sound interesting, and Debt is definitely a high priority because people keep recommending it.
Have you read any of his other work? Bullshit Jobs sounds really interesting but a couple reviews said the original article he wrote on the topic pretty much sums the book up in a much lower word count.
A few of the books on my to-read list in case anyone sees this and is interested:
Privatizing war and security, very scary: Read Blackwater
here you are https://www.amazon.it/Digital-Gold-Bitcoin-Millionaires-Reinvent/dp/0062362496 scusa l'attesa :\
It's awesome. But in that book, he uses alot of "industry jargon" and it's kinda heady.
I would start with his follow-up book, "The Secret History of the American Empire: The Truth About Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and How to Change the World"
http://www.amazon.com/Secret-History-American-Empire-Economic/dp/0452289572/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1417040460&sr=1-1&keywords=the+secret+history+of+the+american+empire
A lot of great information and presented in a fascinating, easy to consume style. He goes region by region, basically per chapter.
Great store. Very polished appearance. Definitely have a niche. You have Google Analytics installed - good.
 
One thing I did notice that perhaps may help with conversions: Having a compelling "why" statement at the top of the store and also in the SEO metadata. The cover photo doesn't really convey what the store is about.
 
Simon Sinek's Ted Talk is great advice
https://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action
 
Also, The Brand Gap by Marty Neumeier I've found to be amazing
https://www.amazon.com/Brand-Gap-Distance-Business-Strategy/dp/0321348109
Answer these three questions:
 
The answer to the third question is the most difficult. It should be more compelling and visceral than "because we have products for people with autism."
 
also, you may want to look into https instead of http as Google factors website security when indexing sites.
 
hope this helps
I really liked this book on double entry bookkeeping. I found it suggested on this sub
There are already some great ones posted so I'll just go with a couple more... non traditional ones that are surprisingly helpful.
Purple Cow
Start With Why
Bird: Rofous-Crowned Sparrow (Aimophila ruficeps) link
Plane: Southwest Airlines Boeing (737-700) link
Flower: Water Hyacinth (Eichhornia, crassipes) link
Edit: Links [1] (http://www.amazon.com/Gifts-Decor-Valley-Winery-Feeder/dp/B0081LJTAM/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1374637174&sr=8-3&keywords=house+finch) [2] (http://www.amazon.com/Boeing-Complete-Story-Alain-Pelletier/dp/1844257037/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1374637213&sr=8-3&keywords=boeing) [3] (http://www.amazon.com/Giant-Duckweed-pond-plant-cup/dp/B009U4LFL0/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1374637248&sr=8-3&keywords=water+hyacinth)
Okay your first two links are to blogs that only publish work by Austrian economists. Hardly objective analyses. Even if SO did drop the cost of gas, that says nothing of who bore the brunt of the cost. It says nothing of the enivronmental costs of their business practices. It says nothing of how they treated their workers. And still sidesteps the point of how the monopoly was formed by business practices that are anti-competitive and would completely overcome any advantages of a strictly free-market system. As I mentioned before, costs aren't the only metric we should use in judging a civilization.
> This is how high profits counter-intuitively accelerate the trend towards lower price and higher quality (witness computer and cellphone progression).
It isn't the fact that profits were high that drove this trend. It's the incredible volume of demand that drove prices down. Again, see the history of Bell Labs for this as far as computers and cell phones go. It was a government-sanctioned monopoloy that made these possible.
Your DC link was unfortunate, but was just a case of idiots in government. This isn't something inherent in governments. There are more than enough idiots in management. Luckily we live in a democracy that can be changed with an informed electorate.
> Insurance companies profit only because of the fact that it costs MORE to have health insurance for most people than it costs to NOT have it. It's risky to not have health insurance, but if you are of normal health, you come out ahead financially by not having it. Also, [5] many hospitals, doctors give discount for paying cash
I'm not sure what the point is you're trying to make. This is all obvious. The point is that you never know your future health states. The fact that doctors give discounts for paying cash is analogous to people not paying interest rates when they pay off their credit cards on time. But in the real world, most people can't afford to do this. As I mentioned before, the number one cause of individual bankruptcy in the US is due to medical bills.
> Consumer Reports is a private regulatory agency. Amazon ratings are a consumer-driven regulatory agency. Yelp too. Ebay feedback, etc. Your social network is a regulatory agency.
Okay so you never actually meant regulatory agency. Consumer Reports is a consumer advocacy magazine. Amazon, Yelp, and Ebay are a sort of word-of-mouth that only exist due to technology developed by the government and public-private parternships. And Yelp has recently been accused of removing negative reviews if the businesses pay up. None of these can do anything about abuse of workers or pollution or anything else industry has a history of doing.
>We can take risks for discounts, or be conservative and pay a premium for a trusted brand, and when that trusted brand starts overcharging, people like me step in and offer a new solution at a better price.
