Between 14 and 25 I felt exactly this way. At 25 I started combating this state of mind after my motivation dropped dead for 5 months because of depression. It took me 3 years to improve and I'm still working at it. I'm not a natural leader or an extrovert, so I trained myself to become one. I'll try to describe as briefly as possible the methods I used.


Introspect and understand the forces that shaped your mind
Your personality is the accumulation of all of the events in your life. Start listing on paper all the major bad and good events from your whole life. Then start analyzing, find your own explanations on how these events affected your mind and personality. Try to go deep and search the root cause of each event and the habits that you developed afterwards. This took me months of self-examination and countless interpretations of the events. In time the best explanations will keep recurring. Don't forget to also examine your present actions and the reasons behind them. You will notice the same patterns that keep recurring. This will help you to pin point what are you fighting against and be constantly aware of them. Spend at least 2 hours a week on this task.


Study scientific literature that explains how the mind works
Take some time to improve your know-how about the inner workings of the mind and body. I am an avid documentary watcher. This is ok to get started but to really understand how the mind works you need more. I recall how many things clicked after reading Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps: How We're Different and What to Do About It. Afterwards I had an exceptional great time binge watching this course from Stanford University: Introduction to Human Behavioral Biology, professor Robert Sapolsky. Fantastic lessons and also a lot more things clicked. Feel free to search your own materials to study.


--> Pro tip: Don't fool yourself by chasing astrology, faith BS, the secret, good energies and yada yada. Stay on the clear path. The scientific method has took the beating over the centuries and has constantly survived and thrived by exposing itself to investigation.


Develop a succinct list of the top factors that shaped you, use mnemonics
The purpose of repeatedly writing your thoughts is twofold: first you find out how you got the bad habits and what to do about them, secondly you laser etch in your memory the top most important steps you want to exercise daily in order to improve. My mnemonic is PE-WF which expands to: Personality - Experiences / Work - Fun. What that means? For me, it means that my personality creates/triggers the events that I experience and the experiences that I encounter in return shape my personality. Good experiences shape good habits and vice versa. I see these two as an uninterrupted cycle that feeds itself. There's a saying "Garbage in, garbage out". You get the point. Work-Fun cycle is also important because the feeling that I hadn't had enough fun, makes me work really bad. I'm unfocused, constantly day dreaming and procrastinating. And worse, when I'm supposed to have fun, such as at a party, I cannot enjoy myself because my mind is constantly annoying me with thoughts about the work that I haven't done on time, the money that I don't have, and so and so. Main take-away: be aware of these cycles, don't live on autopilot, take initiative and do something to improve these life cycles.


Start unlearning the bad habits, get going on good habits and thought patterns
By studying about biology, neurology, psychology, evolution, civilization history, economics I got a few jems stuck in my mind.

• Humans have evolved to be social creatures, and by developing language they got the edge in the evolution/survival game. All the elements from the habitat of the ancient human have shaped the modern humans in some distinct ways. By joining in tribes humans were able to share resources and also specialize on certain tasks. Those more willing to take risks, explore and learn new things we're naturally rewarded with resources and success and also became leaders. Good Leaders are a powerful asset for a tribe/community and can mean the difference between starvation and excellent life conditions.
  
• Evolution just cares about the survival of the genes and will do anything for this. In some scenarios it is advantageous to collaborate in harmony, but in other scenarios, predatory behavior and exploitation tend to be just fine. This means there is no actual intrinsic need for a perfect utopia. Survival is enough, and this by itself can bring tons of misery in the world.
  
• Humans need to feel important, it's hardwired in the DNA. You need it, period. Ancient humans, got plenty of food and reproduction opportunities by becoming important in the community. The question is how? What are your expectations. What is enough for you? You want a decent life, or you want to be a exceptional person and go in history? Find what suits you and remember to cater to this need. Pro tip: You don't need to be a jerk while you are at it. Read Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't. This can also turn ugly, people become narcissistic, self-interested and toxic in society. Narcissism breads narcissism.
  
• Long Term Potentiation. In lay man terms: the more you excite a neuron the more it is prone to receive the signal and also it reacts with more powerful signals and more often. In practice this means, the more you think of yourself as being pathetic the more you believe and act like this. Also the reverse is true: the more you think you are powerful, the more you act like that and this in turn reinforces the belief itself.
  There are many more gems to learn but I will leave this to you! These are the tools that help you inspect and debug your behavior. Do this as often as possible.
  
  
  <!>PITFALS<!>
  
  
• Giving up to early. Diets take time, studying takes time, body building takes time... well you see where I'm going with this. Take your time and don't give up early!
  
• Caring too much of the way you are perceived. This blocks your ability to distinguish yourself and become interesting. You inhibit any action because you fear the critics, and you become boring and invisible. Remember: fear of rejection is hardwired in DNA. Ancient man who were cast out of tribes suffered a lot even facing certain death. Modern society has tons of safety nets. If you fail with some friends, you are able at anytime to find new and better friends. Be strong, and accept rejection, this will make you more happy on the long run. Don’t trade compromises that leave you frustrated for social confort.
  
• Chasing fame. Fame is toxic venom. Just don't let it alter your brain. Chase what makes you happy. Fame is a trap. Fame is a dead end. Good life experiences, wonderful friends, healthy diet and exercise, these are the things you need. Not fame.
  
• Vices of all sorts: TV, Gaming, Betting, Drugs, etc. Nothing good comes out of addiction. Here's a nice and short video about the mechanics of Addiction. Addiction is all about compensating for lack of good social life.
  
• Don’t confuse love with power Be strong, self sufficient and love somebody just because you love them, not because you feel weak and you need comfort. Don’t chase somebody just for the feeling of empowerment and social status.
  
  
  TIPS & TRICKS
  
  
• Meditate/Introspect weekly You know the benefits. Just don't get lazy! The more you accept yourself the faster you will progress.
  
• Become good at your hobbies Excellence in hobbies can boost your self esteem a lot. Why not have fun and also improve your mindset at the same time?
  
• Running, diet and good sleep I cannot overstate the benefits of running and dieting. I recently started a serious training plan, and the benefits manifested almost instantly. Good physical shape builds self-esteem. You get complimented. You train your motivation. You get healthy, fast!
  
• Find social groups that gather around a certain activity For me is running. I don't feel awkward being there. I can make lots of friends fast. I can feel good sharing stories of things I like and I can praise other for their achievements.
  
• Learn to understand people and support them Knowing how your mind works means knowing how anybody's mind works. This enables you to be a supportive and a patient friend for others. This will improve your social life a lot. Read How to Win Friends & Influence People, by Dale Carnagie
  
• Information gathering I find Reddit and outstanding source of information that allows me to stay up to date in the shortest time possible. No clickbait, no wasted time. Thank you Reddit! Also YouTube has some great channels. I recommend Stefan Molyneux as good source to get started on politics, geopolitics, social issues, philosophy, etc. Great commentary and explanations on his channel. Also other channels are available that cover topics from different angles.
  
  TLDR: Understand how your past experiences shaped your personality. Find what triggers your bad habits. Learn how the mind functions (the science behind biology, neurology, psychology, evolution) and use these as your tools to improve your mindset. Exercise daily your mindset and try to review your actions, find better ways to react and apply these findings in the present. Find wonderful people trough hobbies. Enjoy life!
  

This question really piqued my curiosity, because it reminded me not to take the things I know for granted. Being born in the early 80s, and having been introduced to videogames by older siblings and my parents in that decade, and then being involved with videogames either in the industry or as an avid enthusiast, the obscure (and most times useless) history of the medium is something I've taken for granted.

Recently, as older millennials and younger Gen X'ers have reached maturity (or middle age), there have been a surge in books, documentaries, and other materials about videogames... As they're seminal in many of our lives and so now we're looking back and writing these nostalgic retrospectives. Many are trash, even some of the best are still trash, but I'd recommend a few of them... The following are either entertaining, informative, or some balance of both:

• Blake Harris' Console Wars Amazon, a book released in 2014 that details the rise and fall of Sega of America. I think the writing is rough, at least, it tries to Aaron Sorkinize too much of the history and comes off insufferably cheesy at times, enough so that I just had to put the book down and shake my head with douche shivers, but because Harris' has one on one interviews and access to Kalinske, the head of SoA at the time, you get a lot of first hand details that just aren't available anywhere else.
  
• David Kushner's Masters of Doom Amazon, written in 2004 was one of the first contemporary books to get into the details of the videogame industry. This was mostly an untapped medium when Kushner was writing the book, as writing about a videogame company was just not in fashion in 2002 or 2003. Like Console Wars, the conversations are fictionalized but most match up to the actual events detailed in the book. It follows the origins and rise of id software, one of the most influential western developers who more or less invented the first-person shooter (even if they weren't truly the first, they certainly popularized the genre and most of what we take for granted in the first-person genre, id pioneered and introduced). id's fingerprints are on thousands of modern games, and the two founders of the company -- John Carmack and John Romero -- are often considered father's of modern action games, they also have a tumultuous relationship with one another, at the time often likened to John Lenon and Paul McCartney, and so the story of id software is also the story of their personal relationship.
  
• Gaming Historian YouTube Channel (google it, it should come up). Many of these videos are dry and some border on clickbait, but the majority are well researched and provide a good nugget of history into videogames.
  
• The King of Kong Documentary. It's not completely factual and it takes artistic license to make a better story, but it's probably the best videogame-focused movie ever made, even despite those inaccuracies. Why you should watch it? It's a great introduction into competitive gaming in the 1980s and how videogames worked. There are other materials that have informed this movie and you can start with the movie and just google questions, and because the movie was so popular there's a lot of interesting research that goes into the mechanics of it.
  
• NoClip, a Youtube Channel. NoClip has only been around for a year or a little more, but they're well funded and produced videogame documentaries... Most focus on some new aspect of gaming, but still walk back into the influences of the developers, which aren't cheesy... they're well informed and well made. Particularly, the interview with the developers of CD Projekt and how being under the heel of communism influenced how they built games and ultimately what makes a game like The Witcher so compelling.
  
• SuperBunnyHop YouTube Channel. Guy who does breakdowns of videogames and his informative retrospectives are some of my favorites. He introduced the concept of, "But what do they eat?" to me, which goes into a wider theory about creating realistic or believable game worlds. If you're in any game world, walking around, and there are creatures living there, if the game subtly answers the simple question "But what do they eat?" it makes the game world so much more believable because it's an indication that the developers/designers have really put more thought into the believability of their world. Most great games answer this central question or punt on it in a convincing way.
  
• Joseph Anderson YouTube Channel. His video breakdowns of games are just so good. He's probably most recently gotten notoriety by being critical of Super Mario Odyssey, at least, critical enough to say "the game isn't perfect..." And after playing Odyssey and feeling kinda meh on it after a while, I watched his video and it just felt so apt for me. He also does great analysis of mostly recent games, but most of those are informed by previous games, and goes into the mechanics of balance, pacing, mechanics, and the simple systems that inform most good game.
  
• RetroGame Mechanics Explained YouTubeChannel. These are typically technical breakdowns of how concepts in retrogaming worked, and are usually pretty involved. Not always light watching but informative.
  
• Mark Brown's Game Maker's Toolkit YouTube Channel. Breakdowns of videogame theories/concepts, largely.
  
  This is by no way supposed to be an exhaustive list, just a list of stuff that I enjoyed and others might too... Part of these videos/movies/books is video game theory, part is history, part is just sheer entertainment value, but I think anybody who is into videogames enough to talk on 'True Gaming,' would probably enjoy most of those.

I should do a better job at archiving studies. Quite a few were posted within the last 6 months. I think this video provides a lot of medical evidence supporting fasting. Might also check out The Obesity Code book.

https://youtu.be/tIuj-oMN-Fk

IF Success Stories

Here are some recent people that had success with IF that posted recently. Seeing these real people experiencing life changing weight loss is pretty amazing!

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/intermittentfasting/comments/dvt79a/i_qualified_for_my_600lb_life/
   
2. https://www.reddit.com/r/intermittentfasting/comments/dtu85k/one_year_later_this_forum_has_helped_me_lose_100/
   
3. https://www.reddit.com/r/intermittentfasting/comments/d3a0zb/i_have_been_doing_if_186_since_february_and_most/
   
4. https://www.reddit.com/r/intermittentfasting/comments/ds2sll/tried_on_my_old_clothes_after_losing_220_lbs_2018/
   
5. https://www.reddit.com/r/intermittentfasting/comments/drr6wt/from_november_4_2018_2224_to_november_4_2019_1456/
   
6. https://www.reddit.com/r/intermittentfasting/comments/dkcpmc/july_2018_october_2019_keto_if_with_some_ef_65/
   
7. https://www.reddit.com/r/intermittentfasting/comments/d8wu28/down_170_something_in_13_months_every_day_is_a/
   
   Calorie Restricted CICO
   
   Why don't I think traditional calorie restricted diets (CICO) work? Because it has been the mantra for the past 40 years+. This was the result or a nationwide study:
   
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Obesity_state_level_estimates_1985-2010.gif
   
   Our country is now 40% obese. You may be one of the few that have bucked the trend. But for most Americans, obesity is a worsening problem and people just can't control their weight. They want to, but don't have the tools.
   
