(Part 2) Best professional & academic biographies according to redditors

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u/workpuppy · 163 pointsr/TrueReddit

You know, I actually think I CAN do better than that. My god. They tried to blow the doors off with quality that no one would ever appreciate, but tried to match their competitors for price!

"Oh we hired an authentic frenchman to make our pastries, but then we priced them so low each one we sold cost us money!"

Shit. That's not how you're a success at anything, and though I fully admit I don't know a lot about coffee shops, I do know that unless you serve real food, you have to make a good margin on coffee, and a great margin on pastries (this is why everyone does them in house).

The belief that running any kind of a food place (which I do know a few things about) is easy, is a belief that drives hundreds of people to bankruptcy every year. Most restaurants fail. The vast majority fail.

Unless you have something amazing to bring to the table, (and NOT a vision of how you can bring people their coffee on a silver platter, because that's 100% cost, and little else) think hard before you cave to that siren song. And read Kitchen Confidential...Between his ego and his exaggerations, there is a hell of a lot of practical experience.

u/zomgrasputin · 148 pointsr/budgetfood

Believe it or not there is a book on this.

Make the Bread, Buy the Butter

u/kadune · 108 pointsr/AskHistorians

I'd recommend two sources that cover the reception with relation to the competition: Jeff Ryan's "How Nintendo Conquered America" and Blake Harris's more recent "Console Wars."

One of the things that Ryan focused on is Mario 64's innovation (indeed, Nintendo's promotional materials focused on this too) -- it' was one of the first games where you could control the camera in all directions. Mario 64 was one of the few games available at the console's launch, and it showcased the new console hardware and possibilities that weren't available on the Playstation or Saturn. I can't speak to the greatness it immediately received, but a lot of the early reviews certainly focused on its innovative features and newness that otherwise wasn't available on other consoles or, for that matter, Mario Games (while Mario RPG was 3d, this allowed complete control over his moves and attacks)

u/duddles · 55 pointsr/Frugal

There's a book I read that weighed the pros and cons of buying/making common foods - Make the Bread, Buy the Butter

u/scipher · 33 pointsr/gaming

If you really want to appreciate what id Software (Carmack : Engine John) did for gaming, and want a pleasant read this is the book you want to check out : Masters of Doom

u/pippx · 33 pointsr/Breadit

This is amusing, as there is a book called Make the Bread, Buy the Butter which goes on about why you should spend time on one but not the other.

I have personally found that making my own butter is only worth it if I am using really high quality dairy that comes from grass-fed cows. Otherwise, it just isn't worth the time.

u/Clint_Redwood · 25 pointsr/TheRedPill

Think of a baby and how they have object permanency. When you walk out of the room you are no longer in the baby's frame of existence. Well you as a human being never really lose this frame phenomenon psychologically. As you grow older it just grows larger. Every piece of knowledge, every place you've traveled, very technique, person, thing, entity you've ever meet or learn expands your frame of existence.

However your frame of existence is totally dynamic every second. Like right now you're reading TRP, your frame is concentrated to the screen. You're not thinking about that fly sitting on your wall, or what color is the shoes you are or what your dad is doing right now. But the mere fact that I said these things means they are now inside your frame because you're thinking about them. Your frame is dynamically changing every second and it has since the day you were born. Random thoughts are coming in and out of your head, events are happening all around you, in your house, on your street, in your city, your state government, people are moving and things are happen every second but somehow your mind knows what to focus on at any given moment, totally autonomously.

As far as artificial intelligence goes, computers always try to calculate every possible parameter they are giving to solve a problem. The classic example of Frame Problem is place a sentient AI bomb defusing robot in a room and tell it to defuse the bomb before it goes off. Well, that robot will sit there till infinite trying to calculate every possible outcome and it's probability of happening. It will figure the likelihood of touching it one way, will it explode? What if the walls change colors, probability of explosion? What's the probability of the wall changing color? What if it backs up an inch, what's the probability? It will try to calculate everything it can unless programmed otherwise.

From the moment a human is born it can dynamically adjust their frame and egocentricity. This is one of the reasons we have consciousness and we do it totally subconsciously. There are deeply rooted networks in the brain that tell you what you need to be focusing on at any given moment. Cortisol levels connect to fear and danger. Oxytocin will make you focus on those you care about. Dopamine will make you more or less erratic(ADD). And there a million other things that all control and change your frame at any given moment. And that's not even getting into were thoughts generate in the mind or how memory recall and memory reassociation works. Have you ever thought about were your thoughts come from? Go through the day and start paying attention to why the hell you just though what you did? Do your thoughts just come out of thin air or was their a trigger or cascade effect to bring you to where you are right now?

This is a... confusing and hard problem to recreate with AI. The Frame problem was discovered in 1969 and it still hasn't been solved.

If you're interested in this stuff I highly recommend watching Jordan B Peterson in the link above. He's a Pychologist who has pretty much spend his entire life trying to figure this out. He ever wrote a very extensive book on it called "Maps of Meaning: The Architeture of Belief". That book he also teaches as a class in the university of Toronto and you can access all his lectures on youtube. He posts every one of them for the semester. I even believe you can get the syllabus and worksheet stuff on his website.

What's interesting is you'll start to see The Frame Problem explained in many different ways, by different people and at different time periods. I'm a big fan of studying every genius that's ever lived. Inventors, physicists, chemists, etc. Einstein, Van braun, Richard Feynman, Tyson, Hawkings, etc. and pretty much every hyper intelligent individual will tell you that you are and always will be an idiot. What they are referring to is you can never know everything. No matter how large of a frame you grow, no matter how much information, experiences or things you can possibly attain physically or mentally, there will always be more you don't know or haven't experienced. This is an extremely useful thing to realize, one it humbles you and people like humility and two, your options are now limitless. If you become curious about something, you can imagine how deep that rabbit hole could possibly go, but you won't truly know till you start exploring.

Another example in history and probably one of the first times the frame idea was written down was Epictetus and Stoicism. The first line of Enchiridion which is the stoic handbook and condensed version of Epictetus: Discourses writings, says,
>
> "There are things which are within our power, and there are things which are beyond our power. Within our power are opinion, aim, desire, aversion, and, in one word, whatever affairs are our own. beyond our power are body, property, reputation, office, and, in one word, whatever are not properly our own affairs."

Epictetus was a student of Crate and Crate was a Student of Socrates. This was probably the first time the Frame Problem was idealized in writing. Or at least the first one to be preserved till today. In fact stoicism pretty much entirely revolves around learning your frame and controlling what you can. Any time you spend on things outside your control is considered time wasted, which you can never get back. So it's half learning frame and half improving time efficiency.

Self improvement is in a way is an active expansion of your frame, even if the subconscious mechanisms that drive it you didn't think about till I just explained it to you.

u/ReactsWithWords · 22 pointsr/thatHappened

Specifically, this one.

u/shleppenwolf · 21 pointsr/history

Latitude is relatively easy. Longitude, not so much. Good narration: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003WUYE66/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

u/Cypher_Blue · 20 pointsr/ProtectAndServe

The FBI BAU (where the profilers are) is one of the most difficult to obtain jobs in the agency.

First you get hired as an FBI agent. Then you distinguish yourself in your field office doing "regular" FBI agent work. Then you start assisting them with cases from your field office after you have a few years on.

Then you can become a regional case agent for them. Most of that (from what I understand) is keeping track of files and sending information back and forth to the unit at Quantico.

Then if you do a good job there, you intern with them. This involves working with medical examiners and homicide squads in the DC/Baltimore area.

Then and only then can you "become a profiler."

So my advice is don't put the cart before the horse. You need to become an FBI agent first, so focus on that. Lots of really really smart and put together folks apply to them and don't get hired. You can worry about getting into BAU after you're hired.

There is a great book about the BAU that was written by John Douglas called Mindhunter that does a great job of talking about the unit and what it takes to get in.

u/diearzte2 · 19 pointsr/business

For those of you that aren't familiar, Eleven Madison Park (EMP) was the flagship restaurant of Danny Meyer, CEO of Union Square Hospitality Group and author of Setting the Table. His approach to restaurants focuses on catering to the guest whenever possible. He sold EMP to the the long-time head chef and the general manager a few years ago, but I wouldn't be surprised if this is something that isn't done only at EMP.

u/ThatOneEntYouKnow · 19 pointsr/Cooking

This book was recommended on this sub previously: Make the Bread, Buy the Butter. It is.. ahem... available in other forms if you can't pay for it. Details what things can be made from scratch, and if it's worth it to bother or not.

u/BicubicSquared · 18 pointsr/worldnews

SpaceX has done nothing innovative in rocketry. Their innovation is purely on the business side. Reusable launch vehicles existed long before SpaceX, all the way back to the 50s. The technology wasn't leveraged back then because launch cost mattered a lot less than performance.

All of the tech being used by SpaceX today was invented in the 50s and 60s and then shelved, including methane engines, reusable SSTOs, and even more 'futuristic' technologies like aerospike engines that still haven't yet been resurrected. Even when it comes to economies of scale, SpaceX is only executing on a pretty tame strategy. For extreme economy at extreme scale, there's the Sea Dragon.

If you want to get a grasp on how advanced rocketry was in the 50/60s and how little we've come since then, I suggest the amazingly written Ignition! by John D Clark, one of the pioneers of the field.

https://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pdf (free pdf)

https://www.amazon.com.au/Ignition-John-Clark/dp/0813595835 (recent reprint)

u/fatpat · 18 pointsr/educationalgifs

If you want to learn more about this, I highly recommend Longitude by Dava Sobel.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003WUYE66/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

u/Loki-L · 17 pointsr/explainlikeimfive

The relevant passage from John Clark's "Ignition!":

>”It is, of course, extremely toxic, but that’s the least of the problem. It is hypergolic with every known fuel, and so rapidly hypergolic that no ignition delay has ever been measured. It is also hypergolic with such things as cloth, wood, and test engineers, not to mention asbestos, sand, and water-with which it reacts explosively. It can be kept in some of the ordinary structural metals-steel, copper, aluminium, etc.-because of the formation of a thin film of insoluble metal fluoride which protects the bulk of the metal, just as the invisible coat of oxide on aluminium keeps it from burning up in the atmosphere. If, however, this coat is melted or scrubbed off, and has no chance to reform, the operator is confronted with the problem of coping with a metal-fluorine fire. For dealing with this situation, I have always recommended a good pair of running shoes.”

Amazon link

u/afancysandwich · 15 pointsr/EatCheapAndHealthy

Make the Bread, Buy the Butter is written for this question. The author spent a whole year going more DIY and talks about what's worth it and what's not, and NOT with some holier-than-thou attitude (when she has it in her real life experiences she quickly pokes fun at herself for it).

There was an American Test Kitchen DIY book that came out at the same time, which was great if you're into the whole kitchen experimentation, but it didn't have the same insights as Make The Bread.

u/saxiragerusselll · 14 pointsr/spacex

You can get the epub of the recent reprint for free here

Or buy it on Amazon

Fantastic book.

u/_hao · 13 pointsr/HaltAndCatchFire

The following books:

u/JakeCameraAction · 12 pointsr/videos

I also recommend Kitchen Confidential as well.
It's not by Ramsay but by Bourdain but it's an amazing book.

u/Luminescent_Ninja · 12 pointsr/nintendo

For The Legend of Zelda, there's (as others have said) "Hyrule Historia". There's also a book called "Legends of Localization" that details the localization process of the original Legend of Zelda from Japanese to English:

http://www.fangamer.com/products/legends-of-localization-zelda-book

If you're into manga, there's a whole set of Zelda mangas:

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/mobile/p/the-legend-of-zelda-box-set-akira-himekawa/1104178239/2683774677098?st=PLA&sid=BNB_DRS_Marketplace+Shopping+greatbookprices_00000000&2sid=Google_&sourceId=PLGoP24049&k_clickid=3x24049

There's also "Legend Of the Hero" by Kari Fry, which is essentially a field journal of sorts about the Legend of Zelda franchise, with some gorgeous artwork:

http://www.fangamer.com/products/legend-of-the-hero

Kari Fry has also made similar things for Pokemon and Animal Crossing, titled "The Field Guide to Kanto" and "A Guide to Village Life", respectively found here:

http://www.fangamer.com/products/kanto-field-guide

And here:

http://www.fangamer.com/products/a-guide-to-village-life

Another fun title is "Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America", which is about the history of Nintendo of a company (although you could probably find all of the information online, it's definitely a nice book to have on the shelf), and you can grab that one on Amazon here:

http://www.amazon.com/Super-Mario-Nintendo-Conquered-America/dp/1591845637

Those are all of the ones I know about, but I'm sure there are more out there!

u/Velstrik3r · 12 pointsr/todayilearned

There is an excellent book I read called Longitude that tells the story of that guy. Absolutely one of the best non-fiction books I have ever read and I cant recomend it enough if you have even the smallest intrest in what Harrison did.

u/hartfordsucks · 12 pointsr/Frugal

There's a great cookbook called "Make the Bread, Buy the Butter" where the author makes a lot of things from scratch that most people buy. Then she compares the time, cost and end result to determine if you really should make something from scratch or just buy it.

u/fellintoadogehole · 10 pointsr/LPOTL

If you are interested in FBI behavioral science, I highly recommend both the Netflix series Mindhunter, and the book it was based on, Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit. Fascinating stuff! I've been reading a lot of true crime books recently and after reading Mind Hunter it is fun to see FBI profiles mentioned. They can often be surprisingly accurate.

u/jonathan22tu · 9 pointsr/KitchenConfidential

This isn't specifically about increasing efficiency but it's a really good read from probably the most famous restauranteur in the US: Setting The Table - Danny Meyer.

u/mzito · 9 pointsr/startups

This, this - much like restaurants, good bar owners have a formula for success, which they duplicate over and over again. From staffing to bar layout to menu options, they have figured out what works, and will continue to replicate it.