This really depends on what you're talking about. We shouldn't have to risk that discounted item being unsafe or dangerous or snake oil. Not everyone can afford items that are too expensive. And sometimes the profits just don't exist for goods and services at the price point that people can afford them at.
>Let's say there's a mafia. They steal from everyone, but they use the money to fund research projects. They steal half of what everyone earns (total cost of govt taxation over what things would cost without it, includes regulatory costs), but they take credit for everything that is done by the researchers they pay with the stolen money. Some people defend it, and say "without the mafia stealing from everyone and paying some of the people to research things, it would be impossible to get humans to create amazing things!" That is absurd, that human society requires guns to our heads to make us innovate.
Or let's say there's a charity that everyone chips into. They build roads so we can transport goods. They organize police forces so thieves don't rob us. They have fire departments so our homes don't burn down. They fund a military to protect us from foreign threats. They fund scientific research so that our children don't die of diseases that we suffer from or so that energy costs go down in the future from new and cheaper sources of energy.
Do you think ideas just pop into people's heads? You really really need to read up on some science history. I really hate to repeat myself, but you are incredibly ignorant and should educate yourself if you really want to argue that your magical free market could have built the world we live in. Private industry has no financial incentive to fund basic science research. Without basic science research, there can't be future applied science research. Without applied science research, there can't be future engineering in that field. Humans don't need guns to their heads to innovate. That's why we got together and use our tax dollars to fund basic science. But private industry sure as hell needs a gun to its head or else they risk pissing of their shareholders for throwing away profit on research they won't see an ROI for decades or centuries.
> Venture capitalists are the exact opposite of govt research, and they have funded every major advance in the past 20 years.
Buuuulllllllsssshhhiiiiiiiittt. Holy crap don't even try to act like you know what you're talking about. Are you gonna tell me that it was a VC who funded the Human Genome Project? It was a VC who funded CERN? It was a VC who put Rovers on Mars? You are completely divorced from reality.
NASA ended shuttle launches because America doesn't give a damn anymore. And those private enterprises you claim have no government funding . . . they get their grant money through NASA. It's called contracting. And in case you were unaware, contracting is done using tax dollars. Those engineering firms don't do it out of charity. They have to get paid like anyone else.
Learn some fucking history.
The Idea Writers - Tons of Case Studies, but they're all told excellently.
It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want To Be - Inspiration not to settl and to do great work.
Baked In - A lot like an updated Purple Cow. All about integrating product, management, and marketing.
Blink or Tipping Point - About the little things that cause shifts in culture to happen.
Also, some Seth Godin action never hurts. Definitely recommend his blog.
If you want more "How to make ads" type stuff there are more down that path, too. Just let me know.
Most olive oils at the supermarkets are adulterated.
Researchers at UC Davis find problems again with purity of imported olive oil.
If you're interested to learn more about it, read this book - Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil.
Bird-Red headed finch (Amadina erythrocephala)
Link
Plane:southwest airlines boeing 737-300
Link
Flower: Water Hyacinth (Eichornia crassipes)
Link
I'm not aware of a whole lot of books specifically about accounting, but here are a few recommendations of books about finance, economics, business or that I just think might appeal to /r/accounting.
Anything by Michael Lewis. Liar's Poker has been mentioned elsewhere, but The Big Short is excellent as well.
Ben Mezrich has written some good books about business, but not really accounting specifically. He's most famous for The Accidental Billionaires which is about Facebook (I believe it, along with The Facebook Effect were the main sources for the movie The Social Network) and Bringing Down the House which was about the MIT card counting team and inspiration for the movie 21. You might be interested in Ugly Americans or Rigged though.
Here's a few more that are a little less fiction-y:
Too Big to Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin
Traders, Guns and Money by Satyajit Das
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay
Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value (and How to Take Advantage of It) by William Poundstone
EDIT: Now with links!
This is pretty good: Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance
https://www.amazon.com/Double-Entry-Merchants-Created-Finance/dp/0393346595
Don't know if it's what your looking for, but the Idea Factory is about Bell Labs, which (apart from being an amazing laboratory) had a major WWII effort.
Not exactly manufacturing, but The Tizard mission, talks about the magnetron and radar development in WWII.
Read: The Brand Gap: How to Bridge the Distance Between Business Strategy and Design https://www.amazon.com/dp/0321348109/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_ifeuDb6DNBN1V
Please provide an example where there is no net neutrality and everything is fine? Please also include the number of average providers any given customer has. Because even in a place like the Netherlands, which has extremely robust competition for broadband in most major cities (access to as many as 6 providers) they have even stronger net neutrality laws than the US does. on the other hand, there's the image from MEI, a Portuguese Mobile ISP that has packages based on the website access you want. Portugal does not have Net Neutrality.
