He wrote the book capital. Thomas Piketty, a world renowned french economist who talks about the inequality in our society.

"Let me break down to you why not only should you change your perspective on UBI, but why you should know it's inevitable... and I'll use my own words years ago when Joe Rogan first heard about it, and thankfully since then he's shifted his stance... and hopefully you as well."

Tighten your sphincter holes ladies because this is a long one. So... before we begin let's throw out some palabras:

• The Strange Reality of Fiat Money

• Debt-damned economics: either learn monetary reform, or kiss your assets goodbye

•1 billion living in poverty

•15% live below poverty line in US

• 46.2 million Americans are on food stamps

• There’s no 100% capitalist or socialist country in the world

• Corporate profits are at an all-time high

• Unemployment is at multi-decade low

• Shallowest period of job recovery (jobless recovery)

The statement “r > g” (meaning that the rate of return on capital is generally higher than the rate of economic growth)

50% jobs will be completely automated by 2040, and other estimates saying sooner, by 2030: Transportation, retail sales, first line supervisors, cashiers, secretaries, managers, registered nurses, elementary school teachers, janitors/cleaners. Multibillion dollar companies’ are hiring fewer and fewer people. Combine Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon, they are worth 1$ trillion, but only have created 150,000 jobs.... marinate on that for a moment. Now Uber has acquired $18 billion in a short amount of time, however, they only employ a few hundred people. This leads to inequality, and situations like these only exacerbates it. Humanity desperately needs to reassess the future.


Structural inequality, means that it’s ingrained the system the same way money is. The fairy stale we tell ourselves, it’s inevitable and it’s the nature of capitalism. However, countries have already successfully redistributed wealth through policies and innovations like South Korea and Germany. But nobody has an answer to structural inequality. Nobody is having this discussion, but instead it’s a simplistic argument of agreeing or disagreeing with the argument about what they might do or whether it’s morally right. Or you might disagree because it’s atrocious or it’s not going to work, and you just can’t give money for whatever reason. And that is where the inherent challenge lies, so we should be asking the salient question: How much it will cost? How to pay for it? How to finance it? Would people stop working if they just receive an income? And will it solve the problem? Humanity should focus on the goal, not the story or the fairy tale that we tell ourselves, which Joe lost on during his interview with Eddie. He was very attached to and he defended it quite well through his wit and humor, but it’s still a devil’s advocate fallacy, and I'll address that further down.

So we need to think about the goal, otherwise it’s going to end up like the discussion with capitalism and socialism for perpetuity. We don’t have that time. A good starting point is from Article 25 of the International Declaration of Human Rights from the UN, it states: EVERYONE HAS THE RIGHT TO A STANDARD OF LIVING ADEQUATE FOR THE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF HIMSELF AND OF HIS FAMILY, INCLUDING FOOD, CLOTHING, HOUSING AND MEDICAL CARE AND NECESSARY SOCIAL SERVICES […]

So does a basic income fulfill this goal or not? Because if it does, it won’t matter the dissenters ideology because it’s actually fulfilling the goal. Now, look at the experiments in 14 countries (out of 200 industrialized countries) 3 were unconditional UBI, and only two had more than a thousand. Let’s be clear here, this still isn’t enough data to argue for or against the issue because we simply don’t know or haven’t done enough experiments. But anyways, let’s start with two big industrialized nations:

CANADA

• 5 years (1974-79)

• ~10,000 People

• $500/Month

─ Hospitalization rates fell by 8.5%

─ Only two groups worked less: Women who took extended maternity leave and (male) youth.

─ High school completion rates increases

INDIA

• 3 years (2011-13)

• 6,000 Peoples

• $4/month (40% subsistence)

─ Improved food sufficiency

─ Improved nutrition

─ Increase in livestock

─ No increase in alcohol consumption

─ Reduced incidence of illness

─ Improved school attendance

─ People were 3 times more likely to start their own business

These results are definitely promising, but still inconclusive because there have been so few experiments. There are other open ended questions that need to be addressed, and that is rent. Suppose each one of us receives $1,000 dollars every month, what happens to rent? If you’re not a homeowner and you have a landlord instead, what’s stopping them (other than policy or mechanisms) to raise the rent exactly $1,000 dollars? But that inherently increases inequality because you’re moving more capital to those who already have capital, based on Thomas Piketty’s research. So actually, UBI would actually increase inequality and increase poverty, and destroy the middle class even faster. And then if you get rid of social programs and arbitrarily tell everyone to do whatever they want with their income so we don’t need this bureaucracy, because you don’t need so much social programs and government involvement. Well, everyone here should be abundantly aware by now (I fucking hope) what happens when you privatize healthcare. Quality goes down, prices go up, and everything goes to hell. So we have to remember that it’s not going to be a panacea, because complex things such as UBI need to be contextualized, and if implemented, they must be a comprehensive package of larger reforms, and the larger implications of what you’re doing. And it must be different in other countries because of different social contexts, social adaptation, and social norms, and not everybody is at the same social level. So it’s never going to be one size fits all. And of course, it always goes back to we don’t have enough experiments to come to anything conclusive. Which is why we need politicians and the people who are in position of mandating legislation to warrant more research and study, just like other controversial (but beneficial)* reforms as the legalization of marijuana and MDMA therapy.

Politicians who want to get on board and help should:

• Conduct their own experiment with at least 10,000 people

• Control Group

• Truly Unconditional

• More than two years

• True basic income

The key points is it has to be unconditional and long term because if they know it’s going to last 2 years, they can plan for the future, because if you only conduct the experiment for 6 months, you’re not going to see the social dynamics that actually unfold in a complex society. And it must be a true basic income, not a fraction of a percent, of like 10-40% of the poverty line, it must be, many economists suggest about half the median income, or somewhere close to that number. And we need detailed feasibility studies, because nobody has done a thorough research looking at all the implications in the economic activity in the largest sense of the broader research. The technology is available to make things easier especially for entrepreneurs to run a basic income experiment, thanks to block chains and crypto-currencies. And in developing countries mobile payments are very successful, like in Kenya.

Continued below...

From across the pond, welcome to pretty much the best sport ever! We're glad you're here :) I'm gonna try to keep it general, cuz I think once you've got the basics down you can just watch some games and refine it from there. Also, I learned a lot of stuff about the game by playing video games like The Show, so if you can get a copy of that and wanna get more in-depth that's actually not a bad way to come at it from a different angle.

Let's start with the overall structure of the game. One of the things that's different from most sports is how many games there are in a season, and to accommodate that two teams will play several games in a row against each other. That's only really important if you don't want to look silly when talking to another baseball fan. As far as actual game structure, there are nine innings a game. Each inning has a "top" and a "bottom;" in Major League Baseball the away team gets to hit in the top of an inning and the home team defends ("fields").

Arguably the main competition happening within a game is between the pitcher and the batter. Whenever a batter steps up to take his swings, that's called an at bat or AB for short. During an AB, the batter will try to swing at pitches in what's called the strike zone. The strike zone (and correct me if I'm wrong on this guys cuz it has changed some) is the width of home plate and the height is between a batter's belt and his knees. It's important to understand the strike zone because then you can understand balls and strikes. A ball is whenever a pitcher throws outside the strike zone and the batter doesn't swing at it. However, if a batter does swing and either misses the ball or fouls it off, it counts as a strike. A foul is when the batter puts the bat on the ball but it goes out of bounds. This can be into the seats, behind the batter's box, outside the foul lines (those little white lines that go straight out from home plate, cross third and first base, and extend all the way to the edge of the outfield), etc.

The total number of balls and strikes in an AB is called the count. The count's important because once a batter gets 4 balls, he takes first base on a walk, which is also called a "base on balls" in ye olde lingoe and why the stat is abbreviated BB. But if the pitcher throws him 3 strikes, he's out! That's called a strikeout. However, a foul ball never counts as a third strike, it's only a strike out if the batter doesn't make contact (either swinging and missing or not swinging at a pitch in the strike zone).

There are other ways to record an out too; strikeouts are by far the least common. First let's talk fly outs. That's when a batter gets the ball in the air but it's caught by one of the fielders. There are two "special" fly outs, one being a pop fly. That's just a fly ball that doesn't leave the infield (i.e. usually it's caught by the pitcher or a baseman rather than an outfielder). There are also foul outs. Like I said before, fouls are balls that aren't in the normal playing field. But pretty much all stadiums have what's called "foul territory," which is space between the foul lines and the seats. If a fielder catches a fly ball that stays out of the seats, that's a foul out! Second, though, there are ground outs. A ball is considered "live" as soon as it touches fair ground. All that really means is that the batter-cum-runner isn't out yet. Anyway, if the batter hits the ball on the ground, one of the fielders can pick it up and throw it to first base. If the ball gets to the base before the runner does, he's out!

Obviously if every batter got out all the time the game wouldn't really have a point, so there are also hits! There are really only four flavors of hits: Singles, doubles, triples, and home runs. As the names imply, it's just what base the runner can manage to get to safely. If there's a runner on second or third base, we say he's in scoring position, which means that any hit has a pretty good chance of getting him home. Incidentally, that's how points or runs are scored: having a runner cross home plate.

A batter is credited with a run batted in (RBI for short) when he gets a hit and a runner makes it home. There are other ways to get an RBI, too: If there's a runner in scoring position (usually third base but sometimes second if the guy is REALLY fast) and the batter hits a fly ball far enough into the outfield, the runner can still score if he tags up and runs home. Since the ball hasn't hit the ground, it's not live yet. Once it hits the fielder's glove, though, we're off to the races! The runner first has to tag the bag he's on, then when the ball comes alive he can score. If he does, then the batter is out but he still gets an RBI. However, the fielders have a chance to throw the ball home and try to tag the runner out before he touches the base.

There are other sacrifice plays besides the sac fly. Batters can also hit sacrifice ground balls, but these aren't always to score runs like the sac fly is. Explaining this part requires a lot of strategy talk so I'll steer clear of a lot of it since I'm just trying to go through the basics, but a lot of the time it's just to move a runner into scoring position.

I'll finish out by just talking about a couple of the stats you'll hear a lot about. Ima start with hitting stats! The most common one you'll hear is batting average or just "average." This stat is just what percent of the time a batter will get a hit. Also, even though a lot of these stats are shown as decimals, they're really percentages. So like if a batter has a .250 average, chances are he'll get a hit every fourth AB. If he's got a .333 average, it'll be a third of the time. So on and so forth. If a player is batting over .300 that's generally considered really good. Jose Reyes right now has a .350 average and that's the highest in all of MLB, so that's really good. As an historical note, batting .400 is kind of a mythical achievement that not too many guys have managed.

I've already explained RBIs, but just FYI that's the other big stat that most media outlets highlight as the most important one. Home runs are usually the third stat that rounds out what they show you on TV when a guy steps up to bat. It's becoming more common, though, that a player's on base percentage or OBP is displayed. That's the average number of times a guy gets on base either by hits, walks, or being hit by a pitch (if a pitcher hits a batter with the ball the batter automatically gets to take first base no matter what the count is). Some people consider OBP to be the most important stat, but that's something you can read more about if you want.

And now here are some pitching stats! Probably the two biggest stats commentators highlight are earned run average or ERA and wins. The ERA is the average number of runs that pitcher would allow in nine innings. Say, for example, his ERA is 3.00. That means, were he to throw all nine innings of a game, he'd give up 3 runs on average. Anything lower than that is usually considered pretty elite. Wins are becoming more widely regarded as kind of a meaningless stat but, nonetheless, can be a big impressive number we like to ooo and ahhh at. The stat itself is just if one pitcher gave up fewer runs than the other. That's kind of a gross oversimplification, but I'm not sure I can really articulate the nuances much better than that. The pitching equivalent of OBP is the WHIP, or walks plus hits per inning pitched. I say "equivalent" because both are stats that are really important but only just starting to be talked about during an average broadcast. WHIP is a really crucial stat because it reflects how many baserunners the pitcher allows during an inning. A WHIP of less than 1.00 is suuuuper good, but becoming more common in the post-steroid era.

And with that, I think you should more or less have the tools you need to start watching and loving baseball! Welcome again!

EDIT: Wow thank you guys so much for the great feedback!!! This is my last day at my tearing-my-hair-out internship so I'll come back and change the things I got wrong later tonight. If you know of somewhere else where people might find this helpful, feel free to repost it wherever (though I'd really appreciate it if you tack my name on it)!

Stop. Building the app is one of the last things. The biggest mistake people make is that they build something no one wants.

Validate your idea. Try to get strangers interested (NOT friends and family).

To add to this, check out the book Running Lean. If you're serious, it gives you a great step by step process.

Congress was at least honest they bailed out the banks. Germans funneled their bailout money through Greece, wrecking their economy on the way. I recommend this book if you wish to understand better how Germans and French fucked over Greece to bail out their banks

Start here:
https://www.amazon.com/Open-Veins-Latin-America-Centuries/dp/0853459916

Then (prepare to be hooked) go here:
https://www.amazon.com/Genesis-Memory-Fire-Eduardo-Galeano/dp/156858444X/ref=la_B000AP701M_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1495635912&sr=1-5
https://www.amazon.com/Faces-Masks-Memory-Fire-2/dp/1568584458/ref=la_B000AP701M_1_13?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1495635940&sr=1-13&refinements=p_82%3AB000AP701M
https://www.amazon.com/Century-Wind-Memory-Fire-3/dp/1568584466/ref=la_B000AP701M_1_10?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1495635912&sr=1-10

Apologies in advance for your new Galeano addiction. :)

Here's a source you whiny baby:

Mankiw:

1. People face trade-offs
   
2. The cost of something is what you give up to get it
   
3. Rational people think at the margin
   
4. People respond to incentives
   
5. Trade can make everyone better off
   
6. Markets are usually a good way to organize economic activity
   
7. Governments can sometimes improve market outcomes
   
8. A country's standard of living depends on its ability to produce goods and services
   
9. Prices rise when the government prints too much money
   
10. Society faces a short-run tradeoff between Inflation and unemployment.
    
    

I like the lean canvas and lean start up theories.

Here is lean canvas
http://leanstack.com/

It's a more streamlined model of the traditional business model canvas.

And here is an excellent book about implementing lean startup
http://www.amazon.com/Running-Lean-Iterate-Plan-Works/dp/1449305172/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1410501116&sr=8-1&keywords=running+lean

The original book for this is The Lean Startup
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=lean+startup&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Alean+startup&ajr=2

If you haven't done a business before, I'd recommend you check out all of these resources. In addition to helping you plan and create your business model, it also gives fantastic advice on starting out. Including how to make sure you are actually creating a product someone wants, finding your customers, getting the product out there sooner than later and other great notes.

Also keep in mind that you can spend weeks and months on a business plan and it will most likely blow up as soon as you implement it. Nothing wrong with that, but the point is to make a plan that's "good enough" and then go out there and test your theory.

Good luck!

It's a manga at least

Russians were very late to industrialization. The absolutistic government was very hostile to it, fearing that it would pave the way for a government change, so they only started extensively building railroads in the late 19th century. Public education was also very late, I think it started in the 1860s or so.

Germany on the other hand was among the first to industrialize on mainland Europe, and Prussia in particular was among the first in the world with widespread literacy, enacting general education in the early 18th century.

So the formerly German part of Poland had a more than a century headstart in education, and half a century in industrialization. Prussia, the part of Germany that is now Polish, was also considered to be German homeland, while it was always conquered territory to the Russians.

edit: If that topic interests you, there is a fantastic book about your exact question: "Why Nations Fail" by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson. It goes through many historical developments in different time periods and different places on this world that show why some parts of the world are now well developed while others are not.

He's not wrong, he's just an asshole. Here are some other groups that have fewer Nobel prizes than Trinity College.

• women
  
• black people
  
• those not following an Abrahamic religion
  
• anyone living in the Southern Hemisphere
  
  How come? The simple answer is that rich industrialized societies with secure property rights have been the source of almost the entirety of scientific innovation since the inception of the Nobel prizes. Within those societies, it's been groups with economic cache in those societies in the relevant time period (white men, including Jewish ones after the early 19th century) that have best been able to take advantage of the opportunities to study, write, and innovate.
  
  Why did industrialization and the culture of innovation arise in the Christian world rather than the Islamic world? That's a complex question and there are a lot of excellent books and papers on the subject, such as this. Here's a hint: none of them take seriously the claim that religion has much to do with it. The fact that most Muslims had the misfortune to be ruled either by an autocratic feudal despotism or were colonized by Europeans during the relevant time periods might just have something more to do with it.
  
  Dawkins makes a divisive little innuendo that states two facts that are related but in subtle and complex ways and implicates a simple causal relation between. He should know better.

(1) Read, bruh. I can't vouch for it personally, but I've heard the book Watching Baseball Smarter recommended with high regard. And it's almost literally the exact thing you asked for. Here are some other good book recommendations:

• Moneyball by Michael Lewis. Hard to believe that the book is sort of old hat at this point, but it still serves as a very readable introduction to advanced statistics.
  
  
• The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract by Bill James (mostly). This book is good toilet reading, if you have a massive toilet on which to perch it, and your bowel movements are glacially paced. James ranks the best players at each position, and goes on a witty, decade-by-decade jog through the history of the game.
  
  
• The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball by Tom Tango. Are you a "math person"? Read this book, you'll like it. It's an introduction to sabermetrics that explains the important first principles of statistical analysis, builds an important statistic (wOBA) from the ground up, and then applies all of that knowledge to answer specific questions about baseball strategies and to debunk, verify, or qualify some of baseball's hoary "conventional wisdom."
  
  
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon. This book is not about baseball, but it's still great and you should read it.
  
  (2) You'll want to start watching the game more, if you can. Find a method (like MLB.tv or, you know, your television) to do so. Massive exposure does help you learn, and it's a fun, if inefficient, method. Osmosis. That's just science.
  
  (2b) Depending on the broadcast crew, it's sometimes addition-by-subtraction to mute the television.
  
  (2c) If you have MLB.tv Premium and intend to follow your favorite team, I recommend watching the other team's broadcast. You know enough about [TEAM X] already. Learn something new about [TEAM Y], instead. Unless, of course, (2b) applies, in which case maybe your best bet is MLB.tv's option to overlay the radio broadcast on the TV video. Barring that, the liberal application of the DOWN VOLUME button is always an option, and then, like, listen to Chopin's Preludes. Don't be That Guy and lean too heavily on No. 15, though. There are 23 others. Expand your horizons.
  
  (3) When you go to games, keep score. Sure, there's a guy a few seats over in a striped button-down and pre-faded jeans (Chad or something) who will mock you mercilessly for it. Sad for you, you've lost Chad's respect. But, oh, the things you'll gain. A free souvenir. A better grasp on the flow of the game. The priceless power to answer the "what did I miss" and "what the fuck just happened" questions that litter the air at ballgames, tragically disregarded and forgotten like the syllabi from Chad's last semester at Bromaha State. You can learn how to score ballgames here. Fuck Chad.
  
  (3b) Go to games alone now and then. Did I mention that, in some company, it's rightly considered rude to score a ballgame like a trainspotting anorak? Not in all company, mind you. But I like going to some games alone to avoid the messy politics of divided attention altogether.
  
  (4) Bookmark a few websites. Quick stat references include FanGraphs, Baseball-Reference, and Brooks Baseball. Grantland, Baseball Prospectus, Baseball America, and the Hardball Times are all good. FanGraphs and Baseball-Reference both have subscription options that allow you to access enhanced content for a small fee, which is worth it if only to support the yeoman's work that they do compiling and sorting our beloved numbers.
  
  (5) German chess great Emanuel Lasker is believed (incorrectly) to have said that "if you see a good move, look for a better one." Good advice. Too much of the history of baseball analysis is the history of people getting stuck in comfortable places and refusing to interrogate their own ideas about the game. Sabermetricians have made careers out of just pointing this out, and even some of them do it from time to time. Also, on the level of pure self-interest, baseball ignorance and bad teeth have this much in common: Keeping your mouth shut hides them both. If you have a good opinion about a baseball topic, look for a better one.
  
  (6) Watch a some decent movies about baseball. Sugar is excellent and disturbing. Baseball: A Film by Ken Burns is available on Netflix and worth watching. You drink his nostalgic Flavor-Aid at your own peril: At times, Baseball is about as edifying as having a good, 19-hour stare at a Norman Rockwell painting. It's still in a class all its own as a baseball documentary. You should also watch Ed, starring Matt LeBlanc, because it'll teach you not to take strangers on the internet seriously when they give you advice.
  
  (7) When you go to games, wear whatever the hell you want. This has nothing to do with understanding baseball, but it annoys me when people make a big deal out of policing the clothing that others wear to sporting events. Sitting front-row at a Yankees-Tigers game in your best Steelers jersey and a pink Houston Astros BP cap? Whatever. You be you. You be you. I once watched as a perfectly innocent college student was denied a free t-shirt from a Nats Park employee because he (the student) was wearing a Red Sox shirt with his Washington cap. That was pretty fucked.
  
  (8) Take the EdX Sabermetrics course. Others have recommended this, with good reason. It's a wonderful introduction to advanced analytics, and you get a taste of programming in R and MySQL as well. You don't need a CompSci background. I sure didn't.
  
  Hope this helped.
  
  Footnote: Chad-hating is actually too easy. Truth is, I've never really been mocked for scoring games. Once, I even bonded with a Chad-esque guy sitting next to me at a Braves-Nats game here in Washington. He was pretty drunk, but we talked Braves baseball while he drank and I drank and I scored the game and he drank more. He seemed utterly engaged by the scoring process in that guileless, doe-eyed way that only the drunk have mastered. That's the Chad I loved.

>Just FYI, there's another side to that film (which is essentially propaganda). You should also research views and evidence from actual economists to get the whole picture.

Do you have a link to this other side? Because from what I gather from sources like Capitalism in the 21st Century and all the credible reviews of this book, is that there isn't much discussion or dispute about income inequality that would say Robert Reich's documentary is propaganda.

Principles of Economics by Mankiw. You can get old, used editions for cheap.

It’s not sexy; it’s a textbook. However, it’s by far the best way for you to get a feel for basic theory and to understand the discipline.

Yes, Would you prefer an hour long lecture, a book recommendation or an article by the IMF?

I think that more so has to do with the origin of the criticism--UMass is a heterodox school, Harvard is one of the premier economics schools in the world by prestige (if you can trust rankings, #2, but that's bubba meisa).

Additionally, the finding in the R&R paper was extremely politically convenient at a time when some, including well respected thinkers like Stiglitz, Krugman, Akerloff, Schiller, Summers, were calling for a return to a more a fiscal-based anti-crisis policy.

Had their paper not come out, some other talking head would have been found to justify the austerity claim (not that the R&R paper even really does justify austerity--the issue is long term average debt, balanced over the business cycle, not its static measurement at any given moment), which occurs regularly.

Also, the more intense your prestige, the less likely you are to publicly fess up. You see this in other disciplines. Chomsky, who, by any metric, is an incredibly intelligent man, who changes the conclusions of his theories regularly, will, nonetheless, never own up to their being issues in generativism generally & the minimalist program, specifically.



It really may be a Harvard & MIT disease. Steven Pinker was savaged by Taleb's statistical analysis, not to mention substantial rebuttals from anthropology, sociology, poli sci & economics which disputed his claims (notably everyone from Douglas P Fry to James Scott to Jared Diamond to John Gray disputes it, despite their lack of agreement on anything else)--but he only ever doubles down. Ditto for Pinker & other talking heads on the issues of adaptationism in evolution and genocentrism & other issues in biology generally. Larry Summers (who, academically within econ actually has some integrity) famously gave a talk about differences between men & women's career outcomes--he cited someone for his claim who was literally in the audience at the talk and during the Q&A said he mis-interpreted the data. He recast himself as a martyr for free speech later, even as this was impertinent to the subject at hand.

Capital-In Manga! is almost exactly a Marxist chick tract.

I aced undergrad biochem via speedreading - that's the gist of my comrphension counter-argument.

The caveat is that I gave up on it since starting grad school - no time to practice. It's a skill that has to be kept up and all my time was devoted to problem solving.

That aside, I learned via this book.
It took me a bout two months to get to 1000 words per minute at decent comprehension for light fiction, i.e. almost identical to my normal comprehension at ~300 wpm. After ~8 months of diligent practice I got up ~11-17 pages per minute (3300-5100wpm) of easy fiction, like Harry Potter or something plot driven. I could speed read biochem textbooks at about 700wpm. I aced biochem by never reading the book, normally, but speedreading through a chapter ~5 times in less time it would take most people to read it once. I would make detailed charts of the material and memorize it - the book I linked to teaches that sort of thing too. I would read two books a day for fun, and that was the main purpose for learning the skill. It's not very helpful in math or philosophy, etc.

On the economic side, there's a fair amount to choose from:

• What is money? - short debunking of Austrian assumptions on the nature and origin of money (this affects Marxist commodity money views too).
  
• Economic theory of the leisure class - Bukharin's classical polemic with marginalism and the Austrian school.
  
• Calculation, complexity and planning - reassessment of the socialist calculation debate and rebuttal of the Austrian position.
  
• Myth and Measurement: the new economics of the minimum wage - regarding the economic effects of the minimum wage, contrary to the marginalist value product theory.
  
• Production of commodities by means of commodities - Sraffa's proof by construction that homogeneous treatment of capital as well as marginal value product theory when applied to capital (in neoclassical and Austrian approaches alike) is logically untenable.
  
• There is no natural rate of interest - review by Sraffa against Mises' theory of money.
  
• Sen Paradox - libertarianism cannot be Pareto efficient on an unrestricted domain.
  
• The entrepreneurial state: debunking public vs private sector myths - on the state's role on R&D.
  
  
  There's more I could think of, but this should be a good start.
  Edited for format.
  

It's almost as if the rest of the league is not valuing these assets correctly. Oh wait, where have we seen this before?

[Getting this] (https://www.amazon.com/Capital-Manga-Karl-Marx/dp/1926958195)

Here are a few that I've found useful relating to teamwork, management, and/or general career shit:

• Corporate Confidential
  
• Work Rules!
  
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
  
  

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

The Mythical Man-Month

Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master

Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming

You will pick up the knowledge fairly quickly, but the wisdom part comes slowly.

Read some books:

• Phoenix Project https://www.amazon.com/Phoenix-Project-DevOps-Helping-Business-ebook/dp/B00AZRBLHO/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1495835961&sr=1-1&keywords=the+phoenix+project
  
• Practice of System and Network Administration https://www.amazon.com/Practice-System-Network-Administration-Enterprise/dp/0321919165/ref=dp_ob_title_bk
  
• Toyota Kata https://www.amazon.com/Toyota-Kata-Managing-Improvement-Adaptiveness/dp/0071635238/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1495835986&sr=1-1&keywords=Toyota+kata
  
• GTD https://www.amazon.com/Getting-Things-Done-Stress-Free-Productivity/dp/0142000280
  
• Five Dysfunctions of a Team https://www.amazon.com/Five-Dysfunctions-Team-Leadership-Fable/dp/0787960756/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1495836025&sr=1-1&keywords=five+dysfunctions+of+a+team
  
• How to win friends and influence people https://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People/dp/0671027034
  
• Powershell in a month of lunches https://www.amazon.com/Learn-Windows-PowerShell-Month-Lunches/dp/1617294160/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1495836112&sr=1-1&keywords=powershell+in+a+month+of+lunches
  
  Start humble, stay humble, be quick to listen and slow to speak, and don't make changes on Friday!