I know a pair of brothers who are moderately successful bar owners here in NYC, which is about as competitive as you can get, and the reason they can do that is by basically cloning the same bar with neighborhood-appropriate changes, and having a strict set of rules.

This is more about restaurants, but it's an enjoyable read anyway - Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential - has a whole section on opening restaurants and a portrait of a guy he calls Bigfoot, who has cracked the code of being successful at it.

EDIT: Also, this - http://www.reddit.com/r/startups/search?q=bar+owner+ama&sort=relevance

u/WildYams · 9 pointsr/gadgets

I've read a number of books about the subject so I'm summing up what I've read; but I'd recommend in particular the books Dealers Of Lightning, Fumbling The Future and Apple Confidential if you're interested to read more. Here's also an interesting article from the New Yorker about it.

u/slacker87 · 9 pointsr/networking

I LOVE following the history of networking, awesome find!

If you end up wanting more, where wizards stay up late and dealers of lightning are great reads about the people behind the early internet.

u/tangrams · 9 pointsr/speedrun

Irrelevant game? Maybe you've heard of a game called Doom? Pretty popular. A company named id software developed that game. Guess where they got the money to develop that? From their previous wildly successfully series, Commander Keen. Since you seem to like books, I'd recommend picking up a copy of Masters of Doom, which tells the whole story of id's success. A little history goes a long way.

u/legalpothead · 8 pointsr/TalesFromThePizzaGuy

With good service it's seldom necessary to question a guest's honesty. But standing up to an irate customer isn't something you should be expected to know by instinct.

I spent a lot of time in my first years as a manager going over and over in my head how to react to angry or frustrated customers. My bosses told me what I had to do, but they didn't tell me much about how to do it well.

I think ultimately you have to develop a sort of customer service persona that is unfailingly polite, and you put that on when you interact with the public. You might think you already possess and use such a persona, but the unfailingly polite persona is made of a metal stronger than vibranium and it never breaks.

It also helped reading Danny Meyer's Setting the Table.

u/Unnamedentity · 8 pointsr/math

he means this

u/sheephunt2000 · 8 pointsr/math

Hey! This comment ended up being a lot longer than I anticipated, oops.

My all-time favs of these kinds of books definitely has to be Prime Obsession and Unknown Quantity by John Derbyshire - Prime Obsession covers the history behind one of the most famous unsolved problems in all of math - the Riemann hypothesis, and does it while actually diving into some of the actual theory behind it. Unknown Quantity is quite similar to Prime Obsession, except it's a more general overview of the history of algebra. They're also filled with lots of interesting footnotes. (Ignore his other, more questionable political books.)

In a similar vein, Fermat's Enigma by Simon Singh also does this really well with Fermat's last theorem, an infamously hard problem that remained unsolved until 1995. The rest of his books are also excellent.

All of Ian Stewart's books are great too - my favs from him are Cabinet, Hoard, and Casebook which are each filled with lots of fun mathematical vignettes, stories, and problems, which you can pick or choose at your leisure.

When it comes to fiction, Edwin Abbott's Flatland is a classic parody of Victorian England and a visualization of what a 4th dimension would look like. (This one's in the public domain, too.) Strictly speaking, this doesn't have any equations in it, but you should definitely still read it for a good mental workout!

Lastly, the Math Girls series is a Japanese YA series all about interesting topics like Taylor series, recursive relations, Fermat's last theorem, and Godel's incompleteness theorems. (Yes, really!) Although the 3rd book actually has a pretty decent plot, they're not really that story or character driven. As an interesting and unique mathematical resource though, they're unmatched!

I'm sure there are lots of other great books I've missed, but as a high school student myself, I can say that these were the books that really introduced me to how crazy and interesting upper-level math could be, without getting too over my head. They're all highly recommended.

Good luck in your mathematical adventures, and have fun!

u/YoohooCthulhu · 8 pointsr/askscience

I'd also add for a great historical/narrative perspective on cancer, Siddharta Mukerjee's pulitzer prize winner "The Emperor of All Maladies" is a fantastic read.

u/Lynxx · 7 pointsr/askphilosophy

The first two books that come to mind are The Story of Philosophy by William Durant, and A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell. I've never read the Russell book personally, but I've heard great things about it (plus, its got a great cover).

u/InCaseOfEmergency · 7 pointsr/programming

It's called Dealers of Lightning by Michael Hiltzik. (Amazon) It was a good read, I would recommend it.

u/[deleted] · 7 pointsr/Games

I tried to play this game after reading the amazing book Master's of Doom. I couldn't get past the first 2 minutes of the game. Literally.

u/Akilou · 7 pointsr/MapPorn

I read this book, Latitude, by Dava Sobel (which I highly recommend as well as any other Dava Sobel book) which talks about how hard it was to nail down where you were longitudinally. After reading it, I saw an old map like this one and it all clicked. You'll notice that, generally, on maps that pre-date some dude (I won't ruin the book for you), the north-south orientation is pretty accurate, and only the east-west orientation is skewed.

I haven't looked at an old map the same ever since.

u/smileyman · 7 pointsr/AskHistorians

Of course this only works if you know exactly when noon is where you're at. When you're at port that's easy enough. When you're at sea, not so much. The quest for an accurate clock for navigation was a huge deal during the Age of Sail. In fact in 1714 England's Parliament offered a prize of up to £20,000, the equivalent today of millions of dollars.

Dava Sobel has written a fascinating book about it called Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time

There's also a documentary about the longitude problem up on YouTube (in 21 parts)

http://youtu.be/T9dso7ATlSk

u/xsmasher · 6 pointsr/gaming

BTW if you haven't read "Masters of Doom" then hop to it. Full of great stories about the founding/evolution of iD... and some juicy tidbits on Ion Storm too.

Masters of Doom

u/sschoen · 6 pointsr/Physics

Although not by him, Genius by Gleick was one of the things that inspired me to enter physics. I should like to check out his lectures online, but I'm on linux at the moment.

u/onerous · 6 pointsr/space
u/NotaClipaMagazine · 6 pointsr/kotakuinaction2

Which only really highlights how little they know about the subject. There are all kinds different rocket propellants used and not all of them are bad. The Delta IV uses hydrogen and oxygen which makes.. water. Not saying there isin't some nasty shit out there but it's mostly no worse than what you get when you burn diesel in a car (just a lot more of it in a short time). Read Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants if you're into that sort of shit.

u/tsjr · 6 pointsr/Games

This and more fun Wolfenstein facts can be found in David Kushner's Masters of Doom.

u/hawkeye807 · 6 pointsr/labrats

This book about Richard Feynman is a really fun and casual read. I tend to give it to a lot of scientists as a gift.

https://www.amazon.com/Surely-Youre-Joking-Mr-Feynman-ebook/dp/B003V1WXKU

u/interzil · 5 pointsr/restaurateur

Read. Read a lot. Reading can help prevent you from making dumb decisions in the future by learning about what problems lie ahead. Owning your own restaurant is not easy. It's really really hard. Celebs, millionaires, etc. fail on the reg trying to open up restaurants. The most you'll ever make working for a restaurant in management is $50k a year unless you have a trick up your sleeve that lands you a sweet gig (sommelier training, chef experience, connections, etc.). You also have to have a serious passion for pleasing people and hospitality. You put in hard hours for someone to be like "ew, this isnt what I want. You're inferior. You're bad at your job. Gross." Seriously, you get more respect in the military. But if you are a sick fuck who wants to try it. Be my guest. I was/am. There are some really cool aspects to it: you meet some crazy people, get to eat delicious food and drink great wine. But a lot of people cant take the stress for the more than a few years and resort to alcoholism or worse. It's difficult to explain restaurant management stress. It's like you're walking in the park and everything is perfect. Birds are singing and shit and then you see your dream girl coming towards you then BAM someone sucker punches you in the dick, she starts laughing at you, you're suddenly naked and everyone joins in the mockery.

Anyways. Read this: Setting The Table and this: Kithchen Confidential, BEFORE you even touch this dick stroking sensation: The Art of The Restaurateur. Read this shit before you lock yourself in to any deals. I'm serious. You'll thank me. Fuck these bus boys need to finish mopping the bar so I can go home and dream about P&Ls.

u/Cdresden · 5 pointsr/Chefit

Setting the Table by Danny Meyer.

Math by the CIA.

The Book of Yields by Francis Lynch.

u/gkopff · 5 pointsr/gamedev

You might also like to read Masters of Doom -- which is a biography of the guys at Id in the early days. I think reading about how they started out would both interest and motivate you.


OpenGL will get you a Quake 2-like experience. But if you really wanted to get your hands dirty, try building a Wolfenstein or Doom style rendering engine from scratch. :-)

u/amair · 5 pointsr/math

Some good readings from the University of Cambridge Mathematical reading list and p11 from the Studying Mathematics at Oxford Booklet both aimed at undergraduate admissions.

I'd add:

Prime obsession by Derbyshire. (Excellent)

The unfinished game by Devlin.

Letters to a young mathematician by Stewart.

The code book by Singh

Imagining numbers by Mazur (so, so)

and a little off topic:

The annotated turing by Petzold (not so light reading, but excellent)

Complexity by Waldrop

u/evtedeschi3 · 5 pointsr/reddit.com

Downmod any math-phobic comments.

Besides, the poster, John Derbyshire, knows his math.

u/bcarson · 5 pointsr/math

God Created the Integers, edited by Stephen Hawking. Includes selected works of various big names in mathematics with a brief biography of each preceding the math. The wiki article on the book has a list of all mathematicians included.

Prime Obsession, about Riemann and his famous hypothesis.

The Man Who Knew Infinity, about Ramanujan.

u/trpobserver · 5 pointsr/asktrp

Heres my suggestion:

Write down the three things you want to change the most.

Write down how you will change them

Read this little book to help guide you through the process, a process which your brain will undoubtedly try to make difficult for you.

u/guy_guyerson · 5 pointsr/TrueReddit

I ran across this, quick and dirty, but I was posting from memory of having read Mind Hunter 20 years ago.

"The FBI now include the types of cars that they expect offenders to drive when they draw up profiles.

In the 1970s, the serial killer car of choice was the VW Beetle, with Ted Bundy among the infamous fans since it was Hitler's concept car.

More recently, the FBI have found that "disorganised" killers tend to drive mini-vans, while organised offenders drive large saloon cars, coloured either blue or white, that mimic law enforcement vehicles. "

Source.

u/bradrulez69 · 5 pointsr/serialkillers

I recommend these all the time, they are great:


Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit Its by John Douglas who founded the profiling unit for the FBI. Jack Crawford from the Silence of the Lambs was based off of him. Goes into all sorts of gory details and psychological analysis of well known and lesser known serial and spree killers.

Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI Written by the guy who coined the term "serial killer." Advised Thomas Harris when writing the Silence of the Lambs. Similar book with a different perspective. Has a few more first hand interview accounts with other serial killers.

u/OhDannyBoy00 · 5 pointsr/askphilosophy

Will Durant's "The Story of Philosophy". I'm reading it now and I wish it was the first book I read. At 400 pages it definitely skips some major parts of history but it's written in a way that's very entertaining. It reads like a novel and makes the material accessible instead of getting bogged down with technicals like Anthony Kenny's history.

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/0671739166/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

A really great way to get "the flavour" of philosophy as they like to say.

u/MWM2 · 5 pointsr/ChapoTrapHouse

Thanks. I'm about 75% of the way through the article and I have faaaaaar too many tabs open so I'm commenting now. I bookmarked Peter Kropotkin's Wikipedia page to read later.

I disagree with some of the axioms of the author but I'm certain I'll be thinking about the text. I read a biography of Richard Feynman once: Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by James Gleick.

He often went back to first principles. He'd do things that no average genius would - like review freshman physics. I don't know if that helped keep him a wizard amongst geniuses but I think he did it for a kind of "play".

My takeaway of that section was that reviewing what you know might help you to more intuitively grok things you aren't familiar with. Right now I find it hard to accept that insects or lobster can play. But if I consider a random creature like a bird - I think it's clear that ravens and crows play. They are very intelligent.

Maybe humble birds like sparrows do too. We just haven't been clever enough to notice.

u/Cakeofdestiny · 5 pointsr/spacex

Huh? Paperback and Hardcover editions exist on amazon, for $25 and $99 respectively.

u/Cthell · 5 pointsr/WeirdWings

At this point, it's mandatory to mention John Clarke's Ignition, an entertaining and educational look at the history of liquid-fuelled rocket engines.

Learn about the exciting world of Zip fuels, Fluorine-based oxidisers, and Nitroglycerine as a monopropellant!

u/EvanDaniel · 5 pointsr/rocketry

Ignition! by John D. Clark.

It's also linked on the subreddit sidebar.

u/fantes_friend · 5 pointsr/AskReddit

read this book then. It is probably going to be interesting for you
http://www.amazon.com/Dealers-Lightning-Xerox-PARC-Computer/dp/0887309895/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1322594175&sr=8-1

...Dealers of Lightning is a fascinating journey of intellectual creation. In the 1970s and '80s, Xerox Corporation brought together a brain-trust of engineering geniuses, a group of computer eccentrics dubbed PARC. This brilliant group created several monumental innovations that triggered a technological revolution, including the first personal computer, the laser printer, and the graphical interface (one of the main precursors of the Internet), only to see these breakthroughs rejected by the corporation. Yet, instead of giving up, these determined inventors turned their ideas into empires that radically altered contemporary life and changed the world.
...

u/Kidney_Thief1988 · 5 pointsr/Amd

The interesting thing is that Steve Jobs saw such promise at Xerox PARC that he offered to let Xerox buy Apple out before the stock went public, just so that he could have access to the technology and engineers at PARC.