As for your rebuttal, I didn't call you stupid, I said you didn't know anything about the history of the technology. Those are two very different things. I've done a great deal of reading on the history of the internet and am extremely interested in it. I would rather have an extremely strong market place that allow massive amounts of competition. Title II NN is a band-aid to address a policy regime issue started through lobby at the state and municipal level by companies like Comcast.
Market forces are driving industry consolidation within the ISP space and across markets. Which is the reason why Comcast moved from solely being an ISP to being a content creator with purchases of things like NBC and Universal (and looking to acquire more). So, the market behavior indicates market failure rather than a free market. With these pushes by the FCC it indicates regulatory capture and looking at the fully policy landscape there are anti-consumer measures across the spectrum, which indicates federal intervention is required to increase competition.
If the desire is to allow these monopolies to exist, then they need to require them to behave better than how they have been behaving. Breaking them up isn't always good. After the break up of AT&T prices rose. But, AT&T always knew that there was a risk of break up, which is why they intentionally invested so heavily in Bell Labs which essentially resulted in the internet.
> If your gripe is with the non-enforcement, then why would new laws change anything? Since by that logic, the law won't be enforced anyway?
New Laws provide legal teeth for organizations like the EFF to sue when the law has been broken and to provide amicus briefs to support the cases that do go before courts. It also provides a stronger footing for when suits are brought to the court.
Good to Great
7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Good for IT, business, and life in general.
I posted this else where but I am going to go back and delete it-- take a look at the CEO of Zappos's book: http://www.amazon.com/Delivering-Happiness-Profits-Passion-Purpose/dp/0446563048
Read their CEO's book Delivering Happiness. It's a pretty amazing story.
Here's a book the CEO have written about customer service:
http://www.amazon.com/Delivering-Happiness-Profits-Passion-Purpose/dp/0446563048
It is, there are some fascinating stories to discover. I suggest Brian Bagnall's incredible book, Commodore - A Company On The Edge, which is the best account to date of what went on inside Commodore from it's founding up until Tramiel's departure in 1984. The Plus/4 is well covered here. The sequel, Commodore - The Amiga Years will be released in a few months time, also. I cannot recommend his books enough.
Your in a position that many would love to be in and many more would never be able to get to.
Your marketing campaign,
Get the following books (quick easy and enjoyable reads):
The Brand Gap ,
22 laws of marketing
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Too Big to Fail:
http://www.amazon.com/Too-Big-Fail-Washington-System/dp/0670021253
Looks like it will be back in print in September
FTFY:
Oh and as you are really interested in this topic...here's an entire book that you can read:
Kind of related, but probably too 'communist' for you:
https://www.amazon.com/Real-Madrid-Way-Created-Successful/dp/1942952546
Read this book and you will understand what I'm trying to say. Revenue is not the only stat which is important.
Thanks for sharing. That piece is awesome. No presidential candidate has ever inspired me more than Nader (w/ the possible exception of Bernie) and I have a mountain of respect for Ron Paul for his ability to call out plain truths that so many others have been afraid of. Also, I'd argue that Napolitano is probably the most legitimate source on Fox news, not that that's saying much.
Nader has a book on this topic I want to pickup.
The cover reminds me of Jane Gleeson White's Double Entry
Hmmmm idk, I've read so many. I personally enjoy reading about marketing/sociology etc. I find no one book is epic all the way thru -- so I read them, skip the bad/boring parts etc, and move on to the next. I read this short one as a kid and really liked it, but it's very general lol: https://www.amazon.com/Purple-Cow-New-Transform-Remarkable/dp/1591843170
Erik Prince is Christianist terrorist scum who rightfully to be thrown in solitary confinement for life or the death sentence for his murderous crimes against the Iraqi people
https://www.amazon.com/Blackwater-Rise-Worlds-Powerful-Mercenary/dp/1560259795
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/the-real-story-of-baghdads-bloody-sunday-403014.html?amp
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/blackwater-guards-iraq-bloody-sunday-shooting-sentencing-116924
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/03/26/body-count-report-reveals-least-13-million-lives-lost-us-led-war-terror
The Brand Gap: How to Bridge the Distance Between Business Strategy and Design https://www.amazon.com/dp/0321348109/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_CxL6ybH1VJ80Z
And listen to everything you can by Sasha Strauss
If you're interested in reading any books, I highly recommend
Anarchy Explained to My Father https://www.amazon.com/dp/1554201373/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_49YPDbWVZWD8Q
The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy https://www.amazon.com/dp/1612195180/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_K.YPDbRFA6C1Z
I quickly got into Libertarianism/Anarcho Capitalism because of people like Ron Paul, Dave Smith, Larken Rose, etc. and the more I've learned about Anarchism thanks to Michael Malice as well, I personally realized that Anarchists have almost always been Anti Capitalists and have never supported the Non Agression principal. These ideas came from people like Ludwig Von Mises, Murray Rothbard, etc. But make no mistake that Ancaps are highly disliked in every anarchy subreddit that's NOT Anarcho Capitalism.