Oh it absolutely does, I just gave the iPhone example for it's relevance.

There's a book I want to read, The Entrepreneurial State that seems to go through this industry by industry. Basically, private corporations only invest once the government/public have taken the large initial risk.

I feel like there's a lot of spin here.

>By Dr. Tooze's estimate, governments ended up committing more than US$7-trillion to save banks. Most of these state investments would eventually turn a profit for taxpayers.
>
>“Did the all-out focus on the financial system really save the interests of the real economy? Was the inability to borrow causing a failure of investment? Or were the collapsed housing market and cash-strapped households curtailing economic activity?”

How about a lack of government regulation that essentially let's the private banking sector run amok?

For anyone who is interested, Mark Blyth talks about the repeated failings of the private sector resulting in public sector blame in his book: Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea

because everyone thinks their team problems are unique and really they're all just stale memes.

if you read this you'll be able to perfectly line up all the shitheads in your department with the book characters

I'll share my reading list for the next 12 months as it's how I plan to become a better learner:


 

Learning

• Learning How To Learn - Free online course
  
• Become a Straight-A Student - Book
  
• Make it Stick - Book
  
  
  Improving Maths
  
• A Mind for Numbers - Book
  
• Secrets of Mental Math - Book
  
• Vedic Mathematics- Book
  
  
  Improving Reading Speed
  
• Breakthrough Rapid Reading - Book
  
  
  Algorithmic thinking
  
• Algorithms to Live By - Book
  
  
  Understanding the Mind
  
• How the Mind Works - Book
  
• Thinking Fast, Thinking Slow - Book
  
• The Owner's Manual for the Brain - Book
  
  
  Productivity
  
• Getting Things Done - Book
  
• The Willpower Instinct - Book
  
• Willpower Doesn't Work - Book
  
• The Chimp Paradox - Book
  
  
  
  It's an ambitious reading list for the next 12 months as there is some heavy reading in there but hopefully you can get one or two useful suggestions from it!

There's a book out called Salt Sugar Fat which you should read, if you're interested in this stuff. It's really really horrifying.

For context, the author of this article, Thomas Piketty, is one of the most prominent and influential left-wing economists in the world. His book, Capital in the 21st Century, was extremely well-received.

Here are some resources that have been incredibly helpful for me. :)

Books:

• Driven to Distraction by Dr. John Ratey -- I haven't read this one in a while, but I love Dr. Ratey. He is a great writer on issues of science, biology, and mental health.
  
  
• Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain by Dr. John Ratey -- Sections on how beneficial exercise is in managing ADHD, depression, and anxiety.
  
  
• Taking Charge of Adult ADHD by Dr. Russell Barkley -- Best book for adults with ADHD I've read. Backs everything up with science. Makes a very solid case for self-care and medication.
  
  
• Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World -- Hyperfocus == Deep Work. Use this philosophy to make the case to a boss or team about reducing interruption at work.
  
  
• Emotional Intelligence 2.0
  
  
• StrengthsFinder -- ADHD makes us painfully aware of our weaknesses. Learn what your strengths and positive personality traits are and how to build off them.
  
  Videos:
  
  
• 30 Essential Ideas You Should Know About ADHD by Dr. Russell Barkley -- Awesome series about the nature of ADHD. MUST WATCH
  
  Podcasts:
  
  
• The Value Of 'Deep Work' In An Age Of Distraction by Hidden Brain -- A podcast version of the Deep Work book if you're like me and have trouble getting through 200 pages.
  
  
• Embrace the Chaos: Why Disorder May Be Good For Us -- We may beat ourselves up over our struggles with structure, but here's a solid case on how less structure makes us more adaptable.

> But why would we expect rents and estate values to be at parity with construction costs?

Take a look at the article, or at Principles of Economics; in open real estate markets (or commodity markets), prices tend to decline to near the marginal cost of construction.

That's what happened in most of the U.S. until the 1970s, when parochial land-use controls became common. People today seem to treat rising prices as a law of nature or a positive thing, when in fact relentlessly rising prices is a relatively unusual phenomenon, and even it is not universal.

I recommend Alex Epstein's The Moral Case For Fossil Fuels for a philosophical view on the subject.

I have an eccentric obsession with the oil/energy industry. Some of these books were mentioned already, but below are my absolute favorites:

• The Prize
  
• The Frackers
  
• Oil 101
  
• The Big Rich
  
• The King of Oil
  
• Fundamentals of Investing in Oil and Gas
  
• The Smartest Guys in the Room
  
• The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels
  
  If you're looking for a history of oil and gas check out The Prize, and The Frackers covers the more recent energy revolution. Oil 101 and Fundamentals of Investing in Oil and Gas deal more with the technical side.

Tu pregunta es muy general y toca diferentes aspectos de la economía como ventaja comparativa, libre comercio, inversión directa, inversión indirecta, etc... Para entender la respuesta tienes que estar familiarizado con estos temas.

Yo estudié economía. Te recomiendo ampliamente que trates de informarte más al respecto porque es una materia muy relevante para tu vida diaria y para entender lo que sucede en México y el mundo. Un buen libro para aprender es Principles of Economics de Mankiw. Tambien hay cursos en Khan Academy y Coursera.

Ahora bien, respondiendo tu pregunta.

> pero como se supone que estas inversiones nos ayudarían a nosotros los mexicanos?

Una planta de Audi no solo requerirá trabajadores en Audi, sino que necesitará proveedores que a su vez requerirán trabajadores. Se vuelve una cascada de empleo. Adicionalmente, los trabajadores que entren a Audi recibirán capacitación, aprenderán técnicas alemanas de productividad y en un futuro podrán transmitir este conocimiento a otras empresas si dejan Audi.

> Lo que yo pienso sucedería si llegasen mas empresas, sería que claro, habría mas trabajos, pero no serían de calidad, seguirían los mismos salarios miseros, las horas y días extra sin paga y los mismos derechos laborales pisoteados.

Siguiendo con mi ejemplo de la planta de Audi, esta va a requerir desde conserje hasta director de producción. Habrá trabajos de todos los niveles de habilidad y salario. Respecto a lo que mencionas de los derechos laborales, generalmente las empresas extranjeras están bajo escrutinio de más de una jurisdicción, por lo que tendrán menos incentivos a "pisotear" derechos laborales o no cumplir la ley. Ve a Apple en China por ejemplo. Ha hecho mucho por mejorar la condición laboral de los trabajadores de sus proveedores. Un trabajador de un proveedor de Apple en China probablemente está mejor que un trabajador de Huawei.

> Si algo atrae a las empresas es la mano de obra barata

No es "mano de obra barata" es mano de obra más barata que lo que les costaría en otro lado. Un ingeniero en México ganará 1/4 de lo que gana un ingeniero en Estados Unidos, pero también la vida en México es mucho menos costosa. También toma en cuenta que es mejor tener trabajo que no tenerlo. Finalmente, las empresas extranjeras tienden a pagar más que las nacionales por el mismo trabajo.

> Entonces si llegan mas empresas habría mas riquezas explotadas que se traducen en mayores ganancias para nosotros los mexicanos, o al menos para los de mas arriba...

Generalmente nos vamos a beneficiar. Tus ideas son coloniales. Es un hecho que nos podríamos beneficiar más pero también podemos caer en riesgo de perder inversiones extranjeras. Ponlo de otra forma, competimos con otros países por inversión extranjera, si demandamos demasiado, las empresas se van a otro lado.

> Por que si algo tenemos aquí es una clase política de ratas, toda esa inversión no se vería reflejada en la infraestructura u obras publicas sino mas bien en la nueva casa de 10 millones de tal diputado o en el yate que se compro el hijo del senador Pérez.

Esto no tiene que ver con tu pregunta. Pero lo puedo relacionar. Las empresas extranjeras son buenas para combatir la corrupción porque como te dije, están sujetas a más de una jurisdicción. Por ejemplo, una empresa Americana no puede hacer actividades fuera de Estados Unidos que sean ilegales en Estados Unidos. Si el gobierno Americano descubre que una empresa Americana sobornó a oficiales Mexicanos, el gobierno Americano multa a la empresa y persigue penalmente a los implicados en Estados Unidos. Lo mismo no se puede decir de México.

> Entiendo que en un país bien administrado y bien dirigido pueda ser beneficioso para la población, pero no veo como lo sea aquí.

Es mejor tenerlo que no tenerlo. No nos podemos cerrar al libre comercio (del cual la inversión extranjera es parte) porque tenemos problemas de corrupción. No veo la lógica detrás de esto.

> ¿Acaso ayudaría a fortalecer el peso como moneda?

Si. Para invertir en México, necesitas comprar pesos. Hacer esto incrementa la demanda por el peso y por lo tanto su valor. Que un peso fuerte sea bueno o malo depende.

> ¿Aumentaría el producto interno bruto?

Si. La inversión genera empleo. El empleo genera ingreso. El ingreso genera consumo, impuestos, y ahorros. Estos incrementan el producto interno bruto.

> Como dije anteriormente no soy experto en economía o política, pero me interesa saber mas y saber si estoy en lo correcto o no.

No necesitas ser un experto en economía para darte cuenta que estas equivocado en muchas de las cosas que piensas. No te preocupes, yo pensaba similar hasta que estudie economía. Y no pienses que necesitas volverte economista para entender. Lo hermoso de la economía es que es como Smash Brothers, fácil de aprender, pero difícil de dominar. Empieza por el libro que te ligue y con eso vas a responder todas tus preguntas y más.

Here's a basic video you can show anyone.

Here are books:

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America

The Open Veins of Latin America. Here it is for free.

Failed States

Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism

War is a Racket This one is from the most decorated Marines in US history.

Occupy Finance. This one is (indirectly) about dependency theory on a national scale. The people of the US have become victims of capital. They go into debt for their health, transportation, education, housing, and daily activities with credit cards. They then put their pensions at the whim of the stock market, as it is plundered by Wall Street. When capitalism can no longer expand geographically, it needs to plunder the lives of people to maintain itself. In this case, the first source of capital to exploit was the lives of the people of the US. Unlike Europe, the US populace was left defenseless in the wake of the attack because of a history of active repression of the left (like COINTELPRO).

The financialization of the US populace is discussed in this essay from the Monthly Review, Monopoly Finance Capital. Here is a book on the topic.

If I remember any more resources, I'll make sure to throw them your way.

I wish that I could find some actual research to back this up, but what I read was in a 'book'. (Cradle to Cradle http://www.amazon.com/Cradle-Remaking-Way-Make-Things/dp/0865475873). Anyway, bottled water, soda, etc, is put in bottles that aren't really made for reuse (washing, bending, smashing and unsmashing) so the plastic degrades pretty quickly. You're then drinking plastic gas, more or less.

>"Why would I bother to read some marxist bullshit?"

Sadly, that is what many of the one-star reviews of Piketty's book consist of; people never reading Piketty, but calling it Marxist bullshit while literally comparing it to Das Kapital (which they probably did not read either).

https://www.amazon.ca/Capital-Manga-Karl-Marx/dp/1926958195

he approved this from beyond the grave

It will be special, guys.

Treasure these moments. Like me and Michael Trout at DEVCON2.

Embrace the crazy. Blockchain will be as boring and uncontroversial as databases in a few years.

https://twitter.com/BobSummerwill/status/983618539545243649

Like the stories told in Digital Gold. I am dying to see an equivalent "drama" book for Ethereum:

https://www.amazon.ca/Digital-Gold-Bitcoin-Millionaires-Reinvent/dp/006236250X

Are you serious right now? Where'd you even hear something like that?

That has no resemblance to reality or tax code, and doesn't account for subsidies, tax havens, Obama's famous 'loopholes', and several more situations which allow corporations to get taxpayer money while paying no or even negative tax.

And I did read a book. This one, by our country's economic policy's founder James Maynard Keynes.

Then I went to college for Economics, and read this textbook.

Disclaimer: I love consuming knowledge but I'm not a news junkie.

> As someone who would like to continue building my knowledge of the world I sometimes get overwhelmed by the sheer amount of information there is out there.

You need to know how to select knowledge to read and devour. (Actually, go ahead and read the rest of Dr Wozniak's articles while you're at it.)

> With the news I tend to get overwhelmed. I'd like to come up with some kind of system where I filter out for quality, in-depth stories yet keep up-to-date with a wide range of topics/regions.

Reading straight from the newswire is akin to drinking from a firehose.

Regarding this: I would personally have a machine learning algorithm do the filtering for me, one that I have preferably written myself and tweaked to perfection. Sorry but I do not know any off-the-shelf solutions to this.

> For my other interests I'm mainly reading non-fiction right now. I really hate the feeling that I'll forget a good amount of the detail of what I read which makes me feel compelled to put everything I read on my re-read list (which is problematic considering I still have a substantial to-read list).

Feel like you'll forget something that you want to remember forever? Use a spaced repetition system. SuperMemo used to be the big name in the game but I personally prefer Anki.

> Any suggestions for a system of organizing knowledge for myself (a personal wiki, a series of documents, notebooks, etc)?

I would strongly recommend writing up a series of documents on a topic, and then SRS-ize all the relevant facts. Store a hard copy of the original document you wrote up along with a list of sources in a file somewhere safe, so you can pull it up if you want to properly reference something / give someone else a summary/overview of the topic. It is important to first understand the material before you put it into your SRS system.

On a semi-related note, if you wish to adopt speedreading, take a look at Peter Kump's book on the subject. Reading doesn't have to be linear, I find reading non-linearly to work best.

Depends how much effort you want to put into it.

For general baseball knowledge and history:

• Watch all of Ken Burns Baseball (its all on Youtube).
  
• Read Moneyball for an understanding of how modern analytics revolutionized the game and upended the status quo. (Some people are still fighting this fight, but among MLB front offices the nerds have already "won" basically).
  
• Read Baseball Between the Numbers for a good primer on modern analysis (though there has been more progress since that book came out of course)
  
  
  For Dodgers specific history:
  
  
• Watch the ESPN 30 for 30 on Valenzuela (Fernando Nation).
  
• Read Jon Weisman's book about the Dodgers for a great overview of team history.
  
• Read Molly Knight's book for a good narrative look at the current team and ownership group. This is great context for understanding how we got to where we are now.
  
  For current news and analysis:
  
  
• Dodgers Digest is a great blog for level-headed, intelligent Dodgers analysis. The writers there know what they are talking about and aren't overly reactionary, as a general rule.
  
• True Blue LA, the Dodgers SB Nation blog, is run by Eric Stephen who is the most diligent Dodgers beat writer today. In the off season for example, he's writing a season review for every player who appeared for the Dodgers in 2015.

I used to call people out on their preconceptions and bullshit. I tend not to anymore, unless they seem capable of seeing something from another point of view. Holding firm to your views and using facts to quash counter arguments is your best bet. If that doesn't work you need to give up, no amount of logic is going to sway them.

I also copy and paste previous comments I have made, 9/10 I can get them to fit into a counter argument and you don't get emotionally drained by typing up a response.

But if you insist on being a masochist here are my go to rebuttals....

My top three most annoying things capitalists say to me.

At number three we have the classic:

"Face it socialism failed get over it"- my go to response is this. No system is implemented overnight the transition from feudalism to capitalism wasn't spontaneous it took years of struggle for capitalism to win out. the capitalists took ground and lost ground, learned from their mistakes and eventually overcame the system that came before.

Coming in at number two:

"look how successful capitalism is compared to socialism "- you can use various arguments on this one.

• 8 economic downturns in the past century suggest that capitalism isn't as successful as you are being led to think.
  
• higher wages are a thing of the past. The computer, the ever increasing automation of production, the transferal of jobs overseas, the introduction of women into the labour force all mean that there is a huge surplus in the workforce now. These well paid jobs were only ever there because of the demand for labour, this is no longer the case
  a capitalist can pay what ever he wants as there are a 100 people waiting in line for your job.
  
• when 1% of the population owns 50% of the wealth that isn't a success.
  
• most of the great inventions trumpeted as huge successes of capitalism are due to huge funding from the government. Huge advancements made in technology are down to public funding, capitalists hate risk the only way to get them to innovate is to make sure it's not their money being spent. The internet, the algorithm Google uses etc were all created using government funds. Read this book and you will have plenty of counter arguments http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0857282522?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o08_s00
  
  And finally, you guessed it folks, number one:
  
  "why do you want to take all my stuff and put me in a gulag"
  
  If you can manage to unroll your eyes a direct quote of what socialism actually is, is a good start.
  
  

Principles of Economics by Mankiw is what you are looking for.

yes, but who built the machines? this is why marx says that capitalists fetishize technological innovation.

yes, the idea is that labor is the only commodity available in the market which produces surplus value. Value, in marx, is defined as 'socially necessary labor time.' one should never lose sight of this definition and confuse value with either the money form of capital or which capital sui generis.

also, let us look at the reason why machines do not produce (absolute) surplus value, but only relative surplus value. machines, again, are commodities and as such are available to the market (or at least portions of it). Let us assume a certain business invests in a $25,000 machine which will eliminate several jobs, saving the company $50,000 a year. wow, thats really great, now the company can be more competitive with their pricing or, at the very least, will have a greater surplus this year. but what happens when this company's competitors start investing in these similar machines, and start undercutting our hypothetical company's profit margin. well now we see that the surplus value that the machine created was really only relative to that singular company. over time, as the machine or technological solution (or new organizational structure, or new process, or new space....) becomes the norm of the industry, the surplus value diminishes and it becomes an assumed cost of doing business.

marx again is making a class or macro-economic argument here: he does not care too much about singular capitalists making larger profits (he does in the sense that they are useful for his data on capitalists society), he is concerned with how a class of persons is able to exploit another class. within the capitalist class, yes, some are able to gain a better competitive advantage over other capitalists by being the first to utilize the latest technological achievement; however, that advantage will either spread to the entire industry as a commonplace necessity, or the company will begin to monopolize the industry.

labor as a surplus value producing commodity is useful for the entire capital class over the working class. it is the law of economics in general that labor must produce and it is the only thing capable of turning raw (or semi-raw) materials into use values. it is the law of capitalism that to produce a profit one must hire workers at a salary less than the sum of your revenue.

i would suggest reading some david harvey. he is a contemporary and really does a fantastic job at explaining marxism for the 21st century. i suggest either a companion to marx's capital vol i or the enigma of capital. the former address your question specifically in chapter 6 'relative surplus value'.

let me know if any of this is unclear or if you would like to discuss further. cheers and happy new year comrade.

Well now, since we are sharing books, let me add mine to the pile!

This is an extremely interesting look at the food industry and the amount of thought that goes into making food (usually junk food) as addicting as possible.

>The question is, why does an article like this have to be published at American Conservative, rather than a left-wing outlet, where it actually belongs?

Tucker Carlson (Fox News anchor who hosted Kara Dansky of WoLF) also recently had Mark Blyth on his show. This is Mark Blyth, author of "Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea", who calls democracy "asset insurance for the rich" (was the source of the hashtag #thehamptonsisnotadefensibleposition), and is a welcomed guest of Chris Hedges on his show. Blyth can't get on Chris Hayes' or Rachel Maddow's shows, but he can get on Carlson's? Pathetic. Not that I think Fox News is some beacon of truth and progress because of it, they just know how to cleverly channel anti-elite sentiment into a particular flavor of pro-elite support among their conservative viewers. Whereas I think msnbc couldn't as safely afford to expose their left-leaning audience to the same ideas. Anyway it's just kind of wild to hear Carlson saying one of Blyth's lectures was "one of the smartest things [he's] ever heard about american politics". Like what is going on when the only place outside of fringe indie sources that you can hear real leftists is mainstream conservative outlets. Things sure are getting weird.

It's not about more or less insight, it's about the lens through which you interpret the information. MarkZ had an interesting short twitter thread about it.

In general, even people who spend all day watching and analyzing players' performances can be biased and have inaccurate perceptions of players' skill. One of the core motifs of Moneyball was precisely that. The old scouts who had played and scouted the game for decades were biased in particular ways that relative newcomers who weren't indigenous to baseball weren't.

N. Gregory Mankiw: a well-published, Tenured Harvard Professor, Former G.W. Staffer and writer of one of the most used books around the world in 101 economics courses https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Economics-Mankiws/dp/0538453052 is probably making ALOT more than 100k a year.

In fact the royalties from his textbooks alone make him a millionaire:

Since then, more than one million copies have been sold, and Mankiw has received an estimated $42 million in royalties from the book, which is priced at $280 per copy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Mankiw

People in his tax bracket made out like bandits.

Breakthrough Rapid Reading was helpful for me. The first couple chapters are about reading by sliding your finger across the page instead of just your using your eyes. The science there is that your eye takes a fraction of a second to focus on a word, so you can avoid that delay by following the sliding finger. Instead of word-word-word, your brain picks up wordwordword. That little action sped up my reading a lot, and also kept my mind from wandering.

Sometimes the state or government just provides the best service. Economist Mariana Mazzucato is really good on this: basically, the state is far, far more innovative and creative than the private sector.

https://www.amazon.com/Capital-Manga-Karl-Marx/dp/1926958195

“Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things” is a book I am currently enjoying that covers these topics. The anti-corporation sentiment is unrealistic, though, as large companies are what develop and set in place sustainable energy via solar, wind, etc. and are able to invest in recycling programs to reuse plastics, etc. in the first place—but that’s my only qualm about the book so far. Here’s an Amazon link.
https://www.amazon.com/Cradle-Remaking-Way-Make-Things/dp/0865475873/ref=nodl_

Try Cradle to Cradle and The Green Collar Economy.

edit:punctuation.

/u/papermarioguy02's reading list outline:

Several people have asked me about what things to read to get initiated in the stuff I'm interested in. I don't really think that I'm the best teaching resource, but I can at least list off the pieces of media that have influenced my thoughts to a certain extent. This is just an outline, and you should probably use /u/integralds' list as a more authoritative resource, he's not 14, but this is how I got where I am (I also don't 100% agree with all of the arguments presented on the reading list, but they have influenced me).

Articles

In Praise of Cheap Labor - Paul Krugman

The Obama Doctrine - Jeffery Goldberg

The Case for Reparations - Ta-Nehisi Coates


How Politics Makes us Stupid - Ezra Klein


What the Fox Knows - Nate Silver

Books

Principles of Economics - Greg Mankiw

Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman

International Economics: Theory and Policy - Paul Krugman and Maurice Obstfeld (READING STILL IN PROGRESS, and reading Princples of Economics or some other 101 textbook is probably a prerequisite here)

Capitalism and Freedom - Milton Friedman (READING IN PROGRESS, and again, you should probably read the 101 textbook before this one)

Non Print Stuff

Any of the Crash Course series hosted by John Green. They aren't anywhere near perfect, but they do a good job of introducing you to subjects, and giving some insight on how to think about some topics.

Any of Khan Academy's math stuff. All very good explanations of many different ideas

Grant Sanderson's Essence of Calculus series, a way of getting a good visual intuition for how some really important math works.

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Again, this is just one 14 year old's list. I do not pretend to be authoritative or that anything here is perfect, but they are things that have influenced the way I've thought about things. This is still an outline, so I might add things here in the future.

/u/Devjorcra, /u/Shawshank_Fanatic

If you want to build something that scales, something that can change the world, then the best bet is to build something online. It's difficult, but you're only 15 so you've got a lot of flearnings (failed learnings) ahead of you.

Learn to program here, here or here.

Learn about the lean startup: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_Startup

Read this and this.

Fail fast, fail often.

• The Lean Startup
  
• Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers
  
• Lean Analytics
  
• The Lean Entrepreneur: How Visionaries Create Products, Innovate with New Ventures, and Disrupt Markets
  
  If you want to get started sooner:
  
  
• The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company
  
• Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works

Here are three better ones:

https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/principles-of-microeconomics

https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Economics-Mankiws/dp/0538453052

https://www.amazon.com/Krugmans-Economics-AP-Margaret-Ray-ebook/dp/B00UTZ09Z2

You want to complain about us telling you that you don't understand Econ? Take a 101 course at a university or, hell off of Khan Academy.

You know those business leadership guides on behavior and such? Like for example having nice leader/tough Second in Command (or vice versa)? They actually work quite well to resolving issues before they even begin. Most of them you can get out of the 5 dysfunctions of a team.


The anime club I ran at my community college avoided a ton of drama for a quite a while even after I left because I tried to solve problems or issues before they even occurred. Unfortunately I do hear it's now a drama llama mostly because they undid all the rules and procedures I put in place years ago. Thinking and planning ahead as much as possible helps immensely. I also suggest having mechanisms/rules in place to stop one singular person from controlling the entire anime club and that includes the president/leader.

> But true neoclassical economics has actually never been tried.

Yes it has, and it sucks every time.

>Keynesian economics is bad enough

It created the greatest rise in living standards in Western history. It was called the "golden age of capitalism" for a reason.

>on what possible basis can you really believe that a state acting on national interests can make a better choice than a system which automatically reacts to market forces?

Read this book: https://www.amazon.com/Entrepreneurial-State-Debunking-Private-Economics/dp/0857282522

>See China. Our state managed economy only really grew after they relaxed their control.

No one here is arguing for communism. By the way, China has more state-owned enterprises than Venezuela.

Digital Gold by Nathaniel Popper (May 2015)
https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Gold-Bitcoin-Millionaires-Reinvent/dp/006236250X/

You're doing great for someone in only a month!

Hardware wallet, not trusting exchanges, not panic selling. All good stuff :). If you're up for it, I highly recommend learning about the technology and ecosystem as much as you can.

A good place to start is Digital Gold by Nathaniel Popper. Bonus points if you find a site that will accept payment for it in Bitcoin.

I helped him a bit when he first came to Tokyo back in early 2014. He started working on "Digital Gold" back then. I really liked the book. Now is the time for him to work on his new book! https://www.amazon.co.jp/Digital-Gold-Bitcoin-Millionaires-Reinvent/dp/006236250X

I'm an amateur, but Mark Blyth, a liberal/marxist Scottish economist, has a book on austerity and he gives an entertaining talk too.

As for the mechanics of the Greek debt crisis and pensions crisis, I think wikipedia isn't bad. Tradingeconomics.com has great graphs on unemployment, debt-to-GDP, and bond yields that give a real hands-on sense of how things are going in different countries in Europe. If you like raw data look at Germany's population pyramid: it's a pyramid alright, it's just upside down! Waaay more old people than young people. And that's typical for Europe these days.

As for politics in Europe, I'm at a loss beyond saying maybe try to read a diverse selection of newspapers. Of course there are more issues than just the greek debt crisis, pensions crisis, and immigration crisis. So read, and read broadly.

I'm not. Read up:

https://www.amazon.com/Austerity-History-Dangerous-Mark-Blyth/dp/019982830X

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQuHSQXxsjM

If you want to get into a source credibility pissing contest here, I'm afraid your neoliberal think-tanks and blogs are going to lose out against a renowned Ivy League political economist who has been consistently proven right on his predictive analysis.

I was going to let it be at that but if we're continuing a bit I might as well mention a few things.

While a lot of what I said was quick google searches the familiarity with the subject matter comes from the History of Rome podcast and Austerity: History of a dangerous idea so if you want to really dig into those look there.