I cannot emphasize enough how good Dealers of Lightning is, but if you're interested in technology, it's a really great read.

u/AlyssaMoore · 5 pointsr/climateskeptics

"Watermelons" by James Delingpole is one of my favorite books about climate skepticism:

http://www.amazon.com/Watermelons-Green-Movements-True-Colors/dp/0983347409

Here are some other books that I recommend.

The Deliberate Corruption of Climate Science:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Deliberate-Corruption-Climate-Science/dp/0988877740

Don't Sell Your Coat: Surprising Truths About Climate Change:

http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Sell-Your-Coat-Surprising/dp/0615569048

The Delinquent Teenager Who Was Mistaken for the World's Top Climate Expert:

http://www.amazon.com/Delinquent-Teenager-Mistaken-Worlds-Climate/dp/1466453486

The Hockey Stick Illusion: Climategate and the Corruption of Science:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Hockey-Stick-Illusion-Climategate/dp/1906768358

u/SensedRemotely · 5 pointsr/askscience

Sure it does. Why did temperatures fall in the late 2000s, only to rise again, while C02 concentrations rose steadily? Because greenhouse gases aren't the only variable we need to consider in the debate. We need to consider a host of factors, for example: ENSO, aerosols, the sun, a great variety of things. The debate is not as to whether the recent low-frequency warming trend is occurring, it is about whether humans are the primary cause, i.e. the magnitude of AGW. Of course, if you take the "it's just weather vs. climate" side of things, you can average the "climatology" over the preferred temporal scale and come up your increasing linear trend. We shouldn't just discount high-frequency characteristics out of hand, however, they could contain important clues about the real phenomenon that everyone is searching for. Don't take my word for it, read about the most famous instance of this. I'm not sure why you keep trying to paint me as anti-AGW, this is not the case.

u/sgonk · 5 pointsr/ThomasPynchon

I read Longitude while reading M&D. A fantastic book that provided a lot of background...

u/cshivers · 5 pointsr/Frugal

This type of calculation is the premise for the book Make the Bread, Buy the Butter. Basically the author agrees with you, you probably won't come out ahead making your own butter, unless you have a cheap source for cream. You do get buttermilk out of it though.

u/xb10h4z4rd · 5 pointsr/EatCheapAndHealthy

Some one else suggested reading the book buy the butter make the bread, on amazon it has a preview and in it a bread recipe
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B004T4KXMS?pc_redir=1410351118&robot_redir=1

u/0xE6 · 4 pointsr/math

Not a scholarly article, but I like this book https://www.amazon.com/Prime-Obsession-Bernhard-Greatest-Mathematics/dp/0452285259 and think it does a decent job going into the history and attempting to explain the math in a way that doesn't require a grad degree.

u/notphilosophy · 4 pointsr/askphilosophy

Might I suggest Will Durant's The Story of Philosophy. It's like Russell's History of Phi, but not as popular. I ate that book up as a new undergrad student and I enjoy keeping it by my bedside. I never read it anymore, but I feel good knowing it's at an arm's length.

u/schentendo · 4 pointsr/nintendo

I read the book Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America earlier this year. It's not just Mario, either - it goes through the entire history of Nintendo and it's rivals. A pretty good read.

u/hammiesink · 4 pointsr/climateskeptics

That's an excellent article. Non-tree ring proxies, done by a skeptic, and still shows a fast upswing to temperatures slightly above the MWP.

But the RealClimate article is a review of The Hockey Stick Illusion by Andrew Montford, aka Bishop Hill.

u/barret907k · 4 pointsr/gamedev
u/r3setbutton · 4 pointsr/talesfromtechsupport

For anyone else that was suddenly compelled to go check out the book because of this exchange...

Amazon

u/ShimmerScroll · 4 pointsr/whatsthatbook

Perhaps you're looking for "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" by Richard Feynman?

u/YaksAreCool · 4 pointsr/QuotesPorn

If you're interested in Feynman's life and his great stories: "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" and "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" are great reads. The guy was a goddamn rockstar.

u/Rayduuu · 4 pointsr/food

Clotted cream is a British thing- specifically a Devon and Cornwall thing, as I understand it (and as stated on the Wikipedia page). I live in Chicago and I haven't run across any places that make it fresh or stores that sell it. I wanted to try it, so I made my own.

The recipe for both the clotted cream and the scones came from Jennifer Reese's "Make the Bread, Buy the Butter: What You Should and Shouldn't Cook from Scratch" http://www.amazon.com/Make-Bread-Buy-Butter-ebook/dp/B004T4KXMS

u/albino-rhino · 4 pointsr/AskCulinary

It depends on your blender and it's not ideal, but /u/greybeards is right. What happens with a lot of blenders is as soon as the cream gets whipped, it gets too viscous and stops flowing, so you're stuck.

If you have a good blender you can make it work. Unlike making whipped cream, you'll want your cream to be a little warmer, and you'll probably need a spat to push the whipped cream down toward the blades.

Once it's grainy, you'll want to chill it, strain it, and rinse it, and knead it a little to get as much water out as you can.

Much better to use a mixer, food processor, stick blender, or just do it by hand.

Better still: Make the bread, buy the butter.

u/jackzombie · 3 pointsr/books

Kitchen Confidential will give you some insights on food, food culture and ideas about food.

u/memphisbelle · 3 pointsr/food

read his first book, then report back. i worked in a kitchen for about a year when i was 14 at a family owned italian joint. i didn't realize until AFTER reading his book that my experiences there were not unique to that restaurant.

u/functor7 · 3 pointsr/math

Yes, they do! On average at least. Intuitively, as you get bigger and bigger there are more and more primes with which to make numbers, so the need for them gets less and less. This is answered by the Prime Number Theorem which says that (on average) the number of primes less than the number x is approximately x/log(x). Proving this was a triumph of 19th century mathematics.

Now, this graph of x/log(x) is very smooth and nice, so it only approximates where primes will be. It's not a guarantee. Imagine the primes as a crowd of people in an airport terminal. The crowd is, in general, flowing nicely from the ticket agents to the gate and this appears to be very nice when we look at it from high above. But when we get closer, we see some people walking from the ticket agents to the coffee shop, against the flow. Some kids are running in circles, which is not in the "nice flow" prediction. These fluctuations were not predicted by our model.

So even if primes obey the law x/log(x) overall, there are still fluctuations against this law. While the overall trend is for primes to get infinitely far apart we predict there are infinitely many primes that are right next to each other, totally against the flow. This is the Twin Prime Conjecture. We have recently proved that there are infinitely many pairs of primes, both of which are separated by only ~600 numbers. This was a huge deal and was done only within the last year or so, but we want to get that number down to 2.

We can also ask: "Do these fluctuations affect the overall flow in a significant way, or are they mostly isolated events that don't mess up the Prime Number Theorem approximation too much?" This is the content of the Riemann Hypothesis. If the Prime Number Theorem says that primes are somewhat ordered nicely, then the Riemann Hypothesis says that the primes are ordered as nicely as they can possibly get. That would mean that even though there are variations to the x/log(x) approximation, these fluctuations do not mess things up that bad.

Now, when looking for large primes, we generally look at expressions like 2^(n)-1 because we have fast algorithms to check if these guys are prime. But, in general, most primes do not look like that, they're just very nice numbers that we can check the primatlity of. We do not even know if there are infinitely many primes of the form 2^(n)-1, called Mersenne Primes so we could have already found them all. But we are pretty convinced there are infinitely many, so we're not too worried.

I don't know what your background is, but I've heard that the Prime Obsession is a good layperson book on this (though I haven't read it). If you have math background in complex analysis and abstract algebra, then you could look Apostol's Introduction to Analytic Number Theory.

u/InfinityFlat · 3 pointsr/math
u/ThisAdorableSOB · 3 pointsr/MGTOW

No More Mr Nice Guy was the book I was referring to - hopefully other commenters can offer more examples.

I've been reading A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy & Enchiridion by Epicurus for some easy-to-digest MGTOW philosophy which has crossed nicely into the mainstream. For fiction I'd hugely recommend Whatever by Michel Houellebecq & Lights Out in Wonderland by DBC Pierre (one of my all-time favourites.)

To be fair, Bukowski can be read to help with the "Don't Give A Fuck" attitude that can help build your confidence. He tends to see women without the rose-tinted glasses, to put it delicately. He's written lots of poetry but his novels are the best. Bluebird is one of my favourite poems by him. Post Office is one of his great novels.

That's all I can think of for now.

u/CommodoreKitten · 3 pointsr/ifyoulikeblank

Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit. The author takes you through cases he has worked on over his career in a similar manner to Sacks

https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Hunter-Inside-Elite-Serial/dp/0671528904

u/Nikcara · 3 pointsr/changemyview

If you're interested in more, there's a book called Mind Hunter. It was written by an FBI profiler, and (to paraphrase a line from the book) details how rape is a crime of power with sex as weapon.

It's an interesting book even beyond learning about how many rapists think. Creepy at times, but that's what you would expect from a book about the worst kinds of criminals.

u/HumeFrood · 3 pointsr/philosophy

A lot of Bertrand Russell's books are accessible, as long as you're willing to put up with some of his personal biases. There are arguably a lot of misinterpretations of individual philosophers in his book "A History of Western Philosophy," for example, but it can still give you a good general overview that's also very accessible. I've also heard nothing but good things about The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant. I haven't read it, but I've read other books by him and they're all very accessible.

u/rednblack · 3 pointsr/philosophy

The Philosopher's Toolkit and The Story of Philosophy both seem like great places to start.

u/platochronic · 3 pointsr/philosophy

I would recommend an introductory book. Personally, I suggest Story of Philosophy by Will Durant. But if you really want to understand it, you're going to have to get in the habit of reading slowly and rereading until you really understand it. And have a dictionary and look up of all of the words you don't know.

If you finish the book, I guarantee your entire perspective on life will be completely different. Not necessarily for the better, as some people learn more than they bargain for. But if you finish and really want to learn more, I can give you other good introductions.

u/TheAethereal · 3 pointsr/booksuggestions

I would read Plato's Republic. I don't like Plato, but it's really foundational for western philosophy. Then read Aristotle. This is also a great book.

u/adrianscholl · 3 pointsr/askphilosophy

Will Durant's The Story of Philosophy is an excellent overview of philosophy. While it is limited to a small selection of the most notable philosophers, each chapter is dedicated to providing a very readable summary of the ideas of one philosopher. I sincerely believe the best way to get into philosophy is to get a very general "historical map" of the big ideas. Once you have that, it becomes much more rewarding to pick a philosopher of interest and study them in greater detail.

u/GunterFlobert · 3 pointsr/apple

if you read this book you'll see even more similar stories. Xerox hated Xerox Parc.

u/Kichigai · 3 pointsr/geek

For a while there I'd use the Wikipedia Book Creator to aggregate a bunch of articles on a certain topic and then download it to my eInk e-Reader to peruse in bed until I fell asleep.

One such topic was early computing up through the Microcomputing era and the 1977 Trinity.

At that point of history I was reading Empires of Light about the AC/DC war, Where Wizards Stay Up Late about the birth of ARPANET, Dealers of Lightning, about PARC, Commodore: A Company on the Edge (about the rise of Commodore through the PET, slaying TI, and faltering after the C64), and Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet, which was enlightening, even though it was written for someone who couldn't tell a modem from a hub.

u/lotusstp · 3 pointsr/technology

Tip of the hat to the pioneers... Lawrence Roberts, Vin Cerf, Bob Taylor, Ivan Sutherland, Douglas Engelbart and J.C.R. Licklider, among many others. Well worth studying up on these dudes. Some excellent reads (available at your public library, natch): "Dealers of Lightning" an excellent book about Xerox PARC; "Where Wizards Stay Up Late" fascinating book about MIT and DARPA; J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal a turgid yet compelling book about J.C.R. Licklider and his contemporaries.

u/tmltml · 3 pointsr/biology

If you're a fan of cancer (phrasing!), I'd check out The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer. A bit long at points but a pretty cool read

http://www.amazon.com/Emperor-All-Maladies-Biography-Cancer/dp/1439107955

u/liuna · 3 pointsr/askscience

Some good answers have already touched on it, so I'm not going to try to answer your question.

But, OP or anyone else really, if you want more information, there's an amazing book called The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer. He dedicates a bit to answering this question. It won the Pulitzer Prize, it's an absolutely gripping read, and is written so someone without a medical background can read it. I've recommended it to everyone I know

u/RobJackson28 · 3 pointsr/biology

Here's an article from Nature Genetics that may be of interest: A common JAK2 haplotype confers susceptibility to
myeloproliferative neoplasms
. If it's too technical, this may be a useful resource.

As for blood and DNA, this information is so ubiquitous I'm not sure if it's worth looking for specific books or articles. The Wikipedia pages look pretty good. However, given these topics, I would like to recommend an excellent book Emperor of All Maladies: Biography of Cancer. As a cancer biologist, I consider it an excellent book about modern cancer biology and history of molecular medicine. It does a great job introducing blood diseases and role of molecular genetics. Hope this helps!

u/Peragot · 3 pointsr/askscience
u/kfsb2 · 3 pointsr/retrogaming

This one is only about Nintendo and I haven't read it myself but I've read similar books to this. I'd imagine the first couple chapters would be dedicated to explaining what other video game companies in Japan did at the time and how Nintendo broke the mold, with the second half being Nintendo coming to America. Not sure if it's what you're looking for but it's my wish list https://www.amazon.com/Super-Mario-Nintendo-Conquered-America/dp/1591845637

u/IIRC · 3 pointsr/Conservative

Many redditors are too young to remember the Climategate fraud "let's use Mike's trick to hide the decline."

