Essential books for /biz

Science as Falsification by Karl Popper
How are y'all gonna make good investment decisions until you can prove the theories you use to make them and then codify that and incorporate it into your Personal Knowledge Management? After all if it's good enough for Soros then why isn't it good enough for you? Are you afraid of being rich and buying your independence?
stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/popper_falsification.html

If your interested in power and lording it over peasants then I highly suggest you read Plutarch's Life of Alcibiades. The dude had a lisp and yet was perhaps the greatest seducer of women and political opportunist there ever was.

Also never forget to read as much Cialdini as you can, get that influence and pre-suassion shit down.
I also like Clayton Christensen, basically he says that customer's don't know what they want, and that you should focus on the function of a product or service and not the demographic.

>Also people swear by "how to get rich" by felix denis. I know the title is a bit meme but try it out.
Very good book. There's even a free sparknotes version of it online.
It talks about criteria you should use to find profitable businesses and the ways you deal with people and manage them.
And unlike most other rich books, it was written by a serial entrepreneur who made money in industries that are not self-help.

Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky

The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

The Art of War by Sun Tzu

The 36 Stratagems

48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene

How to Solve It by George Polya

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein

Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill

Theory of Justice by John Rawls

Baby's first steps but this help you get a basic understanding

>learning solidity
>whitepapers
>bitcointalk
>coin discord/telegram
>NEVER FOMO smeared with blood on the wall

I agree with this, obviously it's important to get the basic vocabulary of power structures and philosophy down pat and then start building atop of that with practical knowledge as it lets you identify patterns, label phenomena etc.

However I have to say I found that even being such a short book like only 20% of Art of War is useful, most of it in the first section, for the simple reason that it is a outdated military treatise where much of it is about dealing with terrain and subdividing companies. Only a portion of that is still relevant in modern warfare due to technological advances, and an even smaller part is relevant to business or politics.

I've also struggled to find much value out of 48 laws of power and hoping someone can explain how I should do it - while the stories told are interesting and hes done well to select patterns, I really can't figure out how to apply it in my everyday life and my entrepreneurial pursuits.

Ty user ! Need more plz Sir !

What about you're books ?

Bump. I want to learn more about social engineering and overcompensate for my shitty persuasion skills

Bumb for interest

any notable literature for that? I don't feel very comfortable googling this in the age of massive surveillance

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> I don't feel very comfortable googling this in the age of massive surveillance
Get over it user. They're gonna find you if they want to, you might as well stop being a pussy, go on Google Scholar or check the Economist's archives for articles about the power dynamics of ISIL and mafia organizations and how they retain power.

there was a really great interview, I think it was in the Economist which compared the Mafia, Gadaffi and Stalin together to explain how they create bureaucratic structures which preserve themselves at the top.

A smart person on /biz
What are you holding?

I was long on the Euro but may be time to cashout.

Or buy more... Not sure yet.

These are dutch mostly

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Nice JUST'D 15k

Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

This
You can also listen to the stuff you should know podcast about it, absolutely brilliant.

48 laws of power is mostly workplace politics stuff. You gotta act nice to everyone while holding a dagger to their back. That's the basic point. It's mostly basic social skills anyways. It kinda helped me dominate social situations too

Read Das Kapital to gain a basic understanding of what Capitalism actually was before the Keynesian reforms. Read a bit of psychology to understand the market. Sociology works too but I haven't read much in it.

All of the Soros' work like Alchemy of Finance
The Black Swan: The Impact Of The Highly Improbable
The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion (Un fucking ironically, it could help you)
How To Make People Like You In 90 Seconds or Less

And basically all of the classic ones people recommend. The reason for the last one I listed is because it teaches you about greeting people for the first time very thoroughly and what you should do in terms of how to introduce yourself to someone. It is a great book I found though I doubt its rec'd often

Godspeed

Anyone comments on"skin in the game"?

> You gotta act nice to everyone while holding a dagger to their back.
That is actually a really good way of distilling it, and many power games in general

This, the state will play a big role in the future of Crypto. Also try reading some trotsky as that international leftist globalist crap is inevitably going to happen regardless of our opinions of it, also mein Kampf but that feels obvious, this being Jow Forums and all

You need to start using comas and periods.

Oswald Spengler decline of the west

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Bump.
Also if you're gonna suggest a book, actually give a description of it's contents or for whom and why it might be useful.

Bumping these books

The Strange Death of Europe by Douglas Murray. Nice chronicle of what is happening currently

Also Brave New World by Huxley

This and the 4 hour workweek

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Why?
Also is there anything in How to Wind Friends... that isn't common sense?

How is it a good chronicle?
What makes brave new world Jow Forums relevant?

The Intelligent Investor

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Explain why? That's the Ben Graham one yeah?

Yea the strategies in the book may be a little out dated but it drives home the "characteristics" of a successful investor. I'm still in the process of reading it but it's the complete opposite of how anyone approaches crypto I found it a good book to start with for stocks and boomer financials which I plan to get into after I do my research for a period of time. It also shows how Graham basically achieved higher roi then average no matter what the market over his whole career.