The other thing and part of why I think it's easy to think that economics are at the heart of every change is because economics are the sum of all changes. A plague, civil war or famine may be the initiating incident that causes a decline but all will be reflected in the economy of the time so it's hard to see any imperial decline not at least accompanied by economic troubles of some sort.

That's even true for the US case as well as the biggest part of the debt story isn't even really an economic one but a political one, here's a illuminating quote. linky

>Although Moody's fully expected political wrangling prior to an increase in the statutory debt limit, the degree of entrenchment into conflicting positions has exceeded expectations. The heightened polarization over the debt limit has increased the odds of a short-lived default. If this situation remains unchanged in coming weeks, Moody's will place the rating under review.

So here's one of the very few concrete signs that the debt load might have negative consequences and it's actually about congress playing an increasingly dangerous game of chicken in threatening to default more or less in a fit of pique.

The first thing to say is - obviously - you don't know what you're talking about.

This video - which your view on him is based upon - isn't all that Mark Blyth has come out and said since 2010. He's also written a book on the subject in which he goes into more detail than just about anybody as well as writing and speaking publicly about austerity and a bunch of other things, as academics tend to do.

Next, austerity isn't ideological? Who exactly do you think you're kidding? You think I'm going to even humour you on this one?

Debt-to-GDP is a pointless stat? You're the one that brought up 'balancing the books'. The coalition government made deficit reduction and paying down the debt its raisons d'etre. If the books are almost balanced, then, as they pledged they would be by now, the debt-to-GDP should be falling. Why has the opposite been happening, then?

The deficit being at 4 per cent is still not a budget surplus, which Osborne pledged by now to the House of Commons in 2010 (along with a safeguarded triple A credit rating).

If cutting government spending balanced the books and paid down the debt then we'd be in surplus by now with a falling debt-to-GDP level. That's necessarily what would have happened. Instead, the recovery came three years into the coalition's term in office, which is bizarre considering the theory backing up austerity predicted growth would emerge as soon as the cuts were announced.

You've fallen for the government's story hook line and sinker. There wasn't ever any danger of the UK becoming Greece. The UK isn't part of any single currency, the UK is in control of its monetary and fiscal policy, the UK was never in any danger of defaulting. There was no urgent need to balance the books at all. You swallowed a load of horse shit.

I'm mostly a basketball guy so...


You don't need to have ever seen a basketball game to appreciate these first two books.

Breaks of the Game by David Halberstam which it probably the best NBA book. It follows the 1978 Portland Trail Blazers and gets way more access than anyone could get now. Plus Halberstam was a great writer so he gets the most out of excellent material.

The Last Shot by Darcy Frey this is probably my favorite basketball book. It follows high school basketball players and it works as biography as well as an exploration of sports culture, race, class, and youth. The Hoop Dreams of books. Great journalism on a great subject.

Freedarko's The Undisputed Guide to Basketball History Captures the visceral and intellectual thrill of watching basketball better than any other book. Manages to capture big picture and little picture.

Seven Seconds or Less Lifelong basketball writer follows one of the funnest teams in NBA history for a year


Pistol Biography of Pistol Pete and his insanely driven father. Manages the rare feat for a sports biography of not slipping into hagiography.


Baseball

Moneyball How baseball teams were run a decade ago. Really well written and somehow manages to make baseball and business really entertaining. Great for fans and non-fans.

>You know that natural monopolies is an argument that hasn't held water for decades, and was invented by lobbyists, right?

Oh my god, what are you an-cap? Natural monopolies are chapter 15 of economics 101. It's taught in every economics class. The only way you could argue they aren't real is if you believe literally every mainstream economist, liberal and conservative, is being bought by lobbyists.

If you're the type of person who hates books about management babble, then you're just like me. Having said that, I did get a lot out of this one book. It's a great book for helping with team building, and it covers OP's exact topic as one of the major points.

https://www.amazon.com/Five-Dysfunctions-Team-Leadership-Fable/dp/0787960756

> How to discuss and compromise on decisions in a team

So, this is going to be super non-specific to TTRPGs/design work, but I cannot recommend reading The Five Dysfunctions of a Team enough.

A TLDR for one of the major points of the book:

Reasonable adults don't always need to get their way but they do need to feel as if their concerns and beliefs have been listened to, considered, and addressed. This requires both trust and a team commitment to actually getting into productive conflict over contentious ideas or solutions. Without these, you're always going to have a hard time with decisions and getting the team to commit properly to them.

There is, unfortunately, no magic way to get to this point. You have to work together and build these relationships and behaviors. If you know a silver bullet, I'm all ears.

> Remember just like Americans, Latin American's or South American's forget in only a few decades if not sooner.

Are you trolling?

Go to Argentina with a T-shirt that says 'School of the Americas'.

Good luck.

Anti americanism in Latin america has its roots since the US invasion of Mexico. It's firmly entrenched in the intellectual class at least since Rodo's Ariel, more than a hundred year old.

Also, Eduardo Galeano's Open veins of Latin America competes with the new testament as holy writ here.

Words fail me to express how mistaken is the concept that that you can just buy public opinion.

Each culture has its zeitgeist, and ignoring it and its mythos (for example, the gallant revolutionary) is, in the best of cases, just throwing money away.

Well the private sector didn't think the 70s oil embargo would happen and were caught completely off guard, so I would say no.

Many of these projects and programs took 30+ years to pay off and required resources that have no profit motive. I can't name a single private sector company that plans that far ahead.

If you still disagree with that, just remember things like the Internet you use were government programs as well, and again, I don't recall any private companies stepping up to the plate

More info

> Valtiolla ei ole tähän juuri osaa eikä arpaa vaan kehitys on 99% tapahtunut itsestään.

Pitäisin tätä väitettä vähintään kyseenalaisena. Hyvin paljon siitä infrastruktuurista jonka päälle tietoyhteiskunta perustuu, on yhteiskunnan tukemaa. Esimerkki tästä on iPhone, jonka kaikki perusteknologia perustuu julkisen sektorin kehitystyöhön (eikä iPhone ole ainoa tapaus).

The weebs must be stopped

https://www.amazon.com/Capital-Manga-Karl-Marx/dp/1926958195

I love Coders at Work. Not at autobiography though, but a set of interviews. Very entertaining.

There is also an older book with interviews: Programmers at Work.

Apart from the four steps to the Eppiphany, this is another one: https://www.amazon.com/Running-Lean-Iterate-Plan-Works/dp/1449305172.

Some good tactics to validate early early need.

If you are going for a internet business or any product-oriented business here a are the best books



BEST ONES

"The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses" (Eric Reis) - 2011

https://www.amazon.com/Lean-Startup-Entrepreneurs-Continuous-Innovation/dp/0307887898/

"Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works" (Ash Maurya) - 2010

https://www.amazon.com/Running-Lean-Iterate-Plan-Works/dp/1449305172

"Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days" (Jake Knapp - Google Ventures) - 2016

https://www.amazon.com/Sprint-Solve-Problems-Test-Ideas/dp/150112174X/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1550802301&s=gateway&sr=8-1

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ALSO GO FOR (these are the ones that started organizing the Startup world)

"The Four Steps to the Epiphany" (Steve Blank) - 2005

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0989200507/

"Business Model Generation" (Alexander Osterwalder) - 2008

https://www.amazon.com/Business-Model-Generation-Visionaries-Challengers/dp/0470876417/

Here are my top three:

1. Running Lean (http://www.amazon.com/Running-Lean-Iterate-Works-Series/dp/1449305172)
   
   
2. The Lean Startup (http://www.amazon.com/Lean-Startup-Entrepreneurs-Continuous-Innovation/dp/0307887898)
   
   
3. The Startup Owner's Manual (http://www.amazon.com/Startup-Owners-Manual-Step---Step/dp/0984999302)
   
   You may want to read them in reverse order (3, 2, 1) as Steve Blank influenced Eric Reis who influenced Ash Maurya -- but I really think Running Lean has more practical / applicable insights.

> What I've wondered is if there's any sane way of removing the carbon from the atmosphere other than just planting trees. I understand why trees are crappy as an offset vehicle, but I'm wondering if they ultimately are needed to just pull carbon out of the atmosphere.

Look up "geo-engineering".

What you're referring to is "carbon sequestration". It is less plausible than other ways of controlling global temperatures, since it would be very expensive and resource-intensive.

The more promising areas are things like cloud seeding and injecting reflective aerosols into the atmosphere to reduce the amount of light actually coming to the Earth. Even a single volcanic eruption emits enough particulate matter to significantly reduce global temperatures. With relatively little expense, it would be possible to inject similar particles directly into the stratosphere and very slightly reduce the amount of sunlight reaching the ground.

Of course, there are risks and challenges, but I think that such proposals are much more reasonable solutions to the problems of global warming than radical cuts in the use of fossil fuels and carbon emissions. Cutting emissions to the extent many environmentalists want to cut them would be an economic disaster, cutting growth and the standard of living, especially for the global poor.

It makes more sense to maximize the amount of energy and resources we can generate and use, then use some of that surplus to mitigate environmental consequences, than to try to minimize our energy and resource consumption, giving us less ability to deal with environmental and other problems that will happen regardless. For example, look at the number of people a hurricane kills when it hits Florida, vs. when a cyclone hits Bangladesh. It's much smaller in Florida, since their ability to build safe, sturdy buildings is much higher.

I recommend Alex Epstein's book The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels for a look at the importance of generating as much energy as possible for people to use. He recognizes the existence of climate change, but he argues that "minimal impact" is not the solution.

Eu ja respondi o seguinte, e fui sincero:

"Eu sou focado em obtenção de resultado - pra entregar o resultado, se eu tiver que atropelar o sistema, eu o faço."
Ou em outras palavras:

"Se eu acredito que eu estou certo, eu tomo o risco, executo e lido com as consequências."
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Esse é um perfil adequado pra area comercial por exemplo - e péssimo pra uma área que deve seguir à risca o protocolo como produção ou controle de qualidade..
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a maioria das qualidades está ligada com alguma espécie de contra-partida com cara de defeito dependendo do ponto de vista.
Ex: essa característica minha de foco em entrega de resultado geralmente é associada com independência, ou questionar as regras/ desobedecer / insubordinação.
Ou uma pessoa muito forte de relacionamentos (boa em cultivar relacionamento), conciliadora, teamplayer, tende a ceder muito, não ser tão agressiva, ter dificuldades em dizer não, e não ser tão focada em resultado - perfil ideal pra gerente de conta estratégica em relação de longo prazo.
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a recomendação é ser sincero - tem lugar pra todo quanto é tipo de perfil.
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e eu recomendo fazer um teste pra identificar teus pontos fortes e consequentemente entender melhor quais são seus pontos fracos.
Tem um teste/livro chamado strenght finder 2.0
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edit: legal ir preparado pra essa pergunta - ela mede muito o grau de maturidade do entrevistado também.

Interaction Design

• About Face 3 by Alan Cooper
  
• Designing Interactions by Bill Moggridge
  
• Designing Interfaces by Jenifer Tidwell
  
• Designing for the Digital Age by Kim Goodwin
  
• Making Things Talk: (2011) (2007) by Tom Igoe
  
  Interior Design
  
  
• The Decoration of Houses by Edith Wharton and Ogden, Jr. Codman
  
• Domino: The Book of Decorating by Deborah Needleman
  
• Design*Sponge at Home: A Guide to Inspiring Homes by Grace Bonney
  
• The Vintage/Modern Home by Katherine Sorrell
  
• The Fundamentals of Interior Design by Simon Dodsworth
  
  Landscape Architecture
  
  
• Landscape Architectural Graphic Standards by Leonard J. Hopper
  
• Landscape Design: A Cultural and Architectural History by Elizabeth Barlow Rogers
  
• Landscape Graphics by Grant W. Reid
  
• Cities for People by Jan Gehl
  
• Design with Nature by Ian L. McHarg
  
  Lighting Design
  
  
• Stage Lighting Design by Richard Pilbrow
  
• The Architecture of Natural Light by Henry Plummer
  
• Painting With Light by John Alton
  
• Made of Light by Anthony Tischhauser
  
• Color, Environment and Human Response by Frank H. Mahnke & Rudolf H. Mahnke
  
  Product Design
  
  
• Sketching: Drawing Techniques from Product Designers by Koos Eissen
  
• Design for the Real World by Victor Papanek
  
• The Craftsman by Richard Sennett
  
• Mythologies by Roland Barthes
  
• Cradle to Cradle. Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough & Michael Braungart
  
  Product Design
  
  
• In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World by John Thackara
  
• The Experience Economy by B. Joseph Pine II & James H. Gilmore
  
• Universal Methods of Design by Bruce Hanington & Bella Martin
  
• Cradle to Cradle. Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough & Michael Braungart
  
• Mental Models by Indi Young
  
  Sound Design
  
  
• Sound Design: The Expressive Power of Music, Voice and Sound Effects in Cinema by David Sonnenschein
  
• Designing Sound by Andy Farnell
  
• Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen by Michel Chion
  
• The Sound Effects Bible by Ric Viers
  
• Sound Theory Sound Practice by Rick Altman
  
  Urban Design
  
  
• The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
  * Cities for People by Jan Gehl
  
• A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander
  
• The Geography of Nowhere by James Howard Kunstler
  
• The Image of the City by Kevin Lynch
  
  Web Design
  
  
• Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug
  
• HTML & CSS: Design and Build Web Sites by Jon Duckett
  
• The Principles of Beautiful Web Design by Jason Beaird
  
• Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS by Ben Frain
  
• Hardboiled Web Design by Andy Clarke
  

I have a book like that, the pages are some sort of polymer. The book is actually about sustainable methods of production. Cradle to Cradle

I've posted this before but I'll repost it here:

Now in terms of the question that you ask in the title - this is what I recommend:

Job Interview Prep

1. Cracking the Coding Interview: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions
   
2. Programming Interviews Exposed: Coding Your Way Through the Interview
   
3. Introduction to Algorithms
   
4. The Algorithm Design Manual
   
5. Effective Java
   
6. Concurrent Programming in Java™: Design Principles and Pattern
   
7. Modern Operating Systems
   
8. Programming Pearls
   
9. Discrete Mathematics for Computer Scientists
   
   

   Junior Software Engineer Reading List
   

   
   

   Read This First
   

   
   

10. Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware
    
    

    Fundementals
    

    
    

11. Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction
    
12. Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art
    
13. Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach
    
14. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
    
15. Coder to Developer: Tools and Strategies for Delivering Your Software
    
16. Perfect Software: And Other Illusions about Testing
    
17. Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application
    
    

    Understanding Professional Software Environments
    

    
    

18. Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game
    
19. Software Project Survival Guide
    
20. The Best Software Writing I: Selected and Introduced by Joel Spolsky
    
21. Debugging the Development Process: Practical Strategies for Staying Focused, Hitting Ship Dates, and Building Solid Teams
    
22. Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules
    
23. Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
    
    

    Mentality
    

    
    

24. Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency
    
25. Against Method
    
26. The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development
    
    

    History
    

    
    

27. The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
    
28. Computing Calamities: Lessons Learned from Products, Projects, and Companies That Failed
    
29. The Deadline: A Novel About Project Management
    
    

    Mid Level Software Engineer Reading List
    

    
    

    Read This First
    

    
    

30. Personal Development for Smart People: The Conscious Pursuit of Personal Growth
    
    

    Fundementals
    

    
    

31. The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers
    
32. Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
    
33. Solid Code
    
34. Code Craft: The Practice of Writing Excellent Code
    
35. Software Craftsmanship: The New Imperative
    
36. Writing Solid Code
    
    

    Software Design
    

    
    

37. Head First Design Patterns: A Brain-Friendly Guide
    
38. Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
    
39. Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software
    
40. Domain-Driven Design Distilled
    
41. Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design
    
42. Design Patterns in C# - Even though this is specific to C# the pattern can be used in any OO language.
    
43. Refactoring to Patterns
    
    

    Software Engineering Skill Sets
    

    
    

44. Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems
    
45. Software Factories: Assembling Applications with Patterns, Models, Frameworks, and Tools
    
46. NoEstimates: How To Measure Project Progress Without Estimating
    
47. Object-Oriented Software Construction
    
48. The Art of Software Testing
    
49. Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software
    
50. Working Effectively with Legacy Code
    
51. Test Driven Development: By Example
    
    

    Databases
    

    
    

52. Database System Concepts
    
53. Database Management Systems
    
54. Foundation for Object / Relational Databases: The Third Manifesto
    
55. Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design
    
56. Data Access Patterns: Database Interactions in Object-Oriented Applications
    
    

    User Experience
    

    
    

57. Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
    
58. The Design of Everyday Things
    
59. Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications
    
60. User Interface Design for Programmers
    
61. GUI Bloopers 2.0: Common User Interface Design Don'ts and Dos
    
    

    Mentality
    

    
    

62. The Productive Programmer
    
63. Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change
    
64. Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming
    
65. Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering
    
    

    History
    

    
    

66. Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software
    
67. New Turning Omnibus: 66 Excursions in Computer Science
    
68. Hacker's Delight
    
69. The Alchemist
    
70. Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages
    
71. The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood
    
    

    Specialist Skills
    

    
    In spite of the fact that many of these won't apply to your specific job I still recommend reading them for the insight, they'll give you into programming language and technology design.
    
    

72. Peter Norton's Assembly Language Book for the IBM PC
    
73. Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets
    
74. Enough Rope to Shoot Yourself in the Foot: Rules for C and C++ Programming
    
75. The C++ Programming Language
    
76. Effective C++: 55 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs
    
77. More Effective C++: 35 New Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs
    
78. More Effective C#: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C#
    
79. CLR via C#
    
80. Mr. Bunny's Big Cup o' Java
    
81. Thinking in Java
    
82. JUnit in Action
    
83. Functional Programming in Scala
    
84. The Art of Prolog: Advanced Programming Techniques
    
85. The Craft of Prolog
    
86. Programming Perl: Unmatched Power for Text Processing and Scripting
    
87. Dive into Python 3
    
88. why's (poignant) guide to Ruby

Do you have an experienced designer/prototyper/PdM on hand? At this stage, you really shouldn't be putting anything down into code. Validation through testing and quick iterations are key. This parable, if it applies to you, may be a good read. Here's his book on running lean that should be invaluable if you don't have an experienced designer on hand. Much of your business model can be recreated manually (cheaply) for validation purposes. I wouldn't write a line of code until the business plan has been validated via the lean canvas approach.

I would nail down your target consumer a bit more than just 18-50yo women. Start thinking about the women who need and will pay a premium for on-demand personal care products. What do their day jobs look like? Salary? Viewpoints? At what point or scenario would they use this product? What is the user persona? My guess, based on past work experience, only, is that your target market is probably something like 25-35yo professional women who make $90k/yr-$250k in major cities like NYC. They likely already have such services as Amazon Prime, Caviar, Uber Eats, and shop at places like Sephora and Bloomingdales.

Instacart is probably a close competitor since they allow users to buy personal care products through CVS and Costco same day. But you'd have to examine your business model of working with contractors to do the shopping or shipping directly from the source.

Best of luck!

Edit: "IT man" lol are you a pill woman?

In fact, the most recent analysis by Thomas Piketty demonstrates that it was a combination of both factors - the war, and the abundance of socialist policies - that dramatically reduced income and wealth inequality, and that trajectory ends decidedly and empirically around the late 1970's/early 1980's, and continued steadily until the point we're at now thanks to both Reaganomics and neoliberalism.

http://www.amazon.com/Capital-Twenty-First-Century-Thomas-Piketty/dp/1491534656

Absolute nonsense.

I love how you site the Blackstone CEO Stephen A. Schwarzman, people like him live in an echo chamber that tells them every day they deserve all their money, because that is what they want to hear.

Let me break it down as simply as I can, and if you can't explain something simply, you simply don't understand it.

The Natural state of the unregulated market is Feudalism.
Remember Feudalism? When Rich Nobles ruled over the dirty, ignorant, uneducated masses. When a Noble girl could throw a coin out of a cart and watch filthy peasants kill each over it. Yeah, that was the state of human society for thousands of years.

And it happens because money trickles upwards. Corporations become bigger before they become smaller, and eventually the Monopoly game ends, and the rest of us runs out of money, then the rich eat each until only a few remain, Highlander style.

And the ONLY thing keeping this from happening are Market regulating, typically Left Wing policies.

Feel free to read all about it in Capital by Thomas Piketty, one of the most highly acclaimed books on economy in recent time.

What that means is that Sanders policies are the only thing that can actually save the market from destroying itself.

You: But but... Military spending creates technological innovation.

Nope. Only a tiny fraction of, and most of it completely by coincidence. If we wanted to incentivise technological innovation we would be far better off just creating an official science division of the US Government as an expansion of NASA.

Fact of the matter is Bernie saves the most money out of any politician out there.

Obamacare is already projected to cost 15 Trillion dollars over 10 years IF Pharmaceutical companies do not increase their projected INCREASE in Drug prices. (fat fucking chance of that).

Sanders wants a Canada style Single Payer system which costs HALF of what the cost is in the US Per Capita. And 30% less as a percentage of GDP.

So that is AT LEAST 5 Trillion shaved of that number.

Further more he wants to slash Military spending in half, which would be a good thing since the vast majority of it simply goes to producing weapons nobody needs and has no effect on innovation or technology in any way shape or form.

So that's another 3 Trillion over 10 years. Link

And he wants to raise taxes on the Rich, resulting in, at least, another 3 trillion dollars over 10 years.

So that's 5 + 3 + 3, or 11 Trillion saved from the 15. And he wants to take a large chunk of that and spend it on rebuilding Roads and other Government owned property, which is gonna hands down create massive amounts of jobs. People on the bottom will have money, they will spend that money on houses, goods and services, the market will grow, everyone will be happy. And it moves the market away from a purely speculative economy that benefits absolutely no one in the long run. (No jobs created, no new technologies invented)

The thing about Sanders policies is that they just make sense once you clean your head of Capitalist bullshit. Despite conspiracy theories to the contrary.

You hit the nail on the head when you brought up Alex Epstein: he is the best source for rational climate/energy information I know. Here are a few steps you should take if you want to get educated in that realm:

-Read his columns in Forbes (and follow him so you get notified of new articles when they're posted). The best one that's most about "climate change" per se is the recent piece The Unscientific Consensus.

-Absorb everything on his site Center for Industrial Progress. There are podcasts, blog posts, e-books, and more. You might be particularly interested in the "Environment" category and the Fossil Fuels Improve the Planet e-book.

-Pre-order a copy of his upcoming book The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels. It's guaranteed to be awesome.

-If you're on Facebook, like the Center for Industrial Progress, I Love Fossil Fuels, and I Love Nuclear pages to keep updated.

-This page on The Objective Standard site ("Exploit the Earth or Die. It's not a threat. It's a fact.") also does a great job of compiling links to more educational resources.

I hope this wasn't too overwhelming. If you're just looking for one quick hit, your best bet is the Unscientific Consensus article I mentioned before. (But IMHO, it's so good that you'll be hooked on Alex's clarity and authority and want to continue with all the other steps I mentioned :).)

To be redpilled on the energy issue in general, and a balanced rational look at the climate change issue, I highly recommend this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Moral-Case-Fossil-Fuels/dp/1591847443

It doesn't discuss nuke as much as I would like, but it covers all the other forms energy including all the "green" energy forms.

No matter what your views currently, you will learn something useful from this book.

I nominated Strengths Finder 2.0 because I was reminded of it while reading this sub's last book, Mastery - specifically, the second "Strategy for Attaining Mastery": "Play to your strengths", in which Greene tells Albert Einstein's and Temple Grandin's stories, emphasizing how each of them leveraged their strengths to great effect.

EDIT: Upon further research into Strengths Finder 2.0, it looks like those of us who typically check books out from the library may be somewhat out of luck in this case, as to take full advantage of the book's content you should take a self-assessment that's only available if you buy a new copy of the book or purchase it online for $15. The work-around is to read the book's descriptions of the 34 types and assess your own strengths, then follow the book's advice - or try this knockoff test.

I also voted for The Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth because it interests me and seems useful. I didn't vote for the other books because they seem less immediately applicable to my situation, though I'm basing these judgments on the descriptions above and Amazon reviews.

No matter what gets picked, I look forward to reading and discussing it with you all!

> I'd recommend getting a reader or companion version [like this](A Companion to Marx's Capital https://www.amazon.com/dp/1844673596/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_oBK9yb5GJRRTE).

Fuck that. How is this hack still being recommended? He says that there are three types of value. You only need to read the first fucking chapter of Capital to know that this is bullshit.

I am not even in social media, yet I am the one who knows what this means...

...

Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/006227306X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awd_hLEDwbAXJCGZ4

Can't recommend it enough.

I think you just broke my brain.

I suggested you modify your marketing strategy so that you weren't so dependent on search ranking... you basically told me you do a heap of other things but they don't help with your search ranking.

I'm not sure you got what I meant, so let me say it this way:

When you're getting 10,000 visits a day from Facebook, it doesn't matter where you show up in Google

Okay, now let's do a tear-down and see if we can help you a bit.

1) Your SEO strategy sucks

If your entire SEO strategy is based around people finding you when they Google "La La Land", then you've got problems.

First of all, this rarely works as a growth strategy. If people are google'ing you, they already know who you are. Unless you're getting traffic simply because people google "La La Land" randomly and end up finding your store. That's not a viable long-term strategy.

Secondly, you need to utilise your blog. The more content you write, the more information there is for Google to decide what your site is about, so that it can show it to people that aren't just searching for "La La Land". Write about gift ideas for people from Glascow, write about unique gifts for dog people, etc. There are billions of SEO resources out there, go read some.

2) Your social strategy sucks

Why are you posting the exact same posts to Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr and Twitter? Stop using IFTT, it's not just lazy, it's ineffective.

Like, take a look at your twitter posts - the text doesn't even fit on the damn post. Your tumblr posts just link to your Instagram feed, which means to get to your website people need to click twice. You need to create content that's crafted for each platform that you're marketing on. Go read Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook for a basic overview of this idea.

General comments:

Instagram

• Your Instagram feed should have videos on it
  
• Why are you not using Instagram stories? This would be a great place to showcase some of the behind-the-scenes of creating your products.
  
• Are you just dumping photos, or are you sticking around to engage users on Instagram? How much time are you spending each day browsing Instagram and engaging with other accounts?
  
  Twitter
  
  
• 1-2 hashtags per post (currently: 0). Once you stop auto-posting you can fix this.
  
• Similarly, spend 10 minutes a day tweeting stuff that isn't photos of your products. Engage with other accounts.
  
  Facebook
  
  
• Consider re-sharing a few bits of social media content that are relevant to your consumers (ie, stuff that's gone viral that you've seen in your feed). (I don't mean download + reupload, I mean 'share')
  
• Consider creating content similar to the above. What sort of stuff do you see popping up in your personal feed that you think you can replicate within context of your store? Maybe you can do a time-lapse video of you creating some of the art you make
  
• Try not to have just an entire feed of product photos. Look at your content mix, think about other types of posts you could make that are relevant to your audience.
  
  3) You don't have an on-site content strategy
  
  There's nothing on your website that you can use to lure people to it.
  