[The Hockey Stick Illusion: Climategate and the Corruption of Science ](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1906768358/
)

u/DeepDuh · 3 pointsr/Futurology

As an engineer in a research position: I'd give you my upvotes for the next 100 days if I could.

Here's how you (the reader of this thread) can start: Read Surely you must be joking, Mr. Feynman, a nice book with anecdotes about the life of a particularly gifted scientist with lots of wit and perspective on how actual science is different from sudo science. It's a very entertaining book and IMO a great way to get some basics about the world view of a true scientist. It has lots of examples of fields other than physics that he did some investigation in, and maybe you'll find something that particularly interests you.

u/mbuckbee · 3 pointsr/ITCareerQuestions

Fiction Books

Cryptonomicon - Very few books make up a cypher system based on playing cards, have a story that spans WW2 through the present day and in large part revolve around creating an alternate digital currency, a data haven and startup life.

Neuromancer - this is the book that created cyberpunk and that inspired all those bad movie ideas about hacking in 3D systems. That being said, it marked a real turning point in SciFi. Without this book "cyber" security specialists would probably be called something else.

Snow Crash - This is much more breezy than the other two but still has very recognizable hacking/security elements to it and is just fun.

Non Fiction

Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman - This isn't a book about technology so much as deduction and figuring things out (while being hilariously entertaining).

I included all these here in large part because they are what inspired me to get into development and sysadmin work and I bet that I'm about 20 years older than you if you're just getting into the field - so there's a decent chance that your coworkers are into them too.





u/jackiedoesdomestic · 3 pointsr/simpleliving

The Kitchn does a better series of Make or Buy actually looking into the time and financial cost to make your own instead of buying from the store: http://www.thekitchn.com/categories/make_or_buy

And I still haven't bought it but I've heard great reviews of Make the Bread, Buy the Butter: http://www.amazon.com/Make-Bread-Buy-Butter-Shouldnt-ebook/dp/B004T4KXMS

u/CoomassieBlue · 3 pointsr/Frugal

Well, the good news is that reducing your grocery bill is completely doable, even for a family with a new baby. It's an area where a lot of folks, including people whose spending habits are otherwise good, often find that they're spending far more than they need to.

> How in the heck do you guys knock down your eating money? Amazing willpower?

It's a combination of several things:

  1. The first step is recognizing what's causing your grocery bill to be so large. You've already figured out that eating out is a big problem for you, and what's even better is that you've figured out why. Instead of just saying "we're not eating out anymore", brainstorm a couple of ways that you can get out of the house with your husband for less money - perhaps even with someone watching the baby so you can have a real date (when you're ready if your baby is still a newborn). You can take walks together, have cheaper outings (say, getting an ice cream sundae and sharing it rather than having a full dinner out, or making a date out of a glass of wine and shared appetizer somewhere), or depending on where you live, some areas have plenty of free activities to offer, such as free concerts in a park, free screenings of movies in a park, or free museums.

  2. Once you've decided how you're going to reduce your spending, you need to figure out what it's going to take to make that happen. A very common reason that people spend more on prepared foods or going out is being too tired or too busy to prepare meals. A lot of people do some cooking in advance on various levels. Some people get ingredients that require dicing or mincing all prepped to reduce the total cooking time for each meal, some people prepare entire meals and freeze them in portions, and some folks (especially those with kids, it seems) actually have monthly meal swaps where you make a big batch of a favorite meal and can trade portions of it with other people for what they've made as a way to get more variety in your meals without having to increase your effort too much. I personally think the last one is an awesome idea and I've been trying to find something like that in my area. Slow cooking is also a great idea that might fit your lifestyle!

  3. To lower the cost of the groceries themselves, stock up items when they're on sale if you have a chest freezer or reduce your spending on meats and prepared foods. Look for both manufacturer's and store coupons for items you use regularly or that you use occasionally but are shelf-stable. You can also do the math and see if you'd save money by shopping at a place like Costco, BJ's, or Sam's Club. I personally love Costco because of the amazing quality and their great business practices, and even just with two of us plus our dog, we definitely save more than the membership cost each year. Again, this is helped by the ability to freeze some items.

  4. Lower the cost of each meal. While I personally like having some meat and fish in my diet, meats are generally the most expensive ingredient and not every meal has to feature flesh as the main dish. Whether you choose to try her recipes or not, I think you'd really benefit from perusing Budget Bytes to see the variety of delicious, healthy meals you can prepare for $1-2 per serving. There's also a great book called "Make the Bread, Buy the Butter" that explains what foods you can save money on by making yourself versus which ones just aren't worth the trouble or may even be more expensive to DIY. I bet your local library has a copy!

  5. Reduce food waste. Beyond re-purposing veggie scraps and chicken bones to make stock, make sure you go through your leftovers quickly enough or freeze what you know you won't eat immediately. This is one I still struggle with even though I have a freezer, in part because I often think my husband is bringing leftovers for lunch when in reality he's totally forgotten about them. I'm going to try putting a chart on our fridge that says what leftovers we have in there and when they were made, and hopefully that might help!

    If you want to stick to a particular food budget rather than just trying to have better food spending habits, try Dave Ramsey's envelope system where you withdraw your grocery budget in cash, and what goes in the envelope for the week or the month is what you get to spend - so spend wisely. I would budget a small amount each month for going out as your entertainment budget.

    My other non-related food comment is that you're absolutely right - with three of you, $1000 definitely isn't enough of an emergency fund. That wouldn't even cover a major car repair, frankly, and that Subaru is probably going to need a new head gasket at some point down the road (I'd guess around 130-150k miles). Talk to your husband about directing your savings from the reduced grocery budget towards the emergency account.

    One last question - your budget does include your husband paying into a 401k and/or other retirement accounts, right? Planning for retirement as early as possible is really important because time is your best ally.
u/captainblackout · 3 pointsr/Cooking

You might find Jennifer Reese's Make the Bread, Buy the Butter an interesting read. It seems more applicable to your question than a lot of the responses that you've gotten thus far.

u/jphilg · 3 pointsr/keto

Last summer, I got really into cheesemaking after reading the book Make the Bread, Buy the Butter. After an initial investment at http://www.cheesemaking.com/, I made goat cheese and camembert from recipes on the internet. So fun, if you are so inclined. They were both fantastic....I did have a failed cheddar experiment. Let me know if you want further info.

u/chucksense · 2 pointsr/Entrepreneur

Have you read Setting the Table? If so, what are your thoughts on the advice in there? Seems like while the book was meant for general business, it might be very applicable to your situation.

u/CrockerCulinary · 2 pointsr/KitchenConfidential

well to be honest, i havent read many books on the subject, but i have listened to a million podcasts, ted talks, and the like. also my parents were both managers of people and projects, so there were a lot of discussions around the topic of how to make the most of your team, being a leader, etc growing up. also team sports as a youngling were a big influencer. then there is my personal experience and observations of 20+ years in restaurant management working with 20+ restaurants of various types that taught me a few things. (i cringe saying team building cause its kind of a dirty word these days, because of dumb team building excersises, but thats what it is, so)

there are a million resources out there. if you google "team work" "team building" "how to build strong teams" you will be swamped with info.

lets see if i can find some stuff-

  1. this list is everything!
    i have referred to this list frequently from an article called "the ugly truth about team building" about the dumbness of corporations thinking team building exercises work when really the issue is one of poor leadership. in my experience you will find 95% of the issues amongst management will occur in one of these areas. if these are all addressed, things are probably humming along-
    "Here are the principal energy blockers I see in corporations and not-for-profits, startups and government agencies:

    • Fuzzy or missing strategy

    • Unaddressed conflict

    • Role confusion

    • Red tape bureaucracy

    • Slow processes requiring multiple approvals

    • Over-reliance on measurement and quantitative goals

    • Little to no conversation about culture, norms, energy, conflict or feelings

    • Inexperienced leaders

    • Little focus on experimentation, collaboration and innovation, and

    • Lack of praise, acknowledgment and information-sharing"

  2. heres a really good ted talk from simon sinek, an author on this subject, he has a few books too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp0HIF3SfI4

  3. danny meyers "setting the table" should be on the list. not specifically about team building, but it is definitely relevant for anybody serious about a career in the industry.

    https://www.amazon.com/Setting-Table-Transforming-Hospitality-Business/dp/0060742763/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1499155744&sr=1-1&keywords=danny+meyer

  4. "ted talk teamwork" google video search - youll find a BUNCH of different perspectives just with this.

    https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=ted+talk+teamwork&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8#q=ted+talk+teamwork&tbm=vid

  5. i love a podcast from npr called "how i built this" where they have interviewed a bunch of succesful entrepreneurs building their companies and the challenges they faced. owners from spanx, crate and barrel, yankee candle, five guys, sam adams, lonely planet, even zumba and the power rangers tell their stories. (this one is probably the least specifically helpful, but i found all kinds of wisdom in there for any manager)

    http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510313/how-i-built-this

  6. this is for one of the owners i worked for who trained some of the best bartenders in the world (daniel if youre out there)- watch "friday night lights" the series about a a fiercely competitive high school football team in texas. he swore that all the answers to how to build up strong employees was in that series. "clear eyes, full hearts, cant lose"
u/persistent_illusion · 2 pointsr/AskReddit

I don't want to shit on your dreams dude, but maybe you should check this book out before you make up your mind for sure.

Food service is some crazy shit, and education or not you don't get to the top without going through the bottom to get there.

u/Mister_Donut · 2 pointsr/todayilearned

Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain has long sections about exactly this topic.

Restaurants are hard. Really hard. Basically, if you weren't born into it or didn't start when you were 18 and never let up, don't bother.

u/GoodLuckAir · 2 pointsr/truegaming

If you're up for reading a real-live book, [Masters of Doom] (http://www.amazon.com/Masters-Doom-Created-Transformed-Culture/dp/0375505245) by David Kushner does a good job of explaining how Doom (and its predecessor Wolfenstein 3D) were revolutionary, and what different design philosophies came into play.

Doom is a particularly good place to start, as it kickstarted a new era of gaming, and involved not just devs we'd associate with fps games, but also designers like Sandy Peterson who would play a large role in the development of the real-time strategy and, to a lesser extent, the turn-based strategy genres.

u/smittyline · 2 pointsr/funny

> talks about playing Doom all the time.

For his next birthday or Christmas, get him this book: http://www.amazon.ca/Masters-Doom-Created-Transformed-Culture/dp/0375505245

u/Triapod · 2 pointsr/math

I found Prime Obsession really captivating.

u/YahwehTheDevil · 2 pointsr/math

For books that will help you appreciate math, I recommend Journey Through Genius by William Dunham for a general historical approach, and Love and Math by Edward Frenkel and Prime Obsession by John Derbyshire for specific focuses in "modern" mathematics (in these cases, the Langlands program and the Riemann Hypothesis).

There's a lot of mathematical lore that you'll find really interesting the first time you read it, but then it becomes more and more grating each subsequent time you come across it. (The example that springs most readily to mind is how the Pythagorean theorem rocked the Greeks' socks about their belief in numbers and what the brotherhood supposedly did to the guy who proved that irrational numbers exist). For that reason, I recommend reading only one or two books that summarize the historical developments in math up to the present, and then finding books that focus on one mathematician or one theorem that is relatively modern. In addition to the books I mentioned above, there are also some good ones on the Poincare Conjecture and Fermat's Last Theorem, and given that you're a computer science guy, I'm sure you can find a good one about P = NP.

u/Antagonist360 · 2 pointsr/math

First saw this in John Derbyshire's Prime Obsession book. Quite beautiful.

u/globi227 · 2 pointsr/howtonotgiveafuck

I am reading Epictetus' Enchiridion right now and I suggest buying it. $2 on Amazon.

Enchiridion: http://www.amazon.com/Enchiridion-Dover-Thrift-Editions-Epictetus/dp/0486433595

Art of Living: http://www.amazon.com/Art-Living-Classical-Happiness-Effectiveness/dp/0061286052

That AoL book doesn't have the most amazing reviews, but I think it is the only version. Does anyone know of another/better version?

u/logger1234 · 2 pointsr/Stoicism

You can get a copy of the enchiridion pretty cheap too. I think I paid $3.50.

https://www.amazon.com/Enchiridion-Dover-Thrift-Editions-Epictetus/dp/0486433595

I've REALLY gotten a lot out of the Cynthia King Translation of Musonius Rufus, though. Got it from inter-library loan for free. Thin book. Great read.

u/zaphod4prez · 2 pointsr/GetStudying

/u/tuckermalc and /u/pizzzahero both have great comments. I'll add a bit. Go to /r/stoicism, read [William Irvine's book] (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195374614?keywords=william%20irvine&qid=1456992251&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1), then read [Epictetus's Enchiridion] (http://www.amazon.com/Enchiridion-Dover-Thrift-Editions-Epictetus/dp/0486433595/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1456992275&sr=8-1&keywords=enchiridion). follow their guidelines. Also check out /r/theXeffect. The most important thing is controlling your habits. If you're in the habit of eating healthy, getting enough sleep, going to the gym, etc. then you're set.

Now for stuff that's harder to do. Go see a therapist. Or a psychiatrist. Try to find a [therapist who can do EMDR] (http://www.emdr.com/find-a-clinician/) with you, it's a very effective technique (I saw a clinician who uses EMDR for two years, and it changed my life-- and, importantly, it's supported by strong scientific evidence, it's not quackery stuff like homeopathy or acupuncture). If you decide to go to a psychiatrist, tell them you don't want SSRIs. Look at other drugs: Wellbutrin, tricyclics, SNRIs, etc (check out selegiline in patch form, called EMSAM, as well). Seriously, go see a professional and talk to them. I have no doubt that you're wrestling with mental illness. I have been there. For me, it just felt normal. I didn't understand that other people didn't feel like I did...so it took me a long time to go get help. But it's so important to just start working through these things and getting support. That's really the most important thing you can do. It will make your life so much better. If you aren't able to get to a therapist, do Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) on yourself! [This is a brilliant program] (https://moodgym.anu.edu.au) that's widely respected. Do it over and over. Also read [Feeling Good by David Burns] (http://www.amazon.com/Feeling-Good-New-Mood-Therapy/dp/0380810336/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1456992639&sr=8-1&keywords=feeling+good+david+burns). It's a book on CBT, and can help you get started. There are lots of other resources out there, but you have to begin by realizing that something is wrong.