   Opposition to Fasting
   
   Not everyone is in favor of reducing obesity. Because a lot of companies and people that run those companies make a lot of money by selling food, drugs, and services to the obese population. Be it sodas, cookies, cereal, chips ... insulin, statins, diet pills ... Dr visits, hospital stays, medical procedures ...
   
   The food industry makes a ton of money selling insanely expensive (relative to their cost to produce) foods designed to make people crave them. And they have plenty of money to influence medical research (which they definitely do) in their favor. Good studies are expensive. And its typically the food companies that fund such studies. And studies they approve and fund are 7x more likely to have favorable results for them. Studying fasting is not high on their lists of studies to fund - unless they introduce variables to try to give them an edge.
   
   One of the favorites is to have short term monitored studies. For example, two groups. One does IF and one does traditional calorie restricted diet. They eat exactly the same things. A month later they both lose the same amount of weight. Bingo - they're equally effective. But then you read in the notes that the IF folks remarked they weren't hungry and that the non-fasters complained they were constantly hungry. Is this relevant? I'd say that study proves IF is going to make it much easier to lose weight. Guess its all in the spin. And they headline is they are equally effective.
   
   Is the food industry just an innocent player providing safe healthy food to a nation? You might want to read this New York Times Bestseller from a few years back. Follow the link and click the look inside and read the first chapter for free.
   
   https://www.amazon.com/Salt-Sugar-Fat-Giants-Hooked/dp/0812982193
   
   (TL;DR - They knew the their food is what makes children obese more than 6 years ago. They collaborated secretly and decided to ignore it because of the impact to their profits)
   
   Benefits
   
   People don't need a triple peer reviewed longitudinal falsifiable studies that definitively prove IF works to give it a try. If they need to lose weight, let them try it for a months or two. Doesn't work, what have they lost? It's free to try.
   
   The benefits don't end with losing weight. Look into autophagy. It might help prevent Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and cancer. And fasting makes your body do it. Fasting is anti-inflammatory. So many health issues are related to inflammation.
   
   Here's my story.
   
   

• lost 50 pounds in 5 months and maintained it for 9 months (so far)
  
• never get hungry
  
• eat big delicious meal every day til I'm full
  
• have a lot of energy and feel great
  
• exercise every day because I can and my body wants to
  
• Dr is thrilled. My resting pulse is in the 40s and My LDL dropped by over 60 points into the normal range. (He was so surprised he wanted to understand what I did. I explained while is pudgy nurse listened in. A few months later the pudgy nurse was slim and trim - she did OMAD and dropped her weight! She was very appreciative!)
  
• achy knee isn't hurting anymore and I can run 5k
  
• haven't had a sinus infection or illness that has sent me to the Dr (while before I was going at least twice a year)
  
• my toe nail fungus is cured after 2 years trying to get it to go away - better circulation and a stronger immune system
  
• dentist is thrilled with my teeth and gums (I guess if you're not eating so often, there's not much food bacteria on your teeth)
  
• love eating and living this way - going back to food addicted eating multiple times a day would be a huge step backwards for me.
  
  I'll mention one other thing. Life has been especially stressful recently. None of your business but it a very sick child and some very complicated decisions that are largely out of our hands. My wife and I aren't sleeping very well. (Reddit is a nice distraction.) Its very easy to turn to food at times like this. And my wife has been. But I have not been craving food outside my eating window even in this state. If I were, I might succumb to be honest. I do eat well every day. A few more carbs? Probably. But weight staying within my normal 5 pound range. If I can do this with the current level of stress in my life, I can't imagine anything derailing me.

> A useful asset would seem to be someone the company couldn't afford to turn away. An unpaid intern is use a valuable resource to exploit. How do you reconcile these ideas?

Both the company and the employee should be useful assets to each other. (Or, if you're more cynical about it, both the company and employee will be mutually exploiting each other.)

One of the top-selling business books - Good to Great says that the best leaders "Confront the brutal facts, but never give up hope." It's talking about CEOs, but you can apply it to new grads just entering the job market. Brutal facts for a new grad:

• You have less experience and fewer tangible skills than anybody else on the job market.
  
• You lack a track record or any public information about your past accomplishments. It's hard to convince a hiring manager to trust you when you have no data.
  
• You lack connections and a network of people that have worked with you before.
  
• You often lack a conceptual framework for what professional success in the working world looks like or what employers are looking for.
  
  Balancing that, you do have some assets:
  
  
• First and foremost, you have time. When you're a new grad, your whole working life is ahead of you. Many companies hire new grads specifically because they hope that they will get a long, fruitful career out of them.
  
• You're often willing to work very hard and try new things.
  
• You have few commitments as a young 20-something, meaning that you have freedom to take bold career moves like relocating, or the ability to work extra hours to complete a project.
  
• If you completed a 4-year degree, you have demonstrated the ability to show persistence and follow through on something challenge.
  
• You hopefully have decent social skills and experience hanging out with other people.
  
• You often have better technology skills than older people, and are more in touch with recent cultural developments than them.
  
  If you want to approach your career strategically, you should leverage the assets you have to convince other people to give you the assets you need. You do this by giving them what they want and asking for things in return. So pretty much all of the advice that the OP gave is about highlighting the assets you have:
  
  
• When you request a face-to-face meeting with a hiring manager, you have a chance to demonstrate social skills and ability to work with people.
  
• When you do this politely but repeatedly, you show persistence.
  
• When you go for the hiring manager instead of HR, you show that you are thinking of what others need and not what you need.
  
• When you talk face-to-face and offer to shadow the team, you demonstrate time and flexibility.
  
  In return, you should be looking to acquire the assets that you don't have, so that you are not so disadvantaged in your next job hunt. For example:
  
  
• By entering the workforce, you learn tangible skills that you can apply to a future employer.
  
• You get the brand name of your previous employer, which makes future ones more inclined to trust you.
  
• You can build a network of people that are personally acquainted with your skills, all of whom have their own networks of personal contacts.
  
  The OP suggested going blue-chip, which is the traditional advice. I personally didn't - I worked for a couple startups, founded my own, and then ended up at Google, relying much more heavily on skill development than the brand name. It doesn't actually matter - your actual career path will depend heavily on the opportunities that are available to you. (I wasn't looking to end up at Google, for example, but they said "yes" and I figured it was an opportunity worth taking.) The important thing is that you very honestly take stock of what you lack as an employee and then take the steps to acquire that, using all the resources you have available to you.

I don't remember if I had finished it, but I found What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry to be interesting (and it's especially interesting to consider in light of the trend toward cloud computing - if counterculture influenced the personal computing revolution, what cultural force is pushing us into the cloud?)

Not related to hackers or the computer revolution at all, but I also very much enjoyed Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture.

There are also a lot of fun stories on https://www.folklore.org/ relating to the creation of the original Macintosh. Along those same lines is the documentary from 1995 called Triumph of the Nerds. You can find it on YouTube.

If you want to see something truly amazing, go watch The Mother of All Demos. Or rather, first imagine yourself in 1968. Intel had just been founded earlier that year. The moon landing was still ~ 6 months away. Computers were things like the IBM System/360. UNIX was at least a few years away, much less the derivatives like BSD. OK, now that you have the proper mindset, watch that video. It's pretty amazing to see all the things that they invented and to see just how many have survived to this day.

Entrepreneur Reading List

1. Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble
   
2. The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
   
3. The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
   
4. The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything
   
5. The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win
   
6. Permission Marketing: Turning Strangers into Friends and Friends into Customers
   
7. Ikigai
   
8. Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition
   
9. Bootstrap: Lessons Learned Building a Successful Company from Scratch
   
10. The Marketing Gurus: Lessons from the Best Marketing Books of All Time
    
11. Content Rich: Writing Your Way to Wealth on the Web
    
12. The Web Startup Success Guide
    
13. The Best of Guerrilla Marketing: Guerrilla Marketing Remix
    
14. From Program to Product: Turning Your Code into a Saleable Product
    
15. This Little Program Went to Market: Create, Deploy, Distribute, Market, and Sell Software and More on the Internet at Little or No Cost to You
    
16. The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully
    
17. The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
    
18. Startups Open Sourced: Stories to Inspire and Educate
    
19. In Search of Stupidity: Over Twenty Years of High Tech Marketing Disasters
    
20. Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup
    
21. Content Rules: How to Create Killer Blogs, Podcasts, Videos, Ebooks, Webinars (and More) That Engage Customers and Ignite Your Business
    
22. Maximum Achievement: Strategies and Skills That Will Unlock Your Hidden Powers to Succeed
    
23. Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
    
24. Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant
    
25. Eric Sink on the Business of Software
    
26. Words that Sell: More than 6000 Entries to Help You Promote Your Products, Services, and Ideas
    
27. Anything You Want
    
28. Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers
    
29. The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business
    
30. Tao Te Ching
    
31. Philip & Alex's Guide to Web Publishing
    
32. The Tao of Programming
    
33. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
    
34. The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity
    
    

    Computer Science Grad School Reading List
    

    
    

35. All the Mathematics You Missed: But Need to Know for Graduate School
    
36. Introductory Linear Algebra: An Applied First Course
    
37. Introduction to Probability
    
38. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
    
39. Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers Through Society
    
40. Proofs and Refutations: The Logic of Mathematical Discovery
    
41. What Is This Thing Called Science?
    
42. The Art of Computer Programming
    
43. The Little Schemer
    
44. The Seasoned Schemer
    
45. Data Structures Using C and C++
    
46. Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs
    
47. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
    
48. Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming
    
49. How to Design Programs: An Introduction to Programming and Computing
    
50. A Science of Operations: Machines, Logic and the Invention of Programming
    
51. Algorithms on Strings, Trees, and Sequences: Computer Science and Computational Biology
    
52. The Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation
    
53. The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine
    
54. Computability: An Introduction to Recursive Function Theory
    
55. How To Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method
    
56. Types and Programming Languages
    
57. Computer Algebra and Symbolic Computation: Elementary Algorithms
    
58. Computer Algebra and Symbolic Computation: Mathematical Methods
    
59. Commonsense Reasoning
    
60. Using Language
    
61. Computer Vision
    
62. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
    
63. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
    
    

    Video Game Development Reading List
    

    
    

64. Game Programming Gems - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
    
65. AI Game Programming Wisdom - 1 2 3 4
    
66. Making Games with Python and Pygame
    
67. Invent Your Own Computer Games With Python
    
68. Bit by Bit

Here's my suggestions:

• Freakonomics is a fun introduction to economics. It has some caveats (most high-level economists disagree with the book) but I think it's a great way to get excited about economic concepts and see some of the things you can do with them.
  
• There are a bunch of excellent topic-focused lighter-reading economics books such as: Wikinomics, The Wal-Mart Effect, and Predictably Irrational, to name a few.
  
• I know you said "pop-sci" but if you're into mysteries at all then there's a fun series of two books written by a pair of economists called Murder at the Margin and Fatal Equilibrium. The books are murder mysteries in which the main character solves the mystery using economic principles. They are a little silly but an entertaining read.
  
• If you're interested in something a little more hands on there are a number of free (low expectation) online introductory courses. The University of Illinois in particular is offering a completely free course in Principles of Microeconomics. It's fairly unorthodox and should be both fun and informative. I highly recommend it from personal experience.
  
  Hope that helps!

> Roosevelt declared that "all banking transactions shall be suspended." Banks were permitted to reopen only after case-by-case inspection and approval by the government, a procedure that dragged on for months.

This is a load of crap. The bank holiday restored the confidence of American savers and investors more so than probably any other action. Banks were closed on March 9, 1933 and began to reopen only after thorough auditing. When the banks opened on March 12, depositors, despite the suspension of gold convertibility, began putting their money back in the banks. Within a week, $1 billion had been put back into the banking system that had fled during the runs on banks prior to Roosevelt's inauguration. On March 15, the New York Stock Exchanged opened for the first time in 10 days and the Dow jumped 15%, which was the largest single day movement in its history. By the end of the month of March, 2/3 of all banks were reopened and $1.5 billion had returned to the banks.

> This action heightened the public's sense of crisis and allowed him to ignore traditional restraints on the power of the central government.

If you know anything about the legislative history of the New Deal, you would know that Roosevelt constantly fought with leadership in Congress and that there were a multitude of compromises on every major piece of legislation that went through. Moreover, the Supreme Court of the early 1930's was extremely conservative and constantly shot down New Deal initiatives. Roosevelt was hardly able to avoid the separation of powers.