  Go on your blog right now, and write a 500 word post ranting about <some subject relevant to your customerbase>, with a headline that is interesting enough that might get them to click the link if you post it to Twitter. Have a think about the different type of content you could produce that would appeal to your buyers. Is it an infographic, is it instructions on how to choose Christmas gifts for spoiled millenials, this sort of stuff.
  
  You want to create the sort of content that when you post it, people will click "share".
  
  
  

I like ETH a lot more than BTC, but am going to come to BTC's defense here because I disagree with some of your points.

>I've seen a few people argue that BTC is an excellent SoV because it's up thousands of percent in 5 years. But that makes zero sense to me..

This also makes zero sense to me. BTC is not a SoV simply because the price has generally been appreciating over time. It will be a SoV in the future because of predictable monetary policy enforced at the protocol level.

>So then it became a 'Store of Value'...

The SoV/digital gold narrative has been around for a while, dating back well before the late 2017 bubble (e.g. this book from early 2015).

I think BCH is closer to fulfilling the promises of digital cash with fast txns with low fees. But fast txns with low fees for a currency whose only purpose is to be spent (i.e. no incentive to hold, like what there will be with ETH) presents pretty poor tokenomics unless it can actually replace fiat (obviously very difficult in the short term), especially when compared to a model where the whole point is to hold and not really use your BTC for anything (enforced through increasing scarcity and, like it or not, slow txns with high fees that incentivize people to treat BTC like digital gold). So what we've really learned from 2017 is that the SoV narrative is worth a lot more than the digital cash narrative, despite the fact that it is undermining some of the principles from the initial vision.

>Since it has become a SoV it has had only 7 months out of the last 21 months (since Dec 17) where it has been trading above $10k.. so how does that at all prove that it is a viable SoV??

BTC is not supposed to be a SoV right now. I generally disregard any person who tries to insinuate that increases in BTC's price can be attributed to the same flight to safety that drives up gold and bond prices (at least, at this point in time).

The value of BTC as a SoV is inversely correlated to the value of BTC as a lucrative investment. In other words, by the time BTC actually begins to act as a viable store of value, its price will be much higher than it is now.

How to be part of a team and lead a team.

There's one book to read - The Five Dysfunctions of a Team.

I read this book, and it opened up my eyes. Working as part of a team is THE most valuable thing I've learned.

American Pentimento: The Invention of Indians and the Pursuit of Riches

Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

Interesting. I got that definition from this book. If I'm wrong, I'm happy to retract it.

While not entirely Argentinan, i highly recommend The open vein of Latin America by Galeano

> would have to compare standards of living across North Korea and subsaharan Africa to get an idea.

North Korea can make nukes.

>That was demography.

No, you need some sort of planning. The Soviets industrialized much faster than the more market-driven system that industrialized the West.

>Still, the outcomes speak for themselves.

Except that the West, especially after WWII, had much more state-driven capitalism than most people know. This book explains beautifully why the state is the biggest innovator by far, and why neoliberalism is a sham. Here's a great picture from the book that perfectly demonstrates the main thesis.

>Would broadly agree with that sentiment. We're supposedly going to be seeing Nigeria (or was it Niger?) develop rapidly in the coming decades due to foreign investment and a favorable demographic profile, but until that happens, we don't really have anything disproving the rule.

It's Nigeria, and that country is already failing. They've lost 96% of their forests...

States create the conditions, when balanced correctly with markets they can continue this for longer. When co-opted by the market (Neo-liberalism is an ideology after all), states function fails. Innovation fails also. e.g. This iphone is built on university patents.

http://time.com/4089171/mariana-mazzucato/

https://www.amazon.com/Entrepreneurial-State-Debunking-Private-Economics/dp/0857282522?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0

EDIT: And we know apple dont pay their taxes back, thats why they are stationed here.

>And why the hell do we keep on ignoring government ineffectiv and wasteful spending?

Who is "ignoring" this and why not "go after" wasteful spending in the private sector? Why stop there? Maybe we could establish more democratic forms of workplace management. We can hold the "private sector" more accountable if workers have unions to bargain with corporate. Unions lost bargaining power. It needs to come back in a radical way. Only socialism can do it. A revolution needs to occur.

The Hackers, a book by Walter Isaacson, details how public funding helped Google and Microsoft get established. Bill Gates stole tens of thousands of dollars of tax payer dollars to learn to code BASIC. The founders of Google stole millions of dollars worth of internet bandwidth from Stanford.Computers, the internet, and even phones have all benefited from substantial public funding.

​

>And of the top 88 innovations rated by R&D Magazine as the most important between 1971 and 2006, economists Fred Block and Matthew Keller have found that 77 were the beneficiaries of substantial federal research funding, particularly in early stage development.

Funny how corporations always steal from both the government and people, but then when Bernie Sanders holds them accountable, people have backlash and want to protect billionaires like Zuckerkorn.

haha yes

preferred format:

I was expecting this: https://www.amazon.com/Capital-Manga-Karl-Marx/dp/1926958195

https://www.amazon.com/Capital-Manga-Karl-Marx/dp/1926958195

https://www.amazon.com/Capital-Manga-Karl-Marx/dp/1926958195

it exists

I read a book called Cradle to Cradle which, in order to practice what it preached, was printed on a material that was designed to truly recycled rather than down-cycled. The material was some sort of paper-like plastic that could be melted down and remade into another book of the same quality, as opposed to being turned into lower quality pulp for brown paper bags or paper towels, etc.

A consequence of that design was that the book was waterproof and you could read it in the shower. It was actually pretty awesome. The book felt a little different from mass-market paper books (it was a little heavier and pages a fraction thicker) but it didn't feel wrong at all. The book said that it was possible and viable to print other books on similar material, which I have been looking forward to, but have yet to see.

in short, it's about designing high quality products from the bottom up(cradle) with materials meant to be completely recycled into new high quality products (to cradle), without downcycling of the materials in the process.

here's the Amazon link to the book they are talking about

> Our whole wealthy developed country existence can only exist when there are poor developing countries to be exploited.

You failed basic economics.

Good places to start learning:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
  
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Pencil
  
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repeated_game
  
• http://bastiat.org/ -- I highly recommend "Petition of the candlestickmakers"
  
• http://www.amazon.com/Principles-Economics-Edition-Gregory-Mankiw/dp/128516587X
  
  If you believe that capitalism can't possibly work because it uses local optimization instead of global optimization then I'll grant you that it does sound unintuitive. There are good reasons, though: game theory, control theory, and stochastic distributed algorithms.
  
  While on the subject of things you probably don't believe but should -- intelligence is real, IQ is a good measure of it, it is not just about doing good on an unimportant test, it actually predicts real life outcomes rather well, there are NOT 7 (or 8 or 11) intelligences, people have wildly varying IQs, IQ is extremely heritable, and it can to a certain extent already be predicted from DNA (and vice versa). The Flynn effect is also real and we don't quite know the full explanation for it yet but it is clear that better nutrition and fewer childhood diseases account for some of it. Cousin marriage is a known way of depressing IQ, especially repeated cousin marriage. Heritability of socioeconomic status is to a large extent really about the heritability of IQ. And now for something really controversial: the well off are generally more intelligent and the poor are generally (much) less intelligent, people from different places are not equally bright (and NOT just due to malnourishment, diseases, or cousing marriage), high caste Indians are more intelligent than low caste Indians, Ashkenazi jews tend to be bright, Blacks tend not to, especially those who live in Africa, Arabs tend to be dumber than Europeans and not all Asians are as intelligent as the (coastal) Chinese, the Koreans, or the Japanese.
  
  This has consequences for what a sensible immigration policy should look like. It for sure should look nothing like current European practices!
  
  

> Why exactly do you think that North America, Europe and Asia have so much more cropland than Africa and South America? What do you think people do when they are more fertile land which requires fewer farmers to keep them alive? They become more educated, develop more advanced infrastructure, create technology at a much faster pace, etc. Just as an example, about 2% of the US population works in agriculture, 15% of Brazilians do the same.

You have a good point and I won't deny that croplands play no role but they definitely don't play a significant one. Iceland, and other Nordic countries are doing just fine. The reason poorer countries have more people working in agriculture is because the countries are less industrialized/automated and the people are less skilled so they have to work in menial jobs. In South America it has nothing to do with an inability to produce adequate crops. A good portion of what they produce will be exported anyways.

> And since you seem to like books so much (despite not even linking one that backs up your statments

This is my textbook from macroeconomics 101. Where the majority of my knowledge on the subject comes from.

https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Economics-7th-Gregory-Mankiw/dp/128516587X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1466409272&sr=8-1&keywords=principles+of+economics

I'm also aware of Guns Germs and Steel. It has decent points about the long term development of large population groups of humans. Such as how the shape of the continents and domesticatable animals attributed to the Asian/European domination of the world.

However, when talking about things like why the British eventually overcame the Chinese in a period of a few hundred years it has more to do with principles of macroeconomics than it does with climate.

> but you should not ignore the fact that certain parts of the world (such as Europe and North America) have climates and natural resources that are much more conducive to economic development.

It has a small effect over thousands upon thousands of years. However the reasons why North America is more developed than South America in the modern world has very little or almost nothing to do with food. More to do with stable governments as a result of culture, education, and wealth.

I imagine many university students who've only taken an Intro to Economics, probably using this book by Mankiw, might come away feeling economics has a conservative basis.

Introductory economics tends to simplify phenomenon so they are amenable to analysis by the basic tools taught in the text. In the end students are told a number of 'liberal' positions are comparatively inefficient (e.g. minimum wage, or progressive taxation), and the analysis just sort of ends there.

Any introductory textbook will cover this stuff. The gold standard is Mankiw's Principles (micro & macro), though I've recently been using Mateer and Coppock (micro & macro).

Your library might have copies, and old editions of Mankiw can be found online for less than $10.

Here's a good starting place for you.

I would not recommend that book, though I've never really heard of it, to be honest.

In my high school economics class we used the following (https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Economics-7th-Mankiws/dp/128516587X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1485981589&sr=8-1&keywords=mankiw+economics). The good thing is, you'll possibly use that book in your intro economics class in college, too, so you get a head start.

It's a cross-promotional brought to you by the people that sell you both the soda and the drugs for the diabeetus.

In a related vein, read this book

Try the book Salt. Fat, Sugar.

http://www.amazon.com/Salt-Sugar-Fat-Giants-Hooked/dp/1400069807

I wouldn't say I really buy into the idea of any kind of wholesale "obesity apologia" like I think you're referring to, but my stance is sort of middle of the road in that I no longer can accept that "personal self-control" is the only thing that has to be discussed.

Now that's not to say I don't think it's extremely important on the individual level, because it is. But a friend loaned me their copy of Salt Sugar Fat, a new book about the food industry in America, and I've only read a bit so far, but my takeaway is that the industry has a role to play in all of this and it can't be denied.

You read these stories about how much time and money food conglomerates have poured into researching how to make unhealthy foods as cheap, addictive, and unbelievably satisfying, and you can't help but feel like the people in charge of these massive companies that have the power to influence the eating habits of millions should feel compelled to act more responsibly in what they're producing. I mean, I know some people would call the comparison extreme, but it really does seem like the tobacco industry all over again to me. These companies are selling products that they know are awful for you in excess, and yet they are willingly designing them to make it so that people eat them in excess.

Bottom line, yeah, people should be looking out for themselves and nobody deserves a pass for not taking action to keep themselves healthy. But it doesn't help anyone that these multi-billion dollar companies have a vested interest in making them fat to line their own pockets.

Have him read this book. My hammy-in-training and super picky eater husband read it and he's down 20lbs in the past 4 months. It can be a real eye-opener for someone who is a critical thinker. I call it the fat-logic detroyer.

It's something that becomes a fad every couple years for about a week, and then dies out again. I think I first heard about it in the interview with Brad in Coders at Work and I'd been meaning to try it.

To be honest, I'm not sure if I'd start any new project this way now that I've tried it, but I'd recommend anyone who considers themselves a programmer try to do something with it, for the same reason I'd recommend trying out any other programming paradigm that they're not familiar with..

I thought Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming was a really enjoyable read.

It's just a collection of interviews. The book features some really interesting programmers such Ken Thompson, Joe Armstrong, Peter Norvig, and Donald Knuth. I had a great time reading their stories.

• Founders at Work
  
• Coders at Work
  
• Lean Startup
  
• The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
  
• The Four Steps to Epiphany
  
• High Tech Startup
  
• Getting things Done

Running Lean: http://www.amazon.com/Running-Lean-Iterate-Works-Series/dp/1449305172

Consider it book two of the lean startup. Ditches theory and motivation for a step by step plan to launching your business.

VERY actionable.

You may also be interested in reading Running Lean. That's been the most helpful book to me so far because it has very practical steps for launching a business. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1449305172/ref=redir_mdp_mobile/192-1698409-8370512

Hi, u/Jkirk3279,

Thanks for your response. I'm going to try to go point by point and address your concerns.

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> You’re demented. You believe these Conspiracy Theories

The fact that the U.S. has shifted toward a financial oligarchy is not a “demented” conspiracy theory. It is the professional opinion of many economists and political scientists. And their conclusions are backed up by data. A recent co-study by political scientists at Princeton and Northwestern University confirmed it: https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/files/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf

And here are a few other sources which cover this topic well I think:

• www.vanityfair.com/news/2011/05/top-one-percent-201105
  
  
• www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/11/us/politics/2016-presidential-election-super-pac-donors.html
  
  
• www.salon.com/2015/12/09/robert_reich_america_is_now_a_full_scale_oligarchy_partner/
  
  
• www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/05/the-quiet-coup/307364/?single_page=true
  
  
• www.the-american-interest.com/2011/09/28/oligarchy-and-democracy/
  
  
• www.amazon.com/Capital-Twenty-First-Century-Thomas-Piketty/dp/1491534656
  
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  > you ALSO believe that a minority unable to get enough votes to nominate their candidate can "dismantle" the Democratic Party.
  
  I think I get what you’re saying here (but let me know if I’ve misinterpreted) — How can a group that wasn’t effective or powerful enough to win a convention believe they could be powerful enough to do an even more dramatic and seemingly more difficult task of dismantling a party? If you can’t do the little thing, how can you do the big thing?
  
  What I’ve suggested is sort of unknown territory, so I can’t say how things would shake out. But I can say two things.
  
  a) We are not a tiny group. We’re close to half the party. More, if you count Independents. We don’t have to storm the capitol, stage a military coup, or do anything other than simply walk out en masse. If we walk away from the party, it loses half its constituency and either implodes, disbands, and re-forms quickly, or it limps along for a while as a very different party. It loses its reach. It becomes almost purely corporate, and loses much of its claims to authenticity. And given that the party has alienated and made feel unwelcome an entire generation of voters (well, really almost everyone under 40) – who were intended to eventually take the reins – it’s just a waiting game. It’s simple math. If you don’t replenish your numbers, you go extinct.
  
  b) This campaign has solidified a social network among groups that were not really connecting before. It has excited and engaged a huge number of people who were not participating in the past. It’s set up a social infrastructure that is not going to just disappear. This group, in the past, was a disparate and dejected wash of people. But as an energized and organized group – and one that has a distinct identity (“Not me, us”) – we are a considerable threat. If we aren’t courted HARD and incorporated into the party, we’re going to form our own. And we’ve already got many of the tools and voter data that we need.
  
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  > You didn’t have enough votes to win at the State Convention, you claimed the Democratic Party cheated you
  
  If you'd like to debate any of the individual points presented above by /u/duder9000 , I'd be happy to discuss. Which of them did you disagree with?
  
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  > and now you’re predicting BOMBINGS.
  
  I’m not suggesting that someone is going to bomb the convention in November. What I am saying is that if the Party continues to take obvious moves to silence and stop us… riots seem like a predictable eventual result. And at that point, the Party could respond one of two ways — either backing down, opening up the circle, and saying “OK, let’s listen to their concerns and see how we can win them back” (de-escalating) or by digging in and cracking down harder (escalating). If they respond to riots with escalating actions, I’m simply suggesting that the tension and responses would escalate.
  
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  > WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?
  
  Given that you’ve come to a Sanders-specific sub-reddit, made zero attempts in your post to establish any common ground or connect on any level, but simply to insult me and say, in essence, “You’re so stupid and insane on every level and we won’t ever agree” — I’m just trying to figure out what you’re trying to do?
  
  Did you come here to insult a group of people thinking that would change their minds? Did you know that you wouldn’t change minds (so didn’t attempt to establish any credibility or kudos or ethos with us), but just decided that you would get some pleasure purely out of the act of hurling insults, regardless of its uselessness? Are you here because you’re being paid as a employee of the Clinton campaign’s Correct the Record group and you’re at work? Are you just a troll? What’s your goal? Why are you here? I know that it's really unlikely that you'll respond sincerely, but, I figure it's at least worth a try.
  
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>Sorry but this isn't high school economics where consumption is everything

No, but 800 pages of data.
http://www.amazon.com/Capital-Twenty-First-Century-Thomas-Piketty/dp/1491534656


What's your opinion on how libertarian policies fit in with the coming automation of massive number of jobs, doctors and lawyers included?

http://m.imgur.com/a/q2SNN

Well, I would highly recommend renting some textbooks on American politics, American political history, and American political theory. Perhaps start here and work your way up: http://www.amazon.com/Logic-American-Politics-Samuel-Kernell/dp/1568028911

If you find textbooks too dull, then here is a good list of books to get you started:

http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Federalist-Anti-Federalist-Papers/dp/1495446697/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1453181599&sr=1-1&keywords=federalist+and+anti-federalist+papers

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-America-Penguin-Classics-Tocqueville/dp/0140447601

http://www.amazon.com/The-Ideological-Origins-American-Revolution/dp/0674443020

http://www.amazon.com/Black-Reconstruction-America-1860-1880-Burghardt/dp/0684856573

http://www.amazon.com/The-Nine-Inside-Secret-Supreme/dp/1400096790

http://www.amazon.com/Congress-Electoral-Connection-Second-Edition/dp/0300105878

http://www.amazon.com/What-Should-Know-About-Politics/dp/1611452996

http://www.amazon.com/The-Race-between-Education-Technology/dp/0674035305

http://www.amazon.com/Capital-Twenty-First-Century-Thomas-Piketty/dp/1491534656

*If you actually take the time to read these, you will be better informed than 99 percent of the voting public. <-- And after you read these, that sentence will terrify you because you will realize each of these books is just an introduction, and the world is being run by technocrats. JK, but not really.

Edit: But really.

The idea is that we have built the world with fossil fuels and there is a correlation between how well-developed a nation is with how much fossil fuels they have consumed. The moral reasoning is that even if coal is very dirty, it is better to pollute the world than to have millions of people starving by denying them access to coal, because westerners want them to be green.

Then after polluting the world for a century more, some future generation can figure out a way to clean things up.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Moral-Case-Fossil-Fuels/dp/1591847443

I got this book at work.. There's a code for an online questionnaire that produces 5 strengths that are unique to you.


I thought that it would be like some lame free internet quiz but the 5 strengths and descriptions it spit out were incredibly spot on. It might not say "Be a doctor!" or "Be an archeologist!" but knowing what your strengths are will help you assess careers and how they would fit with your unique strengths. You'll be happier when you chose a career that you can excel in :)

I think there are many "flavors" of introverts... I found it very helpful to understand where are my strengths and what kind of activities doesn't really fit me. I got it from the StrengthsFinder book (http://amzn.to/2jPC57Z) and afterwards intentionally directed my career choices towards my strongest capabilities.

So far so good :-)
Good luck!

There are a couple of good textbooks I am aware of:

The links to Gouverneur's textbook are here

You may also want to check out Wolff's own textbook authored with Stephen Resnick, entitled Economics: Marxian versus Neoclassical. (If you want to have a look through it I'm pretty sure the pdf is on Scribd.com) Apparently he is a publishing an updated edition sometime this year, but I am yet to see any details of that happening.

Also, you've probably heard this many times before, but if you want to get into Marxian economics, I highly suggest you start out by purchasing a copy of Vol. 1 of Capital and going through it alongside David Harvey's lecture series which is also invaluable (everyone on /r/socialism probably knows Harvey but i'm not sure if they're all aware of his lectures). ALSO You would probably like to grab A Companion to Marx's Capital - It's probably the most recent and thorough introduction to capital you could ask for and goes great with the lectures if you want more detail.

While I'm on a role here, you would probably benefit from reading The Enigma of Capital: And the Crises of Capitalism, Harvey has a great interpretation of the "GFC" and goes through a great overview of how capital works.

Other than that I highly suggest you watch Kapitalism101's bibliography videos here. I've found his knowledge and extensive bibliography of recommendations of Marxian economics books extremely invaluable.

Harvey's book on Capital is pretty good as well. Having read both simultaneously, I kind of wish I'd just read Harvey on Marx instead of reading Marx himself.

Follow @mojcamars on twitter and check out her blog on www.superspicymedia.com. She started out the same as you and she details how she got started finding clients.

Basically, she started by searching on Twitter for people who needed help with their social media accounts. She would give away completely free advice to people and the premium stuff she would charge for. She said when giving free advice she doesn't mention her website or anything like that upfront... she only does so if the conversation calls for it. Most people will find out about your website/services anyway when they visit your Twitter profile.

Check out her site. I highly recommend it.

Also look into Gary Vaynerchuk on YouTube. He goes into detail about this many times. You should be putting out free content daily, just like Mojca does. By doing so, you establish yourself as an authority in your space while at the same time gaining a following which leads to sales/clients. Read "Jab, jab, right hook" and "#AskGaryVee: One Entrepreneur's Take on Leadership, Social Media, and Self-Awareness".

Good luck!

To echo everyone else, marketing. You can either pay a firm to handle it for you or do it yourself. For the latter I leave you with these resources.


Marketing Indie Games on a 0$ Budget, Konsoll 2013 talk by Emmy Jonassen. Link


Emmy's website, filled with great resources. Link


"The Marketing Guide for Game Developers", outline article on Pixel Prospector. Link


The Big List Of Indie Game Marketing, a resource list for all things marketing, also on Pixel Prospector. Link


"Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World", by Gary Vaynerchuk. An excellent book on how to utilized the various social media platforms for marketing. Amazon Site Link


And lastly, the weekly "Marketing Monday" threads here for feedback and creative inspiration.


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Fixed linking. Returning to Reddit after a year and some change worth of hiatus. Have to relearn old tricks.

Gary Vaynerchuk is a social media master. When I first was hired as a Content Strategist for an agency my boss gave me the book below. It’s a couple years dated, but the overall premise still holds. He examines each platform and pulls real-life examples to demonstrate. I still refer back to it!

Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World

In theory any company can create a compelling and active Facebook page but honestly, there are just some things that are more interesting than others.

I happen to have an easy target market for FB: Women ages 25-50 in upper incomes who love fashion, family, and parenting.

If you had an an insurance company it would be a lot more difficult to find compelling shareable content that relates to insurance. So what you have to do is the "Jab, Jab, Right Hook" where you appeal to other things your target market is interested in and then for every 5 jabs (shareable content) you right hook them with a call to action in regards to your specific product.

For example, your non-profit could start to tug on heart strings by showing the people who are getting help by the grants. Tell stories about how your non-profit benefits others. Share other non-profit stories in your same genre. Post articles about the different areas your non-profit focuses on.

Facebook is like a great big cocktail party and you want to be the the most interesting and compelling person at the soiree.

• “Mastering Bitcoin: Unlocking Digital Cryptocurrencies” by Andreas Antonopoulos
  
  
• “The Internet of Money” by Andreas Antonopoulos
  
  
• “The Internet of Money (Volume 2)” by Andreas Antonopoulos
  
  
• "Mastering Ethereum: Building Smart Contracts and Dapps" by Gavin Wood and Andreas Antonopoulos (Available for Preorder)
  
  
• “Digital Gold” by Nathaniel Popper
  
  
• “Cryptoassets” by Chris Burniske and Jack Tatar
  
  But, the internet is also your best resource.
  

I would like to do that. How do you set up the auto buy? I'm relatively new to the community, so I don't know the acronyms or any of the mechanics really. All I've really done is read this book.

> Need to have good source material to read and preferably academic reference

Read the book Digital Gold. It's a detailed history on the formation and history of bitcoin (basically everything 2015 and previous.). It's written by a New York Times reporter so it's from a reliable source. It's also amazingly well written, it basically reads like a novel.

https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Gold-Bitcoin-Millionaires-Reinvent/dp/006236250X

Go read a book: https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Gold-Bitcoin-Millionaires-Reinvent/dp/006236250X

I read "Digital Gold." Would highly recommend, as well as "This Machine Kills Secrets." Both fantastic exploratory introduction works to the community by top-notch, easy-to-understand journalists who turn the crypto revolution into the fascinating, potentially world-changing story that it is through their writing.

• Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money https://www.amazon.com/dp/006236250X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_yHSqzb7NB84J0

• This Machine Kills Secrets: Julian Assange, the Cypherpunks, and Their Fight to Empower Whistleblowers https://www.amazon.com/dp/0142180491/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_7HSqzbMTVSMFP

As mai da doua referinte la un nivel mai macro-economic pentru cat de mult conteaza un ecosistem prietenes pentru afaceri, mai ales IMM-uri... Care Iohannis chiar a stimulat in sibiu.

Prima - Why nations fail - Modelul de guvernare PSD:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307719219/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=whynatfai-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0307719219

A doua:
http://www.amazon.com/Start-up-Nation-Israels-Economic-Miracle/dp/0446541478

Cum o tara fara resurse (okay cu ajutor american) si cu multe IMM-uri a ajuns putere economica.

I would first off recommend checking out the /r/geopolitics Wiki for its page on books. From there, I recommend introductory books that really help explain the geopolitical situation of the world in a cursory fashion. Consider:

• Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World: https://www.amazon.com/Prisoners-Geography-Explain-Everything-Politics/dp/1501121472
  
• Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty: https://www.amazon.com/Why-Nations-Fail-Origins-Prosperity/dp/0307719219/ref=pd_sim_14_19?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0307719219&pd_rd_r=e512acc0-f2a2-11e8-88d2-3b20857d970c&pd_rd_w=Y7q9P&pd_rd_wg=eZWHM&pf_rd_i=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_p=18bb0b78-4200-49b9-ac91-f141d61a1780&pf_rd_r=PXKB01F4DSQYB49Y9WVA&pf_rd_s=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_t=40701&psc=1&refRID=PXKB01F4DSQYB49Y9WVA
  
  For a larger list, I can recommend our 2019 Geopolitical Reading list found here:
  
  
• https://encyclopediageopolitica.com/2018/11/12/the-2019-geopolitical-reading-list/

I highly recommend Acemoglu and Robinson's Why Nations Fail. They explain economic growth from an institutional economics perspective.

Here are a few books that I really enjoyed. The first couple are stats-oriented, while the third is more narrative-driven.

Moneyball by Michael Lewis

The Only Rule Is It Has to Work by Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller

Where Nobody Knows Your Name: Life in the Minor Leagues of Baseball by John Feinstein

1.)We have the History. We have 9 World Series titles, which is a lot, (3rd all time) but not to a point where we are spoiled.

2.)We are one of the two teams in the AL that hasn't changed our names.