Finally, I'll talk about college. Don't try to go to fricking Harvard or MIT. You won't get in, and those aren't even the right schools for you. There are many excellent schools out there that aren't the super super famous Ivies. Look at reputable state schools, like UMich, UMinnesota, the UC system, etc. get ["Colleges that Change Lives"] (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0143122304?keywords=colleges%20that%20change%20lives&qid=1456992746&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1), the [Fiske Guide to Colleges] (http://www.amazon.com/Fiske-Guide-Colleges-2016-Edward/dp/1402260660/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1456992768&sr=8-1&keywords=fiske+guide), and [Debt-Free U] (http://www.amazon.com/Debt-Free-Outstanding-Education-Scholarships-Mooching/dp/1591842980/ref=pd_sim_14_15?ie=UTF8&dpID=515MwKBIpzL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR104%2C160_&refRID=1VC3C23RJP6ZMXGG5QBA). One thing I realized after college was that I would've been happy at any of the school I looked at. People are fed such a line of BS about school, like you have to go to the top Ivies or something. No way. Find a good place at which you can function, learn as much as possible, and have a good social life. Like another person said, also look at going to a community college for a year and then transferring-- my relative did this and ended up at Harvard for grad school in the end.

u/PFunk1985 · 2 pointsr/KamikazeByWords

You did great. I’m buying the Dover Thrift edition though. Only $3.

u/NostromoXIII · 2 pointsr/booksuggestions

Well, if you are into the Meditations, you must read:

The Enchiridion by Epictetus as it is probably the best book on the philosophy of stoicism out there. It is quite short and cheap and will worth a read:

https://www.amazon.com/Enchiridion-Dover-Thrift-Editions-Epictetus/dp/0486433595/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1541592548&sr=8-5&keywords=enchiridion&dpID=515YhLgKREL&preST=_SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_&dpSrc=srch

u/Sporkicide · 2 pointsr/HannibalTV

The following list are books from retired members of the FBI Behavioral Science Unit - Jack Crawford's real-life equivalents:

Sexual Homicide - Patterns and Motives

Journey Into Darkness

Mindhunter

Anatomy of Motive

Whoever Fights Monsters

Dark Dreams

All of them go into detail in describing how cases were analyzed to develop profiles of unknown killers, the different categories of killers, and how the thought processes of a serial killer work. It's not that they are evil incarnate or unpredictable violent beings - there is usually some kind of logic there that makes perfect sense once you realize that they just aren't playing with the same set of rules as everyone else.

If you just want to talk about manipulation:

Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking

u/Endangered_Robot · 2 pointsr/AskReddit

Yea I've read quite a bit about them but the best one I've read was Mind Hunter This book was written by the God Father of catching serial killers and the guy who pioneered the FBI's methods to tracking and identifying serial killers to this day. Its a really interesting book and its really cool to see him recount some of the big name killers he had to track in the midst of their rampage.

u/geared4war · 2 pointsr/television

I think I found it. Mindhunter by John Douglas.
Shit.
> During his twenty-five year career with the Investigative Support Unit, Special Agent John Douglas became a legendary figure in law enforcement, pursuing some of the most notorious and sadistic serial killers of our time: the man who hunted prostitutes for sport in the woods of Alaska, the Atlanta child murderer, and Seattle's Green River killer, the case that nearly cost Douglas his life.

> As the model for Jack Crawford in The Silence of the Lambs, Douglas has confronted, interviewed, and studied scores of serial killers and assassins, including Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, and Ed Gein, who dressed himself in his victims' peeled skin. Using his uncanny ability to become both predator and prey, Douglas examines each crime scene, reliving both the killer's and the victim's actions in his mind, creating their profiles, describing their habits, and predicting their next moves.

The stuff of nightmares and he tracked it down. Will be watching that one. And Stranger Things. I won't be sleeping much in October.

u/DanHitt · 2 pointsr/DestructiveReaders

notes in doc.

Good atmosphere. I would read on.

I feel there isn't enough foreshadowing of things to come, though. (Except the ash storm, which I feel was glaring exposition and should be hidden better.) This can be done subtly to match the tone.

As rachel said, I (still) don't know how old elizebeth is. That must be attended to at once.

If Liz is the main character I need more of her character shown, especially in contrast to her father.

You have an odd turn of phrase or two.

On Hunting:

  • Full Metal Jacket - designed to penetrate armor, expands very little.
  • Hard Point bullet expands more.
  • Soft Point - Expands more and is the most common bullet for hunting.
  • Hollow Point expands the most and are considered the poorest at penetrating armor. They are also the least reliable bullet, jamming the most due to the physical characteristics that make them expand.

    This last point may be the reason your guy, an obviously experienced killer, might use a more reliable bullet knowing his perfect shot would still kill the animal.


    People don't usually aim for the head, as a miss is more likely, when an off shot at the heart still has a chance because there is a lot of area (that will still bring down the deer) to hit if you miss the heart. Considering your piece, a head shot might be fine for your guy.

    A head shot would demonstrate high skill and possibly some sociapathic tendencies. The goal is to stop the heart from pumping immediately, as panic in the deer causes the meat to taste 'gamey'. Plus, you have to run it down if you don't kill it which most people won't even do.

    The sight of the brains tasted bitter in Liz's mouth. Let's attend to this bit. First, you said she always came with her father, then fail to demonstrate this well.
    So... "The sight of splattered brains tasted bitter in her mouth."
    Should become "The sight of splattered brains always tasted bitter in her mouth.'
    You get it right in the next sentence, but imo it's too late and is also awkward because I doubt she would vomit every time, but if it always tastes bitter and this time she throws up--it demonstrates a growing dissatisfaction with her life in direct contrast to the love she has for her father.

    When Liz is handed the rifle it is the perfect time to SHOW us her experience...your simple statement of her putting it on her shoulder (telling us nothing whatsoever)wastes the opportunity.

    Overall i'd be interested to continue but would also have trepidations. I like that you understand the killer is a particular kind of person, but you sometimes miss opportunities to show this and other times don't capture him correctly. I think more research is needed here. Try the FBI profiling book, some others about special forces and some about killers of all sorts.
u/pepto_dismal81 · 2 pointsr/philosophy

Will Durant's 'The Story of Philosophy' is what got me excited about the subject when i was a young man.

u/hydrokush · 2 pointsr/IndianEnts

An amazing book. If further interested, check out The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant (http://www.amazon.in/The-Story-Philosophy-Will-Durant/dp/0671739166?tag=googinhydr18418-21&tag=googinkenshoo-21&ascsubtag=3523b828-ee86-4fd9-9419-9f38cbc5e481). Another brilliant book which goes in more depth.

u/rnsbrum · 2 pointsr/asktrp

Read something on the history of philosophy, then something about each field, just to understand the basics of it(epistemology, ethics, morals, antropology, methaphysics, logic, aesthetics)



Start with the Greeks (Plato, Socrates and Aristotle) then move up to the scholastic(Thomas Aquine, Saint Augustine) then westerners(Kant, Hobbes, Rousseau, Descartes, Popper, Wittgenstein, Russel, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer) then read about politics.

​

Start by watching videos about the history of Philosophy, what philosophy is and then move to Greek philosophy then to individual philosophers, so that you can understand the context of their ideas. Then, as you get more interested, you can pick up a book of your interest. If you go directly into the book, you might feel overwhelmed and lost.

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If you are looking for something like a "philosophy for life" I would recommend reading reading Meditations by the Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius, if you want something that will shatter your world but its hard to digest read Nietzsche. Both are very redpilled. If you want to pursue higher knowledge, or simply high culture, follow the what I wrote above.

​

These are great men, and we have inhereted their legacy, please take this seriously.

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https://www.amazon.com/The-Story-Philosophy-Opinions-Philosophers/dp/0671739166

u/cryptocap · 2 pointsr/Anarcho_Capitalism

I assume that you meant this book, The Story of Philosophy?

u/octochan · 2 pointsr/atheism

And he became a notorious woman chaser/misogynist afterwards. Not that anyone particularly minded or cared.

Losing the love of his life embittered him but I think physics became his true love. Watching his lectures even in this day and age is marvelous, and I highly recommend it.

Sauce: Gleick's biography (he's an amazing biographer) and A set of lectures from the University of Auckland (NZ.) Also look up Project Tuva for older MIT lectures.

u/marcusesses · 2 pointsr/Physics

Also, you said you want to be an ecologist?

I highly, highly, highly recommend you look at Mark Lewis' site at the University of Alberta. All of his research is in math biology, but he does research areas like invasive species modeling, animal movement modeling, bio-invasion and and ecosystem modeling (e.g rivers, mountains).

He publishes in journals like Theoretical Ecology, Journal of Experimental Biology and American Naturalist. All the links are to papers he's published in those journals.

A word of warning though: just because you have a passion for physics does not necessarily mean you have what it takes to be a researcher in a physics/math related field. You have to love the area you are researching (e.g ecology), but more importantly, you have to love the research PROCESS. As you may have seen from the .pdf links, the papers rely heavily on mathematics. In order to succeed in this area, you have to love solving math problems, writing code, reading journal papers, and solving math problems (yes, I mentioned it twice). If you don't have a passion to do these things, then it will be really hard to succeed.

If I were you, and are really passionate about learning physics, I would find an online resource or textbook that is just above the knowledge you have now, and start studying. I can recommend some resources if you like. If you are truly passionate about physics, start doing problems. Within a year, you will be doing the kind of crazy math you want to do (and be able to apply it to physics problems in no time). If you don't want to work on math problems, then maybe you aren't as passionate as you thought.

Perhaps you can satisfy your desire for physics by reading popular science books (e.g Brian Greene, Stephen Hawking), or becoming a high school science teacher. I can tell you though that what you read in these books, and the actual process of doing science research could not be any more different.

You talk about devotion in an earlier comment. Here's an anecdote about Freeman Dyson from the book Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman

>"He read popular science books about Einstein and relativity and, realizing that he needed to learn a more advanced mathematics than his school taught, sent away to scientific publishers for their catalogs. His mother finally felt that his interest in mathematics was turning into an obsession. He was fifteen and had just spent a Christmas vacation working methodically, from six each morning until ten each evening, through the seven hundred problems of H. T. H. Piaggio's Differential Equations."

Now Dyson was a child prodigy who came from a privileged family, but that's an example of the type of people who "do" math and physics. It makes me wish I hadn't played video games from six each morning until ten each evening playing video games :(

You remind me a bit of myself back when I was trying to figure out what I want to do. Hell, I STILL don't know what I want to do, but I have a bit more experience then I did then when I was an undergrad (all of 2 years ago). So this is like a warning letter to my past self.

Sincerely,

A former mathematical biologist/physicist who discovered is passion for science from reading popular science books, but realized he didn't have what it takes to do research.

u/tolos · 2 pointsr/IWantToLearn

Lots of great recommendations in this thread; I've added a few to my reading list. Here are my suggestions (copied from a previous thread):

u/Roryrooster · 2 pointsr/Documentaries

This is a great biography of the man if anyone wants a good summer read.

http://www.amazon.com/Genius-Life-Science-Richard-Feynman/dp/0679747044

u/proteinbased · 2 pointsr/Stoicism

I just found this: Einstein's Philosophy of Science, on SEP.
It's not a physical book but may serve as an introduction, while also featuring references to relevant books.

EDIT: I have heard good things about this book: Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson.

u/Dimpl3s · 2 pointsr/skeptic

Bottom of his class of like 6. Source I can't site an exact page number.

u/Gereshes · 2 pointsr/AskEngineers

In no particular order but all of the following are great.

  • Skunk Works by Ben Rich - I reviewed it here
  • Ignition! - It's an informal history of liquid rocket propellant and I did a more in depth review of it here
  • The Design of Everyday Things - A book about how objects are designed. It changed how I look at the world and approach design. It took me few tries to get into it the first time.
  • Introduction to Astrodynamics by Battin - A great textbook on the basics of astrodynamics that is both easy enough for undergrads to start, and rigorous enough to keep you interested as your math skills improve in grad school and later.
u/EdwardCoffin · 2 pointsr/booksuggestions

These might be the kind of thing you are looking for. I have read all, and liked them:

u/PLanPLan · 2 pointsr/programming

Xerox PARC was amazing, get yourself a copy of Dealers of Lightning if you haven't already read it.

u/mnemoniker · 2 pointsr/learnprogramming

If you just want a good read, I recommend Dealers of Lightning. It does a great job covering Xerox PARC's influence on computing through its history.

u/jello_aka_aron · 2 pointsr/books

Dealers of Lightning A very eye-opening look at how Xerox invented... well, pretty much everything about modern computing. Laser printers, ethernet, GUIs, video output (instead of character output) all of it came out of an amazingly open R&D environment in one lab.

u/tugger42 · 2 pointsr/programming

Or you can check out this book which will explain so much more of where Xerox was, what they had and how they lost it all
http://www.amazon.com/Dealers-Lightning-Xerox-PARC-Computer/dp/0887309895/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1269090250&sr=8-1

u/zorbahigh · 2 pointsr/comics

I work in cancer research, and haven't read this book but I've heard quite positive things about it. It seem to be ideally suited for an interested non-scientific audience.

u/overduebook · 2 pointsr/science

I know that this is /science and most of the people in here are way ahead of me on this stuff, but for any other laypeople like myself, reading The Emperor of All Maladies was the thing that finally helped me understand this way of thinking about cancer. I've taken classes on genomes and I have perhaps a greater interest than most people in diseases, but somehow it had never quite been made clear that breast cancer is not just a different kind of cancer from lung cancer, but rather an entirely different beast altogether. For anybody who would like a better understanding of cancer, I cannot recommend that book enough. It's one of the best books I've read in the last five years.

u/ZombieAcademy · 2 pointsr/TrueReddit

He's a fantastic writer. If you are interested in seeing the same treatment he gives to depression, but expanded and applied to cancer, then I highly recommend his book.

u/chrzansm · 2 pointsr/AskReddit

Cancer is just a 'better' version of our own cells. This is the one thing that I don't think will ever be gone. Also, the term 'cancer' is way to broad to encompass everything. We all have a little cancer right now, our bodies are just able to handle and destroy the cancerous cells

We will though have personalized medicine, where your genome will predict what cancers you likely will get, and everyone (pending our health care system) will likely be on a cocktail of drugs to minimize the risks of cancer.