> In their understanding of the Depression, Roosevelt and his economic advisers had cause and effect reversed. They did not recognize that prices had fallen because of the Depression. They believed that the Depression prevailed because prices had fallen.

The Great Depression was a two stage affair. The stock market crash in October 1929 was the first part. The second was the collapse of European economies and currencies in 1931. The stock market crash drove prices down, i.e. caused deflation, because it reduced economic activity. The problem, however, is that the deflation became its own force after 1931. Insistence on keeping the gold standard kept prices even lower because global demand for gold was at an all time high. Since gold could not appreciate in value and was the backing of currency, prices depreciated in comparison and raised the real cost of borrowing significantly. This choked off almost any form of industrial investment and severely exacerbated the then recession and is really the point where it became the Great Depression.

> Besides being theft, gold confiscation didn't work. The price of gold was increased from $20.67 to $35.00 per ounce, a 69% increase, but the domestic price level increased only 7% between 1933 and 1934, and over rest of the decade it hardly increased at all

First, it wasn't theft, the citizens were compensated with cash in exchange for gold and there were plenty of exemptions for art, coin collecting, and personal coins up to a certain limit. Second, the suspension of the gold standard was overwhelmingly supported by financial and consumer markets. On the day the change was announced, the NYSE jumped 15%. Within three months, wholesale prices had risen 45%. This lowered the real cost of borrowing significantly and investment began to flow into the private sector--orders for heavy machinery rose 100%--and into consumer markets--auto sales doubled. Overall industrial production rose 50%.

After this, the author talks a lot about he AAA, which I have not read a lot about. It was declared unconstitutional and was passed by Congress again with significant modifications. There had been a serious glut of production since agricultural prices were low throughout the 1920's and the deflation post 1931 only made things worse (with that production fueling further deflation). Like I said, however, I don't really have much to say on this topic.

> Industry was virtually nationalized under Roosevelt's National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933.

This is a hilarious claim. The author somehow wants this to be the project of government takeover of private industry AND that big business men were happy to write and implement the codes. This is quite the funny contradiction. For sure, the NIRA was misguided at best, but the author is only correct in his later claim. The NIRA was Roosevelt's attempt at bipartisanship. It was largely co-authored by Gerard Swope, who was president of General Electric (also very influential with Republicans). The NIRA codes released business from anti-trust regulation if they agreed to the terms of the code. The problem is that since it was designed as a benefit, you were allowed not to join the codes. See Section 6(a):

> 6. (a) No trade or industrial association or group shall be eligible to receive the benefit of the provisions of this title until it files with the President a statement containing such information relating to the activities of the association or group as the President shall by regulation prescribe.

Moreover, the NRA, the enforcing agency, had no powers to compel compliance to the codes other than issuing notices and as such companies filed their codes and then ignored the parts they didn't like. The drop in business support came mostly from Section 7(a) which was the first national recognition of the right to collective bargaining; given the historical employer opposition to unionization, this is hardly surprising.

The author then goes on to attack the NLRA (which aided a dramatic increase in union density, raising median wages not just of union workers, but of others through the spillover effect), the FLSA (which provided the first national workplace protections for workers not covered by a union contract and established the minimum wage and overtime), and the WPA (which built 480 airports, 78,000 bridges, and 40,000 public buildings, among other things (remember these are additions to the asset side of the national balance sheet in addition to their cost). I could talk equally as long about each one of those laws/organizations, but I really don't feel like it at this point.

This article was clearly written with the intent of establishing that any increase in the size of government is bad and neglects many important facts and figures in attempting to do so. It's the reason why I automatically dismiss things written for the Von Mises Institute; it's a blatantly political organization which is actively pushing a libertarian agenda. There's nothing wrong with that, but I'm not going to take it in r/History.

If you're curious as to my sources, they are as follows:

• Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, by H.W. Brands, Professor of History, University of Texas, Austin
  
  
• Building New Deal Liberalism: The Political Economy of Public Works, 1933-1956, by Jason Scott Smith, who was a fellow and assistant professor of history at Harvard and Cornell and is now at the University of New Mexico.
  
  
• "Lessons from the Great Depression for Economic Recovery in 2009," Christina D. Romer, Council of Economic Advisers
  
  
• Lords of Finance, by Liaquat Ahamed, who worked at the World Bank and for several investment management groups. The book won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in History.
  
  
• Stayin' Alive: The 1970's and the Last Days of the Working Class, by Jefferson Cowie, assistant professor of labor history at the Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations.
  
  
• Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939, by Lizabeth Cohen, Howard Mumford Jones Professor American Studies at Harvard

The two books I'd recommend are Founders at Work
and Don't Make Me Think . even though this is more on the technical side it's an amazing book about user experience which most entrepreneurs should try to master :)

"Behind the scenes" meaning stories that aren't fabricated to make good TV but to give the viewer a better understanding of what goes on behind a product / website. TED talks are great with that so I'd highly recommend watching these https://www.ted.com/talks?sort=newest&topics%5B%5D=entrepreneur

The more dramatic but easy to keep in the background type shows are

• Shark Tank
  
  
• The Great Food Truck Race
  
  
• Undercover Boss
  
  
• Hotel Hell
  
  
• Kitchen Nightmares
  
  Hopefully some of these help!
  
  

There are always drawbacks to any investment. If you know how to properly evaluate individual securities (and perhaps have access to an algo or two highlighting the proper buy and sell signals) then there are a whole range of additional options available. Yes, REIT ETFs tend not to be correlated with stocks in general but during extreme events, many different types of investments will fall in unison. Remember though, correlation does not equal causation. If your time horizon is long and your main objective with holding REIT ETFs is to have some "rental income" that doesn't get taxed as rental income and be diversified owning a fraction of a portion of thousands of different properties; then they are great. Massive market downturns are perfect times to buy more REIT ETFs and increase your average monthly dividend as a result; just keep DCA and market dips (especially flash crashes like the 2010 one or the August one) are silly little things that you simply ignore. Not much the average investor can do about those anyway unless you're running your own HFT firm and have a server in the basement of the NYSE or TSX. I might be a tad naive but since there's no way that I can ever beat an HFT at individual trades (don't know how quickly you're able to fill your orders but I don't operate in nanoseconds on my end) I figured that I might as well ignore them. Just avoid market orders (stick to basic limit orders) and if you're really paranoid you can limit your trades to specific exchanges thus avoiding most darkpools. But we're talking about "scalping" fraction of pennies per share or even per trade here. Not really something the average person, especially not the long-term investor will ever really worry about. And unless you have millions of dollars, you're likely uninteresting to HFT algos anyway. Anyway, as you said... off topic from the original stuff but wanted to point out that I'm aware that I'm over-simplifying many of my statements (but in reality, most people don't need to know about the plumbing how their trades are executed and how flash crashes can occur etc in order to invest for the long-term). So despite finding the topic very interesting, I tend to stay away from it. For those wondering what on Earth u/FFrozen1 and I are speaking about, have a look at this data from Nanex looking at how many quotes are created sent out by HFTs vs. how many actually get filled. Also, there are a few great books on the subject: Dark pools and Flash Boys to name but two. These are slightly more advanced than "The Wealthy Barber Returns" for example but they make for a good read for anyone interested in learning more about how the market operates.

If only I would have been aware that Behavioural Finance existed as a field before starting my studies, I would have most likely pursued that instead. At least I'm in a related field so I can always do some research in that area. Time will tell... As for leverage and ETF effects on volatility (those are future post ideas so stay tuned :)

Thanks for the extra suggestions!

I see that Intelligent Investor by Graham has already been posted but that's certainly a good one. However it can be a bit dry for most readers and if you would prefer something a bit fresher I would read Deep Value by Toby Carlisle. He discusses and critiques Graham's teachings along with the strategies of other notable value investors such as Buffet, Icahn, Greenblatt and many others all in a more modern tone. It's been the bible for my own value investing strategies.

Other books to look into are:

• Dhandho Investor by Monish Pabrai (lots of simple strategies and examples for small risk - big payoff investments)
  
• Education of a Value Investor by Guy Spier (good for understanding the discipline and mental state of a good value investor)
  
• Michael Lewis books such as Big Short and Flash Boys (These are less for learning investing and more for generating your own interest in finance with some fantastic writing. It's also good for learning what the reality of the markets and Wall Street are.)

Yes. Your overall cost of ownership will be less with Toyota, as well as resale value. Fuel savings in general are a societal cost, but you can offset your costs through investment in environmentally friendly channels, (donations, carbon offsets, etc.)

If you absolutely need a truck, you might as well get the best bang for your buck, and not piss away money through depreciation, mechanics bills, and loss of time due to future vehicle purchases or excessive trips to the mechanics.

Toyota trucks keep their value like no other vehicle I can think of.

Plus, here is a fun test. Go to a coffee or brewery with outside seating next to a busy road.

Look at the number of old vehicles that pass you. Then count the Japanese to US manufacturer ratio of old cars...

The book is the Toyota Way, there are others also.

The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer https://www.amazon.com/dp/0071392319/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_c_api_i_8AVxDbTFEF5N6

Edit: This truck could potentially be the last vehicle you ever buy, if that interested you.

When I find myself in this position (which I'm currently in after burning 18 months and a big chunk of cash on my last startup only to have it fail), I usually slink off, lick my wounds, do a lot fo reading and then approach my next project feeling a little more educated, refreshed, and ready.

Some suggestions if I may:

• The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win: http://www.amazon.com/Four-Steps-Epiphany-Successful-Strategies/dp/0976470705
  
  
• Founders at Work: http://www.amazon.com/Founders-Work-Stories-Startups-Early/dp/1430210788/
  
  
• Business Model Generation: http://www.amazon.com/Business-Model-Generation-Visionaries-Challengers/dp/0470876417/
  
  Founders At Work is an easy, fun and somewhat inspirational read. The concept behind 4 Steps to an Epiphany is pretty simple, so odds are you won't need to read the whole book as its a little dry. It is authored by Steve Blank and I highly recommend watching his lectures on youtube. Business Model Generation was a mind bender and I've read it about 6 times. I've run all my past businesses and current business through it plus a couple non-profits. It is fantastic and I love it.
  

>Boys Don’t Cry was about a trans man pretending to be a cis man to seduce a woman, and had hardcore-enough sex scenes to receive an NC-17 rating on its first cut.

There's a film called "this film Is Not Yet Rated" that examines the MPAA and how subjective it is as a control system for what gets into the public's eye. A segment of this film discussed the MPAA's issues with Boys Don't Cry.

From a blogger:

>In addition, the MPAA system often fails to take context into account. For instance - as director Kimberly Peirce comments in "This Film is Not Yet Rated" - the MPAA threatened Peirce's brilliant "Boys Don't Cry" with an NC-17 rating based in part on the very rape scene that is directly central to the movie. In the scene, the protagonist is raped as a brutal "punishment" for what her attackers see as her impersonation of a boy. Here, the MPAA's rating seems especially senseless: How could it hurt a sixteen-year-old's psyche to see a depiction of a brutal hate crime, presented as exactly what it is? If anything, the film is rightly educational.

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From Roger Ebert:

>"This Film Is Not Yet Rated" is a catalog of grievances against the MPAA: The membership of the ratings board is anonymous, so the filmmakers have no right to appeal directly to the people who are judging their work. The ratings board is supposed to be comprised of "parents" -- but hardly any have children under 18, which is the only age group to whom the ratings apply. Although the MPAA ratings were allegedly created as a way of heading off government censorship, some say that has always been a ruse -- and, besides, a government system would actually require rules, documentation, transparency, accountability and due process. These are not things the secretive MPAA is fond of.
>
>And although the MPAA ratings are supposedly "voluntary," agreements between the studios that fund the organization, the exhibitors who show their films, and the media in which those films are advertised, make it something less than optional for most films. Check your newspaper to see if "This Film Is Not Yet Rated" is playing in your town. If that newspaper accepts advertising for unrated films ("This Film" was originally awarded an NC-17 for "graphic sexual content," but the rating was "surrendered"), you'll see that "This Film" is not playing at one of the studio-owned theater chains.
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>[...]
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>The whole kangaroo court is founded on a doozy of a Catch-22: The MPAA insists that it has procedures that it applies evenhandedly. But the procedures are secret so nobody can tell what they are. If something is not allowed, it's because it's against the invisible rules.
>
>So, how do you make sense out of the MPAA's decisions? As "This Film" demonstrates, you don't. The Kafkaesque absurdity behind the movie ratings is beyond belief. Matt Stone ("South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut," "Team America: World Police") testifies from experience that studio pictures are treated a lot more kindly than independently financed and distributed ones. Kimberly Peirce ("Boys Don't Cry") and Wayne Kramer and Maria Bello ("The Cooler"), intuit that the raters are uncomfortable with depictions of female sexual pleasure, while Allison Anders("Grace Of My Heart") suggests that orgasms of any kind are frowned upon (although women's do tend to last longer, and may therefore make the raters more uncomfortable), and that the male body is even more verboten that the female body. And everybody agrees that the MPAA is very liberal when it comes to violence, and conservative when it comes to sex.