3.)We are on the West Coast, and for 10 years had a minor league team in Vancouver

4.)We are invented, and are Moneyball

5.)Nerdpower

6.)We have a great young bunch of players coming up that thanks to brilliant people, will continue for years to come.

7.)You can't beat us, everyone loves the underdog, and our uniforms are some of the best.

8.) We won 3 straight WS in the 1970's with one of the craziest teams of all time. The only other team to win 3 straight WS titles? The Yankees. Trust me, you don't want to root for the Yankees.

I hope now you have enough info to make a decision!

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Watch this and this and read this.

We are concerned when it impacts our money. I am not talking about a love for African democracy. When Mugabe tanked one of the better off agricultural producers US businesses lost income. Race isn’t the factor money is.

Your analogy regarding land is factually incorrect. You can produce goods by reducing labor through technology. There are many ways to produce more wealth that do not involve land. If you can try reading Mankiew’s “Principles of Economics” rather than Das Kapital.

https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Economics-Mankiws/dp/0538453052

I've heard good things about Peter Kump's Breakthrough Rapid Reading.

The Foundation Bible of starting an MSP: Managed Services in a Month by Karl Palachuk Amazon Link

I'll also throw a vote in for Traction as a general business book.

And my personal people/team management bible that I bring into every company I work with: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Amazon Link

This is my favorite book on team building. http://www.amazon.com/The-Five-Dysfunctions-Team-Leadership/dp/0787960756

It contains some great lessons about how to address these issues, as they are generally indicative of deeper problems w/in the organization, rather than just with the meetings themselves.

Another good read is Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano

This book is a great summary of the imperialist forces that have shape Latin America since the arrival of the first Europeans
https://www.amazon.com/Open-Veins-Latin-America-Centuries/dp/0853459916/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1543450085&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=the+open+veins+of+latin+america+by+eduardo+galeano&dpPl=1&dpID=51McAptKGTL&ref=plSrch

>c'est pas les plans d'investissement dirigé qui font progresser les pays.

Donc les politiques keynésienne d'investissement publique durant les trente glorieuses on était un échec ?

>Un exemple :pas sur qu'une commission aurait donne des sous à Apple pour son Iphone surtout au prix de vente. Alors que c'est un succes majeur.
Qui aurait cru que n'importe qui aurait envie de mettre 600€ dans un telephone ?

Avant de faire Apple, il a fallu développer plein de technologies de miniaturisation de l'informatique. Et là, la recherche publique et l’investissement publique notamment par le secteur de la défense ont beaucoup joué. Je te renvoie à ce livre sur le sujet.

Here watch this, Chomsky (who worked at a military university his entire life) talking about it.

Check out this book. Here is a blog post about it in relation to the iPhone.

Capitalist innovation is largely a capitalist myth. You wouldn't have most of the shit you do without the State. Of course innovation does happen in the private sector, but it's nowhere near that clear-cut, and the conclusions of this article are moronic and uninformed.

Not specifically for advice on media start ups, but Gary Vaynerchuk's books deal with social media marketing, and I think are critical for any up-and-coming business, but especially if you're in the digital media industry and want to engage with folks directly in this way.

[The Thank You Economy] (https://www.amazon.com/Thank-You-Economy-Gary-Vaynerchuk/dp/0061914185/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1510421556&sr=8-1&keywords=the+thank+you+economy&dpID=41L836nMSGL&preST=_SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_&dpSrc=srch)

[Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook] (https://www.amazon.com/Jab-Right-Hook-Story-Social/dp/006227306X)

Yes! You got the idea. And also social media is about giving and then only asking. Provide your followers with great content and then ask to buy your products. I advise everyone to read this book: https://www.amazon.com/Jab-Right-Hook-Story-Social/dp/006227306X by Gary Vaynerchuk

Many jobs as Digital Marketer for small/medium companies will require you to know how to use social media and a good knowledge of adobe software. Here where I live (UK too) we have a startup accelerator and many tech hubs with many marketing jobs available around. It could be a good idea to look for those people and ask...

Also, there's a great book on social media/graphic skills you might find interesting. Should you get a job as 'social media guy' in any company, this would help you a lot: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Jab-Right-Hook-Story-Social/dp/006227306X

good luck!

Here are all the books with amazon links, Alphabetical order :)

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• Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant by W. Chan Kim et al. Link: http://amzn.com/1591396190
  
• Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh et al. Link: http://amzn.com/160941280X
  
• Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown Link: http://amzn.com/0804137382
  
• Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days by Jessica Livingston Link: http://amzn.com/1590597141
  
• How Google Works by Eric Schmidt et al. Link: http://amzn.com/1455582344
  
• Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World by Gary Vaynerchuk Link: http://amzn.com/006227306X
  
• Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way by Richard Branson Link: http://amzn.com/0307720748
  
• Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath et al. Link: http://amzn.com/1400064287
  
• Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck Link: http://amzn.com/0345472322
  
• Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time by Keith Ferrazzi et al. Link: http://amzn.com/0385346654
  
• Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable by Tim S. Grover et al. Link: http://amzn.com/1476714207
  
• Rework by Jason Fried et al. Link: http://amzn.com/0307463745
  
• Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else by Geoff Colvin Link: http://amzn.com/1591842948
  
• The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss Link: http://amzn.com/0307465357
  
• The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth by James Altucher Link: http://amzn.com/150100994X
  
• The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison: *God Doesn't Think He's Larry Ellison by Mike Wilson Link: http://amzn.com/0060008768
  
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz Link: http://amzn.com/0062273205
  
• The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business by Clayton M. Christensen Link: http://amzn.com/0062060244
  
• The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries Link: http://amzn.com/0307887898
  
• The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime by MJ DeMarco Link: http://amzn.com/B004BDOUAI
  
• The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph by Ryan Holiday Link: http://amzn.com/1591846358
  
• The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller et al. Link: http://amzn.com/1885167776
  
• The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company by Steve Blank et al. Link: http://amzn.com/0984999302
  
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell Link: http://amzn.com/0316346624
  
• Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth by Gabriel Weinberg et al. Link: http://amzn.com/1591848369
  
• Unlabel: Selling You Without Selling Out by Marc Ecko Link: http://amzn.com/1451685319
  
• Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel et al. Link: http://amzn.com/0804139296

Digital Gold is a good read coving the creation and history of Bitcoin. I'm almost done with it. Knowing my blockchain history and the big players in the original tech has come in handy more than I suspected, definitely worth the read!

I just read Digital Gold, which I'd recommend. It's more about the history of Bitcoin and major events around it, as opposed to details about the technology. But it does explain what Bitcoin can do, who can benefit from it, etc.

Since you're a newbie, you really should first start by getting caught up on Bitcoin's history. I suggest reading materials and interviews that occurred before 2015. Andreas Antonopoulos may be a bit of a Core shill now, but all his talks before 2015 were really great and inspiring. Then there's this book that was first published in 2015 and does a great job recanting the history and foundation of Bitcoin's beginnings up to 2015.

If you wonder what direction Bitcoin should be going, why not read what Satoshi Nakamoto himself had to say? All of Satoshi's public thoughts are published on http://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/

edit: forgot to mention James D'angelo's blackboard series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhe61JaNFLU&list=PLzctEq7iZD-7-DgJM604zsndMapn9ff6q&index=6

A book called Digital Gold.

This book gives you more of a history behind bitcoin, how it started, what some of the hurdles were...etc. You'll better understand bitcoin because of it. It's not technical, but it does explain some things.

Excellently written.

https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Gold-Bitcoin-Millionaires-Reinvent/dp/006236250X/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1505798888&sr=8-5&keywords=bitcoin

I also recommend the book "Why Nations Fail" by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson: http://www.amazon.com/Why-Nations-Fail-Origins-Prosperity/dp/0307719219

It's a great book written from an economic history perspective and goes into the implications and historical support for the theory of institutionalism.

LOL, no, its a good book but there are many better recommendations.

For example, if you wanted to understand the tools of state/religious oppression and its consequences in modern context I may recommend; Why Nations fail

Or if you desired to have greater understanding of the consequences of inventing money; Debt, the first 5000 years

Or if you felt that religion was cool but the idea of God was wrong you could read; Change Your Thoughts - Change Your Life: Living the Wisdom of the Tao

Or if you wanted to read about the decline of world wide violence; The Better Angels of our Nature

Poor Economics for a great discussion on the many small, incremental steps that add up and could help alleviate poverty.

The Bottom Billion for a nice discussion on the various poverty traps a country can get stuck in. This book focuses more on the bigger macro picture, and less on the incentives and lives of individuals.

Why Nations Fail - I'll admit I haven't read this yet, but a lot of people seem to rate it highly. It looks at the broad picture of what determines the wealth of nations, and especially the nature of extractive vs. inclusive institutions.

I haven't heard of anyone advocating that a central bank play a key role in ending poverty. Central banks are there to help smooth output fluctuations, by keeping unemployment near its "natural" level and inflation low and stable. There's nothing in their tool-set that could bring a country out of poverty. Though they're certainly very important as bad monetary policy can destroy a country.

To describe it another way: poverty alleviation is about creating a long-term upward trend in output per person. But there are unpredictable variations the economy experiences around this long-term trend (recessions). The central bank's job is to prevent or minimize these deviations from trend, by preventing recessions. But it does not determine the long-term trend itself.

Buy Moneyball.
Non-fiction, about a moment that changed baseball history, by a writer that knows how to tell gripping non-fiction stories (see Flash Boys, The Big Short etc.)

Huge baseball fan..

this looks like a great read!

Calico Joe, and slightly different but an excellent sports book nonetheless, Moneyball.

Your list is great, so I'm just going to tack on some suggestions to what you've already got rather than start my own.

Numbers-y, science-y books
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis

The Extra 2%: How Wall Street Strategies Took a Major League Baseball Team from Worst to First by Jonah Keri

Memoirs
Odd Man Out: A Year on the Mound with a Minor League Misfit by Matt McCarthy

Veeck as in Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck by Bill Veeck

Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits & How Baseball Got Big

and Vindicated: Big Names, Big Liars, and the Battle to Save Baseball by Jose Canseco

Fiction
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach

Non-fiction

Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball by George F. Will

The Machine: A Hot Team, a Legendary Season, and a Heart-Stopping World Series: The Story of the 1975 Cincinnati Reds

and The Good Stuff: Columns about the Magic of Sports

and The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America by Joe Posnanski

3 Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager by Buzz Bissinger

The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn

The Pitch That Killed: The Story of Carl Mays, Ray Chapman, and the Pennant Race of 1920 by Mike Sowell

Yes, I understand the irony of Joe Posnanski and Jose Canseco being the only author with multiple books. Just read Canseco's books. They're actually not bad.

There are more I'm forgetting. I must have read 50 books about baseball in my short life. I'll add them if I remember.

> What really fucks me off is the insistence on using a metric shitload of acronyms that are literally meaningless to a new spectator. It took me a fortnight to work out that K means strikeout. Why, for fuck's sake?!

It's actually because of Henry Chadwick, an Englishman who pioneered the statistical analysis of baseball. The "K" represents the last letter in "struck" (as in "struck out"). He used it because "S" was already taken up as a designation for "sacrifice" (as in "sacrifice hit"). It is still popular because baseball fans are creatures of habit, and, as others have mentioned, "K" makes it very easy when scorekeeping to differentiate between a swinging strikeout and a looking strikeout.

To address the broader issue: Baseball statistics have developed haphazardly over the last 150 years. Old statistics with old designations are layered under newer statistics with newer designations - all of them carrying little (or big) bits of information about the play on the field which, at one point or another, somebody thought it would be useful to remember - and the abbreviations and acronyms reflect the evolving requirements of newspaper layout editors, analysts, fans, and scorekeepers. There's really no easy way to learn it all, but I can assure you that just trying to do so will immeasurably increase your appreciation for the game.

I would suggest a two-pronged approach. First, take note of the statistics mentioned by broadcasters. These tend to be "caveman" stats - batting average, RBIs, ERA, pitcher wins, etc. - which are really crude measures of performance but are very popular and therefore are important to know. Second, pick up a book or two about sabermetrics - Moneyball and The Book are both good - and read a little bit about the more advanced approaches to stats and analysis that baseball watchers have taken over the past couple of decades. Also, surf Fangraphs and Baseball Reference. Soon, you'll be able to identify all the statistics that broadcasters throw around, and you'll be able to tell which of them are useful and which are useless.

If you want a solid foundation I would start with something like This starting at chapter 29.

everything on this list is well written and mindblowing, so I will not mention those two particular reasons every time. Items are in no particular order.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Short_History_of_Nearly_Everything - cherry picked stories from astronomy, biology, geology, chemistry and paleontology. This book is awe-evoking on every page. It puts science into perspective. Science is not direct route to knowledge, but it is the most effective knowledge gathering tool ever used.
  
  
  
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Greatest_Show_on_Earth:_The_Evidence_for_Evolution
  
  
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictably_Irrational - you will learn so much things about yourself that are applicable in real life. Humans are smart but not rational. It leads to endless repetition of silly things which decrease quality of life...
  
  
• http://www.amazon.com/Principles-Economics-N-Gregory-Mankiw/dp/0538453052 This is the most technical item on this list. Must read if you want to understand world around you. It will make you better voter and citizen.
  
  
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surely_You're_Joking,_Mr._Feynman! - funniest book on the list. Again, it puts science into perspective, but this time by showing how perfect science should look like.
  
  
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Will_Teach_You_To_Be_Rich_(book) - seriously, good personal finance book might be the most important book you will ever read. This is not "how to get rich in 20 days" waste of paper. It is about long run, about savings, about IRA and 401s. If you are not from US, ask for personal finance book recommendation somewhere which is more localized.
  
  

If you think I'm gonna sit here and dig through that wall of nonsensical rambling you're out of your mind. Especially after you've already proven you don't know the difference between inflation and deflation.

Reformat, use the quotation tool to address specific points, be concise, and stop the middle school obvious attempt to be condescending then get back to me.

Also probably a good idea to read this if you want to seriously discuss the topic.

https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Economics-Mankiws/dp/0538453052

For me the overwhelming feeling was tied into a fear of failure. I was subconsciously afraid that I would do something wrong and I wouldn't be successful. I had always been driven to succeed instead of driven to learn.

Once I realize this and that failure is an integral part of learning, I started accepting failure. It really helped to change my entire mindset and approach to learning. I still have a really long way to learning how to learn (late in life) but I am far better off.

I also realized my reading level was not as high as it should have been. If you find that is the case:

https://www.amazon.com/Breakthrough-Rapid-Reading-Peter-Kump/dp/073520019X

This book is THE book for improving your reading speed. It is a speed reading book, but if nothing else it will teach you something about your reading ability and very basic ways to improve it, without having to go "full speed reading."

Get this book

http://www.amazon.com/Memory-Book-Classic-Improving-School/dp/0345410025/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1322801875&sr=8-7


And this book


http://www.amazon.com/Breakthrough-Rapid-Reading-Peter-Kump/dp/073520019X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1322801891&sr=8-1




Study little, know a lot. Memorization techniques cut my study time in half, and because I could memorize instantly I only had to read something once, and very fast at that.

Here are the books I had in mind when I wrote that, but lacked the time to look up:

http://www.amazon.com/Evelyn-Seven-Day-Reading-Learning-Program/dp/B000M7ZCC2/ref=sr_1_3

http://www.amazon.com/Remember-Everything-You-Read-Learning/dp/0380715775/ref=sr_1_1

http://www.amazon.com/Breakthrough-Rapid-Reading-Peter-Kump/dp/073520019X/ref=sr_1_2

I'm a bit late but I hope you see this.

I was in the same boat (although more into non-fiction) and can strongly recommend two books:

The first is How to Read a Book. When I first saw the title I though: "Pfft, I know how to read a book", but then you start reading it and realise that you don't know shit. This book deals with comprehension mainly, so it seems perfect for your situation.

The second book is less important but one I'd recommend to anyone who does a lot of reading. Breakthrough Rapid Reading talks about "speed reading" and is set out like a six week course. You can do 20 mins every evening to increase your reading speed whilst maintaining (or even improving) comprehension. There are a lot of speed reading resources out there, but I think this is one of the best. Certainly worth a look as you can make pretty rapid gains early on.

It's fairly easy to improve your memory, but learning to learn properly :)

As for speed reading, I highly recommend Peter Kumps Breakthrough Rapid Reading

Listen to the people who work for you. For every one person under you it takes a few hours a week to manage as a rule of thumb. When I say manage, I talk about leadership, developing them, understanding them, understanding how they want to grow and stretch.


I highly recommend reading the following book too about teams. It's a great book and in my experience holds true with small teams and large global teams.


http://www.amazon.com/Five-Dysfunctions-Team-Leadership-Fable/dp/0787960756

There are many books on how to be a good leader, and not that many on how to go from a good to a great leader. I know 4 really good books in the latter category:

1. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni
   
2. Primal Leadership: The Hidden Driver of Great Performance by Daniel Goleman, Richard E. Boyatzis, Annie McKee
   
3. Act Like A Leader, Think Like A Leader by Herminia Ibarra
   
4. The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You by John C Maxwell, Zig Ziglar

I'm 31 and just started my own company. When I turned 16, I had a profound epiphany about what I wanted to do "when I grew up". That epiphany was I wanted to own my own business. The why, came from the experiences I had since I was 14.


I worked as a delivery guy for two guys who owned a bounce house company. At 15, I was employee 1 at an advertising company. I started in the mailroom stuffing envelopes and I continued to work for that company through college and even a few months after graduating college. I didn't stay in the mailroom though. As I taught myself programming and a little design, I was growing within the company, as they themselves grew in revenue and size. I was getting a front row seat to what it was like to be an entrepreneur and I loved every minute of it; the long hours, the struggles, the doing whatever it takes, carving your own path, etc.


Even though I knew being an entrepreneur was part of my path in life, it has taken me 16 yrs to make that a reality. I have no regrets as I've been able to gain knowledge and experience the entire time. Everything you experience in life can help you in some way on your path to becoming an entrepreneur.


Remember, you can do a lot of good by being an employee too. You have not failed if you don't start a company.

1. Get a job right now if you don't already have one. Work and understand what work is and build a work ethic. Even better, find a job at a small company, no matter what it is. At most small companies, no matter your role, you get exposed to the entire business.
   
   
2. Meet and speak with entrepreneurs. Check out Meetup.com for events which are going on. You might be limited to not attending the events that are bars, but I've seen plenty of kids your age attending events.
   
   
3. Find a skill and learn it. You might not think it now, but as /u/douglasjdarroch stated, you have a ton more free time to devote to that skill than when you get a full time job. I'm partial to it, but any amount of technology skills will help you with your pursuit.
   
   
4. Culture is huge when it comes to creating a successful company it can be a differentiator.
   
   Suggested Reading
   
   

• The Great Game of Business
  
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
  
• Rework
  
• Leaders Eat Last
  
• Zingerman's Guide to Building a Great Company
  
• Zingerman's Guide to Being a Great Leader

I'll say my books aren't expressly feminine. They're more about dynamics, relationships, motivations, which have helped to prevent me from going wild with aggressive masculine approaches despite my surroundings and peers. Thank goodness I found these so early :)

I loved Captivating, which is about women from a Christian perspective and it's counterpart called Wild at Heart, which is about men. Neither of them were too overwhelmingly Christian, IMO.

Another book with Christian influences, The Servant is a book about leadership theory that's been very helpful to me stepping into a more nurturing and deferring approach.

Five Dysfunctions of a Team is my very favorite book ever, and it discusses the reasons teams (be it a couple, sports team, friend group, or work group) fail and how to prevent that. Very helpful in learning why vulnerability, an important feminine trait, is so important.

1. Assess strengths, weaknesses for each person on team - review previous work, get feedback from other teams they worked with
   
   
2. Meet with each member individually, ask them what they like/dislike about their roles, what they would improve, and where they see themselves in two years
   
   
3. Roadmap improvement plans for each member that has clear improvement areas, how they can do it, and a baseline measurement of their current skill set
   
   
4. Roadmap all SEO tasks currently in play and for the next quarter - assign tasks to team members in a strategic plan
   
   
5. Get with your manager (Director, VP, etc) and present plans (who, what, value, cost, measurement). Approve costs for training, and secure everything you need. Recommend approving significant rewards for completion and progress.
   
   
6. Present improvement plan to individual team members
   
   
7. Present strategic plan to team with clear tasks, goals, and outcomes. End with a “commanders intent” and let everyone know that the second something is unclear, reach out to you.
   
   
8. Start a daily standup at business start time. Go over yesterday’s tasks, today’s tasks, and any blockers. Start on time, this is about discipline and structure.
   
   
9. Create biweekly checkins with each team member to go over skill improvement and strategic plan progress. Use 30m - 1hr to conduct 1:1 feedback and training. Give them the first 15m to discuss anything.
   
   
10. Create a reporting dashboard for the team that shows progress towards goals, value of their work, and transparently communicates team output/value to leadership.
    
    
11. Read books on leadership and team management — recommend several:
    
    https://amzn.to/2Ku6Xbi - The Ideal Team Player
    
    https://amzn.to/31zGqPs - The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
    
    https://amzn.to/2Ku8UEE - Extreme Ownership
    
    https://amzn.to/2YXLkE3 - Dichotomy of Leadership

I had a conversation with one of them about this book.

He was a little older than the youngest guys though, maybe early 30s, past his main gangbanging days. From what I understand, the Kings view street crime as the first stage in a person's life and as a person gets older they become more of a mentor who understands the bigger picture. The kids definitely wouldn't be reading. I was talking to him about coke one day, asking if there was any good stuff around, and he said that he hadn't been in to that since the early 90s. After he got out of prison he realized that it was better to stay relatively small time; have enough money to buy nice things but not enough to draw attention.

One book that's on my reading list and waiting its turn on my desk is Open Veins of Latin America (original: Las venas abiertas de América Latina). It seems to polarize readers so much that Amazon ratings are predominantly either 5 or 1 stars. Can't yet give personal opinion on it but thought to mention it since it's a book that tends to come up here and there.

what, all of it? maybe something by galeano? memories of fire or open veins.

for chile, specifically, muñoz's dictator's shadow is very good. also, i really liked this anthropological text - very good view into current (well, more or less) chilean culture and surprisingly easy to read.

Anthropological Economics, and we were made to read this book.

History was never the same.

I'll just leave this here.

https://www.amazon.com/Open-Veins-Latin-America-Centuries/dp/0853459916/ref=asc_df_0853459916/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312106851030&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=1085325790976409734&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9032170&hvtargid=pla-450080808890&psc=1

proof that a final solution to the weeb problem is necessary to protect our capital interests

Capital - In Manga! https://www.amazon.com/dp/1926958195/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_DSQ9yb8P273CK

Best manga

I read the whole volumes raw for the first time, then read them again with David Harvey's A Companion to Marx's Capital. Capital can be read easily by some people and harder by others, there's nothing really wrong with going on the internet/reading alternative guides if you can't understand the material.

> Just because you call the things you want "your rights" and your demand that others give them to you "their duty"

Human rights are usually construed as something every human wants, always. Food, shelter, health and with those freedom.

>doesn't change the fact that demanding something for nothing is enslavement.

It's quite the opposite: You demand that from everyone equally and you get the same. "I don't kill you, you don't kill me" isn't enslavement, it's the protection of everyones interest.

Enslavement on the other hand is coercion. Can be force or can be withholding food so he doesn't have any choice but to do your bidding. Funnily enough, if your entitled ass was on the street you would reverse your position in a second. Just because you got lucky with your station in life doesn't mean you deserve it.

>If you're going to argue this from a utilitarian base

Utilitarianism is quite contrary to the argument I am making. You are looking for duty ethics or contractualism. Statistics are also only tangentially related to utilitarianism, at least until you've specified what sub-branch you mean. I'd love to see some stats for preference utilitarianism if you had any...

> blah blah middle class blah shame blah incentive blah

How many subjects do you want to drag into your argument? You have a tentative grasp on what constitutes a "right", which I wanted to argue with you about in the original post and you keep trying to drag you superficial understanding of economics and policy into this? I don't want to argue about that with you. You show little understanding of either apart from the talking points you get from conservative blogs and that discussion would just not be interesting to me.

What any of this has to do with post-modernism completely escapes me. I might even be offended if you had shown any understanding of the subject matters. Especially funny as I consider myself an institutional capitalist and prefer the analytic tradition of philosophy.

To do my duty: please get Mankiw's into to econ and read the SEP on rights

Harvard professor's intro textbook. It's a pretty entertaining read and is very widely used. Also, if you are looking for more of a crash course you could try this and this. They are the intro textbooks at Berkeley and cut out a lot of the articles and examples that might be in a normal intro textbook.

It's at this point I have to point you toward a standard ECON 101 text. Productivity is commonly defined as "output per unit of input" (for example output per labor-hour). There is nothing vague about it. Some countries are poor... others rich... how do you explain it? Almost all variation in living standards is attributable to a countries' productivity.

ECON 101 by Paul Krugman
Krugman is a Nobel Prize winning economist... a left-wing one at that. But you'll find this answer here.

ECON 101 by Greg Mankiw
If you don't like a left-wing economist, here is a right wing one. It's the same story though. Mankiw is a Harvard economist that has served as a presidential advisor. Read this text and you'll find the same thing.

ECON 101 by Hall & Lieberman
Bob Hall has sat on the NBER board... just the institution that officially declares if the US is in a recession or not.

I guess these guys are ignorant and vague as well.

In early human history, food wasn't always easy to come by. There would have been lots of times of feast and lots of times of famine. Those with fat stores on their bodies during famines were more likely to survive the famines than were those without fat stores. How do you get fat stores? Having a preference for energy-dense foods is a good start, and so those with preferences for fats and sugars would have been more likely to survive over the long term. They would have passed those preferences to their offspring, and that's why we have them today.

If you're interested in this topic, a great book to read is Salt, Sugar, Fat by Michael Moss.

Fast food and soda are designed to be addictive not nutritious.

http://www.amazon.com/Salt-Sugar-Fat-Giants-Hooked/dp/1400069807

People who make excuses are a lost cause and are cheating themselves. Not to defend those people but a couple of good reads:

• https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400069807/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
  
  
• https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0143114964/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
  
  The food giants want you to consume shit food and stay fat.
  

Like you I work at a tech startup. When we were just starting, our business/strategy people asked the question you just asked. They opened a dialog with development team, and found good answers. I attribute our success in large part to that dialog being eager and open-minded, just as you are being right now. So, it's good tidings that you are asking.

For us, the answer came from conversation, but it also came from reading the following books together:

• The Soul of a new Machine. Pulitzer Prize Winner, 1981. It will teach you the texture of our work and of our love for it, as well as good role models for how to interact with devs.
  
  
• Coders at Work, reflection on the craft of programming Will give you perspective on the depth of our discipline, so you may know to respect our perspective when we tell you what the technology can or cannot do -- even when it is counter-intuitive, as ModernRonin described.
  
  
• Lean Startup It will teach you the means to deal with the difficult task of providing hyper-detailed requirements when the nature of building new software is always that it's new and we don't really know yet what we're building.
  
  
• Agile Samurai Will teach you agile, which ModernRonin also mentioned.
  