If you want a good read, try The Emperor of all Maladies to learn about how cancer has been with us since the dawn of times, and will be with us forever likely.

u/Lacriphage · 2 pointsr/truegaming

In addition to the other good suggestions here, Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America is an interesting look at console development.

u/-staccato- · 2 pointsr/Design

Very interesting!

I will say that it's a shame you discounted the ingame sprites, because the technical limitations are actually a HUGE factor as to why Mario looks the way he does.

Super Mario by Jeff Ryan goes into great detail about this. It's an awesome read, you might like it. It has a lot of information about the internal processes in Nintendo, and how they managed to push into the American arcade market and culture.

u/NottaNoveltyAccount · 2 pointsr/booksuggestions

Masters of Doom

It's the the story of how Carmack and Romero basically revolutionized the video game world with the foundation of id Software and the creation of the Doom and Quake series.

It was published 10 years ago so it's a bit dated, but if you can get past that, Masters of Doom is a really great read.

u/unstoppable-cash · 2 pointsr/btc

There are some notable/deserving winners of the Nobel Prize, like Richard Feynman (shared Physics Nobel award in 1965).

Feynman was brilliant in many ways! He was also a great practical joker.

His book, Surely Your Joking, Mr. Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character is worth a read!

Feynman had a varied career from working on the Manhattan Project during WW2 to determining the cause of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster (1986)

u/mementomary · 2 pointsr/Random_Acts_Of_Amazon

I pretty much only read non-fiction, so I'm all about books that are educational but also interesting :) I'm not sure what your educational background is, so depending on how interested you are in particular subjects, I have many recommendations.

Naked Statistics and Nate Silver's Book are both good!

Feeling Good is THE book on Cognitive Behaviour Therapy.

The Omnivore's Dilemma is good, as is Eating Animals (granted, Eating Animals is aimed at a particular type of eating)

Guns, Germs and Steel is very good.

I also very much enjoyed The Immortal Live of Henrietta Lacks, as well as Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman :)

edit to add: Chris Hadfield's Book which I haven't received yet but it's going to be amazing.

u/vincoug · 2 pointsr/books
  1. Longitude by Dava Sobel

  2. 8/10... so far

  3. Nonfiction, History, Science

  4. An entertaining book about the history of how to accurately measure longitude while traveling at sea. I haven't actually finished it yet but I've read a good portion and feel confident about recommending it to others. Also, if you don't normally read nonfiction you should give this one a shot as it's both entertaining and a quick read, less than 200 pages.

  5. Amazon link
u/KaNikki · 2 pointsr/Random_Acts_Of_Amazon

I don't want to be an adult anymore. Seriously. This sucks. I had to deal with car insurance shit after a small car accident last week and then it turns out my brothers doctor screwed up his records and didn't do a follow up blood test my brother needed. All this while waiting to hear back about a crappy part time job I'm hoping to get. On top of this, my aunt called my mom this morning and said some truly aweful things which caused a huge fight and gave me a terrible case of adjada.

If I win, this ebook looks pretty interesting.

Thanks for the contest!

u/Makaseru · 2 pointsr/Frugal

I don't know which thread (though I would be interested in seeing it) however I recently checked out this book at my library and it has some interesting suggestions along those lines, include cost breakdowns/differences so you can compare to your area

u/Bologna_1 · 2 pointsr/Cooking

Take a look at Make the Bread, Buy the Butter by Jennifer Reese. She explores several recipes and considers things like time, cost, and effort required to determine whether they are best made at home or purchased.

I seldom buy bread anymore - its so easy to make!

u/alohadave · 2 pointsr/Cooking

You should check out the book "Buy the Bread, Make the Butter".

https://www.amazon.com/Make-Bread-Buy-Butter-Shouldnt-ebook/dp/B004T4KXMS

I don't agree with all of her conclusions, but it's worth checking out for her insights into making things at home versus buying.

u/I_can_pun_anything · 2 pointsr/Cooking

Make the bread buy the butter, telling you what's more worthwhile to make vs buy and the foodcost
http://www.amazon.ca/Make-Bread-Buy-Butter-Shouldnt-ebook/dp/B004T4KXMS

u/stalematedizzy · 2 pointsr/norge

Heldigvis er nye verktøy på vei inn helsevesenet, om enn altfor sakte.

Svært mange kan bli hjulpet ut av fortvilelsen ved hjelp av disse, så lenge de benyttes på en ansvarlig måte.

https://www.amazon.com/Change-Your-Mind-Consciousness-Transcendence-ebook/dp/B076GPJXWZ

Michael Pollan On The Healing Power Of Psychedelics

Michael Pollan: "How to Change Your Mind" | Talks at Google

Edit: Er også redd Halvard Hanevold delte samme skjebne, siden det meg bekjent, ikke har vært publisert noe om dødsårsaken hans.

u/b0tch7 · 2 pointsr/Futurology

Everyone interested in this needs to read How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan

u/Something4YourMind · 2 pointsr/LSD
u/TheBroMagnon · 1 pointr/FloatTank

That's a question that can't easily be answered in a quick comment. I highly recommend this book called "How to Change Your Mind" by Michael Pollan: audible and amazon links. One of my favorite reads so far this year.

u/Captain_Midnight · 1 pointr/Psychedelics

Michael Pollan recently wrote a book that deals a lot with the recent studies and trials that are investigating the credibility of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy.

He went on a big book tour, and some of the interviews are up on YouTube.

With Sam Harris

With Joe Rogan

u/mrgermy · 1 pointr/shittyaskscience

Here is a newer book on the subject.

u/Crotherz · 1 pointr/KitchenConfidential

> Setting the Table as Danny Meyer

https://www.amazon.com/Setting-Table-Transforming-Hospitality-Business/dp/0060742763

Ordered it for my Kindle just now. Will begin reading it today. Thanks!

u/peagy · 1 pointr/restaurantowners

I've read mostly books about the craft of Bartending but being interested in owning, and operating my own bar and restaurant I gave this book a read and I thought it had a lot of great insight from many industry leaders. Worth a read for sure :) https://www.amazon.com/Setting-Table-Transforming-Hospitality-Business/dp/0060742763

u/Windadct · 1 pointr/pools

Hey - on the CYA thing, it turns out that TriChor should break down into CYA - but I have Zero CYA unless I add it.... I am looking into this.

ON the "Service" side, It is an interesting animal, the key is developing a culture, and in the pool business ( high employee turnover, low margins, cranky homeowners) this would be tough. But culture (why do we do what we do) , and vision (how we do what we do) - is vital to a good ( happy customer) business. Point being, you may not have to shrink, but show your employees that they work for the clients, not you, THE clients pay them.

After the POol business, I was field service engineer for electric systems, then robotics, then sold service for robots and the sold engineering services.... you get the point...

Service businesses are interesting to me. I recommend Settting the Table, by Danny Meyer, a restaurateur turned restaurant mogul... He created Shake Shack etc.

I am sure you will find many parallels.

u/motodoto · 1 pointr/sysadmin

A huge part of IT work is "customer" service (whether the customer be users, or actual customers of the company). I came from the restaurant industry so that's where I learned that set of chops. The best book on how to treat a customer in my experience is...

Setting the Table by Danny Meyer

u/powerlloyd · 1 pointr/mildlyinfuriating

If you plan to spend any more than a year or so in the industry, you owe it to yourself to read this book. It's a much better response to your comment than I could come up with.

u/Grumpsalot · 1 pointr/Chefit

Principles,
Foodservice Organizations,
Culinary Math are all good technical books to know.

Some already mentioned Leadership Lessons, which is a great read. Also try Setting the Table by Danny Meyers for an overall look on running a hospitality business.

u/HumanTargetVIII · 1 pointr/TalesFromYourServer

These books are a must and Will help you even if your slinging pie

Setting the Table
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0060742763/ref=mw_dp_sim_ps3?pi=SL500_SY125

The Mere Mortal's Guide to Fine Dining
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0767922034

Windows on the World
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1402757468/ref=redir_mdp_mobile

Start with setting the table, it has alot of stuff in it that seems like commonsense, but, if you do it.......you will find that most of it works
"make it nice"

u/jesuslol · 1 pointr/food

Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential is a great read.

u/EvilRobotGuy · 1 pointr/AdviceAnimals

Yes. All these Food Network shows make being a chef seem glamorous, when it's everything but. Everyone should read Kitchen Confidential by Bourdain and then decide if culinary school is a good idea.

u/thenuge26 · 1 pointr/gaming

I remember it from Masters of Doom.

Great book.

u/Poultry_In_Motion · 1 pointr/programming

No, the original company went bankrupt so they asked the game's creator and he said it was fine.

You can read about it in one of the coolest books ever.

u/jooes · 1 pointr/Favors

I've always wanted to read Masters of Doom. I don't have a credit card so I can't order it, and I haven't been able to find a torrent or anything of it. I would be pretty grateful if you could find it for me :)

u/xwonka · 1 pointr/AskReddit

You should read Masters of Doom or at least the first few chapters.

It details how they went about making the game and creating id software. Really engrossing stuff.

u/exeverythingguy · 1 pointr/math

two excellent books by John Derbyshire:

Prime Obsession regarding the Riemann Hypothesis

Unknown Quantity which is about the history of Algebra

u/kingsizedoRJ · 1 pointr/brasil
u/kovrik · 1 pointr/math

Great video! Keep going!

Also, for those who love math, but are not mathematicians (like myself) I could recommend to read the book Prime Obsession by John Derbyshire. It is gonna blow your mind!

https://www.amazon.com/Prime-Obsession-Bernhard-Greatest-Mathematics/dp/0452285259

u/jcmcbeth · 1 pointr/math

Prime Obsession

http://www.amazon.com/Prime-Obsession-Bernhard-Greatest-Mathematics/dp/0452285259/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1261458431&sr=1-1

It explains the Riemann Hypothesis mathematically and historically, alternating every chapter. It explains it at a level that people with a decent ability to understand math can follow.

I've not finished it, but I have gotten 2/3rd through and I've really enjoyed it.

u/tbid18 · 1 pointr/math

I read somewhere (I think it was Derybshire?) that it really should be called a conjecture, but it's been labeled a hypothesis because of its importance/fame.

Edit: nope, here it is.

Here's another.

u/PastryGood · 1 pointr/loseit

I'm very happy that I was able to help :)

And yes, a lot of people will blame everything around them for the misery of themselves. This seems to be the easy way out, but you must ask yourself what good it does in the end. There are things which are outside of your control. What people might do to you, say to you, and so on. However no matter what harsh things you go through in life it is ultimately you that decide how to respond to them. You decide what to do with it. It is as Epictetus once said:

> "Man is affected not by events, but by the view he takes of them."

Usually I do not actually like to talk openly about the philosophy I follow, for the simple reason that I just try to live by it. Use actions, not words. Also for many people it might seem that you try to push something on to them. However I felt in this case I was justified to give an explanation of what exactly helped me :-)

Anyways, if you are interested in the principles I explained, then what you seek is reading on Stoicism. The book that has especially helped me is this one:
Stoicism and the art of happiness

It has eye-opening/life-changing wisdoms and perspectives on everything that has to do with you. How to deal with emotions, what they are, and what is essential to life a good life. Another interesting fact is that many of the mental exercises and perspectives the stoics used is now today amongst some of the most scientifically well-documented practices used by cognitive behavioural therapy (also with a quick google search, you will find that even the founder of CBT was inspired by the stoic teachings), which deals with practically all kinds of mental sufferings you can imagine.

It's a practical book on the life philosophy of Stoicism, and it is written by a credible psychotherapist who also takes interest in the study of Stoicism (hence the book!). It's not academic in any way, it's meant to be easily approachable and easy to implement into your life. Here's a quick breakdown of it all:

Stoicism is a life philosophy that was founded by the ancient greeks around 301 BCE. It's not a religion, or any kind of weird cult. It is a collection of principles that is meant to guide you towards happiness (in greek context meaning something more along the lines of inner well-being and tranquility).

I would suggest you read the book :-) Maybe you will come to pick up on everything stoicism has to offer, maybe you will only pick up whatever principles and wisdoms that you think are right, or maybe you won't find much agreement with it at all, all which is fine. However I think you will find some wisdoms you will definitely find to your liking, as you sound intrigued by the principles. The important thing is that no matter what, it will most certainly set you out on your way to think more about yourself and how to control your life and achieve your own understanding of well-being.

If Stoicism comes to your liking (start with the above book first, though), I could recommend books by some of the most famous ancient Stoics through time. I will leave some here for future reference for you:

Meditations - Marcus Aurelius - This is one of the most famous stoic texts.