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the MPAA is important to this discussion largely due to their rating influence which affects the marketing and release of a film. This is why you hear so much about the studio trying to get a 'PG-13' rating instead of an 'R' (or in the case of Boys Don't Cry, trying to get an 'R' rating, settling for 'NC-17' after making cuts to shake the 'X' rating). The biggest issue issue sin't necessarily the rating system, but the power enshrined in a select group of anonymous and unaccountable influencers. It's pretty eye opening to see how much power they have over culture.

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link to film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpbxzP2mkoA

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Great write up!

Also, I'm a Gen-Xer and recall all of thee films and the milieu very well. It's interesting to see analysis from a younger viewer.

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If you like this topic I'd also suggest "Pictures At a Revolution" which discusses the 5 Best film nominations of the 1967 Oscars, and how these films changed the Hollywood. It's a nice context for how we got to 1999.

>In the mid-1960s, westerns, war movies, and blockbuster musicals like Mary Poppins swept the box office. The Hollywood studio system was astonishingly lucrative for the few who dominated the business. That is, until the tastes of American moviegoers radically- and unexpectedly-changed. By the Oscar ceremonies of 1968, a cultural revolution had hit Hollywood with the force of a tsunami, and films like Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, In the Heat of the Night, and box-office bomb Doctor Doolittle signaled a change in Hollywood-and America. And as an entire industry changed and struggled, careers were suddenly made and ruined, studios grew and crumbled, and the landscape of filmmaking was altered beyond all recognition.

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As a supplement, I also suggest Tim Wu's "The Master Switch" which goes into detail about the rise of various media, how they supplanted the old media (i.e. telephone vs. telegraph; broadcast tv vs. Cable tv) and were in turn supplanted by other technological industries. There is a bit about the various takeovers of the film industry in the mid 90's that set the stage for the making of these films and the subsequent dawn of the Internet age. It's probably in need of a new edition now, but I really enjoyed reading about media and technological history in this context.

Not sure if this counts, but I really loved Salt, Sugar, Fat. Way oversimplifying, but basically it's about how processed food today is carefully crafted to light up our brains, and be as pleasurable and addictive as possible.

The reason that I liked it so much is that I no longer beat myself up or hate myself for loving junk food. Of course I love it, millions of dollars was spent to make sure that that food was as delicious to me as possible. Once the moral aspect of it was suddenly gone, my approach to food got a lot more objective and weight loss got easier.

Happy belated birthday. I finally have some time to respond to this when I'm at the office and have relevant things handy.

Books to read:

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• The Board Member's Book: Making a Difference in Voluntary Organizations by Brian O'Connell, published by the Foundation Center. If you only read one of these books, read this one. Despite the title, this book is about creating and using good volunteers at all levels. For organizations I work with, every time a new "class" of volunteers comes in, I like to give all of them copies of this book and have a few discussions about it.
  
  
• Developing Dynamic Boards by James Hardy. This book is more focused on the board of directors, and it's very detailed-- a good textbook and road map.
  
  
• The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell. This one may even have been translated into Estonian. In brief, it's a system for looking at big processes and finding the places where your effort can make a difference.
  
  
• Good To Great: Why some companies make the leap and others don't by Jim Collins. This book looks at factors that create success or failure in growing organizations.
  
  
  

>Companies that make robots and 3d printers are not massively valued on the stock market despite the very low long term interest rates right now.

My sense is that the private sector is typically not very good about investing in the development of technologies that aren't likely to pay off in the fairly near-term future, that's why basic research, and many really novel technologies like the internet, are often government-funded in their early stages. There are some exceptions like AT&T's historical Bell Labs but that kind of thing seems rare enough to be more like an "exception that proves the rule"--see this article which notes "Companies have moved away, however, from the Bell Labs and Xerox PARC model that afforded research scientists in the private sector more time (and funding) to focus on research that may not have direct application, at least in the short term."

As a matter of history, do you think it's typically true that the companies most involved in technologies that end up having massive economic effects, like the personal computer, are massively valued more than say 10 years before their impact becomes obvious? (leaving out examples of companies involved in major new technologies that were already very profitable for other reasons before the new technology was developed, like IBM long before the personal computer)

I know this is no filter because it wasn't taken using Snapchat.

This should be under $15 CDN and its super awesome.

Merry Fridaymas! This weekend is going to be more of the same - job apps, gym, and trying not to disappoint my mother which is getting more difficult by the day. Bleh. I guess an exciting thing I may do is heat up that dairy free- gluten free almost paleo frozen pizza I bought on a whim last night. xD

/u/beautifullystrange89 Have I told you lately that you're strangely beautiful? ;)

Probably a lot of readers of /r/water have read Cadillac Desert.

I own a copy of, and have made two false starts reading, The King Of California as recommend by the anonymous author of the blog On The Public Record.

I highly recommend A Great Aridness, a worthy heir to Cadillac Desert.

Also on my to-read list is Rising Tide. I would like to find a book that does for the Great Lakes what Marc Reisner did for water in the American West with his book Cadillac Desert.

A few things I've read this year that have little to do with water:

• The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
  
• The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind
  
• The Human Experiment: Two Years and Twenty Minutes Inside Biosphere 2
  
• The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
  
• Citizenville: How to Take the Town Square Digital and Reinvent Government
  
  EDIT: Oh, and Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt

I like ETH a lot more than BTC, but am going to come to BTC's defense here because I disagree with some of your points.

>I've seen a few people argue that BTC is an excellent SoV because it's up thousands of percent in 5 years. But that makes zero sense to me..

This also makes zero sense to me. BTC is not a SoV simply because the price has generally been appreciating over time. It will be a SoV in the future because of predictable monetary policy enforced at the protocol level.

>So then it became a 'Store of Value'...

The SoV/digital gold narrative has been around for a while, dating back well before the late 2017 bubble (e.g. this book from early 2015).

I think BCH is closer to fulfilling the promises of digital cash with fast txns with low fees. But fast txns with low fees for a currency whose only purpose is to be spent (i.e. no incentive to hold, like what there will be with ETH) presents pretty poor tokenomics unless it can actually replace fiat (obviously very difficult in the short term), especially when compared to a model where the whole point is to hold and not really use your BTC for anything (enforced through increasing scarcity and, like it or not, slow txns with high fees that incentivize people to treat BTC like digital gold). So what we've really learned from 2017 is that the SoV narrative is worth a lot more than the digital cash narrative, despite the fact that it is undermining some of the principles from the initial vision.

>Since it has become a SoV it has had only 7 months out of the last 21 months (since Dec 17) where it has been trading above $10k.. so how does that at all prove that it is a viable SoV??

BTC is not supposed to be a SoV right now. I generally disregard any person who tries to insinuate that increases in BTC's price can be attributed to the same flight to safety that drives up gold and bond prices (at least, at this point in time).

The value of BTC as a SoV is inversely correlated to the value of BTC as a lucrative investment. In other words, by the time BTC actually begins to act as a viable store of value, its price will be much higher than it is now.

This is my full list of books from /r/homebrewing but it includes pro level books:

New Brewers:

• How to Brew - John Palmer
  
• Brewing classic styles- Jamil Zainasheff
  
• Designing Great Beers - Ray Daniels
  
• The Complete Joy of Homebrewing - Charlie Papazian
  
  Continued Learning:
  
  
• Water - Palmer and Kaminsky
  
• Yeast - Zainicheff and White
  
• Malt - Mallet
  
• Hops - Hieronymous
  
• Experimental Brewing - Drew Beechum and Denny Conn
  
• Radical Brewing - Randy Mosher
  
• Brewing Better Beer - Gordon Strong
  
  Specialty/Advanced/Other:
  
  
• American Sour Beers - Michael Tonsmeire (/u/oldsock)
  
• Brewing with Wheat - Stan Hieronymus
  
• IPA: Brewing Techniques - Mitch Steele
  
• Farmhouse Ales - Phil Markowski
  
• Brew Like a Monk - Stan Hieronymus
  
• New Brewing Lager Beers - Gregory J. Noonan
  
• Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers- Stephen Harrod Buhner
  
• Drink: a cultural history of alcohol - Iain gately
  
• Principals of Brewing Science - George Fix
  
  Business Books:
  
  
• Brewing Up a Business - Sam Calagione
  
• Brewers association Guide to Starting Your Own Brewery - Cantwell, among others
  
• SO you want to start a brewery - Tony magee
  
• Beyond the Pale: The Story of Sierra Nevada Brewing Co - Ken Grossman
  
• Beer School: Bottling Success at the Brooklyn Brewery Paperback –Steve Hindy & Tom Potter
  
  Technical Readings (Textbooks might be expensive):
  
  
• Brewery Operations Manual - Tom Hennessy
  
• Beer Packaging - Master Brewers Association
  
• Technology Brewing and Malting - W. Kunze, 5th Edition
  
• Malting and Brewing Science, Volume 1 - Many Authors
  
• Malting and Brewing Science, Volume 2 - Many Authors
  
• Brewing yeast and fermentation - Boulton and Quain

Two books may change that outlook:

Growing great people: http://www.amazon.com/Growing-Great-Employees-Extraordinary-Performers/dp/1591841909

Good to great: http://www.amazon.com/Good-Great-Some-Companies-Others/dp/0066620996/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1406870853&sr=1-1&keywords=good+to+great

These books will show you that really successful companies never treat their employees as cogs or slaves. The really great companies treat mgmt as a coaching responsibility and most people at these kinds of companies love their employers.

As a manager, your primary responsibilities are retention and recruiting, removing obstacles, and assisting people with their careers. All of that starts with listening.

For people that made their wealth from scratch, like Elon Musk and Bill Gates, and didn't rely as much on luck as they did on themselves, I think they are smart (I'm assuming they didn't outright "con" their way to that position too).

Besty was born into a rich family though. She is totally not qualified in her position right now.

Edit: Gates was born in a wealthy family, but not an "ultra" wealthy family and not near as rich as he is today. His main advantage from his family was that he was sent to a private school, Lakeside, that could afford computers, and that's where he got his start in computers. That private school was certainly an advantage in getting him started with computers. At times, he also had some luck (ie. IBM thought hardware was the future so they gave away the rights of the OS to Gates). Having said that, Gates turned his startup into the Microsoft we know today. If you read about how he turned his startup into the Microsoft of the 90's in this biography, you will see that he is a pretty intelligent and hardworking guy (although some may consider him to be an asshole at the same time).

Leaving aside aside the issue of TRP dating advice vs. 'mainstream' dating advice, what you have written here is not advice.

> Before you go about attracting women, you need to be worth having one attracted to you. Don't be an ass, basically.

This is a great example of non-advice. You don't define any of the key terms you use- attract, worth, ass. It's so vague its meaningless.

> They aren't numbers on a hotness scale. They aren't prizes. They aren't vaginas with a guard-body attached. They are individual people.

Again, while many would agree with you here, this is still just a set of truisms. Even if you phrased it to be advice, "you'll have more success with women if you treat them like people, not objects," it is still basically worthless because of your lack of investigation into what these terms mean. What does it mean to treat someone like a person? If I don't know how to do that, what are some ways I can move forward?

> The important thing to remember about approaching women is that many of them are approached a lot, and not necessarily by nice guys. Many women will reject any kind of approach from a strange man, and there's nothing you can do about it. If you are approaching in a setting where that is not expected (walking down the street), the intrusion is probably unwelcome. You know canvassers who call out to you and try to get you to sign stuff, and you feel awkward about it and avoid their eyes and keep on walking? It's like that.

This section is no doubt a valid statement of your experience, and possibly many other women's as well. Still, no advice to be found. You just say that many women are uncomfortable with being cold approached out of nowhere. Advice would be building on that to advise a specific course of actions. For example, "help women feel more comfortable by doing x, y, or z. Or "So avoid cold approaches and try to meeting women by expanding your social circle."

> Also, to many women, it comes off as offensive. After all, you are literally approaching a random stranger. She knows that a guy approaching her in this context knows nothing about her except that he's attracted to her.
Sex is also a bigger risk to the average woman than the average man. They fear potential rape and violence. There's also the risk of pregnancy. Odds of her enjoying the experience are lower as well.

More of the same here. Just more discussion of what some women's reality may be with no actionable items.

> Why are you trying to have sex? Is it because that's what you want...or are you embarrassed by being a virgin at your age? Is your self-esteem dependent on it? Make sure you aren't trying to solve a completely different problem.

