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I recommend this book by Bob Bowman and Charles Butler is a self-help book that provides guidance on how to achieve world-class excellence in any area of your life. The book is divided into ten chapters, each of which focuses on a different golden rule. Its written in a conversational style and is full of personal anecdotes from Bowman's own life and career.
Brothers Karamazov: An absolutely fantastic demonstration of family dynamics (from a purely male perspective). The Idiot: What happens to a close to perfect person in an imperfect world. What I loved about this book, it doesn't go the obvious route (e.g. oh he is too nice and gets exploited, it's subtle) Why you should read: Both books give an interesting inside of "russian" mentality (which I think is very important…
I'm a woman and I didn't either book particularly masculine nor did I feel like the women came off badly. The main female character in The Idiot was fantastic. I consider Dostoevsky one of the best writers in terms of understanding women. I'll resist the urge to quote. It could be that the POVs are more universal than you think. Have you read Crime and Punishment? There's a scene in there that I can hardly believe a…
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What do you mean "to deal with"? There's a lot of misconceptions about marriage, having to "manage" your spouse is one of them. You don't, they're their own person, they can take care of themselves, and if they're dependent on you it's not a healthy marriage.
Each day only has 24 hours, regardless of the number of wives one might have.
The Goal. It's a book from the 1980's about operational management. In particular, it focuses on physical manufacturing. It's in the form of a fictitious personal tale. A plant manager struggles to save his plant from closure, and his marriage from falling apart. The lesson is about lean management. My main takeaway is the realization that when we try to optimize something, we focus on how to do something more effici…
Great recommendation! The book is mainly credited with introducing the Theory of Constraints [1], which asserts that any manageable system's throughput is limited by exactly one bottleneck. He goes on to encourage us to instantiate operating (and thinking) processes whereby we repeatedly discover and mitigate this bottleneck as each mitigation may result in a migration of the constraint. The main observation is that…
I stumbled upon Leonard Susskinds physics lectures on YouTube and bought the accompanying books [1]. The target audience are people like me, who had some intermediate physics and math lectures at university "before life happened". The books and lectures fill the gap between "real" theoretical books / lecture notes and popular science books that try to circumvent math at every cost. [1] https://theoreticalminimum.com/
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents I'm a person that struggles with boundary-setting and have spent numerous years in relationships that have left me as less-than I was before. Imagine people-pleasing to an absolute fault, and being more of a chameleon that adapts to avoid conflicts. This has led to problems of identity, and deriving my sense of worth through others which isn't healthy. Fortunately, I do…
I would try the original book on people pleasing: "No more Mr. Nice Guy" by Dr. Robert Glover. The title may sound lousy but is a very logical book. The author is a PhD in his 60s and he coined the concept. You can start by listening some podcasts where he was a guest. He's genuine and a great communicator. Definitely underrated.
Currently reading Accelerando[0] as a result of recommendations from prior HN book reading threads. Still in the first, Manfred Macx, section, but I look forward to settling down on the couch with it when I have the opportunity. [0]: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/acceler...
I see it’s part 3 in a series. But people also recommend it alone. Do you recommend starting with this? Or something else?
From the Wikipedia entry[0]:
"The book is a collection of nine short stories telling the tale of three generations of a family before, during, and after a technological singularity. It was originally written as a series of novelettes and novellas, all published in Asimov's Science Fiction magazine in the period 2001 to 2004."
Attempt to steer the discussion a bit: has anyone read any good fiction novels lately? I like to always be reading one fiction and one non-fiction book. (My brain can't do two fiction books at once). I already have a bottomless list of recommendations of nonfiction books from threads like this.
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Ya right. Like any one in their right mind wants to have 10 wives to deal with. Dont get confuse hooking up with marriage. I think Esther Perel has written the best stuff on modern relationships. Read her.
Polygamy was the norm for most of ancient/imperial China, Ottoman Empire, Mongols, Ancient Jews etc. I wouldn't go so far as to say it was the norm for most people at most points in history, but considering the populations of the above civilisations it wasn't uncommon either.
Finished reading The Three-Body Problem (Book 1) and it's such a fascinating read! https://www.amazon.com/Three-Body-Problem-Remembrance-Earths...
I really enjoyed the whole trilogy, and highly recommend it to my friends. But its more for the different perspective of a chinese writer talking about western events, and the general outlook of how events progress - the downplay of individuality, the scope of things, and some history of the chinese point of view. However what I didn’t like throughout all 3 books is just how predictable the antagonists are … like the…