  
• Watch this talk by one of the inventor/popularizer of agile, Ken Schwaber Pay particular attention to the issue of code quality over time. You will soon be surrounded by devs who will be responsible for making highly intricate judgement calls balancing the value of releasing a new feature a tad earlier, versus the potentially crippling long-term impact of bad code. Heed Ken Schwaber's warning: your role as a manager is to be an ally in protecting the long-term viability of the code's quality. If you fail -- usually by imposing arbitrary deadlines that can only be met by sacrificing quality -- your company will die.
  
  
  
  

I loved your interview the most in this book. You seem to be an awesome guy.

Didn't he also attempt to shut down the Apple Macintosh project because he didn't really get it?
*Edit:
Wow. Thanks for the downvotes guys, talk about shitty reddiquette. I'm at home now, so I've got some time to dig out some citations.
The article from which I originally picked up that idea is this one, quoting Jef Raskin's interview in Peter Siebel's Coders at Work.
>What I proposed was a computer [the Macintosh] that would be easy to use, mix text and graphics, and sell for about $1,000. Steve Jobs said that it was a crazy idea, that it would never sell, and we didn’t want anything like it. He tried to shoot the project down.

When originally posted on Reddit, who should pop up in the comments but
Paul fucking Lutus! His summation was that yep, that's pretty much how it went down.
So, yea. If people who were actually there at the time (one of who is the guy that created the thing) are saying that technically Steve Jobs headed up that group, but only after trying to trash it because he couldn't get his head around it, I'm going to put some credence in those claims.
Stay classy /r/apple.

Simon Peyton-Jones IS interviewed in the book. See the amazon page: "Simon Peyton Jones: Coinventor of Haskell and lead designer of Glasgow Haskell Compiler"

The 15 people interviewed are mentioned on that page.

Really annoying - available for the Kindle for $9.99 but to simply buy the eBook in PDF is $20.99.

I'd like to read this on my nook. Do I really need to pay 2x the price as a Kindle user for that honor?

Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming

I'd recommend you spend a small portion of that $40k on:

http://www.amazon.com/Running-Lean-Iterate-Works-Series/dp/1449305172

http://www.amazon.com/Startup-Owners-Manual-Step---Step/dp/0984999302/

http://www.amazon.com/The-Lean-Startup-Entrepreneurs-Continuous/dp/0307887898

Then get creative and figure out how to validate your idea without writing a single line of code (validation = get customers willing to sign up and/or pre-purchase).

My favorite example of getting 70k users without building a thing: http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/19/dropbox-minimal-viable-product/

If you could generate that kind of buzz without a line of code written, you could get the investment required to build your MVP.

Feel free to PM me, btw. I love the SaaS space and I have 17 years software development experience.

I find the original Steve Blank and Eric Reis books tough to recommend these days as they tend to ramble and have since spawned much more approachable work since being published. The two below are part of Blank and Reis's official "Lean" series and much better (and easier to implement) than the original works.

https://www.amazon.com/Lean-Customer-Development-Building-Customers/dp/1492023744/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?crid=3HD1KWE1NUKRB

https://www.amazon.com/Running-Lean-Iterate-Plan-Works/dp/1449305172/ref=sr_1_2?crid=30ZKXBRBIBAZO

http://www.amazon.com/Running-Lean-Iterate-Plan-Works/dp/1449305172/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1450372070&sr=1-1&keywords=running+lean I haven't read lean startup, but I read "running lean" from the same series... I have no idea if i should read also "lean startup", but "running" is nuts, I can't believe this book hasn't been mentioned yet...

Military jobs will be lost, new and better jobs will be gained. The redistribution of wealth to build a larger middle class will have the effect of making those military guys better off.

I'm sorry if my statement about you being mislead feels insulting, but I'll say two things.

One, being mislead means that someone is lying to you -- not that you are stupid. The fact that I've researched this stuff more than other people doesn't make me smarter than these other people. But it does mean I've become aware of how the lying/misleading process works.

The second thing I'll say is that I can't apologize for telling you the truth. Republican leadership is misleading you. Democrats aren't perfect, but they are more honest about the state of the economy. I would strongly encourage you to pick up a book called "Capital in the 21st Century" : http://www.amazon.com/Capital-Twenty-First-Century-Thomas-Piketty/dp/1491534656

Here's a PDF to the full book: http://dowbor.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14Thomas-Piketty.pdf

Or if you don't have time for that, here's a Wikipedia article that summarizes the book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_in_the_Twenty-First_Century

Actually, I'm pretty sure the idea of Inheritance is a relic from our days under the Crown. Many of the founding fathers were against Inheritance.

Almost any coherent defense of capitalism at some point hinges on "market forces", "merit" and "optimal distribution of resources".

Inherited wealth contradicts all tenets of capitalism.

Inheritance is not a feature of capitalism: it is directly and very obviously a feature of pre-capitalism; when we were given a plot of land by the king and paid dues for protection.

Inherited wealth is based on the same logic as inherited Monarchy: because your father did something, you must be better than other people: better as nobility or as money).

That is fundamentally opposed to the principle of meritocracy or even democracy.

You cannot claim that wealth is purely a result of merit, and then distribute it without regard to same. Put another way, allowing unlimited wealth to be given to heirs is like allowing unlimited power to be given to heirs.

The Founding Fathers understood that clearly: they believed in success on merit, not on success by inheritance, and they opposed both inherited wealth & inherited aristocracy.

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>"A State divided into a small number of rich and a large number of poor will always develop a government manipulated by the rich to protect the amenities represented by their property" -- Harold Laski, political theorist (1893-1950)

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P.S. Im pretty sure Bill Gates and Warren Buffet are also opposed to inheritance


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I don't know if you read books, but Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty is a good read.

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Edit: Weird, I was debating with someone yesterday about how I have never heard someone wanting to go back to the feudal ages but was fighting for a theocratic form of society. I suppose I was wrong, I guess some people would like to go back to the dark days of Kings and Queens.

If you want a good overview of our side, read this. A moral case for fossil fuels.

First we have hundreds of years of recoverable oil. I think every person who is like me, figures technology will get better, but for the foreseeable future, oil is our friend.

If you want a great read that will at least make you consider why oil is so amazing, read The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels

A few years ago, they made everyone at work read a copy of "Strengths Finder," and then go to a training class. The gist is that you need to find a job that you're good at, that the company needs someone to do, and that won't drive you crazy. And no one else is going to find it FOR you.
https://www.amazon.com/StrengthsFinder-2-0-Tom-Rath/dp/159562015X/

I thought the whole thing was blindingly obvious, and couldn't understand why people liked it so much. It got so confusing that I asked a stranger next to me in the training "Isn't this obvious? Why do people have to be told to balance those three things?" He got huffy and said "Well, I don't know about YOU, but I do what my boss TELLS me to do," like he was laying down a winning hand. Don't be that guy!

I met a lot of people in college who were studying something they liked, without asking if anyone was hiring for that job. And I know people who took jobs they didn't like, and ended up burning out and quitting.

So just start making lists. What are you good at? What do you like to do? And search the job listings - what's hiring? Pick something that ticks all three boxes.

Depending on what your goals for the teambuilding exercises are, personality inventories can be useful.

In my previous job we had about 12 librarians. We used Strengthsfinder and I think our team got some useful information out of it.

1. Strengthsfinder totally feels like some horoscope junk.
   
2. It actually has some good tips for "how to work with someone who works differently than you"
   
   If you're just looking to improve/strengthen the camaraderie, then I'd recommend doing a field trip together. We spent a morning visiting a museum, had a nice lunch (luckily covered by our staff development budget), and had a great time.

Mehring is a publishing company for cheap that offers Marxist and other Socialist books. I'd recommend any book (or books) from their Socialist Starter Bundle or their Marxist Theory bundle.

Interesting non-Marx essays to read are George Orwell's The Lion and the Unicorn and Einstein's Why Socialism?

If you do dig into Capital (I whole heartedly recommend it, but it is heavy reading) I'd bring along David Harvey's A Companion to Marx's Capital to help explain some of the more abstract parts, it helped for me.

I would suggest purchasing
"A Companion to Marx's Capital" by Professor David Harvey,

You can buy it from Amazon used for 14$ or see if your library has it- it helped me understand the book so much better

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1844673596/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_KIV.Bb88JDNK6

The Communist Manifesto can be found free on the internet,
and http://www.amazon.com/Companion-Marxs-Capital-David-Harvey/dp/1844673596/ref=tmm_pap_title_0 this is a fundamental companion to the Das Capital, which is one of the most scathing critiques labeled against Capitalism and how it functions. I have read it multiple times, once with Das Capital itself. It is very well written.

Well there's this book http://www.amazon.com/Companion-Marxs-Capital-David-Harvey/dp/1844673596

You can also look up things that feature the TSSI and MELT.

This MMT guy talks about it http://heteconomist.com/category/economics/

You should listen to David Harvey while reading capital.

There are a couple of 'strands' of Marx's thought which you might investigate. I can't comment too much on shorter introductions to the philosophical side, as I'm more familiar with (and interested in, for the moment) works the economic side. For this, I can recommend the following:

• A Short History of Socialist Economic Thought by Gerd Hardack, Dieter Karras, Ben Fine. It's all in the title :)
  
• David Harvey's excellent A Companion to Marx's Capital. This certainly isn't a short book, but Harvey is a terrific writer, and so the time flies. I would also point to and highly recommend the series of lectures on which this book is based. Of course, the lectures are hardly an exercise in brevity, but they are very good and worthwhile.
  
• Ernest Mandel's An Introduction to Marxist Economic Theory is good. Read it online here. Any Mandel is very good. He is an incredible clear author, and he really knows Marxist thought inside out. For instance, I would also recommend Ernest Mandel's introduction to the Penguin edition of Capital (the introduction is a bit shorter than the whole book of Mandels that I've mentioned above) very nicely summarises the context of his economic thought, and gives an overview thereof.
  
• Yannis Varoufakis (the former finance minister of Greece) wrote a fantastic, more general introduction to economics and economic theory called Foundations of Economics: A beginner’s companion. While Varoufakis deals with economics as a whole, and discusses, for instance, Adam Smith and David Ricardo, this serves to very well position Marx within the economic milieu of his time. This is a recurring theme for a reason: to understand Marx, I believe that it's imperative to understand what drove Marx to ruthlessly critique capitalism.
  
• Finally, I'm not trying to be glib or conceited by suggesting The Marx-Engles Reader (2nd ed.), edited by Robert C. Tucker. This is the book that I used to start studying seriously the thought of Marx and Engels, after reading Singer's introduction. I recommend the book because it has (again) a wonderful introduction, the works that are presented are quite short, and each work has a solid introduction. This is a very good volume for seeing the trajectory and evolution of Marx and Engels's economic thought without having to dive into the larger works. The book even has a very heavily reduced version of Capital vol. I. This book also deals with the philosophy of Marx more heavily than the other works I've recommended here, as it contains a number of earlier philosophical works (including the Grundisse, which is practically the philosophical sister to Capital).
  
  I hope these will be useful, even if they aren't necessarily the aspect of Marx that you are most interested in.
  
  Edit: I should state that I am a philosopher of language, and so one doesn't need any especial economics expertise to dive into the texts that I've recommended! I certainly knew very little about the field before I read these texts.

No, but I think all politics junkies regardless of ideology should be very familiar with his arguments.

I'm honestly a little intimated when it comes to reading "Das Kapital" directly. I plan on reading these two books and follow the accompanying course by Prof. David Harvey.

A Companion to Marx's Capital Volume 1

> Based on his recent lectures, this current volume aims to bring this depth of learning to a broader audience, guiding first-time readers through a fascinating and deeply rewarding text. A Companion to Marx’s Capital offers fresh, original and sometimes critical interpretations of a book that changed the course of history and, as Harvey intimates, may do so again.

A Companion to Marx's Capital Volume 2

> Based on his recent lectures, and following the success of his companion to the first volume of Capital, Harvey turns his attention to Volume 2, aiming to bring his depth of learning to a broader audience, guiding first-time readers through a fascinating and hitherto neglected text. Whereas Volume 1 focuses on production, Volume 2 looks at how the circuits of capital, the buying and selling of goods, realize value.

> This is a must-read for everyone concerned to acquire a fuller understanding of Marx’s political economy.



The course:
http://davidharvey.org/reading-capital/

Yeah, Interface Carpets have done incredible things. Ray Anderson the owner of Interface did a great TED talk where he explains their journey. You can find other cases along this vein in the book Cradle to Cradle. They give me faith that business and manufacturing can positively contribute to sustainability if they choose to.

see: cradle to cradle by bill mcdonough and michael braungart.
TL;DR - eliminate destruction of our environment by 1) making waste as valuable a commodity as the item itself and 2) designing out all sources of harmful chemicals from extraction to manufacturing to use and re-use

nike's already made a similar shoe recently, but found a hard time marketing it to the masses; they couldn't find their "air jordan". hippies are bad at sports.

Cradle to Cradle

Design for the Real World

Upcycling is fascinating in that it redefines how we relate to our waste (not quite the same as recycling). The first book that turned me onto the concept was Cradle to Cradle. The same authors more recently published The Upcycle. I'd recommend the first.

Also, shameless plug for /r/circular_economy, which deals with much of the same philosophy on waste and mimicking nature.

I read a book titled Cradle to Cradle. The problem right now is we externalize costs of the things we consume.

This may be a bit of a stretch but i loved
Cradle to Cradle, a book on re-imagining sustainable design and engineering, the book itself is even made out of recycled plastics with soy based reusable inks and is waterproof. I found it to be really enlightening and is definitely worth a read.

Well I'm sure you've read it, but I've heard cradle to cradle is pretty good

You could look into biomimicry too, there's absolutely loads of interesting projects that deal with biomimicry

Here are some other books that could help:
one,
two

Hope that helps!

EDIT: Forgot this one

I would highly recommend using the Earthship design principles for your house. I'm an architecture and environmental science student and have been researching sustainable building for a few years now, as well as having lived in two houses which applied efficient solar passive design and helped to build a number of houses as a labourer for my father's design and construction company. If you want to be building truly sustainably then you need to look much further than standards such as LEED; which are designed to fit within conventional architectural frameworks and thinking and in doing so fail to truly tackle the challenges of designing something that can be constructed and lived in without diminishing the ability of future generations to do the same. Earthships are a good step in the right direction, but they still do not go all the way sadly.

I would recommend reading the book Cradle To Cradle as a good place to start in understanding what it means for something to be truly environmentally, socially and economically sustainable. For if a house can be designed to use net zero electricity and waste yet it is at the expense of Chinese children dying from poison's released when a technology in the house needs to be disposed of and replaced (as a ridiculously extreme fictitious example), then how could it be called sustainable? In order to design our built environment to be sustainable in the core sense of the term all aspects of that design must be attended to with the utmost care, from resource extraction and processing to transportation and distribution of materials to assembly process (how sustainable is it exactly to build an earthship with 50 volunteers over 5 weeks if they're being fed steak every other day and half of them flew long distances to get to the build site? not very, i'd wager).

Achieving as I would call it true sustainability is a very difficult task right now unless you're happy to give up many of the modern comforts and conveniences that we enjoy in Western society, in fact it's nearly impossible. However, I do believe that if we (people like you and I) set out to lay down the groundwork for distributed systems of sustainable resilient development now, using the best technologies and processes available, then we could achieve a truly sustainable society within one generation that has access to all of the same conveniences (this is assuming several technologies are invented that are only now on the horizon of science). Sustainable development is, I believe, core to restoring much of what is perceived to have been eroded within society over the past few centuries, such as equality, strong communities, health (which as Ghandi said, is wealth), relevant education and satisfaction with individuals path through life.

I'm sorry, this is a bit of a rambling post. I get really excited seeing people preparing to move to a way of life which I see as essential if we are to lift humanity from the current gloom and doom that seems to pervade so much of our world right now.

Cradle to cradle: remaking the way we make things

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0865475873/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&sr=&qid=

Here is one of the authors ted talk.
http://www.ted.com/talks/william_mcdonough_on_cradle_to_cradle_design

>Saving is by no means bad, but it doesn't grow the economy like spending does.

Saving is, in fact, the only thing that grows the economy. If no one saves, you quickly run down your capital and everyone starves to death.

>Money spent on luxuries goes to people who are more likely to save,

No, it doesn't. money spent on luxuries goes to the people who make luxuries.

>actual value of the produc

The value of a product is the price people are willing to pay for it. No more, no less.

>That extra money doesn't go to the employees who make the good(low or middle class members who spend) but go as profits to the company or the wealthy members of it,

this is even more ignorant than talking about actual value.

>Unless I'm totally missing something. What along here is wrong in terms of economic principles?

You're missing a lot of things, starting with econ 101. to start with "luxuries" and "middle class" are not meaningful concepts in economics. YOur idea that companies that make luxuries have a higher rate of profit is simply wrong. You are, in sum, kicking around a few buzzwords with zero understanding of what they actually mean. don't start with NPR, start here. You have a lot to learn.

> Mankiw

Are you referring to "Principles of Economics"? And is it really almost $300 for this book?

http://www.amazon.com/Principles-Economics-7th-Gregory-Mankiw/dp/128516587X/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1411622089&sr=1-2&keywords=mankiw

I think you need to pick up an economics book. Try this one.

https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Economics-7th-Gregory-Mankiw/dp/128516587X

Actually, if you look at all the evidence on the whole, you'll see standards of livings go up with a revenue-neutral carbon tax. The reasons are several. For one, if pollution is priced, businesses have an incentive to reduce their pollution, and because businesses are pretty good at finding efficient ways to do things, their costs will go up by less than the amount of the tax (even if less than 100% of businesses become more efficient, because the price of a good is related to the demand for that good--if the demand goes down because some businesses become more efficient, the price will go down, too). This is Econ 101, in Mankiw's textbook.

Secondly, pollution has well-described externalities, whose costs are no less real because they're not currently in the price. For example, air pollution from the burning of fossil fuels leads to increases in morbidity and mortality, which leads to higher health care premiums. So you may be paying for more pollution-intensive goods, but you'll probably pay less for healthcare.

Thirdly, the legislation George Shultz is currently advocating for returns the revenue generated from the tax as an equitable dividend to citizens, which actually puts 60% of households coming out ahead financially, and that's even before savings from externalities are taken into account.

Lastly, the costs of climate change can't be ignored. Current estimates are that costs of methane release from arctic melting alone are estimated in the trillions. Any costs of mitigation have to be compared to the costs of inaction.

So it may seem counter-intuitive at first, but enacting a carbon tax actually increases overall standards of living.

You can absolutely have an addiction to food, especially modern processed food which is quite literally designed to addict you. Here's a quality book on the subject... it might just piss you off enough to help you resist.

http://www.amazon.com/Salt-Sugar-Fat-Giants-Hooked/dp/1400069807

I recommend avoiding sugar completely. It's got to be the worst of the three, but avoiding excess fat (especially deep fried foods) is also a good idea. At least salt doesn't have any calories. Read the nutrition labels and learn where hidden sugar is. Don't just avoid cokes and cookies, avoid ALL SUGAR as much as possible. Alcoholics don't drink a couple of beers a night and expect to stay on the wagon.

Sugar is so bad. If I simply have my usual sandwich for lunch with honey glazed turkey instead of plain over-roasted turkey, I'll finish it and find myself craving more. With the plain, I eat it and the thought of having more food doesn't even cross my mind (on the rare occasions that it does, I eat the end of the loaf of bread for an extra 50 calories of whole grain... that fills me right up).

I was the same way. I spent years doing daily cardio and couldn't make a dent.

3 months ago I found Eat To Live -- I'm down 24 pounds.

Hell, I lost a pound in the last week and I haven't been able to get to the gym for 2 weeks. And I'm stuffing my face, not starving to do it.

Inspirational videos on Netflix:

Forks Over Knives

Hungry for change

The key is real education, something the meat industry, dairy council, and the makers of processed foods (Salt, Sugar, Fat) doesn't want you to have.

i would say to stay away from those 100% natural fruit juices, a lot of them have more sugar than coke. Also, the way a lot of them are made is pretty much a sugar syrup that was derived from natural fruit juice still making it "natural" so its not very healthy (all info found in Salt Sugar and Fat)

Something i do when i'm getting a craving for something i should have is chug a bottle of water real fast, that works almost all the time. it gets rid of hunger/thirst and i'm good to go. Also, listen to what your body is hungry for, if you are craving sweets, you may be lacking in carbs.

Lots have people have said it- salt, sugar, fat. Check out the book of the same name by Michael Moss. It is pretty eye opening. Food scientists working for places like McD's manipulate the mouthfeel of food by changing the chemical structure of the fats in it and other frankenfood stuff.

It also talks about the marketing aspect where places shift focus off the health risks of their product by pumping in more salt/sugar and selling the new product as “fat-free”.

http://www.amazon.com/Salt-Sugar-Fat-Giants-Hooked/dp/1400069807

"Sugar Salt Fat" by Michael Moss is an excellent book to read if you're interested in the history of how food became manipulated like this (Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Salt-Sugar-Fat-Giants-Hooked/dp/1400069807 ) though there are a few good others (and some decent documentaries). I'd also recommend you read the always excellent books, if you haven't yet, by Taubes (easiest is probably "Why We Get Fat") or watch one of his talks (there are a bunch on youtube -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6vpFV6Wkl4 is one of them) for background on the nutritional road to it.

TL;DR yes, it is a concerted effort, but a lot of the effort has to do with money/greed, market demand, politics over science, and a few bad studies done half a century or so ago.

There is an entire book that says the opposite.

I am currently reading Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us.

The description of how companies spike products like Oreo cookies with sugar & fats is frightening. I might need to check the book again but if I remember correctly one Oreo cookie has something like 5-6 tea spoons of sugar. I am hoping Parle-G is not in the same boat.

Now coming to your point of how to deal with this challenge: start with a plan of going through one day without Parle-G. No matter what, avoid eating a single Parle-G. If you feel cravings, have a glass of water instead. The next day will be easier. Soon, you will be a week without Parle-G and your cravings would have subsided.

I tried this with processed sugar and went 6 weeks without any processed sugar. Took a break for a day or two and am now trying to start the process all over again.

Have you guys read Fat Sugar Salt?

http://www.amazon.com/Salt-Sugar-Fat-Giants-Hooked/dp/1400069807/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1367597146&sr=8-1&keywords=fat+sugar+salt

Perhaps the best thing to do is ask the people who where there at the beginning.

• Beautiful Code
  
• Design Patterns
  
• The Pragmatic Programmer
  
• Refactoring
  
• The Mythical Man Month
  
• Why Programs Fail
  
• Professional Software Development
  
• Coders At Work
  
• Contextual Design

Aside from the other excellent choices people have recommended, here are a few I liked that I haven't seen in the thread yet.

• The Art of the Metaobject Protocol
  
  This one sounds super-obscure. It's basically the design notes for the Common Lisp Object System, which isn't exactly a manual you need to read to get your work done. However, if you look at it less a book about how to use CLOS and more a book about how an object-oriented language can be built from scratch, it's really a fantastic little read.
  
  
• Coders at Work
  
  It's what it says on the tin -- interviews with several programming icons. What makes this one better than the other half-dozen or so similar titles is how well the author runs those interviews.
  
  
• Elements of Programming
  
  If I'm honest, I didn't find this one to be that engaging of a read, but it's worth the bit of effort to get through it just to absorb Stepanov's vision for how to express algorithms. He's got a newer book as well that I have high hopes for, but I haven't had a chance to read it yet.

Rotina? Que rotina? :D

Eu trabalho como Quality Engineer; fazendo um trabalho misto entre "Software Engineer in Test", desenvolvendo soluções pra testes de produtos, e CI Engineer, desenvolvendo em mantendo o ambiente de integração contínua do time.
O meu dia a dia depende do tipo de produto, da fase do projeto ou da tecnologia envolvida. Então, em as vezes estou fazendo design/arquitetura de sistemas, programando, pesquisando, testando, etc.

Meu emprego é fenomenal e eu trabalho com alguns dos melhores profissionais do mundo em suas áreas. Apesar da pressão, o ambiente é relaxado e divertido.

Não creio, porém, que meu dia a dia seja suficientemente interessante além do meu mundo. Então, OP, se você tiver paciência, tempo e quiser se aprofundar mais sobre o assunto antes de tomar a decisão, tem um livro que talvez seja interessante para você e possa te dar uma ideia sobre programação sob o ponto de vista de algumas lendas da área. Talvez esse livro te ajude a reconhecer em você o mesmo tipo de interesse que esses caras tiveram. O livro em questão se chama Coders At Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming.

This is a thinly disguised ad for "Coders at work". Indeed, as I have added it to my wish list...

Ash Maurya wrote Running Lean. Eric Ries (established the "Lean Startup") wrote the forward and the book is part of the "official lean" collection. Also a little interesting background, Eric was a student of Steve Blank, who created the whole "customer development" cycle. Steve is also a professor at Stanford. You can find an article he wrote last year for the Harvard Business Review about the lean startup at http://hbr.org/2013/05/why-the-lean-start-up-changes-everything/

Steve Blank also has many books on this topic, but I'd suggest Running Lean as your first intro. It's a quick and eye-opening read to how to validate your ideas.

Running Lean can be found at http://www.amazon.com/Running-Lean-Iterate-Works-Series/dp/1449305172/

Many of these answers give you advice on changing various elements of your website, etc.

IMO it boils down to one thing first: customer research. If you do not know your customer BEFORE you attempt to make sales, all of your work, time, money will be wasted.

The 2 sales in one day that you mentioned, find out as much as you can about these customers. What was their referral channel? Where are they most active socially? At what price point did they purchase?

Ultimately, you need to minimize the money you're throwing at "driving traffic". Do some customer research, then double-down on the channel that has the most potential (based on data) to drive purchases like the 2 you received in one day.

I would encourage you to read [Running Lean] (http://www.amazon.com/Running-Lean-Iterate-Works-Series/dp/1449305172) and pay attention to the customer development section. Though it's written with a different product in mind, the same development concepts 100% apply to your problem.

It's hard work, but it can be done in a short period of time if you dedicate yourself to it & it will absolutely be worth the effort!

Good luck.

If there was a proven framework to evolve startup ideas everyone would be using it. But there isn't because it depends a great bit on your business and the environment your business is in. A framework for a B2C business may not work so well for a B2B enterprise business. It sounds like you're actively looking for something to build out but don't want to 'waste your time,' so i'll ask, what do you have experience in personally and professionally? Because a lot of the startup founders I've known had some previous experience in the industry they're now trying to do business in, investors like to see this type of experience too.

Be realistic with the fact that you you may be having trouble finding a good opportunity because your have fairly few working years and haven't had much time to identify peoples pain points via personal or professional friends/connections and their contexts. If you think this is a possibility then get out there and be social and network, get to know people and get to know their problems and maybe you could solve one of those problems with a business idea.

also, read. There are books on all these frameworks, buy/rent them. read them.

some to look at
https://www.amazon.com/Running-Lean-Iterate-Works-OReilly/dp/1449305172/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1504892840&sr=8-1&keywords=running+lean

https://www.amazon.com/Lean-Startup-Entrepreneurs-Continuous-Innovation/dp/B005MM7HY8/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1504892862&sr=1-2&keywords=lean+books

https://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Dilemma-Technologies-Management-Innovation/dp/1633691780/ref=sr_1_sc_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1504892879&sr=1-1-spell&keywords=inoovators+delimm

The TLDR of /u/GaryARefuge 's comment is my own personal mantra: "Make something someone will pay for". SOOO many would-be entrepreneurs have a 'fantastic idea' that is neat, but no one needs it, is looking for it, or wants it enough to pay for. So, #1: Build an MVP, even if it's just in powerpoint, and be very blunt and straightforward in contacting your target market and asking them if they would pay for your product. This TLDR came from [Running Lean](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1449305172/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1449305172&linkCode=as2&tag=regreddit-20&linkId=KQN6MFRDGHTBSZJH">Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works (Lean Series)</a><img src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=regreddit-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1449305172) , and is a fantastic to cheaply validate a business model. ONLY after you understand the target market, and possibly even iterate on your 'powerpoint' product version, will you know if your idea is really great enough to actually build and sell.