Introspection is very important to self-improvement no argument here. You fail to provide any specifics though. Simply stating the need for introspective thought in regard to people's sex lives is not advice.

> Self-assurance is sexy, and it makes for better relationships. Figure out what an idealized version of you looks like, and aim for it. Get happy.

Seriously? This is what you think of as advice? Imagine going to a therapist and asking for help, and all they give you is 'get happy'. If you ever go over to /r/depression you will find tons of posts complaining about people treating emotional dysfunctional this way. "Why aren't you just happy? Why don't you just get over it? Just find your true self and become that. Become self-confident".

> Google for details, as there's plenty of stuff out there that's better than what I can give you.

When it comes to a point where you might have to give some specifics, you just tell people to google it. I've got news for you. Everyone already knows to do that. You have just passed the advice burden off to a set of algorithms and search engine marketers.

> Be positive, confident, authentic, funny, and friendly. Don't push. Focus on creating an enjoyable interaction instead of trying to pass some kind of test. Also, flirt.

If I am not already positive, how to I adopt this attitude? Same question for every attribute. What is authenticity? What is flirting? How do I flirt effectively? I could go on. There is nothing here that has not been said a thousand times before, or that anyone could make any use of if they are struggling.

> Use dat Google to find lots of info on fashion, exercise, etc. Don't try to be something you're not; instead, find a sexy style that works for you and go for that. Try to make yourself feel sexy.

More passing off advice here. What is a sexy style? Will the kinds of women I am into be into this style or that style? How do I go about feeling sexy if I don't already?

> I like Doctor Nerdlove. Use him.

Imagine if I posted an article to /r/investing or something claiming to have advice about how to get rich. And then just told people to "think big," "companies are more than their credit rating," "many times it will be hard to get into hot private equity deals, but remember, fund managers are people too," "idk google".

Or if my bulimic cousin came to me and asked about how to improve her self-image, and I said "get happy," "be self-assured," "be positive," "start feeling sexy," "idk google it".

I am not sure if you inability to truly advise on this issue is a lack of experience, an by-product of your view on gender relations, lack of strategic insight, or something else. But whatever it is please try to understand that what you have written does not constitute advice.

I highly recommend reading some books on business strategy just to get a sense of what real strategic and tactical advice is. Good Strategy Bad Strategy and Good to Great are decent places to start.


> I like Doctor Nerdlove. Use him.

About the only advice you have given here is to go to people other than you for advice. Which is frankly good advice.

> A limit order is an order to buy (or sell) at a specified price or better. A buy limit order (a limit order to buy) can only be executed at the specified limit price or lower. Conversely, a sell limit order (a limit order to sell) will be executed at the specified limit price or higher.

http://www.investopedia.com/university/intro-to-order-types/limit-orders.asp

 

We can start with a very simple answer to your question. It first depends on how much stock Albert is willing to buy and how much stock Steve is willing to sell.

 

Bids

10.52 200

10.53 500

 

If Steve puts in a sell order at 10.52 for 500 shares or fewer, he will be filled at 10.53. If Steve puts in a sell order for 600-700 shares, he will be filled at 10.53 for 500 shares and 10.52 for 200 shares.

The more complicated answer to your question depends on which exchange you route your order to and on which exchange the bids and offers exist. There's not just one "stock exchange" or two - Nasdaq and New York Stock Exchange - but rather many places where bids and offers exist in the market.

 

Bids

10.52 200 ARCA

10.53 200 ARCA

10.53 100 BATS

10.53 300 EDGA

 

If Steve sends an order to sell 300 shares at 10.53 on EDGA, he will get filled on 300 shares from EDGA. If he sends an order to sell 500 shares on EDGA, he will get filled on 300 shares from EDGA and possibly be able to get the other 200 shares at 10.53. The reason this is so complicated is that high frequency traders are able to get to the other exchanges quicker than Steve's order is able to get from EDGA to ARCA and BATS to get the other stock. So we can only be sure that Steve's order will be filled in the size listed on the exchange to where he sends the order. This concept is explained in Flash Boys.

 

In essence, your questions are a bit too simplified because orders are placed with respect to a size, price, exchange, and a host of other properties. Some orders are even hidden!

 

TL;DR Steve's order will fill first at 10.53 for whatever stock he can get and then finish at 10.52 if there is enough stock there to finish the size on his order. Albert's order will fill in the converse. Buy limit allow you to purchase a stock at that price or lower. Sell limit orders allow you to sell stock at that price or higher.

I wouldn't say I really buy into the idea of any kind of wholesale "obesity apologia" like I think you're referring to, but my stance is sort of middle of the road in that I no longer can accept that "personal self-control" is the only thing that has to be discussed.

Now that's not to say I don't think it's extremely important on the individual level, because it is. But a friend loaned me their copy of Salt Sugar Fat, a new book about the food industry in America, and I've only read a bit so far, but my takeaway is that the industry has a role to play in all of this and it can't be denied.

You read these stories about how much time and money food conglomerates have poured into researching how to make unhealthy foods as cheap, addictive, and unbelievably satisfying, and you can't help but feel like the people in charge of these massive companies that have the power to influence the eating habits of millions should feel compelled to act more responsibly in what they're producing. I mean, I know some people would call the comparison extreme, but it really does seem like the tobacco industry all over again to me. These companies are selling products that they know are awful for you in excess, and yet they are willingly designing them to make it so that people eat them in excess.

Bottom line, yeah, people should be looking out for themselves and nobody deserves a pass for not taking action to keep themselves healthy. But it doesn't help anyone that these multi-billion dollar companies have a vested interest in making them fat to line their own pockets.

as /u/el_douche points out, a prestigious school and a great GPA helps a lot. I have a friend who's a programmer at a high-frequency firm and gets paid around 200k, and it requires very deep understanding of computer algorithms as well as computer architecture in order to create extremely fast running code for high frequency trading.

High frequency trading companies are very recent companies (and usually independent companies) that arose as the stock market went from man-powered to computer powered. Your typical big banks (like goldman sachs, morgan stanley, etc..) are still trying to play catch up with the high frequency trading companies by implementing their own version of HFT (high frequency trading). Unlike traditional banks which usually have more bankers than engineers, HFT companies are usually more engineering focused and thus have a larger percentage of engineers.

I recently read a [pretty good book] (http://www.amazon.com/Flash-Boys-Michael-Lewis/dp/0393244660) on the rise of High Frequency Trading that was very fascinating... I just wish I remembered more about it (it contained too many complicated finance/investment terms for me :( ). Would recommend it if you are interested in some background knowledge

As someone who has done this over the past few years, my two pieces of advice for your next steps are (skipping accounting as I assume you have that covered!) ...

1. Don't write native iPad/iPhone apps. Write a web application that works on iPad, iPhone, Android, PC. Sell it to businesses on a subscription basis. Businesses make rational buying decisions, you'll ideally displace something they are already paying for, they are easier to market to and you can build up relationships. By writing a web app you aren't dealing with the app store, free apps, publication woes, limiting your supported devices and the expectations consumers have around stupidly low app pricing.
   
2. As it sounds like you may have some assets worth protecting, setup an entity with liability protect from the start. This includes a bank account, etc. I picked an LLC as it is easy to create, easy to manage, I wasn't going to be taking on investors in the short term and could still elect to be taxed as an S-Corp. I didn't use my lawyer - we talked about it over lunch, but with a single member LLCs it was so simple to setup it wasn't worth getting him to do it (I know there are lots of Reddit lawyers who disagree and feel only they can fill in the few bits of paperwork correctly!)
   
   As for books to read. I found Founders at Work the most motivating as you realize how many different paths to success there are.
   
   Good luck!

1. I recommend reading this list of things pros wish they'd do differently
   
   
2. Starting a brewery is not as simple as starting a restaurant. I recommend Beer School by the founders of Brooklyn Brewery. It outlines every step of the process and their personal experience. After reading that you should have a pretty good idea - what's needed, what are the major steps etc. Pro tip: this is an older book so your local libraries could have it to borrow for free.
   
   
3. Just to save you some time, here are some things to consider
   
   > like a food truck but for beer
   
   This is not legal in any US state AFAIK. Maybe it's possible with a permit at festivals, but definitely not freely on the street.
   
   > Is a 1 bbl system worth it in your opinion
   
   1bbl = 2x 15.5 gal kegs. That's not a lot of beer for your time from a business stand point. Pros can chime in and tell you that to brew 50bbl or 1bbl takes the same steps and not much more time for 50bbl. Probably not even 2x the time. You can do the math how brewing 1bbl is not a good financial decision.
   
   > the difference in competition
   
   Keep in mind the more competition there is, the more you need to stand out. You can assume that in highly competitive markets such as Portland, breweries with bad products/management/marketing will not survive. Thus you need a really really great plan for your products/management/marketing (or all) to get people in the door. Having good beers is a given and not a competitive advantage.

"Good To Great" is a great read on what fantastic leadership looks like.

While I'd be cautious to form opinions based on one article, it seems to coincide with the findings of the 10-year research project "Good To Great" underwent... namely that the best CEOs aren't motivated by money, and that internally vetting successors is crucial to a company's sustainability.

Some would say I read too much, but I really enjoyed:

founders at work: Steve Wozniak (Apple), Caterina Fake (Flickr), Mitch Kapor (Lotus), Max Levchin (PayPal), and Sabeer Bhatia (Hotmail) tell you in their own words about their surprising and often very funny discoveries as they learned how to build a company. (This is one of my favorite books ever!)

the art of the start:Kawasaki provides readers with GIST-Great Ideas for Starting Things-including his field-tested insider's techniques for bootstrapping, branding, networking, recruiting, pitching, rainmaking, and, most important in this fickle consumer climate, building buzz.

the innovator's dilemma: Focusing on “disruptive technology,” Christensen shows why most companies miss out on new waves of innovation. Whether in electronics or retailing, a successful company with established products will get pushed aside unless managers know when to abandon traditional business practices. Using the lessons of successes and failures from leading companies, The Innovator’s Dilemma presents a set of rules for capitalizing on the phenomenon of disruptive innovation.



And in terms of getting your life together to the point where you are responsible enough to lead others, I would highly suggest Getting Things Done by David Allen

>You are not ruining the economy by shopping there.

Well, yes, you are. Shopping at Wal-Mart is the same as defecting in the Prisoner's Dilemma problem, except with a gazillion players instead of two. By shopping there, you get some small gain for yourself at the expense of a net larger loss to the world at large (including you). It is pretty classic game theory.

Free markets in general are known to fail at that kind of choice: people tend to pick the path that yields personal short-term gain over collective benefit, even if the choice yields long-term ruin. In the case of environmental destruction, the costs are external to the system as a whole, and there are whole branches of economics discussing how to tweak the market to account for external costs of actions.

In the case of economic plundering (like Walmart engages in) the costs are internal to the eeconomy but are deferred and homogenized so that the cost to each individual isn't directly visible at the time of purchase -- one might call them "artificially externalized" costs.

Edit: I seem to be attracting a fair number of downvotes. I'll charitably assume they're not knee-jerk responses. Here are some some nice references: The Bully of Bentonville; Fishman's nice book on the Wal-Mart Effect; a nice documentary DVD; and Davis's fun pop-level introduction to game theory.

There are a lot of scientists who get paid a lot of money to design processed foods such that people will eat them more often and eat more in a sitting. It's more than just "X ingredient is/isn't addictive," there is serious research being put into how to make people crave food, and that's happening because there's so much money to be made from selling those foods. It's not an excuse for being overweight, at the end of the day you're still a human with willpower and the ability to pay attention to what you eat and exercise, but junk food is absolutely designed to be addictive (keeping in mind that "addicted" doesn't necessarily mean "physically dependent.")

If interested (because it really is fascinating), I highly recommend "Salt, Sugar, Fat" by Michael Moss. Great read if you're interested in how that (figurative and sometimes literal) sausage gets made, or just want to have a better idea of the health aspects of processed foods.

Not to one up it, but there's an amazing story of one of the creators of the first "serious" version of Microsoft Windows.

At that time, whenever a programmer solved a tough problem, they were allowed to go work on whatever they wanted for awhile. This programmer created a Windows game (can't remember the name, I think it was about tiles or something?) and became deeply immersed in his own game. At the same time, Microsoft employees were becoming millionaires through the stock value so he lost motivation and just did the game 24x7. Even though he was a brilliant part of creating Windows, they had to sack him... but kept the game.

Here's the book where you can read about this an many other riveting stories.

I usually stick to Christian books - there’s some great one’s out there. I value learning new ideas based on scripture.

However these are good books recommended by my pastor -
The Fred Factor: How Passion in Your Work and Life Can Turn the Ordinary into the Extraordinary https://www.amazon.com/dp/0385513518/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_IjuZDbQQ2VTZX

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't https://www.amazon.com/dp/0066620996/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_cmuZDb23KNDR1

Both are related to leadership - which we all are leaders as Christians.

