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Surprised there's no marriage books on this list...
I'm surprised to see people still fawning over Gates, he's clearly as scummy as all the other billionaires. But apparently to be liked as a billionaire all you have to do is talk smart or smoke weed while tweeting memes.
I haven't even finished it yet, but my favorite book of 2021 is certain to be Rutger Bregman's Humankind . If you are feeling cynical about your species thanks to climate change, COVID, etc. it may be exactly what you need.
Struggled to get into his next book "Utopia for Realists", might need to give it another whirl.
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Time is an extremely precious commodity. It seems somewhat arbitrary to assume that if you like something, you automatically do it in your spare time. It's fairly easy to like more things than you could possibly have time to pursue :)
But when you’re a billionaire almost all of your time is spare time. Aside from basic bodily functions billionaires can spend their all of their time doing whatever their little hearts desire.
And then, how do you prioritize them an allocate time? Some of us might go for 'whatever is the most fun', others 'whatever delivers the most results (for society, or for some obscure personal goal like making a clock that lasts 10,000 years, or a speed metal guitar university for girls, or... anything).
I really like coding, and plan to do it into old age. But I suspect if I suddenly found fifty billion dollars, I would have so many new options for how to spend my time I might well never write a line of code again.
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I liked a lot of the ideas in PHM. I found the protagonist insufferable throughout, though. Perhaps Weir was going for a more flawed character after Watney? (Never read Artemis, so I can't comment there.) I still think it's a good book, and well worth the read. But man did that character grate on my nerves.
Rocky was an amazing character though.
I'm reading Dune and I just bought a couple of neuroscience and math books. Maybe I'll even have time to read them!
Dune is pretty good, actually. It's an artistic allegory on "the path" (as the author calls it). Dune's bene gessiret looks like an allegory on one of the schools whetr candidates who come to the exam (gom jabbar in dune) unprepared, die. The name itself, bene gessiret, the Dune's author must've taken from "binah tipereteth" which means something like "intuition and will". Without at least some familiarity with occul…
I recently read Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life, by Jack Bogle, the founder of Vanguard. Written during the 2008 recession, it's so much more than a business book. It highlights in detail how the financial industry at large leeches so much wealth for itself while creating so little, and offers insights from someone truly introspective of life, business, finance, and the future of the country. Highl…
The title "Enough" made me think of this great poem/story from Kurt Vonnegut: True story, Word of Honor: Joseph Heller, an important and funny writer now dead, and I were at a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island. I said, “Joe, how does it make you feel to know that our host only yesterday may have made more money than your novel ‘Catch-22’ has earned in its entire history?” And Joe said, “I’ve got somethin…
I haven't even finished it yet, but my favorite book of 2021 is certain to be Rutger Bregman's Humankind . If you are feeling cynical about your species thanks to climate change, COVID, etc. it may be exactly what you need.
- List for the lazy - A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence, by Jeff Hawkins. The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race, by Walter Isaacson. Klara and the Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro. Hamnet, by Maggie O’Farrell. Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir.
- List for the lazy - A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence, by Jeff Hawkins. The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race, by Walter Isaacson. Klara and the Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro. Hamnet, by Maggie O’Farrell. Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir.
Above parent nothing but man mumbling after famous persons to invoke the Goddess of transitivity of all properties.
Seriously though, i brought this upon myself by opening one of the fanboi threads does/reads/eats, but how do i filter out the filler more efficiently?
Enter: Dang from Hammerspace