I'm looking over On the Edge and it seems really fascinating but might be more about the computer business than the actual engineering behind the companies products.
Can you tell me more about it?
SeekFindKnockOpen: ^^original ^^reddit ^^link
Required reading for knowing about the corruption:
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
The Secret History of the American Empire: The Truth About Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and How to Change the World
23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism and the video
Bird: House Finch? (Carpodacus mexicanus)
http://www.amazon.com/Gifts-Decor-Valley-Winery-Feeder/dp/B0081LJTAM/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1374635844&sr=8-3&keywords=house+finch
Airplane: Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-300
http://www.amazon.com/Boeing-Complete-Story-Alain-Pelletier/dp/1844257037/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1374635881&sr=8-3&keywords=boeing
Flower: Water hyacinth (Eichornia crassipes)
http://www.amazon.com/Giant-Duckweed-pond-plant-cup/dp/B009U4LFL0/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1374635920&sr=8-3&keywords=water+hyacinth
Bird: House Finch (Carpodacus mexicanus)
http://www.amazon.com/Gifts-Decor-Valley-Winery-Feeder/dp/B0081LJTAM/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1374635844&sr=8-3&keywords=house+finch
Airplane: Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-300
http://www.amazon.com/Boeing-Complete-Story-Alain-Pelletier/dp/1844257037/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1374635881&sr=8-3&keywords=boeing
Flower: Water hyacinth (Eichornia crassipes)
http://www.amazon.com/Giant-Duckweed-pond-plant-cup/dp/B009U4LFL0/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1374635920&sr=8-3&keywords=water+hyacinth
I like these choices better than my first choices : )
L'article sur Uber de la presse parle du problème du 'Dutch Sandwidch'. C'est effectivement assez répandu comme technique. Ça fait plusieurs années que je connais le stratagème. J'ai travaillé pour une compagnie qui, je crois, l'utilise. C'est en travaillant pour cette compagnie que j'ai appris que ça existait.
lapresse
Évidemment, il existe beaucoup d'autres problèmes reliés à notre système de taxation.
Pour un peu d'histoire, il y a un chapitre dans le livre Business Adventure (en anglais) qui porte sur le sujet des taxes aux États-Unis et surtout comment les plus-nantis faisaient dans les années 60 pour les éviter. Ce que j'ai bien aimé de ce livre c'est que les choses n'ont pas trop changées depuis ce temps. Si vous êtes intéressés par les marchés boursiers et surtout si vous détenez des actions, je vous le conseille. Business Adventures Amazon
I have been reading Good to Great. It's a really interesting book about what common traits companies have that made the leap from being historically good, to some of the best businesses in the US. I really like this book because unlike Malcolm Gladwell books, it seems to be much less sensationalist and doesn't seem to be trying to prove a point. It just takes in all the facts and talks about them.
While its not exactly a singular person in the story, the book "From Good to Great" by Jim Collins analyzes companies over a span of 20-30 years that were considered the underdog in their field to becoming the flagship for their market.
https://www.amazon.com/Good-Great-Companies-Leap-Others-ebook/dp/B0058DRUV6
Nema na čemu :)
Preporučam i prvo poglavlje ove knjige da vidiš koliko ljudska psihologija i panika mogu utjecati na tržište:
https://www.amazon.com/Business-Adventures-Twelve-Classic-Street/dp/1497644895
Ovo je dobar video koji isto sažima neke principe u manje <1h :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEDIj9JBTC8
Get her two books by Marty Neumeier: The Brand Gap and Zag. They're about branding and give very clear insights. These books changed my whole outlook on design and they're great reads. I'm easily bored with reading but these are written in informal language and illustrated, and the chapters are bite-sized chunks. Every graphic designer should read them. Here's the brand gap: http://www.amazon.com/The-Brand-Gap-Distance-Business/dp/0321348109 and here's zag: http://www.amazon.com/Zag-Number-Strategy-High-Performance-Brands/dp/0321426770/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1348675026&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=zag
If someone wants to know what this is about, check out Marty Neumeier's slideshow from The Brand Gap: http://www.slideshare.net/coolstuff/the-brand-gap
also, check out this TED talk on business strategy. Read this book on branding.
Zappos has the best customer service. I highly recommend Tony Hsieh's book "Delivering Happiness". http://www.amazon.com/Delivering-Happiness-Profits-Passion-Purpose/dp/0446563048
Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil
If you'd like to know more about Blackwater: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1560259795
Digital Gold is the best one re: the history of Bitcoin and the characters in it . Highly recommend it.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0143119419/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_AFYHAbT10A48S
You really think maduro pulls the strings? You must be American.
Read
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0452289572/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_dvaIDb1EC6TVA