Now, to specifically answer your question, yes, it's common. You might seek out a technical co-founder to help you (after you validate the business model).

I base my opinion on Capital in the 21th century, Why nations fail and this IMF note and few others that I didn't save the links for.

City of Stairs. Pretty standard fantasy fare -- humans kill gods, bad things happen. But it was well written and I enjoyed it.

The last serious book I read was Capital in the 21st Century. Dry, but quite interesting.

I recommend you take a read of The Rise and Fall of Neoliberal Capitalism. This book and Capital in the 21st Century helped clarify things for me.

YOU DID IT ALEX EPSTEIN!

Have you read this new book? If so, what did you think?

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1591847443/ref=cm_sw_su_dp

Proof / plugging my Twitter account

While I'd love it if you bought my book, I promise I will be answering questions on all sorts of topics. Not going to pull a Woody Harrelson. :-)

First, understand that if you're worried about things they talk about in the media, you're being emotionally manipulated. You're being ginned up to feel scared and angry to increase their ratings.

Here's the cure that I guarantee you won't take: read the other side. For example, read this:

https://www.amazon.ca/Moral-Case-Fossil-Fuels/dp/1591847443

(you won't).

I'm sure you'll read it with an open mind

https://www.amazon.com/Moral-Case-Fossil-Fuels/dp/1591847443/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1496104872&sr=8-1&keywords=the+moral+case+for+fossil+fuels

Yeah, no. Besides, fossil fuels are good for the environment.

this book is in the direction of what you are asking for, but isn't actually what you're asking for.

Sadly, I'm not sure how to find what you're looking for. Best of luck.

You could try this, too.

All this and more! Also, for books, check out Strengthfinder.

https://www.amazon.com/StrengthsFinder-2-0-Tom-Rath/dp/159562015X

Strength Finder might help. You seem to get Peterson's message. Pick something and work up its hierarchy.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/159562015X/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_awdb_BsJNzbY3W8SM3

It's a book that has like 34 personality types. You have to pay to take it though I just took it as like a team building thing at work and it was really interesting.

This sounds really bogus, but have you ever taken the Strengths Finder test? It's really fascinating and interesting and can help pinpoint where your most innate (if not currently innate) interests are.

I have always liked biographies but never really noticed or knew why. The results from the test sort of explained why. Maybe this type of thing could really help you focus in on whatever you're going through? Maybe it turns out giving another genre (Raymond Carver's newer biography is fascinating!) would get you going?

Hope this helps in some way. I know the Strengths Finder test seems goofy and corporate-retreaty, but it's really very cool.

(In case anyone was curious, my results were, in order: Context, Input, Intellection, Empathy, Communication)

It really depends on your interests, but I like to read, write, analyze anything I can get my hands on. I've been alone for a long time, but I'm young. I decided I'd rather be preoccupied than lonely. Something that might help you figure it out could be this: https://www.amazon.com/StrengthsFinder-2-0-Tom-Rath/dp/159562015X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1501706061&sr=8-1&keywords=strengthfinder I didn't trust this at first, but I've taken my results and try to apply them in all areas of my very personal situation.

I happen to be reading Professor David Harvey's A Companion to Marx's Capital as I go along. Would that be enough to cement my understanding or would you really recommend me to go through it a second time?

A friend told me about this a while back and said it was very helpful, I've been meaning to get around to it https://www.amazon.com/dp/1844673596/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_IMf6yb5Y7QKAN

Εδώ και εδώ (βρίσκεται και σε epub/pdf στο δίκτιο), γιατί η γλώσσα είναι λίγο δύσκολη. Καλό διάβασμα!

In addition to seconding Qwill2's suggestion of the Harvey lectures, I'd also suggest reading Marx's Preface to the Critique of Political Economy it's incredibly short and is a good very first introduction to Marx, I think.

As a really simple introduction, you should look into getting Marx's Kapital for Beginners. It's made in the same style as "Marx For Beginners" by Rius which is linked to in this subreddit's sidebar. It's basically like a comic book documentary. It might seem silly but it's actually a very effective way of communicating the basics and I think serves as a great introduction. It's also pretty cheap to get used.

If you're looking for more substantial books to help you read it, I'd actually suggest David Harvey's Companion to Marx's Capital which has a lot of the same content as his lectures, but some additional info and has the added bonus of being text that you can make notes on, refer back to etc. I used it and found it very helpful.

I'd also suggest checking out Brenden McCooney's Law of Value Series as well as all his other videos which do a great job of presenting not only Marx's ideas but some ideas of later Marxists in a very accessible way.

Also, Ernest Mandel's Introduction to Marxist Economic theory is a popular resource. You can read reviews of that here.

Edit: I agree with Ksan's advice too.

Commenting again to add: This guy spent a TON of time building up his audience before he even started his shop:

> Before actually launching his store, Melvin spent a good deal of time building an audience on Instagram. “Hands down, Instagram has been the greatest in terms of ROI on every dollar spent,” notes Melvin. In 3 months, he’s managed to build over 130k followers on Instagram and find ‘loopholes’ to utilize Instagram as a go-to channel for building an eCommerce business.

Having a "Field of Dreams" mindset of if you build it, they will come will doom the company (says the lady who's a marketer lol). The fact that you've been using ads is a step in the right direction, but try selling value rather than product at first, and find a way to grab their email addresses. Then, create emails that give them more value and reason to open the email. (Something in addition to discounts--that's asking for money). Then, you get them to commit to a sale. That's a long-term sales funnel, but it gives you something to work on: Ad > Landing page > Sign up > Email campaign > Purchase > Retention.

Also check out Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook--good book on how to give value before asking for a sale on social media.

I liked Jab Jab Right Hook.

good job changing the link after i pointed it out, it was clearly going to ?tag=vl-something... here is the other one.

http://www.amazon.com/Jab-Right-Hook-Story-Social/dp/006227306X?tag=vglnkc2770-20

there is nothing wrong with putting affiliate links anyways.

Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook is one I've seen referenced a lot from social media experts. I found it to be very good for foundational knowledge and general approach.

This is EXCELLENT advice. You have to provide "content" to your users, and not just the promotion of your stuff. Content marketing may be the term, not sure, but check out this book: Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook.

This is a good source written by a credible author:
https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Gold-Bitcoin-Millionaires-Reinvent/dp/006236250X/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1469793347&sr=8-6&keywords=bitcoin

I also recommend Digital Gold. Tells the history if bitcoin. Great read.

https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Gold-Bitcoin-Millionaires-Reinvent/dp/006236250X

https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Gold-Bitcoin-Millionaires-Reinvent/dp/006236250X

Here is the post for archival purposes:

Author: TecnoPope

Content:

>I wanna gift a book on bitcoin to someone. Preferably a beginners guide. I searched this sub for some good recommends but there's a lot of them it seems.

> This is the #1 most reviewed on Amazon.

It wasn't gov't-imposed, it was Germany-imposed austerity, which benefits the Germans, as Mark Blyth wrote in Austerity: the History of a Dangerous Idea. Austerity is fine when your economy is contingent on exports, as Germany's is. So the ECB, which the old Bundesbank has the most influence, acts in Germany's interest. More specifically, it acts in Germany's exporters' interest. Viewed in this way, the Euro-crisis is not a crisis, but, merely a means to keep the large German exporters, selling their products around the world.

entertaining stuff. its great that he examines the debate around austerity by looking at reliable graphs, but its a bummer he doesn't do any more research and arrives at HYPER simply conclusions... for example, equating new government debt with the change in unemployment? Where do I start... first of all, the numbers on job creation may be way off from the difference between two unemployment figures (people enter the job market and leave the job market for many, many reasons) and, sad to say, much of the federal debt was used to prop up an economy teetering on the brink (although, I'll admit, not enough was used to help out normal folks, particularly underwater homeowners). But for this guy to look at three graphs, subtract unemployment figures, and come to his conclusions is both radically transparent (good for him) and radically ignorant (he needs to put down he preconceptions and read a bit more, starting here maybe: http://www.amazon.com/Austerity-The-History-Dangerous-Idea/dp/019982830X ). Downvote.

https://www.amazon.com/Austerity-History-Dangerous-Mark-Blyth/dp/019982830X

I strongly recommend you this book. I used to buy into the "oh Southern Europe are full of lazy people, that's why they aren't willing to sucuumb to the austerity meansures"-narrative by the media (at least in Germany), but this changed my perspective.

I'm not sure about this. As I understand the mortgage-backed securities and credit swaps is that one of the problems prior to 2009 was there were not sufficient treasury notes in circulation to back up short terms loans so mortgage securities were used as second best collateral given the perception that a pool of mortgages, some with government backing, is only marginally less secure than a T note (Blyth). Government debt is in demand, by implication. If there is a demand for securities, a long term "punishment" of a disobedient socialist or even Keynesian government is unlikely. If stocks decide that President Bernie is a problem, for example, bonds, including government bonds, are going to be more attractive. Maybe the billionaires will all buy gold, Midwestern farmland, and cryptocurrency but it's hard to put 100 billion away like that in a hurry. Some government debt is a good place to hide. Plus, a truly outside the box government could pay down a small percentage of the overall debt by printing a small amount of money without causing massive inflation, as there is no evidence that inflation below 10% has any harmful effect on living standards. So, if the Bernie Bros were willing to let inflation tick up a bit to 6% or so, and if the stock market is iffy on socialists, the federal government should be able to borrow as much as they want -- although Bernie would hopefully not have to as AOC put through a maximum wealth law and the money comes in the old fashioned way...

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https://www.amazon.com/Austerity-History-Dangerous-Mark-Blyth/dp/019982830X

Η Ισλανδία με 300 000 πληθυσμό, τεράστια εξάρτηση στις εισαγωγές όλων των ειδών και GDP χαμηλότερο από της Ελλάδας έχει πιο δυνατή οικονομία μάλιστα. Η Δανία έχει πολύ πιο ευαίσθητη οικονομία λόγω του ότι βασίζεται κυρίως σε εξαγωγές, που την κτύπησαν άγρια. Γενικά είναι στα ίδια επίπεδα με την Ελλάδα.

Η Δανία πήγε να μπει σε μνημόνια όπως την Ελλάδα και όταν η κατάσταση δεν καλυτέρευε, απέφυγε περαιτέρω λιτότητα, οπόταν επανήλθε σε φυσιολογικά επίπεδα πολύ γρήγορα. Η Ελλάδα ακόμη προσπαθεί.

Κρίσεις γίνονται συνεχώς και όταν ο ιδιωτικός τομέας συρρικνώνεται η απάντηση δεν είναι λιτότητα αλλά η ανάπτυξη του δημόσιου τομέα για να καλύψει την ανεργία. Το κράτος χάνει χρήματα αρχικά, αλλά επανέρχεται διότι κρατά την οικονομία σε κίνηση, εφόσων οι καταναλωτές έχουν λεφτά για να ξοδεύουν και επίσης είναι ικανοί να πληρώνουν φόρους αντί να πληρώνονται παροχές και επιδόματα. Επίσης με το τύπωμα ρευστού οι αξίες των χρεών του κράτους μειώνονται, κάτι που του επιτρέπει να αντεπεξέλθει. Αυτό γινόταν για χρόνια από την εποχή του 1920 και το κραχ στην Αμερική και Ευρώπη, και είναι ένας κύριος λόγος της ύπαρξης του τιμάριθμου.

Από την εποχή του Reagan και της Thatcher όμως έχει μπει η ιδέα σε όλους ότι κάτι τέτοιο είναι πρωτόγονο και προσπαθούν με χίλια ζόρια να εφαρμόσουν λιτότητα. Η λιτότητα δεν εξυπηρετά κανένα παρά μόνο τις πλούσιες τάξεις, καθώς οι τιμές ιδιοκτησίας κατρακυλούν, με αποτέλεσμα να αγοράζουν (όπως και γίνεται τώρα στην Ελλάδα) τεράστια ποσά περιουσιών για ψίχουλα και να επενδύουν για το μέλλον τους. Η ιδέα ότι η λιτότητα θα σώσει την οικονομία είναι επιστημονικά αποδεδειγμένο ότι δεν στέκει (https://www.amazon.com/Austerity-History-Dangerous-Mark-Blyth/dp/019982830X). Το μόνο που κάνει είναι να δημιουργεί μια ψεύτικη ασφάλεια, που ανεβάζει την οικονομία για λίγο, αλλά όλα καταρρέουν με την επόμενη κρίση.

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Mah, surprinzator de putine lucruri se rezolva cu cooperare oficiala si "hai sa facem!" spirit. Exemplul meu ideal sunt ecologistii si becurile economice. N-am trecut la becuri care consuma de 5 ori mai putin si dureaza 8 ani din spirit civic sau dragoste de natura, ci pentru ca sunt o alternativa mai buna decat becurile cu incandescenta.

Asa se face si o natiune. Ai clasa de mijloc, care-i facuta mostly din corporatisti care lucreaza 9 ore la cate-o internationala, plus 1-2 ore drum de acasa la job. Primesc salarii care incet incet trec de 1000 euro, cumpara o casa, o masina, apoi a doua masina (ca noh, un second hand e mult mai ieftin decat s-o duci pe nevasta la servici in fiecare zi), platesc impozite mai mari, duc copii la facultate etc.

Nu-i viata de basm, nu-i miscare populara - e exact ce s-a intamplat in toate tarile in care acum e un pic de prosperitate.

Daca te intereseaza subiectul si iti plac discutiile interesante, pune mana pe carti. Strange bani de-un kindle si citeste, de exemplu: http://www.amazon.com/Why-Nations-Fail-Origins-Prosperity/dp/0307719219 sau orice de Nassim Taleb.


PS: nu ma pot abtine. Drogurile nu-s rele, heroina e :D

For one, Parente and Prescott reckon developing countries can triple outputs with no increase in input by regulatory change, and that is without taking into consideration a better investment climate (for inputs) if the judiciary is reliable.

More explicit proponents of governance focus include Daron Acemoglu, though you should know that his book Why Nations Fail is the only one Bill Gates has gone out of his way to criticise; and Francis Fukuyama, who perhaps focuses more on 'culturism'. Explicit haters include Ha-Joon Chang and most anti-neoclassical-ists. The truth is somewhere in between them.

It's also the doctrine behind IMF and World Bank lending conditions, broadly referred to as the Washington Consensus.

I can see your heart is in the right place, but the reason that Russia is falling farther and farther behind is because of its authoritarian government. Please, if you intend to vote in another election I beg that you read up on the relationship between democracy, liberty, and economic progress. Just read a few chapters of Why Nations Fail and I know you'll be convinced that Russia is on the wrong path.

Exactly. However I think they may be complementary, in which case i'd add
Why nations fail and The mystery of Capital - Enough there to give you a more informed understanding of why things are as they are.

Those are two very important points and the main reason, why neoliberals think that inclusive institutions are so important. Inclusive institutions are rules in a society that make shure that everyone can participate in societal developments both economically and politically.

> So you just hope that your government can do that without getting corrupt like literally every government in the history of the world?

Freedom of corruption (and democracy of course) is really important to keep politics inclusive and to achieve that political power is spread among the population, so I think it is a good idea to take countries with very low corruption like Denmark as a role model in that regard.

> Also how is that government's job different than democratic socialism?

The right that everybody can own property, is another important inclusive institution: You want to make shure that every person, no matter what her background is, has an incentive to contribute her abilities to society. In a socialist society you are not allowed to own things like patents, so that is how it would be different from democratic socialism.

You might want to read Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoğlu if you want to learn more about inclusive institutions.

This is really somewhat hilarious. You're dismissing the plurality view of the academic field because I "haven't posted evidence of it" (even though the research we're discussing actually supports that conclusion, if you read the paper), and it hurts your feelings.

Fine, here are some citations. Since you don't even know what "literature" means, I'll leave out things behind paywalls:

Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson

Can Foreign Aid Buy Growth? by William Easterly

The Elusive Quest for Growth by William Easterly

Institutions as the Fundamental Cause of Long-Run Growth by Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson

Coffee and Power by Jeffrey M. Paige

The Mystery of Capital by Hernando de Soto

The Anti-Politics Machine by James Ferguson

Social Cohesion, Institutions, and Growth by William Easterly, Jozef Ritzen, and Michael Woolcock

African Economies and the Politics of Permanent Crisis by Nicolas Van de Walle

Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen

Doing Bad by Doing Good by Christopher Coyne

From Subsistence to Exchange by Peter Bauer

>But the point of redistribution is not to grow the pie, it is to ensure everyone gets a big enough piece - KNOWING that this reduces the size of the pie.

You are assuming a model of benevolent, disinterested redistributors sitting at the top, pondering how to best distribute desert according to just deserts, even if this reduced the total amount of desert served. (Plato's Guardians become Plato's Redistributors).

But a far more accurate model is: everyone throughout the system, at all points up and down, left and right, using it to grab as much of the pie as they can for themselves, and NOT CARING if this reduces what everybody else gets or the size of the total pie.

The reason why capitalism/democracy has created such a huge increase in wealth in the last 200 years is that it breaks up the monopolies that groups always used in the past to extract wealth for themselves at the cost of everyone else, throughout all pre-modern-capitalist-democratic history.

See, for instance, Nobelist Douglas North's Violence and Social Orders or Acemoglu & Robinson's Why Nations Fail.

The model used in this analysis is very important. Apply the false one, you get failure-to-disaster.

>Why does the government do this? From a utilitarian point of view: declining marginal utility of income (whereby each additional dollar leads to a smaller increase in happiness - giving a millionaire a dollar does not create as much happiness as giving a beggar a dollar).

Bah! I guarantee you, no politician ever thought in those terms. They all think in terms of "(1) What's best for me. (2) What's best for the allies I need", when pondering how much to take from who to give to whom (i.e. "redistribute").

>From a political realist point of view: your redistributed tax dollars purchase social stability (so that rioters don't send you to the guillotine).

Ah, but just remember that the voters who threaten to send politicians to the guillotine are those with political power, not those with "high marginal utility of income" need. The correlation between the two is near zilch.

The members are AARP as a group on average have far more wealth and disposable income than all the people below age 40 -- that's all you Redditors reading this -- whom they will force to pay much higher taxes to pay off the deca-trillions of dollars of unfunded entitlement benefits they expect come to them, which they didn't pay for themselves.

But if those AARPers get the idea that those benefits will be cut -- even by mere means-testing to assure the benefits only actually do go to those among them with "high marginal utility of income" -- well, we've already seen what happens. It's "Attack! Off with the heads" of those damn politicians! very much threatening social stability to keep their gettings...

"Dan Rostenkowski's being attacked by his own constituents after telling them that they would have to pay for their own catastrophic health care coverage isn't just a long-forgotten event from a bygone era.

"To this day, it's something that members of Congress cite chapter and verse when discussing the budget. Like a story passed down from generation to generation, this includes current representatives and senators, the vast majority of who weren't in office when the event occurred.

"I can't tell you the number of times the Rostenkowski incident has been mentioned by members of Congress at meetings I've attended. Usually it's mentioned as a throw away line ("I don't want my constituents chasing me down the street")...

"It seems to be a story that elected officials feel most personally. Staff invariably do not raise it first.

"Historically, my guess is that it will assume a place right up there with the Whiskey Rebellion that occurred in Pennsylvania in the late 1770s. The picture below shows the incident where a federal tax collector was tarred and feathered, the Revolutionary War equivalent of attacking the limo of the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. "

So do not make the naive mistake of thinking redistribution schemes are designed by well-meaning, disinterested leaders for the benefit of the "high marginal utility of income" needy, ever.

They are in fact always designed and enacted by entirely self-interested politicians in response to political power -- the marginal utility of the income of the recipients be damned.

z.b. hier hab ich mich aus der Diskussion gezogen, weil du so unehrlich warst.

Aus einen Blogpost von den Autoren der Bücher:

>"From the point of view of Why Nations Fail, the types of social norms that Ferguson talks about are institutions — they are rules that people face that centrally govern their incentives and opportunities. Of course they are not laws or written in the Lesotho constitution, rather they are what Douglass North called “informal institutions”. But they are institutions, none the less."

http://whynationsfail.com/blog/2013/10/23/cows-capitalism-and-social-embeddedness.html

>So what sorts of institutions did we emphasize? Not the written aspects of the constitution such as whether or not there is a parliamentary democracy, another thing that Henry and Miller focus on. Those things can be important, but the types of institutions that influence the political and economic incentives in society can be very different. For example, in the first chapter of Why Nations Fail, we emphasized that the distinctive economic performance of the United States was created by the US Constitution with its checks and balances and separation of powers. But we also argued that this document was an outcome of a set of political institutions that had already been established during the colonial period. A further illustration from the same period that other types of institutions matter is the two-term limit for presidents in the United States. This was not part of the Constitution. Rather, it was established as a social norm by George Washington when he decided not to run for a third term. The social norms worked form 150 years until Franklyn Roosevelt violated it. The role of the Supreme Court in assessing the constitutionality of legislation was not in the Constitution either, but likewise emerged as a social norm after the landmark Marbury versus Madison case in 1803.

>In our post last week about Cows and Capitalism, we pointed out that social norms, like the one in Lesotho that cash could be converted into cows but not vice versa, counted as institutions according to the definition we used. In this case the social norm that Washington set, for example, clearly created incentives and constraints for future US presidents that influenced their behavior. That’s what institutions do.

http://whynationsfail.com/blog/2013/10/29/what-are-institutions.html

Jetzt nochmal Wikipedia Definition.

"Institutions are "stable, valued, recurring patterns of behavior". As structures or mechanisms of social order, they govern the behaviour of a set of individuals within a given community. Institutions are identified with a social purpose, transcending individuals and intentions by mediating the rules that govern living behavior. The term "institution" commonly applies to both informal institutions such as customs, or behavior patterns important to a society, and to particular formal institutions created by entities such as the government and public services. Primary or meta-institutions are institutions such as the family that are broad enough to encompass other institutions."

Die Definition passt hier so viel mehr, als deine Anspielung auf die katholische Kirche oder das römische Reich.


aber wikipedia nimmt hier die falsche Definition... und du erwartest von mir das ich hier noch weiter diskutiere? Wenn du mir mit voller Absicht ins Gesicht lügst? Wenn du genau weißt das ich das Buch gelesen habe und mich da eigentlich auf dein Wort schon verlassen musste um überhaupt eine weitere Diskussion möglich zu machen?

Naja ich klatsch in die Hände, das weißt du dir auch gleich wieder easy weg dass es eh so gemeint war und hurr durr. Das mehrere Nobel Laureate genau diese Institutionen Argumentation preisen, ist dir ja egal, weil du ja so viel bessere Internetkommentare verfasst als diese dummen Nobelpreisträger.

https://www.amazon.de/Why-Nations-Fail-Origins-Prosperity/dp/0307719219

>“This important and insightful book, packed with historical examples, makes the case that inclusive political institutions in support of inclusive economic institutions is key to sustained prosperity. The book reviews how some good regimes got launched and then had a virtuous spiral, while bad regimes remain in a vicious spiral. This is important analysis not to be missed.” —Peter Diamond, Nobel Laureate in Economics

>“Acemoglu and Robinson have made an important contribution to the debate as to why similar-looking nations differ so greatly in their economic and political development. Through a broad multiplicity of historical examples, they show how institutional developments, sometimes based on very accidental circumstances, have had enormous consequences. The openness of a society, its willingness to permit creative destruction, and the rule of appear to be decisive for economic development.” —Kenneth Arrow, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University, Nobel Laureate in Economics, 1972

>“This fascinating and readable book centers on the complex joint evolution of political and economic institutions, in good directions and bad. It strikes a delicate balance between the logic of political and economic behavior and the shifts in direction created by contingent historical events, large and small at ‘critical junctures.' Acemoglu and Robinson provide an enormous range of historical examples to show how such shifts can tilt toward favorable institutions, progressive innovation and economic success or toward repressive institutions and eventual decay or stagnation. Somehow they can generate both excitement and reflection.” —Robert Solow, Nobel Laureate in Economics, 1987

Wie arrogant muss man eigentlich sein um zu meinen man weiß mehr über ein Thema als 3 Top Wissenschaftler dieses Gebietes? Sowas von Lächerlich. Wegen solche Sachen verwehrst du dir jeglicher zukünftiger Diskussionen mit mir.

>You put a lot on the table but I'd rather just try to parse the core contention I have with what you're trying to say, which still appears to be "One is good enough to judge what's good"

No, I'm saying that "one should not be interested in the rank of an advice-giver."

>How are people like this, who represent the vast majority of the game, supposed to stress test anything and come to an honest conclusion? How will they interpret the results? My core contention with what you're saying, to use very plain terms, is people are dumb, and you appear to be saying that people aren't dumb and can think for themselves, but then at times you seem to admit people are dumb also.

I saw the first Men In Black movie too; people are dumb. But a person is smart. It's up to them to play through the solo queue grind, it's up to them to overcome obstacles in their path, and it's up to them to acquire the skills to get over those hurdles.

But why are people dumb? It's groupthink; what happens when people put acceptance of ideas over substance of ideas. That comes from fallacies, one of the largest being ad hominem/tu quoque. How'd the Democrats nominate Hillary Clinton? They convinced themselves that the biggest scandal magnet in US political history is the "safer" (more likely to win) candidate than Sanders. How'd the Republicans nominate Donald Trump? They convinced themselves that the guy who has talked more about his dick in public than every candidate in US history combined will inspire voters to get behind him.

How do low bronzies stay bronze? They're not thinking or improving, and it's probably because they're letting someone else do their thinking for them. Not certainly, but you see what I'm saying; thinking for yourself will be of help.

>It feels like I should be agreeing with you when I'm reading what you're writing, but i don't know what it is, I just end up confused. I just think you're putting too much stock in the fluidity of what's good and what's bad in this game. I'm super pragmatic about things, I'm not going to crunch the numbers on 4x dagger rush on ADC's. I'm just going to go "Whelp, whatever the standard build is is probably really good and refined, and 4x dagger rush is probably garbage. I just won't run the numbers on that and risk missing out on the epiphany that the playerbase has it all wrong.

You should. You'll be surprised at what you actually can learn.

Here's a piece I wrote with a very clickbaity headline where I theorycrafted an item choice. I believed then and still believe now that it was right at the time, but the items have changed since then which make the article wrong today. For example, it was written before the Refillable Potion existed.

Feel free to read the comments to see people shit all over it. But, pay attention to this comment string. A Diamond player takes me on, makes some very fair points, and has more to say when I rebut. His final point is along the lines of "I agree with your point that if you do these other things that you mentioned in the article, your item build is better. It's just not that clear-cut," and I found that to be a completely reasonable answer.