Enchiridion - Epictetus

Dialogues and Essays - Seneca

These books read as manuals, not to be read in one sitting. They are huge collections of letters, essays and short passages from these excellent people about everything that has to do with achieving inner well-being, and how to view the world around you. They are remarkable ancient works, and it is truly inspiring and motivating to open them and just read a few of the lines from time to time.

As with anything, it's a learning process to change mindset. But it slowly comes when you study it. You learn the wisdoms and principles they had, you think about them and if they make sense, you apply them and live them, revisit them and so on, until they really become a part of you. It is truly worth the time though, and I think you see that too from what I could understand in your reply.

Best of luck to you! If you have any questions feel free to PM me as well, I'd be happy to help.

u/seanbennick · 1 pointr/ptsd

Try the ice cube trick if the anxiety ever hits and you have a drink handy. I just hold an ice cube in my left hand until it melts. Can still shake hands and everything but the ice cube seems to force my heart to slow down a bit. My best guess is that it triggers the Mammalian Diving Reflex and turns off whatever is derailing.

That trick came from a Viet Nam Vet, has been a huge help as time has gone on.

As for things sticking around, now that I'm well into my 40's the flashbacks and nightmares seem to have slowed to almost nothing - though they can still get triggered by trauma anniversary and other surprises. I have one trauma around a car accident so anytime the brakes squeal behind me I get to have a fun day.

Totally agree that basic Meditation is necessary to get through, can't see it ever being accepted in the public school system here in the US though - hell some places refuse to teach Evolution.

I also think that Philosophy has helped me cope some - Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius have been incredibly helpful reading to sort of adjust the way I see the world these days. I highly recommend the two following books:

http://www.amazon.com/Enchiridion-Dover-Thrift-Editions-Epictetus/dp/0486433595
http://www.amazon.com/Meditations-Thrift-Editions-Marcus-Aurelius/dp/048629823X

u/egoadvocate · 1 pointr/Stoicism

First, I thought Philosophy as a Way of Life by Pierre Hadot had few insights and was dull and hard to understand. I do not recommend it.

I highly recommend The Philosophy of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, a book about stoicism and how it relates to psychology. I read this book twice it was so good. Here is the link:

http://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Cognitive-Behavioural-Therapy-Psychotherapy/dp/1855757567/ref=sr_1_15?ie=UTF8&qid=1371647936&sr=8-15&keywords=stoicism

Also, you have to read the Enchiridion by Epictetus. Here is the link:

http://www.amazon.com/Enchiridion-Dover-Thrift-Editions-Epictetus/dp/0486433595/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1371648137&sr=1-1&keywords=enchiridion+epictetus

u/Catafrato · 1 pointr/LucidDreaming

This is a very good video introduction to Stoicism.

The main ancient Stoic books that have survived are Marcus Aurelius's Meditations, Epictetus's Discourses and Enchiridion, which is basically a summary of the Discourses, and Seneca's Letters to Lucilius and Essays. All these editions are relatively new translations and, in Seneca's case, abridged, but they will give you an idea of what Stoicism is about. I suggest you first read the Enchiridion (it is no longer than 40 pages) and then the Meditations (around 150-200 pages), and then dig deeper if you get interested.

There are other ancient sources, and quite a lot of modern work is being done currently, but those are the ones I suggest you begin with.

Then there are very active modern Stoic communities, like /r/Stoicism, the Facebook group, and NewStoa, with its College of Stoic Philosophers, that lets you take a very good four month long course by email.

The great thing about Stoicism as a way of life is that it has neither the blind dogmatism of organized religion nor the ardent skepticism of atheism. It puts the soul back in the universe, in a way, and, on the personal level, empowers you to take responsibility for your actions and to take it easy with what you cannot control.

u/UncleScam78 · 1 pointr/Stoicism

I have the "Dover Thrift Edition" (Amazon link) which uses the public domain George Long translation, I would recommend it highly.

u/RockHat · 1 pointr/exmormon

Mail is so important to missionaries. It's terribly depressing when you don't have anything because everyone makes a huge deal about it.

I would send him candy or cookies. If you know what he likes, all the better. If it's homemade, that's super cool. There's something about homemade cookies that is just so comforting.

It's hard to say exactly what to write since I don't know him or his situation. He may possibly be dealing with guilt over "unresolved sins" and he's likely very sad at being put in an isolation camp and shut off from his family and friends. It's super hard, and it can continue for several months as he goes into the mission field.

If it were me, I would send my brother in law a copy of Epictetus' Enchiridion (I know it's not an "approved" book but worth the try). Or I would alternatively just quote extensively from it, copy & paste into a letter to get around the rules. You can copy from the Gutenberg Project.

u/zanycaswell · 1 pointr/gaybros

Don't stress over things you can't change. I know that's kinda a cliche, and much easier said than done, but it's absolutely true. Maybe read the the Enchiridion? It's a pretty quick read and a good introduction to stoicism, helped me in some ways.

Obviously some things are harder being gay, but it doesn't mean you can't still live a good life.

u/IntoTheNucleus · 1 pointr/Stoicism

It's from Fragments of Epictetus, to be specific it's this copy. And no, as I mentioned in the description the translators added a * which supported my initial understanding.

u/wrytagain · 1 pointr/Screenwriting

This is the book you want Mind Hunter You might say he wrote the book on the subject. Because he did.

u/pattydo · 1 pointr/MakingaMurderer

If you are remembering that quote from Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit (http://www.amazon.com/Mind-Hunter-Inside-Elite-Serial/dp/0671528904), you are remembering it wrong. It states that serial sexual killers become skilled in "domination, manipulation and control". (key word being serial)

Again, it is far too nuanced to talk about it with such certainty. Are there people who get sexual gratification from the power they have over people in hose situation? 100%. More often than not most likely. But not always.

Here is a scenario. Drunk man takes home drunk girl and they begin to have consensual sex. But part way through, right before he is about to finish even, she wants to stop and expresses that clearly. He keeps going though. That is rape. But I wouldn't say that the motive was power over women. Another good example is spousal rape.

>Imagine holding down someone who's crying and pleading for you to go away, and forcing yourself on them sexually.

Rapes rarely happen like this.

Here are a couple sources on sexual gratification and rape:

https://www.ncjrs.gov/App/Publications/abstract.aspx?ID=64084

http://www.ajol.info/index.php/ifep/article/view/23610

http://www.jstor.org/stable/800239?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14616660110049609

http://socpro.oxfordjournals.org/content/32/3/251

u/mechesh · 1 pointr/funny

you should read this Written by the FBI agent who basically invented profiling.


TL/DR...your statement is wrong.

u/ThisPromptIsThisLong · 1 pointr/UCSC

https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Hunter-Inside-Elite-Serial/dp/0671528904 is basically what the Netflix show of the same name is based on. I recommend both! The show has a lot of scenes reminiscent of the Silence of the Lambs interview scenes, which are amazing.


Edit: I now see that you know about the show, forgive me repetition of useless information.

u/ThierryEnnui14 · 1 pointr/askphilosophy

Will Durant's book is so much better than Russell's. Durant is not as biased regarding philosophers he agrees or disagrees with. And he's simply a much better writer, IMO.

https://www.amazon.com/Story-Philosophy-Opinions-Greatest-Philosophers/dp/0671739166

Durant combined with Kenny is probably the best route.

u/BrickSalad · 1 pointr/moderatepolitics

Study philosophy! Seriously, just get a big ol' book on the history of philosophy like this one and wade your way through it. A good amount of political thought is based on philosophy, so understanding it is essential to truly understanding politics. You'll find yourself pondering the great questions like "What is the value of equality? Is it compatible with freedom? Is government necessary? Is there a such thing as a Just War? Are morals relative?", and your answers to these questions will determine where you lie politically. (I haven't actually read the book I linked to, but I've heard it's good and I don't want to recommend you that $100 textbook I read.)

Now, when you wade into the terrifying mess that is contemporary politics, you should learn and keep in mind all of the logical fallacies, because you'll hear lots of them. There isn't really any place to "get started" with this, just look around for sources of unbiased information. Never trust the mainstream media, don't trust fringe activists either. Of course they're both right from time to time, but you're better off doing in depth research on any position. If your like me, that means you'll be ambivalent about most issues simply because you don't have the time to learn about them. That's okay, sometimes it's best to just say "I don't know".

u/Wylkus · 1 pointr/history

I feel the best way to go about this is to gain a general sense of the outline of history, which isn't nearly so difficult as it may seem as first once you realize that the "history" that mainly gets talked about is only about 3000 years. Learn some sign posts for that span, and then from there you can fit anything new you learn into the general outline you've gained. A couple good books for gaining those signposts are:

A History of the World in 6 Glasses. A phenomenal starting book. Gives very, very broad strokes on the entirety of human development, from pre-history when we first made beer inside hollowed tree trunks (it predates pottery), all the way to the dawn of the global economy with the perpetual success of Coca-Cola.

Roots of the Western Tradition An incredibly short (265 pages!) overview of Ancient Mesopotamia up to the decline of the Roman Empire written in very accessible language. Phenomenal text.

The Story of Philosophy. A bit more dense than the other's, but a tour de force breakdown of the history of Western thought.

Obviously the above is very Western centric, I wish I could recommend similar books that cover Asian history, but sadly I can't think of any (though hopefully others will point some out in the comments). Still though, once you gain the signposts I talked about, learning Asian history will still be easier as you can slot things into the apporpriate time period. Like "Oh, the first Chinese Empire (Qin Dynasty) rose up in the same era as Rome was rising as a power and fighting it's wars against Carthage". Or, "Oh, the Mongols took power in Asia just about right after the Crusades."

As a little bonus, they may not be accurate but historical movies can still help pin down those first signposts of your history outline. Here's a little list.

u/flanders4ever · 1 pointr/askphilosophy

My advice is to dabble in the tradition for a little bit before you consider majoring in it. You have probably taken Physics, History, Math, Economics, etc, in High School and understand what sort of thing you'd be studying if you take any of these subjects as a major. This is not the case for philosophy. To decide whether you want to major in Philosophy, I think you need to do two things. First, you might want to dabble in the philosophical tradition as broadly as possible. You can do this by going through a book that deals with the history of the movement. I wish Will Durant's The Story of Philosophy was my introduction to the history of philosophy. Durant gives his own arguments for why philosophy is a worthwhile thing to study, but also gives a really nice, readable, and informative history of some of the greatest philosophers of all time. The second way to dabble in the field is by taking one philosopher central to the cannon and really get into him. (Hopefully, it wont always be a "him" :). Its not easy to decide which philosopher to read first. In any case, it will be massively difficult to get through whatever book you decide to read, since philosophy books are unlike any other book you were taught in high school. Personally, if i were you, I'd read Durant's work first, and choose whatever philosopher you enjoyed reading about most in that book, and then find the most important book that author has written. If you have trouble deciding that, of course feel free to ask us!

u/surfed_ · 1 pointr/JordanPeterson

Not about PM, but this was a great read for me when I first started exploring philosophy: https://www.amazon.com/Story-Philosophy-Opinions-Greatest-Philosophers/dp/0671739166/.

u/invariant_mass · 1 pointr/Physics

its been a while since i've read it but i recall them mentioning this competition in this biography of feynman, http://www.amazon.com/Genius-Life-Science-Richard-Feynman/dp/0679747044 .

u/lalochezia1 · 1 pointr/AskAcademia

Complain to James Gleick about your issues with this characterization

https://www.amazon.com/Genius-Life-Science-Richard-Feynman/dp/0679747044

u/CalvinLawson · 1 pointr/atheism

Have you read Gleik's book on Feynman? It's absolutely outstanding!

http://www.amazon.com/Genius-Life-Science-Richard-Feynman/dp/0679747044

u/baruch_shahi · 1 pointr/math

I also recommend Genius by James Gleick

u/the3rdsam · 1 pointr/AskReddit

Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman

Yes I would highly recommend it. Especially if you have even the slightest interest in physics. And famous people who frequently...well...had loose morals.

u/Havanaz · 1 pointr/worldnews

Nah, but I did read this book. Einstein did marry his cousin, but they slept in seperate beds.

u/turo9992000 · 1 pointr/pics

He never liked wearing socks, and when he became world famous he said that he had nothing to prove to anybody. He would wear crazy shoes with no socks. He also really enjoyed to play the absent minded professor. source

u/feelthemblues · 1 pointr/AskReddit
u/BlueAjah238 · 1 pointr/DecidingToBeBetter

How about Einstein? I would suggest reading this book about his life

u/yoweigh · 1 pointr/spacex

They recently did a reprint! You can get it for $20 on Amazon now.

u/BrisketWrench · 1 pointr/todayilearned

If anyone would like to know more about the history of Parc, I'd recommend they pick up this book

u/svracer6724 · 1 pointr/technology

Think you mean "Triumph of the Nerds" which is the documentary based on the book Accidental Empires, How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date written by Robert Cringely. A good read, IMO. (Revenge of the Nerds was a movie with Lewis, Gilbert and Booger!)
Also worth a read are: Dealers of Lightning, Xerox parc and the Dawn of the Computer Age by Michael Hiltzik; Go To by Steve Lohr; and Hard Drive, Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire by Wallace & Erickson

u/jnazario · 1 pointr/compsci

one i enjoyed was computing in the middle ages by Severo Ornstein. all sorts of fun stories in the early days of computing and scheduling. i found it a lot more enjoyable than turing's cathedral (i have a dislike of dyson's writing).

another one is dealers of lightning about the Xerox PARC days of creating the GUI, mouse, etc. also looks at how PARC failed to commercialize it due to fights within xerox.

u/S1R_R34L · 1 pointr/webdev

A great book on some of the actual history of this is Dealers of Lightning

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0887309895

u/Shnook · 1 pointr/AskReddit

Emperor of All Maladies

It's kind of like an biography of cancer over the years.

u/geach_the_geek · 1 pointr/biology

I just finished The Emperor of All Maladies and just shortly before that Stiff. I really enjoyed both of them! Emperor is a long read, but well written and very thorough. Stiff is a quick, enjoyable read that's a less academic, but still really interesting. I'm about to start My Sister's Keeper. The PI across the hall recommended it. And I'm reading Introduction to Statistical Thought by Lavine for a class. I added a few of the books other people listed here to my to-read list

u/00Deege · 1 pointr/AdviceAnimals

The nature of the beast is so complex that about a fourth of us will die of cancer, sadly enough. From your personal experience you might identify with and have a little peace/closure from reading Siddhartha Mukherje's "The Emperor of all Maladies." Don't let the author's name or the genre deter you; this is an intensely enjoyable and easy to follow read. Siddhartha Mukherje has a gift for breaking cancer down into a fascinating personification of sorts.

u/jayblackcomedy · 1 pointr/ForeverAlone

Then video games and anime are your passion, simple as that. If that doesn't feel like "enough" because you're only consuming these things, rather than creating them, give creation a try. Or use them as jumping off points to see if maybe you can expand your passions.

