Holiday reading recs?? My three most recent books: - Barbarian Days - Enlightenment Now - The Lazarus Heist
How to Be a Conservative The Machinery of Freedom For the New Intellectual
Just finished "Very Important People" by Ashley Mears—it's basically an academic study of the crazy spending culture in nightclubs. Great balance of entertaining + learning about human nature.
- The Fifth Season - The Splendid and the Vile - Circe love Barbarian Days!
Classics that you skipped in school. Shakespeare, Bradbury, Thoreau, Dostoyevsky, Hemingway, etc.
Have you read "Soul of a New Machine"? So stoked you finished Barbarian Days. Amazing!!
I think at this point this is becoming half of my Farcaster posts, but I feel an obligation to recommend: 1. Three Body Problem 2. Project Hail Mary to anyone who ever asks for a book recommendation, whether they like it or not 😂 Btw if you're a podcast fan, The two Standard Oil episodes on Acquired are awesome.
1. Energy: How the World Really Works (Vaclav Smil) 2. Business: Radical Markets (Glen Weyl) 3. Parable: This is Water (DFW)
Central Banking 101 by Joseph Wang. If anyone else has recs of shorter, plainspoken, easy-to-read non-fiction, would be much appreciated. Not sure if I have energy for the dense stuff over the holidays!