This is of course in contrast to this diamond player who has a one-word reply, and his follow-up is proven wrong in the article.

>This is just one instance obviously, but this is my general approach to the entirety of the burden of knowledge in League and what I'd advocate to just about anyone.

Yeah, this isn't a simple game. But, it's not chess or go. It's not that hard, nor is i hard to put in the time studying if you're already willing to put in the time playing. Now, if someone is adverse to self-study, that's on them. I just hope they're not surprised when they haven't actually improved several months down the line.

>Your tl;dr appears to be "Think for yourself" mine is "Listen and copy high elo players blindly" Both have their flaws, clearly, but this just appears to be a difference in outlook.

Yeah, your description of my point is accurate enough. And, I seem to be correctly hearing yours. I just disagree with it very strongly. It's come up too often in my own experience to see it any other way. I'll spare you my life story, but I can provide general evidence.

A software developer from India, who has watched cricket and nothing else, has volunteered to coach his daughter's basketball team. He sees a basketball game for the first time. When one team scores, he noticed that they immediately retreat back to their own basket. A basketball court is 94 feet long, and they give the first 60 feet away for free! He thought it was retarded. Here's how it turned out.

A Major League Baseball GM for a low-revenue team is sick and tired of losing to his better financed opponents. Realizing that he can't compete in a bidding war, he looks for odd players that may be underpriced. He hears of a pitcher named Chad Bradford, who is posting amazing numbers in AAA ball, but no team is willing to promote him to the Show. He's a submarine pitcher; he throws funny. The GM wonders...this guy gets people out, but no one's willing to let him do it on the big stage just because he throws funny? He thought that was retarded. Here's how that turned out. I recommend the book instead of the movie.

Now, follow the meta all you like, but unless you've got something special, what makes you think you'll get different and better results than an average player? Hey, to make Platinum in NA, you've got to get past 90% of the entire ranked player base! You think that's gonna happen doing what the rest of the player base does, or by doing something different?

I just recommend starting to look for common things that seem retarded. I can assure you the player base of League of Legends will provide plenty of material for you.

But if you let other people do the looking...do you really think they'll see anything?

Here's some recommended reading:

• The Book - That's literally the name of the book. It's full of one-off chapters covering a variety of topics.
  
• Baseball Between the Numbers - This one is also a bunch of one-off type stuff
  
• Moneyball - Talks about how the 2002 Oakland A's capitalized on some offensive statistics that were being recorded but not heavily utilized to determine player values, and thus built a playoff team from undervalued hitters
  
• Big Data Baseball - Talks about the 2013 Pittsburgh Pirates and their use of big data strategies to find defensive value where other teams didn't (primarily in pitch framing, ground-ball pitching, defensive range, and shifting)
  
  The first two of those are heavily focused on the numbers and will probably teach you more about the whys and hows, while the second two are more about the narrative but still give you some insight into hard numbers.
  
  Also, I'd recommend just joining SABR. It's $60/year for most people, but if you're under 30 it drops down to $45/year. There are a lot of local chapters out there that have regular meetings. For example, the Twin Cities have the Halsey Hall chapter. There's a book club meeting on Saturday (to talk about Big Data Baseball), a hot stove breakfast in a few weeks (informal meeting to just hang out and talk baseball), a regular chapter meeting in April for people to actually present research, and the chapter occasionally has organized outings to minor league games.
  
  SABR also has a national conference and a specific national analytics conference, as well. Membership also includes a subscription to Baseball Research Journal, which comes out twice per year and contains a lot of really good stuff that members have been written both from a statistics and a history standpoint.

I think one thing to do is not only get your kid into the athletic side of sports, but also to the career or academic side of it. Rather than encourage your kid to be an athlete, you should be promoting the concept of becoming an athlete/coach or athlete/trainer or athlete/manager, etc.

Just having your kid trying to become the best athlete is very short sighted, and you're limiting the potential success of your kid through sports. Let's be honest, your kid isn't going to be the next Pacquiao. But he could become a great trainer with a bunch of gyms in the area he lives in, well connected to the boxing industry. He could become an executive or manager or trainer within the industry. You could have your kid learn math through sports for example. There's plenty of nerdy analysis in all sports, since Moneyball came out.

Moneyball is a book. This book.

Moneyball is also the theories espoused in that book. The book basically introduced the idea to the general public, that by truly understanding baseball statistics, teams could get an edge up on their competition and succeed while spending less. The book led to a statistical revolution in baseball, leading to the popularization of new statistics (like WAR, FIP) that were better predictors of future success than the old statistics (Runs, RBI) were.

>when you base a currency on something with limited availability, you can't proceed to print silly amounts of that currency to fund wars (iraq) and companies like halliburton, goldman, rothschilds, etc..

I don't think a gold standard exactly prevents legislatures from financing wars with debt. As this chart shows, the US incurred substantial public debt to finance many wars, both before and after Bretton Woods.

>it's not like inflation or fiat currency actually helps anyone working a real job in the non-financial private sector...quite the opposite

This is a contested point among economists. The gist of debate (as I understand it) is that there are costs to inflation (shoeleather costs, menu costs, increased variability of relative pricing, etc). However, many economists argue that the costs of reducing inflation can be quite large (on the order of 5% of GDP to reduce inflation by 1 point). In addition, this cost is not spread equitably over the population; the fall in aggregate income is on the backs of workers who lose their jobs. One of the great empirical insights of modern economics is the short-term tradeoff between inflation and unemployment (the Phillips curve).

Look, you seem like an inquisitive person. But most of the arguments you're presenting are extremely one-sided, and were debunked long ago by mainstream economics. I have held strong opinions on economic/political topics for years, but my opinions took a big overhaul a few years ago when I bit the bullet and read an economics textbook from cover to cover. Previously, I pretty much only read popular books on specific topics, most of them advocating for a particular, conservative point of view. (Secrets of the Temple, books by Thomas Sowell, etc). Many of my viewpoints were changed completely, and not necessarily in a more conservative or liberal direction.

Sorry if this comes across as condescending, but I honestly recommend that you invest some time and read a textbook in micro/macro. Mankiw is a popular choice. He devotes entire chapters to the US monetary system, inflation, and central banking. And the last chapter presents a series of debates over current macroeconomic policy, describing both sides. One of them about is whether central banks should aim for zero inflation.

You want me to find experts who don't believe we are heading towards massive deflation, followed by hyperinflation, all in the next year? How do I not find things? Find me an economist that believes that.

Here is Noah Smith, a trained economist addressing debt concerns. Here is the guy that Greg Mankiw thinks does a good job of explaining the debt. Mankiw wrote a textbook that is widely used to teach intro. He's also a libertarian.

Now some economists, like Tyler Cowen, believe it is getting to be a problem and have concerns, but he doesn't make it sound like the sky is falling this year.

IT'S MICRO 101. You wouldn't ask for empirical evidence that gravity exists. Don't be a knob.

Read this: https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Economics-Mankiws/dp/0538453052

https://www.reddit.com/r/Economics/wiki/reading

https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Economics-Mankiws/dp/0538453052

https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Principles-Economics-Tyler-Cowen/dp/1429239972/ref=la_B001IXMRS6_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1502038028&sr=1-5

this book is all you need. guaranteed. but you have to ACTUALLY do the exercises and keep up with it, you'll see noticeable improvements within a week if you do the exercises everyday...gotta put in the work

http://www.amazon.com/Breakthrough-Rapid-Reading-Peter-Kump/dp/073520019X

I read about ~219 WPM. I'm trying to improve that by using this book

some other tips I've learned so far

1. start by saying "1-2-3-4" aloud while you read learn to stop saying the words to yourself.
   
2. start using your finger to "pace" your reading, move your finger faster and faster.
   
3. start reading by taking in words in groups of three or more, the goal will eventually be to split a page into 8 sections and then taking it in that way.
   
   The paradigm shift is to trust that you can just "see" and "know" immediately. Basically, if I hold up a sign you have read the words to yourself to get the info off of it. If I hold up an orange you don't have to say "orange" to yourself to know that it is an orange. This is the shift you have to make. See it, brain knows it.
   
   Tunnel snakes rule!
   
   

Break-Through Rapid Reading is what you want. It will guide you on a six week program to increase your reading rate. It takes practice. I didn't have the patience or the will-power to continue for the full program, but I can read about 2x as fast as I used to when I try.

Breakthrough Rapid Reading is a pretty decent book, also a few things posted in r/speedreading

Please go and buy and read all of these this week, for the sake of you and your team:-


https://www.amazon.com/Managers-Path-Leaders-Navigating-Growth/dp/1491973897


https://www.amazon.ca/Managing-Humans-Humorous-Software-Engineering/dp/1430243147


https://www.amazon.ca/Debugging-Teams-Productivity-through-Collaboration/dp/1491932058


https://www.amazon.ca/Five-Dysfunctions-Team-Leadership-Fable/dp/0787960756

This book has helped us a lot to think about the team, management and studio dynamics. I would recommend it - it doesn't matter that it isn't game industry specific, nor how big your team is.
https://www.amazon.com/Five-Dysfunctions-Team-Leadership-Fable/dp/0787960756

https://www.amazon.com/Drive-Surprising-Truth-About-Motivates/dp/1594484805

https://www.amazon.com/Scrum-Mastery-Good-Great-Servant-Leadership/dp/0957587406

https://www.amazon.com/Lean-Software-Development-Agile-Toolkit/dp/0321150783/

https://www.amazon.com/Implementing-Lean-Software-Development-Concept/dp/0321437381/

https://www.amazon.com/Coaching-Agile-Teams-ScrumMasters-Addison-Wesley/dp/0321637704

https://www.amazon.com/Five-Dysfunctions-Team-Leadership-Fable/dp/0787960756/

https://www.amazon.com/Phoenix-Project-DevOps-Helping-Business/dp/0988262509/

https://www.amazon.com/Agile-Lean-Program-Management-Collaboration/dp/1943487073/

https://www.amazon.com/Tribal-Leadership-Leveraging-Thriving-Organization/dp/0061251321/

Scrum masters can come from any background. Having PM knowledge is helpful but not required. A scrum master is a guide and coach for the team. They are responsible for ensuring the team is following the rules of scrum, facilitating their meetings, and overall helping the team on the path to high performance.

Understanding the rules of scrum and the agile principles are more important. In your first SM role you will likely be following the scrum guide as closely as possible but the importance will be in understanding why the practices exist. What is important in the daily scrum? Why do we ask the 3 questions? What is the real goal in that meeting? etc... Eventually guiding and facilitating becomes more about the principles, outcomes, and goals than the rules of scrum but that comes with time.

Pay attention to the people on the team. I suggest looking into some personality or team-working books as a scrum master should be in tune enough to understand the work being done (technical and business purposes) and how the people work together. Conflicts amongst team members can be a difficult impediment to remove.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Open-Veins-Latin-America-Centuries/dp/0853459916

A great book on this topic is The Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano. It doesn't exclusively deal with Britain, though - it also deals with Spain and the US, and explains how European colonial powers and the US arranged matters to ensure their own profit and the impoverishment of Latin America.

It's a polarising book, written from the left of the political spectrum. If you are conservative, you may not like it, but at least it'll give you the history - even if you don't agree with the conclusions.

The Moral Animal by Robert Wright

Nonzero by Robert Wright

Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano

...just my opinions.

About Elon Musk:

https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hy-musk-subsidies-20150531-story.html

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The role of the state is a bit more complicated:

https://www.amazon.com/American-Amnesia-Government-America-Prosper/dp/1451667833

https://www.amazon.com/Entrepreneurial-State-Debunking-Private-Economics/dp/0857282522

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I don't have a link, I have a book.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Entrepreneurial-State-Debunking-Private-Economics/dp/0857282522

well not that common, but "this book is not a tree" and it is a great read!

you can buy it on Amazon, otherwise check around some of the usual manga sites

Are you referring to this. (not the manifesto but still important)

David Harvey's notes on capital are really helpful and provide references to relevant texts by Marx and other theorists for understanding Capital. When I last checked, Harvey's notes were available for Capital vols. 1 and 2. The lectures are available via podcast (I like listening while I'm on the move) or they can be viewed on YouTube. These are free lectures so can't do much better for understanding Capital apart from the lack of interaction.

A copy of the book based on the lectures is also helpful. And there are also various sources other than Amazon for this (and other books)...

Besides Harvey, I find Prof. Ha-Joon Chang to be a great source of introductions to "other" schools of thought. The recent Economics User's Guide is a decent place to start for basic economics, but Bad Samaritans is great for challenging the hegemony of neoliberal approaches to developmental economics. These are both available in audiobook form so the information can be received as if by lecture.

> There are indeed fundamental philosophical and ideological differences between the far left and the far right - my point is that they are both similar in that the radicals on both sides care less about individual freedom and more about using any means necessary to achieve their goals and subjugate others to their thoughts. The goals are radically different: the techniques are not, nor is the lack of interest in discussion or questions. That is where they lose me.

But it's just not true that the far left is disinterested in discussion. The dialectic is a fundamental component of leftist thought. Marx, Bakunin, Prodhon, and Stirner- sort of the 'fathers' of modern leftist thought- were all young Hegelians, for whom the dialectic was an integral component of rational thought. In fact, if you look up 'dialectic' on wikipedia, and go to the section on modern philosophy, you'll find no more than two subsections, one about the hegelian dialectic, and another about the Marxist dialectic.

> Do you really believe that the radical left is any less interested in systematically oppressing others than the far right?

Yes.

> People like the Tea Party, PeTA, and others are more than willing to do whatever it takes to get the results they want, and they're not interested in a dialog, nor in thinking that maybe someone else's point of view can be valid.

PeTA is neither left nor right. They're a single issue organization who's issue is orthogonal to economic and political structure. Also, speaking anecdotally, I have spent quite a bit of time in far left circles, and I have only ever met one PeTA supporter. Most everyone else is extremely critical of PeTA. In fact, I have been routinely criticized for not being critical enough of PeTA. Keep in mind that I am a meat-eating egoist. PeTA seems more popular among liberals and social democrats than among radicals.

Actual radical leftist groups include Radical Science, Radical Statistics, the Center for a Stateless Society, The Industrial Workers of the World, The Socialist Worker, The CNT-FAI, and The Recovered Factories Movement.

> Yep, but as I've said often, ideologues care more about imposing their beliefs on others, and I hope you recognize that there are those on the left that are just as unreasonable as those on the right.

Once again, I am not arguing that it is impossible for a radically left group/person or group/person which appears to be radically left to be disinterested in good faith discussion or to be fundamentally oppressive, but that these are intrinsic qualities of the far right, where they are not intrinsic qualities of the far left.

> And is it any less oppressive to be told that you have to give up a large percentage of what you've earned to give to others so that there is a false economic equality?

I don't think you understand what the far left is even interested in. We're not interested in high taxes or creating a welfare state. The far left wants to dismantle or compete with the existing political and economic structure because we view it as a distortion of markets/exchange which allows for an idle class to exploit a large percentage of the value generated by the working.

> is there reading on socialism you'd recommend? I'm fascinated by the examples you cite and I'd like to learn more. Probably won't change my mind, but I am curious.

To understand the theory which underlies leftist thought, you'd be best off reading Marx' Capital. However, keep in mind that this is a very academic, 3 volume, 1500 page, behemoth of a book, which you might find difficult to digest. If you do decide to read it, it might be beneficial to read David Harvey's companion to Capital along with it, or to watch his lecture series. If you're lazy (and I don't blame you) you might want to just watch the lectures.

You might also check out An Anarchist FAQ, for a much more readable, though shallow, explanation of leftist thought. And the film I posted earlier, The Take, is an interesting look into what an anarchist strategy and an anarchist society might look like.

> Of course not - that's a ridiculous argument. However, people like Mr. Chomsky, who seem to think this country is intrinsically evil bother me. Are there things here that are wrong - without a doubt. And this country is far from its ideals (and seems to be getting further away every day). But there needs to be recognition of the good as well as the bad, and there are many on both sides that refuse to do that. And that, quite honestly, annoys me.

I'm curious, then, if you're critical of e.g., Harriet Beecher Stowe for the the same reason. After all, she wrote critiques of slavery, but never really wrote anything which focused on praising the upside of slavery and world she lived in. She's never written a novel about the wonders of the transcontinental railroad, nor the telegraph, nor just how cheap cotton was at the time.

Disclaimer: I'm still a student, so if you want to, go ahead and disregard my response. On the other hand, I have put in many hours contemplating this very question.

In "Coders at Work," Peter Seibel interviews the founder of JSON and JavaScript architect, Douglas Crockford.

Seibel poses the question
> Have you ever had problems ... (with) people who've been successful in one language (who) sometimes have a hard time giving up their old ways, even when working in a new language where they don't really make sense?

Crockford's response:
> I don't care. I just want to know that you know how to put an algorithm together, you understand data structures, and you know how to document it. (...) Generally, I prefer generalists. I want someone who's capable of learning any of those APIs but isn't necessarily skilled in any one.

In The Pragmatic Programmer, authors Andrew Hunt and David Thomas say
>The more different things you know, the more valuable you are. As a baseline, you need to know the ins and outs of the particular technology you are working with currently. But don't stop there. The face of computing changes rapidly -- hot technology today may well be close to useless (or at least not in demand) tomorrow. The more technologies you are comfortable with, the better you will be able to adjust to change.

The emphasis in comfortable is mine. It doesn't say the more technologies you master or are proficient at. Instead, being comfortable with many different areas, topics, technologies, languages, etc., will allow you to express your value to an employer in many different ways.

Now, specific to your current position. I have been with my current company for 9 years now. I started out as a cashier, moved into management after 9 months, and now I am a service technician working with all of the networking, computers, surveillance, construction, project management, etc. I am essentially a corporate representative with a LOT of autonomy, responsibility, and I wear a lot of hats. I am also the highest paid technician in the company for these very reasons. My job is perhaps one of the most stable in the company given the amount of general knowledge I have about the areas I work on actively.

Now, software might be different in that knowing a lot about everything is incredibly hard. However, picking a couple of specialized areas and being comfortable with many other areas is very likely to make you a valuable employee. It allows you to think up insightful solutions to multi-disciplinary problems. You can be the hero who comes up with novel solutions to larger problems, whereas people who specialize in C++, JavaScript, or Haskell might only know how to solve the same problems in their respective languages.

From what I can tell by reading the literature, those are the differences between people who specialize and people who generalize. I think you are experiencing what it's like to be good at generalizing. Incidentally, I would also equate CEO's, CTO's, COO's and other C-level people to generalists. They are capable of abstracting away the minutiae and details of their problems and delegate to others in order to get stuff done. They focus on big-picture stuff and let the specialists (accountants, technicians, programmers, drivers, etc) deal with the details.

World population is going to decrease and it's not going to be comfortable, at all.

He even named his book after it.

Read 'Jab Jab Jab Right Hook'. That book basically is what enabled me to start my own advertising agency.

austerity is a horrible idea, yes.

A book for anyone interested in hearing more about what /u/Carnagh wrote about.

The experts on the subject of economic development say otherwise.

http://www.amazon.com/Why-Nations-Fail-Origins-Prosperity/dp/0307719219

The real problem with colonialism is that the entire function of the government bureaucracy is capturing rents from primary-sector activities and that they use this revenue to buy popularity. There is not enough economic freedom or development to encourage domestic growth.

Big bad dictator owns the state oil company which used to be a French firm. Uses oil money to build schools in a handful of villages inhabited by his own people to get the UN off his back.

The colonial governments left a legacy that the post colonial governments continued. New boss same as the old boss. This is the real reason why imperalism was bad, not some kind of marxist concept of removing wealth or whatever.

Probably the most famous book about baseball strategy is Moneyball, which covers the 2002 Oakland Athletics team.

This one

1.) This, by the end of three weeks my reading speed increased by about 100 wpm. The cliff notes is to basically use your index finger or pen to mark where you are on the page (that increased my wpm by about 50 wpm) the rest was just practice/patience.

2.) This one helped me to read more efficiently.

Yes, it is a plain and simple fact. The vast majority of funding for research comes from the government. Call me when a private company builds something like the LHC.

Good book on the topic: http://www.amazon.com/Entrepreneurial-State-Debunking-Private-Economics/dp/0857282522

Check out this book to learn why.

You'll have to ignore some of Piketty's disgusting liberal sensibilities (a particularly irksome comment being that no Europeans suffered more in the mid 20th century than the wealthy), but it does a great job explaining how capital was accumulated and concentrated across the 19th century, then lost during the war years, and then began to concentrate again. He essentially shows you why that chart is the way it is, and it has nothing to do with any type of generational antagonisms.

https://www.amazon.com/Moral-Case-Fossil-Fuels/dp/1591847443/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?keywords=moral+case+for+fossil+fuels&qid=1567049925&s=gateway&sprefix=moral+case&sr=8-1

The main one is that, sure we can stop as our country or western countries. But that doesn't stop China or whatever huge polluters. So we will basically be inhibiting our economies for no reason while they excel.

Also, even if we stop trying to pollute. It's already too late, whatever we can try and do, won't be enough with current technology, so it's better to just keep on how we are going until we figure out a real method of not just stopping pollution of the air, but reversing it in a real way.

Here's a decent podcast about the topic of 'green' stuff in general

http://drdrew.com/2014/155/


http://www.amazon.com/Moral-Case-Fossil-Fuels/dp/1591847443/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1419837732&sr=8-1&keywords=moral+case+for+fossil+fuels

https://www.amazon.com/Moral-Case-Fossil-Fuels/dp/1591847443

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6b7K1hjZk4

Fossil fuels are great. Clean energy has it's place, but if you want reliable, peak power that you can raise and lower as demand changes there is nothing better. That means cheaper energy, and cheaper energy means more economic opportunity.

On olemassa paljon erilaisia malleja. Itse pidan eniten persoonallisuustyyppien/psykometrian kaytosta. Talloin asiaa lahestytaan, joko kuvaamalla minkalaisia persoonallisuuden ominaisuuksia tietty tehtava vaatii; tai minkalaista persoonaa tyonantaja odottaa; tai minkalainen persoona sopisi parhaiten olemassa olevaan ryhmaan. Toki jotkin ihmiset pitavat psykometrian kayttoa taytena humpuukkina tai eettisesti arveluttavana, mutta itse naen silla olevan vahvat perusteet. Oma mielipiteeni on, etta jos tyonantajan MUTU ja kaytettava malli sanovat hakijan olevan paras: palkkaa. Jos yrittaja ja malli ovat ristiriidassa toistensa kanssa, palaa takaisin piirrustuspoydan aareen - jotain on pielessa siina mita haet.

Jos et usko persoonallisuusmalleihin, mutta et pelkaa kokeilla uutta, niin hyva ja halpa tapa on tehda Strengts Finder 2.0 persoonallisuustesti. Gallupin tutkija tutki persoonallisuuksia ja abstraktoi eri piirteet 34 teemaan. Testi kertoo mitka ihmisen 5 teemaa ovat hanen vahvimpansa. Yleensa kukaan ei juuri yllaty siita mita tulokset ovat, mutta ihmisen loytaessa oikeat sanat, han voi helpommin kommunikoida omat vahvuutensa ja myos peilata tyotarjouksia niita vasten. Itse olen kaynyt tyotarjoukset hyvin pitkalle tata tyokalua vasten ja hylannyt kaikki tyotehtavat, joissa en ole voinut hyodyntaa suurinta osaa vahvuuksistani.

Ihan esimerkin vuoksi, jotta saat makua mita tulokset ovat niin tassa omat vahvuuteni...

• Strategic... People who are especially talented in the Strategic theme create alternative ways to proceed. Faced with any given scenario, they can quickly spot the relevant patterns and issues.
  
• Learner... People who are especially talented in the Learner theme have a great desire to learn and want to continuously improve. In particular, the process of learning, rather than the outcome, excites them.
  
• Positivity... People who are especially talented in the Positivity theme have an enthusiasm that is contagious. They are upbeat and can get others excited about what they are going to do.
  
• Achiever... People who are especially talented in the Achiever theme have a great deal of stamina and work hard. They take great satisfaction from being busy and productive.
  
• Ideation... People who are especially talented in the Ideation theme are fascinated by ideas. They are able to find connections between seemingly disparate phenomena.
  
  Kun katson omaa tyouraa ja kaikkea mita olen tehnyt, niin parhaimmat tulokset ovat tulleet T&K:n puolelta ja selviytymisesta vaikeista tilanteista. Huonoimmat hetket taas on koettu tukitehtavissa ja jamahteneissa organisaatioissa. Itse esimerkiksi olen hyva aloittamaan ja viemaan eteenpain uutta tai perkaamaan taydellista sotkua, mutta asioiden tasaantuessa ja helpottuessa minut kannattaa vaihtaa toiseen henkiloon.

That's a good tool if you still read a word at time, but if you really want to read faster, pick up a book on speed reading. (Personally, I recommend Breakthrough rapid reading, but there are a bunch of them out there and they pretty much all cover the same material.

Ισχυει , υπο προυποθεσεις , ειδικα στις επενδυσεις πρωτα ξεκινα ο δημοσιος τομεας και μετα ακολουθει ο ιδιωτικος

https://www.amazon.com/Entrepreneurial-State-Debunking-Private-Economics/dp/0857282522

https://newint.org/features/2015/12/01/private-public-sector/

http://www.alternet.org/economy/government-more-efficient-private-sector-biggest-social-services-contrary-right-wing-claims

Yes it really was. Basic consumtion barly grow. Hunderts of millions of people either starved (all because of the weath of course) and tousends of people where murdered.

Many of the people not murdered were forced to work, as in work that much or you get shoot in the head.

All the talk about growth of the USSR is kind of missing the point. Talking money from one place and investing it somewhere will get you whatever your want but that is not really growth. Dont belive people who site something like GDP numbers, you cant measure GDP in the USSR in any reasonable way. They tried doing it by look what goes into the system and then compare it to other countrys. If you produce 50'000 tons of steel but it does not go where it should you dont really dont get the same thing as if the US (for example) prudeces 50'000 tons of steel.

Also most of the fun stuff they had, including books, TV, radio and such where all basiclly stolen or pirated.

The USSR was a disaster in economic and social freedom.

• http://whynationsfail.com/blog/2012/8/9/was-central-planning-really-inefficient.html
  
• http://www.amazon.com/Why-Nations-Fail-Origins-Prosperity/dp/0307719219/
  
• http://www.amazon.com/The-Political-Economy-Soviet-Socialism/dp/0792391004
  
• Some of the essays in this: Calculation and Coordination: Essays on Socialism and Transitional Political Economy
  

I would recommend Strengths Finder, it helps you figure out your personality strengths and how you can use them.


https://www.amazon.com/StrengthsFinder-2-0-Tom-Rath/dp/159562015X

Some ideas in 4 categories:

Body Language:

• What Every BODY is Saying
  
• Unmasking The Face
  
  Speed Reading:
  
  
• Breakthrough Rapid Reading
  
  Evolutionary Psych / Behavior:
  
  
• The Blank Slate
  
• How The Mind Works
  
  PUA / Attraction:
  
  
• Bang
  
• Mystery Method

May I interest you in my pamphlet?