For instance, if video games are super-interesting, maybe the history of video games would be interesting to you as well. One of my best friends from college, Jeff Ryan, used the Venn Diagram of "Liking Video Games" and "Liking to Write" to get a pretty nice payday to write a book about Super Mario (http://www.amazon.com/Super-Mario-Nintendo-Conquered-America/dp/1591845637).

The point is, if you love something, you can make that thing the center of your life in a constructive way.

NOTE: there's a difference between "love" and "addiction". A lot of people have porn addictions, which puts them in front of the computer, masturbating 4 hours a day. Paul Thomas Anderson loved porn and used it to create "Boogie Nights". I would take a long look at what I was falling into and try to decide if the thing I find myself doing is a distraction from life or a reason for being alive...

u/JeddHampton · 1 pointr/nintendo

Game Over is pretty much the definitive work. The early chapters talk about all the before stuff. I don't think you get to Donkey Kong for a while. It goes into a few different ventures that Yamauchi was trying. Including a light gun shooting gallery and love hotels.

Super Mario is pretty good as well. It covers a lot of the same events.

[Play Value(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ge1UzO2AQc) did an episode on it. It's pretty light and lacks the details, but it could whet your interest.

u/MTLRetro · 1 pointr/retrogaming

If you like the history, I enjoyed "How Nintendo Conquered America". Gives the business side of Nintendo up to the Wii, with predictions for the Wii U so it's a bit out of date, but I liked it.

Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1591845637/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_4W9QBb69KTPTG

u/shizno2097 · 1 pointr/retrogaming

There is this one too:

http://www.amazon.com/Super-Mario-Nintendo-Conquered-America/dp/1591845637

but if you have read Console Wars... this book will feel very lacking

u/kabuki_man · 1 pointr/nintendo

Y'all should read this. It's fascinating.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1591845637

u/Will_Power · 1 pointr/climateskeptics

>Sure but I'm not revealing who I am.

Did you think I asked you to?

>Name one then.

Richard Lindzen. Shall I name another, or is this counterexample sufficient for you to change your post?

>Again you have very very few and most did not gain widespread acceptance. Do you have an example

The expanding earth theory was replaced by plate techtonics not all that long ago, and with much ridicule of the latter by geologists who adhered to the former.

Tabula rasa in psychology was established science that was finally overturned.

Einstein's static universe has been almost universally rejected.

Luminiferous Aether was universally accepted until photon theory of light was established.

Most recently, the idea that eating fats leads to body fat is undergoing a major revision.

>One example is not really worth anything.

One example is sufficient as a counterexample to your assertion of the saintliness of all scientists.

>I know plenty of professors who have challenged the norm and won.

Please share.

>Without details I can't even check your story or if that guy was right (not that I'm even in astrophysics).

Halton "Chip" Arp.

>There is data from different parts of the world if you read carefully parts have been shown to cool during the medieval warm period.

Cite, please.

>McIntyre isn't a reputable source.

Why?

>McKitrick I've never heard of.

He wrote the paper debunking Mann with McIntyre.

>Got a link?

The whole story of how M&M refuted Mann can be found here

>The IPCC does not use that much paleontological evidence. Mostly it's based on models.

Is it your assertion, then, that the climate sensitivity derived from paleontological evidence that you were so keen on may not be as reliable as you implied?

u/novvva · 1 pointr/Conservative

> Academics are wrong all the time.

Yes, particularly when there is academic fraud and collusion.

u/AuLaVache2 · 1 pointr/environment

Strangely Mann didn't sue when whole blogs and numerous books were written about the dubious statistical machinations of the Hockey stick. Many of his fellow scientists agree with that.

This case seems to be about him being compared to a child molester.

u/zokier · 1 pointr/compsci

Not really compsci in the spirit of Turing, Church et al, but I think some of the olden game diaries etc might be inspirational for todays youth. Personally I enjoyed The Making of Karateka quite a bit; I have Masters of Doom on my reading list, having heard positive things about it.

u/GodOfDucks · 1 pointr/retrogaming

Yep, can't play Doom-era FPS games for more than ~30 mins at a time because of this. Interstingly, in the "Masters of Doom" book, it's mentioned one of the guys who worked on the audio on Doom also got motion sickness from playing it.

u/DreamingDjinn · 1 pointr/gaming

It's not a book, but it's a really interesting YouTube documentary series I stumbled upon while in a "History of Games" class which didn't even scratch the surface of the modern businesses and games. In fact, it only talked about stupid old analog shit. I know there's value in the older counting and race games, but this stuff is more important in the present to someone looking to get traction in the industry.

The channel is called All Your History.

It was a good show until Machinema ruined it in the final season. It's just a great documentary series in general though.

Just noticed this was for a gift. In that case, "Masters of Doom" is a great book. Covers the rise of one of the first indie software companies to AAA dominance. A lot of the people that are mentioned in the book are big developers in their own right these days. It covers ID software's success through about 2003. It would be really interesting to read an updated version, but I digress.


Beyond that, hmm...

u/Vote-Turd-Sandwich · 1 pointr/gaming

This is awesome.

I love Doom and still remember the first time I played it. It totally changed gaming for me but then it totally changed gaming - period. Fans of Doom, the time period, and gaming in general would do well to pick up Masters of Doom - excellent book!

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u/alittleperil · 1 pointr/LadiesofScience

Stop second-guessing your choice of major. Keep your eyes on what you actually want, and remember that the steps along the way will all build there eventually. Check in on your plans when you're picking classes each semester, to make sure you're still on course and still want that ultimate goal. The REU and some lab time will all help.

Try reading some science-related books, not actual science but stuff about scientists themselves or stories about specific scientific discoveries. Like The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Double Helix, Eighth Day of Creation, The Disappearing Spoon, and Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman. Your school should have copies of most of them, and they aren't textbook-heavy (though not quite as light as fiction novels).

Don't forget to stay at least a little rounded. Someone on just about every recruitment weekend for grad school will ask about your hobbies. I'm pretty sure they're required to do so :) Or you'll discover you and your interviewer both do ceramics and can chat about that, leaving a stronger impression than if you were yet another person talking about science. It's good to be done with the requirements, but make sure you keep up something outside your major, even if it's just ultimate frisbee.

u/AstroHelo · 1 pointr/asktransgender

And that's why people drafted against their will would fake illness at MEPS.

If you ever get around to reading "surely you're joking, mr feynman" he talks about draft dodging during WW2 IIRC.

u/SailorDad · 1 pointr/todayilearned

You may be confusing issues. (latitude, altitude, longitude)

Sailors wanted an accurate way to know the "time at port" to compare against local time (observable via stars or sun) so that they could compute their longitude (east or west location on the globe). (The difference in minutes would be equivalent to the relative difference in minutes of arc east/west.)
Grandfather clocks (eg, pendulum clocks) wouldn't work for this, because the rocking of the ship would throw off the pendulum timing.

If I recall from the documentary based on Dava Sobel's book [Longitude(Amazon)] (http://www.amazon.com/Longitude-Dava-Sobel-ebook/dp/B003WUYE66/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1395258934&sr=8-1&keywords=longitude+dava+sobel) (looks like the documentary is available on youtube), the guy (John Harrison in 18th century) who rose to the challenge to make a clock that worked at sea had all sorts of problems with the pendulum motion, and somehow miraculously actually made a "pocket watch" to solve the problem.

u/drunken_monk84 · 1 pointr/ForeverAlone

Okay understood especially if she seemed to be chasing something for the wrong reasons. The Carl Hart book and his podcast appearances definitely (check the Joe Rogan ones) provide an alternative perspective on drugs (including the comparison with the damage of alcohol) thats worth consideration. Looking back I wish I would have been a lot more open minded in high school as I would have probably had a bit more of a positive experience overall (zero social life lol).

Micheal Pollan is worth a check as well https://smile.amazon.com/Change-Your-Mind-Consciousness-Transcendence-ebook/dp/B076GPJXWZ. His Joe Rogan podcast was pretty informative too.

u/Le_Lapin_Noir · 0 pointsr/bartenders

Huh? What are you on about?

And look at what he wrote in the tip. Are you really that bad at your job? Buy this book. Read it. Get back to me.

https://www.amazon.com/Setting-Table-Transforming-Hospitality-Business/dp/0060742763

EDIT: Fuck, if you have a Kindle I'LL buy it for you.

u/yourgrandmasgrandma · 0 pointsr/TalesFromYourServer

I work in NYC fine dining and any one of the thousands in my profession who take hospitality seriously would also cringe at this faux pas. The CEO of my company even wrote about how cringy it is in his NYT best selling business book. https://www.amazon.com/Setting-Table-Transforming-Hospitality-Business/dp/0060742763 He also opened Eleven Madison Park which is consistently rated the top rated restaurant in the world. Definitely not my unique option. You should consider reading this book if you’re interested in hospitality

u/clemaneuverers · 0 pointsr/ireland

I'm not going to defend their lack of publishing. In my opinion lot's of low-end stuff can slide through peer review, since peers are human. It's healthy to be skeptical of that process, which has long been deemed inadequate by many. It's why a website like retraction-watch exists. Politics has long swayed science.

Especially when it comes to matters climate/climatology, there has been much controversy surrounding establishment scientists, journal editors and peer-review panels / process : The Climategate Emails, The Hockey Stick Illusion

These guys may have trouble getting published in a major journal (remains to be seen), but I argue it is not going to be because of their science.

Watching this video is not going to make anyone's head explode. It's just two scientists presenting a study they've been working on for years. It goes against a proclaimed "scientific" consensus but many believe that consensus is not scientific at all, but political.

u/RonBeck62 · 0 pointsr/climateskeptics

Sure, I'll bite. Mann's stupid Hockey Stick used tree ring data that was cherry picked to exclude any indication of the MWP or the LIA. Because those would make our current warm period look like more of the same.

Then he tacked on temperature data from a dataset skewed upward by urban heat sources. Unhappy with how slowly the graph was "spiking", his cronies at CRU "fix" the numbers by applying a correction -- in the wrong direction.

Mann and his UVA cronies refuses to disclose how much he tweaked his data, but more than one book has been written about his junk science. But he keeps clinging to it: “there’s not just a hockey stick — there’s a hockey league.” The mann is an embarrassment to real researchers everywhere.

u/wusticality · 0 pointsr/exchristian

Yes. Have you ever had a psychedelic experience? It's pretty much guaranteed. :)

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u/NowhereUniverse · -3 pointsr/Gangstalking

Don't touch pharmaceuticals for BPD. Practice mindfulness meditation so you get good at watching your mind and explore any past trauma. You can listen to Sam Harris' guided meditations, for example. Recognize that the inability to feel connection is just maladaptive brain mechanisms and trust that there are people you can trust and love/feel-loved-by if you search. Learn about and avoid relationships with psychological dysfunctional people - it's easy to attach to them and get hurt.

Try cannabis, and if you don't suffer paranoia or a "psychotic break" on it, use it to help with the meditation. If you do suffer paranoia or a break, lay off for a bit and continue meditation. You can keep trying cannabis as you get better at dealing with your issues.

Try MDMA if you can get a hold of a pure dose. Don't use too much too often because it's toxic - but you'll feel love unlike anything. If you've felt you've made progress with cannabis, consider psychedelics like psilopcybin starting with tiny doses. Work up to a full experience. LSD can be wonderful, but there are risks. Understand that bad trips are possible, but can be learning experiences.

Again, do not touch standard pharmaceutical solutions, which are lousy for BPD anyway. Read Micheal Pollen's book on psychadelics and the resurgence in research.

I have BPD as well (I'm male). The sensitivity of your emotions can be used for good. Focus on the empathy and learn to control and direct the anger. Avoid alcohol and cigarettes like the plague.

This process will take years, but can be done.

u/matts2 · -5 pointsr/science

>Ok, what are his misconceptions?

When it was written, how it was written, who he is talking to. I pointed that out already. And that is a start.

>He thinks it's a shame that these young men are spending their time only worrying about how to apply science to interpreting their holy book. Is this a misconception of rabbinical students' interest in science?

Well, that it is about interpreting a Holy Book is also a misconception. In their view, and their view is quite important in understanding what they are doing, they are trying to understand God's Law. Oh, and in Judaism, which is not Christianity, there is more than the "Book" that gives God's Law. There is Written and Oral Torah, both from God.

>he in fact tried to help the students settle whether electricity was fire and to prevent any sparks.

Unfortunately there is no evidence the he tried to understand what "fire" meant in the Torah. And that is what matters here, not what modern science talks about.

>I recommend The Meaning of It All for anyone really interested in Feynman's world view. He's actually quite open-minded.

I agree, but he was not perfect or a saint. I would recommend Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman as a start for those who don't have the math. But Meaning is quite good.