It's pretty similar. Take a look at Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us. It talks about how foods are engineered to be as addictive as possible. With things like the "bliss point", where when you keep adding sugar, it tastes better, until certain point, and after that it declines. So the optimal amount of sugar is where the bliss point is.

Since you're a newbie, you really should first start by getting caught up on Bitcoin's history. I suggest reading materials and interviews that occurred before 2015. Andreas Antonopoulos may be a bit of a Core shill now, but all his talks before 2015 were really great and inspiring. Then there's this book that was first published in 2015 and does a great job recanting the history and foundation of Bitcoin's beginnings up to 2015.

If you wonder what direction Bitcoin should be going, why not read what Satoshi Nakamoto himself had to say? All of Satoshi's public thoughts are published on http://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/

edit: forgot to mention James D'angelo's blackboard series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhe61JaNFLU&list=PLzctEq7iZD-7-DgJM604zsndMapn9ff6q&index=6

The development of fiber optic cables is incredible. I only know the very, very basics, from [this fantastic book](http://www.amazon.com/The-Idea-Factory-American-Innovation/dp/0143122797 "really amazing for so many reasons") which I can't recommend enough. It shows the pioneering of a ton of the most important current technologies (tubes, telephones, microwaves, satellites, cell phones, fiber optics, cavitrons and a bunch more), and the revolutionary environments and cultures that fostered that growth. Corning (of course) made the fiber.

Cables in general were amazing. We think of plastic as so cheap as to practically cost nothing, but back then (IIRC, can't find my book D:) the insulation was one of the most expensive parts as it was made from natural latex from the gutta-percha tree (god I wish I could find the book). As you can imagine it took a ton of work to make a machine to produce cables that were kilometers long. The first real transatlantic cable was laid in 1955 and working up to that required a huge amount of research and iteration. It was fundamentally made possible by polyethylene. The first test cables just randomly started turning into swiss cheese; turns out shipworms don't give a damn about what they eat. Steel jackets. Then the cables just started snapping. It's pretty damn hard to figure out why an underwater cable three miles long is snapping when you don't have cameras, underwater radio, or scuba... turns out that sharks sense and apparently have an innate hatred of electricity (jk) and attacked the cables. Copper shield, steel cable reinforcement, thicker cables. Works pretty good. Minimizing crosstalk and such took some effort. Then microwaves start replacing cables on land- can't do microwaves underwater. Everybody wants to upgrade the TAT, but its actually pretty fucking tricky making a cable out of a bit of glass 3600 kilometers long and a fraction of a millimeter wide.

You're doing great for someone in only a month!

Hardware wallet, not trusting exchanges, not panic selling. All good stuff :). If you're up for it, I highly recommend learning about the technology and ecosystem as much as you can.

A good place to start is Digital Gold by Nathaniel Popper. Bonus points if you find a site that will accept payment for it in Bitcoin.

> but at the end of the day, you're still a drug dealer

>No matter how much good you do, you're still a drug dealer at the end of the day.

I'm not a drug dealer anymore than a gay person is a "faggot". Belittling me with labels manufactured by the oppressors (e.g. "drug dealer") is not conducive to any peaceful recognition of cannabis as medicine.

There are families in Himachal Pradesh, India, who support themselves by their mutual reciprocity and symbiosis with cannabis. There are families in Bolivia, Peru, and Colombia, who support themselves with their mutual reciprocity and symbiosis with coca leaves. The same can be said about cultures in East Africa (Ethiopia, Tanzania) and their relationship with coffee (which contains a "drug"). Or the tea-growing regions of China, and the generations who tend the poppy fields in SE and Central Asia.

Consider this example. Serotonin and L-dopa (the precursor to dopamine) exists in mucuna pruriens. Our brain constituents are mirrored in nature. Because we exchange with one another these keys which unlock the mind, we are not drug dealers. This is an antiquated category to pigeon-hole the choices that people make.

>Until we have decriminalization, legalization with some for of regulation, drug dealers will always have targets on their backs.

These are global idea structures evolving by proxy of political language. There is much more at stake than money and drugs. Check out "The Silk Roads: A New History of the World". For insight into the role that psychedelics have played in shaping these technologies, tune into "What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry".

This was read by Michael Pollan who wrote a book (The Omnivore's Dilemma) which is a pretty good narrative and comparison in what actually happens in industrial food (from the grain, to the meat, to the table), organic industry, sustainable farming and hunting/gathering your own food. It's well researched and very well written.

Another book that's also similar in topic, but specific to the history and current operations of industrial foods is Salt, Sugar, Fat. I would recommend both.

Edit: I think a lot of people are missing the point of the video. It's not about industrial food = bad. It's about having a relationship with the food that you eat, to treat it as an experience rather than calories. Seriously, try cooking! It's very rewarding when you happen to make something delicious and enjoy it by yourself or with others.

I love "How they did it" stories. They are so inspiring and as an entrepreneur myself, they remind me to keep pushing even when times are hard.

A couple of resources you could use (and I recommend that every current and future entrepreneur takes a look at)

1. The book Founders at Work --- The stories of how the Paypal co-founder foound himself passed out on the floor on the day of the big launch and so many others like these were SUPER INSPIRING
   
   
2. A YouTube channel called This Week in Startups --- Jason Calacanis has interviewed almost every founder of every tech startup in the last 10 years. I watch this show a couple of times a week and I have always learned something that I could use in my own startup

In his interview for the book Founders at Work he clearly attributes his early success to luck. They were rapidly pivoting and threw a hail marry that landed.

Having said that, there's a reason why serial entrepreneurs are aggressively sought after and cherished for advisory roles by early-stage startups and entrepreneurs. Guys that can produce hit after hit are not merely lucky, they know what they're doing.

A lot of it is knowing the right people, the trust that they've built with investors that allows them to make decisions without as much scrutiny, and finally the fact they've weathered the storm before. Simply being able to avoid mistakes of the past is huge. Also having been successful at least once before, they tend to trust their instincts more in the face of serious risky decisions; something that new guys out the gate do regularly.

On the flipside, they wouldn't be where they are if they didn't have a rare combination of skill and risk-taking.

For anyone interested in the technical history of how we got here, The Idea Factory (Amazon Smile link) is a really fascinating read. It details the major players within Bell Labs (the research division, not business or development) from the 30s up until the 90s/today. While I'm sure the antitrust suit was beneficial for the average person, by the end of the book I was really rooting for Bell Labs to keep the guaranteed funding ensured by the monopoly.

The people who worked in this lab were responsible for the vacuum tube, transistor, solar panel, laser, satellites, cellular phones... the research for all of those breakthroughs was done in a single lab, funded by the monopoly. A huge part of why the modern world as we know it today exists is because of the monopoly that was dismantled in the 80s.

I can heartily recommend Lords of Finance (http://www.amazon.com/Lords-Finance-Bankers-Broke-World/dp/159420182X)

From wp: "Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World is a 2009 nonfiction book about events leading up to and culminating in the Great Depression as told through the personal histories of the heads of the Central Banks of the world's four major economies at the time: Benjamin Strong Jr. of the New York Federal Reserve, Montagu Norman of the Bank of England, Émile Moreau of the Banque de France, and Hjalmar Schacht of the Reichsbank. The book was generally well received by critics, and won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for History."

The book is surprisingly easy to read and understand (I have basically no background in economics), and I certainly learned a lot.

I urge everyone who was alive during this period, or just in general has an interest in gaming history to read Console Wars. It's a fantastic book from the perspective Sega during their 90s rivalry with Nintendo. It chronicles the creation of Sonic to just about up to the dreamcast. It's a really engaging and fun read. READ IT.

I could be wrong but I believe this is from Bob Cringely's fantastic PBS special Triumph of the Nerds

He also wrote a book called Accidental Empires which is as equally fantastic. Bob, not his real name, was something like employee #13 at Apple and wrote for Infoworld for many years and was able to sit down and talk with all the big players in a very candid manner.

In 1968 "The Mother of All Demos" was unleashed by Doug Englebart, a man who gave up millions out of his desire to better humanity. It was the first time anyone had seen a "tiny" computer with a GUI, mouse, wysiwg editing, shared-screen video conferencing, windows, collaborative editing, version control, networking, context-sensitive help and hyperlinks. It was greeted with amazement by the press and public, but capitalists yawned.

The moneyed elite knew about and used mainframe computers, but only had interest in AI which they hoped would replace their white collar workers. A small, personal machine that "augmented human intellect" did not interest them.

Years later capitalists would lift this idea and give Englebart no royalties, and take all the credit. Most people assume Steve Jobs invented the mouse.

A book if you're interested in the birth of the PC:

https://www.amazon.com/What-Dormouse-Said-Counterculture-Personal/dp/0143036769

As for pollution and exploitation, democratic production would take externalities into account, and would be controlled by workers rather than capitalists. The slaves that capitalism uses to mine raw materials would be empowered, as would the suicidal and impoverished manufacturers, and they'd all be able to use the computers they give their lives to create.

Wow. You haven't spent must time in business have you?

In a truly competitive free market system it is almost impossible to honestly earn a billion dolllars.

With rare exception such as in the cases of true innovation like say the google founders - earning a billion dollars requires some illegal monopolization of a market thus I wouldn't trust such a person becuase they have shown themselves to be willing to break the law or be dishonest.

For example Microsoft was of course convicted after a trial of illegal monopolization in the software market which put many other better softare innovators out of business and increased software prices for all of us for the past 3 decades as well as limited our choices. (incidently Bill Gates got the contract to provide IBM DOS becuase his mother was on the board of the United Way with The Chairman of IBM. Gates didn't own DOS at the time and after getting the contract went to an un suspecting software programmer who had written DOS and bought it from him without telling him hey had a preexisitng contract to resell it as Microsoft DOS to IBM.
according to the GREAT book ["Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire"](
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0887306292?ie=UTF8&tag=reddit0e-20)

If you had spent much time in real business at the levels where big money is made you would know this.
(and that's not a criticism just a fact. I have spent a lot of time at high levels and have seen this first hand. It makes it very hard to be an honest person in big business today when others around you routinely cheat and lie.)

Another rare exception is investment advisors who by shear size of the investments they make can earn large amounts as a small percentage of the investment however in practice I have seen they usually are dishonest about the safely or expected returns of the investments they place their investors money in to get higher percentage commissions.

There are VERY few inventions or entertainers which can earn 1 billion dollars which is also an honest way to make money.

However is is possible to earn 10 or even 100 million honestly in business although it is hard because you often compete against others who cheat and most are therefore forced to cheat to to be able to remain competitive in their market. however there are enough niche markets without huge competitors where you can still build a business earning 1 to 10 million a year (making it worth 10 to 100 million at a 10% cap rate) without being rapidly squashed by cheating competitors.

How are you marketing your business currently?

Here's some good books to read although they're geared more towards managing and motivating a workforce. Others may have better recommendations for books on growing as a startup or small business. Ultimately, you need to focus on marketing your company and targeting your ideal customer.

Turn the Ship Around by David Marquet
https://www.amazon.com/Turn-Ship-Around-Turning-Followers/dp/1591846404

How to Become a Great Boss by Jeffrey Fox
https://www.amazon.com/How-Become-Great-Boss-Employees/dp/0786868236/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1484506909&sr=1-2&keywords=how+to+a+great+boss

How to Be a Great Boss by Gino Wickman
https://www.amazon.com/How-Great-Boss-Gino-Wickman/dp/1942952848/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1484506909&sr=1-1&keywords=how+to+a+great+boss

Good to Great by Jim Collins (I just started this)
https://www.amazon.com/Good-Great-Some-Companies-Others/dp/0066620996/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1484507074&sr=1-1&keywords=good+to+great

EDIT: Here's another one.

Traction. Get a Grip on Your Business by Gino Wickman. I haven't read this but the CEO did and we use the structure and methods from this book to run our company. https://www.amazon.com/Traction-Get-Grip-Your-Business/dp/1936661837/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

> But while it has some importance is't not at the core of our very society, like were obsessed with it or something, not at all.

I disagree. Profit takes priority over anything. If the capitalist can't get enough they will not invest, no matter how beneficial the product is.


>Oh yes the labour theory of value, 'exploitation' and other laughable long refuted nonsense.

I wasn't even referring to those, but you show how manipulated you are.


>Its still highly state regulated and controlled, and most of its problems are actually due to over-regulation/intervention.

Of the plutocracy. This is capitalism. The capitalists own everything, even the political system. Those "problems" are vehicles to profit for the capitalists.


>You said it didn't have [externalities] and now you say its not perfect, which is it?


Umm, both. Even without externalities, we still live in reality, people with emotions, the rules of science, etc.


>So like modern western liberal society then!

Now this is just stupid. What fantasyland do you dream of?

>You don't realize that you are displaying all your flawed assumptions here.

Reality is real. Read this if your ego can handle it.

You can't be pro-capitalist and an honest empathetic person.



>The leftist understandings of this system which call it capitalism are completely flawed so it doesn't really make sense to even use their term to refer to it, that just plays into their narrative.

Capitalism has a definition and this fits it.

The only "free" market is a socialist, worker owned and run market. Otherwise the most profitable will inevitably create a state to protect their interests.

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)

Keep plugging along. I've been working professionally for about 16 years and made a concerted effort to double-down with some renewed assembly awareness the past few months. This past weekend I was able to write something using AVX2 intrinsics that took normal pointer-chasing C code that would run in hundreds of microseconds into, literally, ~20 nanoseconds.

There's a great quote in Show Stopper!, where this new guy who was incredibly talented had a bug in his assembly... Dave Cutler came in... didn't know anything about the domain (it was some low-level graphics stuff), and re-wrote the assembly with him. The guy remarked later when describing the event: "He is the best assembly programmer I've ever seen."

That's what I'd like to aspire to.

A few books that I absolutely love are; Good to Great, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (this isn't exactly a business book, but a lot of the principles in it help you be a better leader/person which is extremely important when running a business) and Rework

TPS predates Six Sigma and Lean Production. Lean actually came out of TPS. As they show in the video, Lean can be applied to pretty much any process. Toyota uses it for manufacturing, here they apply it in a food bank, and it is also widely used in software development.

Notice how they apply Value Stream Mapping. They start by looking at what is happening, and listing all the steps that add value, and those that do not. Putting food in a box adds value, running around to get the stuff does not add value and is waste. By eliminating waste they can reduce the takt time from 3 minutes to 11 seconds.

Another important aspect of TPS is respect for people. In its entire history, Toyota has never laid off any (salaried) workers during hard times. Instead it uses the free time to invest in kaizen.

In this case, respect for people means giving back to the American people, because the USA helped rebuild Japan after WW2.


If you want to learn more about TPS, go read Toyota Production System: Beyond Large Scale Production, written by Taiichi Ohno, the father of the Toyota Production System.

I can also recommend The Toyota Way and The Toyota Way To Lean Leadership. These are a bit more recent and an excellent insight in the Toyota way of working.

More to your point, there's a pretty good book (that's relatively balanced) that I read many moons ago that's worth reading for anyone interested in WalMart's practices:

> The WalMart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works--and HowIt's Transforming the American Economy

> https://www.amazon.com/Wal-Mart-Effect-Powerful-Works-Transforming/dp/0143038788

The book talks about the things you highlight here. It also looks at how it puts the screws to vendors (basically it opens great opportunities for them to reach much wider audiences, but makes them go to rock bottom pricing, which means they must sacrifice quality... many vendors will create WalMart specific versions of their products that are more cheaply manufactured so that they can meet WalMart's stringent low price demands).

It also looks at the good side of WalMart's practices. Like how they are so maniacal about lowering prices that they've reduced packaging down to the bare minimum, thereby generating less landfill trash, requiring less fuel to transport, etc.

I think this is true, but the causality may be backwards. If you're a brilliant scientist with the ability to obtain venture financing and make a killing off your ideas, why would you trade that for a salaried position with very little upside?

I recently enjoyed The Idea Factory, a (popular) history of Bell Labs.

One of the striking contrasts with today's start-up culture is that it was taken for granted that Bell Labs employees would sign over rights to any work done at the Labs. This was the custom for other large corporate R&D departments as well. At the time, it might have been a good trade for the researcher - Bell Labs was a more lucrative post than a university, and there wasn't anyone willing to front you the equivalent of a few million to build an industrial research lab. Today, it's practically trivial for an inventor to raise a few million dollars for development.

Less than 30 days later 400,000 people watched a rock concert near Woodstock NY that would have a much larger influence on much of the populace.

> The term Woodstock Nation refers specifically to the attendees of the original 1969 Woodstock Music and Arts Festival that took place from August 15–17 on the farm of Max Yasgur near Bethel, New York. It comes from the title of a book written later that year by Yippie activist Abbie Hoffman, describing his experiences at the festival.

> More generally, however, the term is used as a catch-all phrase for those individuals of the baby boomer generation in the United States who subscribed to the values of the American counterculture of the 1960s and early 1970s. The term is often interchangeable with hippie, although the latter term is sometimes used as an oath of derision. The characteristic traits of members of the Woodstock Nation include, but are not limited to, concern for the environment, embracing of left-wing political causes and issues allied to a strong sense of political activism, eschewing of traditional gender roles, vegetarianism, and enthusiasm for the music of the period.

> The Woodstock Nation also counts as members individuals from later generational cohorts, as the underground cultural values and attitudes of 1960s bohemian communities such as Haight-Ashbury and Laurel Canyon have seeped ever more into the mainstream with the passage of time

The influence has been credited up to the early days of the personal computer.

> What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry, is a 2005 non-fiction book by John Markoff. The book details the history of the personal computer, closely tying the ideologies of the collaboration-driven, World War II-era defense research community to the embryonic cooperatives and psychedelics use of the American counterculture of the 1960s.

Post Apollo 11 moon missions struggled to find a TV audience.

This is one of the best books I've read.

From good to great

Books on negotiation skills are also really worth reading and marketing and so on. I don't even remember how many books I have read on business.

ps. yes, I added my referral code so I can order some more books if someone finds the book interesting.

Here are some that I enjoyed. However, it's difficult to make a specific recommendation without knowing what you're specifically trying to learn. These are all quite good though.

Death by Food Pyramid: How Shoddy Science, Sketchy Politics and Shady Special Interests Have Ruined Our Health

Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us

The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance

Faster, Higher, Stronger: How Sports Science Is Creating a New Generation of Superathletes--and What We Can Learn from Them

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

Eu começava por conviver um bocado com o pessoal da cerveja para conhecer mais sobre cerveja, trocar impressões e umas dicas em pessoa.

No Porto:

• Catraio - Craft Beer Shop
  
  
• Letraria - Craft Beer Garden
  
  
• Armazém da Cerveja
  
  
  Em Lisboa:
  
  
• Zymology
  
  
• Cerveteca Lisboa
  
  
  Aposto que há mais locais no resto do país mas, assim de cabeça, vieram-me estes... Outra boa opção é visitar festivais onde podes conhecer os cervejeiros, aficionados, ouvir musica, beber cerveja e conviver!
  
  
• Caminha - Art Beer Fest (13 a 16 de Julho)
  
  
• Porto - Porto Beer Fest (14 a 18 de Junho)
  
  
• Faro - Alameda Beer Fest (7 a 9 de Julho)
  
  
• Sertã - PROVART (25 a 25 de Junho)
  
  
• Évora - Um Festival do Caneco (14 a 16 de Julho)
  
  
  Depois disso é simples. Começa por fazer cerveja de kit de extrato. Com jeitinho gastas uns €50 em equipamento (que vai servir-te anos) e €15 em ingredientes. Estes kits são mesmo simples de usar e servem bem para aprender algumas das bases da cerveja sem teres que te preocupar com os aspetos mais delicados (como a brassagem). À medida que lhe vais ganhando o gosto vais podendo investir mais ou menos dinheiro até comprares um moinho, algumas panelas e fazeres a cerveja mesmo a partir do cereal.
  
  
  
• Porto - Loja da Cerveja Artesanal (Sovina)
  
  
• Gondomar - Loja do Cervejeiro
  
  
• Lisboa - Oficina da Cerveja
  
  
  
  A partir daí o google e o youtube são amigos dependendo de quanto queres ou não gastar. Tens aqui alguns vídeos que te recomendo:
  
  
• Craft Beer - A Hopumentary
  
  
• Beer Culture - The movie
  
  Estes dois são bons para "entrar no espírito" da coisa.
  
  
  Para aprender a fazer cerveja a partir de Kit podes ver estes vídeos da BrewUk (boa loja) que mostram tudo direitinho. Lembra-te que o mais importante é a higiene e lavar bem todo o equipamento!!
  
  
  No youtube recomendo-te muito o canal Brewing TV e o The Craft Beer Channel.
  
  
  Se te começares a envolver e a gostar a sério da coisa recomendo-te que leias estes livros:
  
  
• How to Brew do John Palmer
  
  
• Tasting Beer do Randy Mosher
  
  
• Mastering Home Brew também do Randy Mosher
  
  
• Designing Great Beers do Ray Daniels
  
  
  Um livro que a mim me ajudou também imenso foi o Extreme Brewing e o Brewing Up a Business do Sam Calagione (dono da Dogfish Head) se bem que estes dois livros são menos "informativos" e de leitura mais leve. Ainda assim eu acho que o estilo mais relaxado torna-os de leitura mais fácil que os outros (que são considerados bíblias da cerveja) sobretudo para quem está a começar.
  
  
  Fora isso acredita, o importante é comer e beber cerveja! Conversa com o pessoal e divertir-te com isto tudo! Aprendes mais às vezes numa tarde a beber uns finos com o pessoal num bar de cerveja artesanal do que num dia a ler em casa!
  
  
  Espero que isto te ajude a ti ou alguém que esteja com a "pulga" atrás da orelha! Mas se tiveres perguntas ou dúvidas estás à vontade. :)
  
  
  Se alguém quiser acrescentar alguma coisa por favor que o faça! Cerveja artesanal é sobre troca de ideias! :)

It really depends on what kind of subject matter and presentation you're looking for. For my money, the gold standard of all video game history books remains David Sheff's ["Game Over: How Nintendo Conquered the World"] (https://www.amazon.com/Game-Over-Nintendo-Conquered-World/dp/0679736220/) which, despite the ominous title, is a phenomenally well-researched and compellingly written account of how Nintendo came out of nowhere in the early 80s to resurrect and dominate the home gaming industry worldwide.

The more recent Console Wars is also a good one, covering in great detail the 90's era 16-bit rivalry between Nintendo and Sega in the US.

These are both fairly well known books; my favorite "off the beaten path" books are all 3 volumes of the "Untold History of Japanese Game Developers" series, which are giant tomes full of lengthy, staggeringly in-depth interviews with dozens and dozens of largely unknown developers behind very well known Japanese classics of the 80s and 90s. Pure treasure for anyone particularly interested in Japan's golden age output.

If you haven't read Beer School, go buy it now. It's one of the best craft beer industry books available, and it's an inspirational entrepreneurial book with tons of info. Plus it's written by major pioneers of the industry. Cheers, Steve and Tom

edit: The robbery scene is actually hilarious in the book.

What exactly do you want to pursue? Which field? What type of position?

I ask because in my job, and in my previous job, I use maybe one-tenth of what I learned in college. And, like you, I graduated with a 2.9 GPA, nor did I take the FE (and I never plan to). I don't believe this to be a negative for you.

If you want to do something technical like design work, then you should keep fresh with Solidworks (and other modeling programs) as well as analysis software (Cosmos and other FEA software, Matlab, etc.).

If you want to do something like manufacturing, just read up on manufacturing in books, like The Toyota Way and maybe do the things listed above for design, just so you can keep it on your resume.

And based on your comments below about wanting to "be a leader"... you have to start at the bottom, I'm sorry to say. You can't expect to just walk into a company and be someone to look up to within your first week, month, or even year there. You're going to spend many months (and maybe more) just learning - learning about the culture, learning about the industry, learning about the technical stuff, learning about the product or clients, etc. Then you will do things more on your own, rather than for someone. Then after a good while of doing that, you may have proved yourself to move up the ranks. That's just how it goes.

Hi Purge. Big fan of your stuff.

That aside, the human body (particularly the tongue) reacts very nicely to salts (required for basic neurological function/homeostasis), fats (mass-wise energy efficient, a trait inherited from our ancestors who ate fatty meats in large quantities when they could as a more abundant food source, in comparison to grains and fruits which originally required frequent foraging for. a point established by /u/alf666.), and sugars (glucose <--gluconeogenesis+cori cycle/glycolysis+krebs cycle--> ATP, required for virtually all functions in the body.)

Sugar in particular is interesting because typically it take a while for the body to pull glucose into the blood, which is then stored in the liver if in excess as glycogen(like a zip file for glucose). But until sugar levels in the blood rise high enough, the body is okay with eating more and more. Which is the problem with sodas and sugary snacks. Your body doesn't have the opportunity to say "It's time to stop." until its too late.

As a result, food companies (well, not just food companies but a good case in point) has used increasing quantities of salt, fat, and sugar in their products. It's just appealing to most humans, and caters to their basic physiological needs for this trifecta.

This is a good book as a reference.

https://www.amazon.com/Salt-Sugar-Fat-Giants-Hooked/dp/0812982193

Also video with same author. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs2auTOPUxE

Edit: Some additional detail.

i would say to stay away from those 100% natural fruit juices, a lot of them have more sugar than coke. Also, the way a lot of them are made is pretty much a sugar syrup that was derived from natural fruit juice still making it "natural" so its not very healthy (all info found in Salt Sugar and Fat)

Something i do when i'm getting a craving for something i should have is chug a bottle of water real fast, that works almost all the time. it gets rid of hunger/thirst and i'm good to go. Also, listen to what your body is hungry for, if you are craving sweets, you may be lacking in carbs.

This is basically the classic "Good vs Great" argument that CEOs love to talk about in business.

Check out the book- Good to Great.

My Shield K1 tablet had to be RMA'd for a screen issue, so I'm without a gaming tablet for the next week or two. So instead of actually gaming, I've been reading some history on it instead, via Console Wars by Blake J. Harris.

It's a good read and I'm enjoying it a lot, though I'd prefer a more "pure" history and less of the embellishment and/or "simulated" conversations.

Also, not retro, but I managed to (somehow) finish Hitman: Absolution this week. I don't know what's wrong with me. I love stealth games in concept, but I'm so bad at them, and never really get better. It's been this way pretty much since the first Tenchu. Oddly though, I don't have this issue in 2D; Mark of the Ninja was a blast to play through.

Two books I have found very helpful are The Hungry Brain by Stephan Guyenet and Salt Sugar Fat by Michael Moss. The Hungry Brain goes really in-depth into the neurobiology of how our non-conscious mind influences decisions and regulates eating behavior. The modern food environment triggers some very primitive responses in our brains and makes us want to eat far more than we should. Salt Sugar Fat is about the food industry’s part in that. Food companies (very understandably) want us to buy and eat as much as possible, and they spend an immense amount of time and money designing foods that tap into the brain circuits Guyenet talks about to get us to do it. Together the books have been pretty motivating, and I feel like knowing what’s going on in my head has helped me put together a way of eating that’s sustainable.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Idea-Factory-American-Innovation/dp/0143122797

Great book that covers some of the key players at Bell labs. Its certainly not a thorough technical history reference but I thought he did a nice job of laying out the relationships of the engineers, the inventions, and motivating factors.

Sony originally announced their entry into the gaming market back in 1991. They were going to work with Nintendo to develop an add-on CD-ROM player for the Super Nintendo. That ended up falling through, so they developed their own console instead. In the late 1990s, Microsoft, which had developed the DirectX graphics API for gaming on Windows, started to worry about the growing library of software that wasn't being written to run on Windows and how that may affect their bottom-line, so they started developing a "DirectX box" for gaming. The history of consoles is pretty interesting. I recommend you check out Console Wars if you're interested.

Thanks for keeping an open mind. I’m one of the main characters in these best selling books #1, 2 and they do a great job covering my involvement. If you read either one, you will never questions my dedication to the space again.

Dude, read [this one] (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393338827?keywords=the%20big%20short&qid=1450542815&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1) and [this one.] (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393351599?keywords=the%20big%20short&qid=1450542815&ref_=sr_1_3&sr=8-3) [The first one they already made a movie.] (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1596363/?ref_=nv_sr_1) The second one I'm only starting but people say it's brilliant.

Edit: forgot to say that I really liked the first one, The Big Short.

It was the Genesis which allowed that though. If you exclude the Japanese market, where Sega was downright abysmal in the 16-bit generation, the sales numbers of the Genesis vs the SNES were actually fairly competitive. And up until the mid 1990s, Sega even overtook Nintendo in terms of sales figures at certain points.

But one thing to take into consideration is that compared to either Sony or Microsoft of the PS3/360 era, Sega was at a massive disadvantage starting out. During the mid 1980s through early 1990s, it was Nintendo or nothing. Nobody owned a Master System or even Genesis when it was released. Nintendo was becoming synonymous with video games. At one point, according to the book Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation, Nintendo accounted for 10% of Walmart's profits. Think about that for a second. That a company had such power, that they could impose their will on Walmart of where to place their items, and how much to sell their items for.

For Sega to come back and be even nearly as competitive as they were was nothing short of amazing. And they solved it the exact way as you stated the PS3 & 360 of doing, of creating demographics. Nintendo, or even video games in general, were for kids. Sure, arcades in the 70s and early 80s had teenagers in them, but you played your video games, and you moved on with your life. Sega targeted those children becoming teenagers, who grew up with video games, but now kept with video games. I'm part of that generation. I don't know many people, even just half a decade older than me, who play video games, but I know tons of people younger than me who do. That's not to say none do, rather, it's just far more uncommon.

And when I was in high school, more people I knew owned Genesis's than SNES's. It's sort of like the PSX vs N64. In terms of sales figures, the N64 was a massive disappointment and could be considered a failure. If you look at reddit threads though, the N64 is talked about with great reverence though while the PSX has moved into obscurity. In my opinion, a huge part is because things like the Genesis and PSX targeted the older generations who already grew up with video games. It wasn't their first love, thus didn't create many lasting memories or leave a huge impression on people. So, we forget about the true impact it actually did have.

Jessica Livingston's book, Founders At Work is great simply because it covers a ton of different area's and different perspectives. If anything, the reader should come away with the realization that 1. luck plays a big part and 2. there's no one way to be successful.

Hi /r/techsin101,

I have a few resources that don't match exactly what you're looking for, but were interesting non-the-less.

• Founders at work, a book by one of the core people at Y-Combinator: http://www.amazon.com/Founders-Work-Stories-Startups-Early/dp/1430210788
  
• Bootstrapping stories: https://37signals.com/bootstrapped
  
• A bit dry, but fascinating if you have the mind for it, a review of the SBIR Program (a government program that gives grants between 150k and 750k to small businesses) http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11929.html
  
• browse medium, there's thousands of stories there

Two other related books I've enjoyed are Good To Great by Jim Collins and The Master Switch by Tim Wu, maybe others here are familiar with them too?

I've got a week long trip planned soon and because I've read 2 books out of your list (Zero to One and Rework,) I'll be looking into the rest of your list for some suggestions, thanks!

There's a famous line "If You Have to Ask the Price, You Can't Afford It" but when it comes to breweries that extends to blood, sweat and tears. The factors vary so much that you're going to hear a range of answers based on: market, legal bullshit, owners & experience. In Minneapolis most breweries open four to six months behind schedule and I'm guessing it's a 500k-1m investment.

If I were in your shoes I would do two things. First, read every book out there on the brewing industry (start here and here). Then I would talk to your local brewers guild and breweries to answer these questions. If you were doing this in MN everyone would be fairly honest and supportive plus you'd get better answers than reddit (no offense). Cheers!

The number of great books to be read on business itself is beyond enumerable. There is even a book on the 100 best business books written here: http://100bestbiz.com/

For helping your brother decide whether he has the stomach and skills it takes to be an entrepreneur, I'd suggest Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki and Founders at Work

At the end of the day, it's a bipolar ride that I'm not sure any book can prepare you for...

Wikipedia has a decent little article about the bliss point. The food industry has entire divisions devoted to determining the bliss point for every item they put on the shelf. Check out Salt, Sugar, Fat if you want more information.

Good to Great is a fantastic book that interviews CEO's from different companies and looks at what the great ones did differently from the good ones.

How to Win Friends and Influence People is an old book (early 1900's) that interviews people like Henry Ford and others to see how they "get their way" in business.

I'm drawing a blank, but I'll come back when I remember the others.

not only you can read it on kindle, but it's super cheap these days too. It's a fantastic book, I enjoyed it much more than I thought I would.

The rise of the cell phone is what has led to potato quality calls - calls are all essentially data on cellular, and since everyone shares the airwaves, there is a large incentive to compress this data and make it as small as possible, leading to the poor quality calls.

The Atlantic had an article awhile back speculating this is one reason for the great decline in phone calls. This article also explains the problem of call quality.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/08/why-people-hate-making-phone-calls/401114/

Jon Gertner's book "The Idea Factory" documents AT&T's Bell Labs and the amazing technologies they developed during the 20th century. Fabulous book.

https://www.amazon.com/Idea-Factory-Great-American-Innovation/dp/0143122797

Sorry, this is bullshit tabloid stuff. Good to Great is a business strategy book, it tends to make "best business books of all time" lists. If he'd been reading "Inverting the Pyramid" or some shit like that, fine. But I'd expect the guy to continue to read stuff like this, like most executives do to keep themselves challenged and learning.

Amazon link to the book FWIW

If reading that book is embarrassing, you're probably lacking some perspective.

Buy the book Hard Drive. It goes really in depth into Gates life and subsequent business ventures. It also doesn't appear to be written by someone sucking his cock, in fact quite the opposite. Great read IMO.

It came out in 1992 I believe as well, so not far removed from some of these things.

http://www.amazon.com/Hard-Drive-Making-Microsoft-Empire/dp/0887306292

Plus you can make pics with yourself kissing him (look at the cover ;)

I recommend What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry, by John Markoff.

https://www.amazon.com/What-Dormouse-Said-Counterculture-Personal/dp/0143036769

Not a technical book, but a terrific history of "personal computing" from its cultural roots in early 60s thinking about human augmentation and artificial intelligence. Many parts have to do with how visionaries and engineers invented ways to interact with machines.

The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation

Very good book if you are interested in Bell Labs. He really pioneered the idea of having engineers, scientists, and inventors working together. Which was not common at the time. If they needed a specialist in an area they brought one in.

If you want a good book on early Gates/MS (Pre 1995)

Hard Drive is a great book (1993). Very inspiring.

http://www.amazon.com/Hard-Drive-Making-Microsoft-Empire/dp/0887306292/

Revolution in The Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made
Written by a member of the original Mac team
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1449316247/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?qid=1394998489&sr=8-3&pi=SY200_QL40

Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
The only official biography, very in depth on the later years, but glosses over a lot of the early years when he was in my opinion a giant prick.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1451648537/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?qid=1394998612&sr=8-2&pi=SY200_QL40

What the dormouse said: How the sixties counterculture shaped the Internet

I don't have anything Atari specific to recommend but this book is excellent and covers a lot of the early people and companies that invented all of this

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0143036769/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1394998761&sr=8-1&pi=SY200_QL40

Founders at Work is a great read. It's first-person stories from people who founded great companies.

http://www.foundersatwork.com/

Edit to add amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/Founders-Work-Stories-Startups-Problem-Solution/dp/1430210788

• The Lean Startup - Reis
  
• Good to Great - Jim Collins
  
• Crossing the Chasm - Moore
  
  People react differently to books, but Crossing the Chasm was one of the best books I've ever encountered on business strategy.
  
  

Highly recommend the biography on Bill Gates called Hard Drive. It was really fascinating reading about his upbringing and experience in school that led to his fascination with software.

Can I add - Beer School: Bottling Success at the Brooklyn Brewery .. reading it right now and enjoying the story of the business start up and its growth.

First I ever heard of him was from a book called "what the dormouse said"

Interesting man, interesting life, great contributor to computing.
http://www.amazon.com/What-Dormouse-Said-Counterculture-Personal/dp/0143036769

Digital Gold is a good read coving the creation and history of Bitcoin. I'm almost done with it. Knowing my blockchain history and the big players in the original tech has come in handy more than I suspected, definitely worth the read!

A-K-E

Cool contest :) Happy cake day!

I just read Salt, Sugar, Fat by Michael Moss and he has a chapter about Todd Putnam (the guy interviewed in the article). Putnam is a former Coke executive who went a South American country to promote Coke products and realized how unethical it all was. So he developed snack packs for baby carrots and is now doing this, taking what he learned from Coca Cola and applying it to healthy foods. Pretty cool stuff. I highly recommend the book.

Certainly, no other successful businesses hire/promote from within and certainly not a disproportionate amount of exponentially successful ones in the past 75-100 years of capitalism.

(That's right, that's an Amazon Canada link, big whoop, at least there's no referral shit)

But of course, that doesn't sell like the TSLAQ headline would. That's just boooooring ol' highly-respected textbooks by highly-respected authors.

I was reading Show Stopper over the weekend. One of the chapters was getting into NTFS (the file system). The reason for "saving all this stuff" was that things were intended to save files twice. That way if there were a crash or power outage (or something that didn't involve damage to the hard drive), the data could be restored to the last known good state.

Previously, in DOS, to save time deleting files, they just changed the first character in the file allocation table (roughly a dictionary that told where the files were). Deleting a file didn't delete the file, just changed one character and the operating system used that as "space is now available". Deleting a large file might take minutes if you have to zero out every block on the hard drive. Changing the first character to the special "I'm deleted" character takes milliseconds. In court cases, the forensic folks are going to use these quirks to see when files were created, or deleted and maybe what was in the file.

Many programs are also sloppy in how they store temporary data on the hard drive, and many don't properly delete those temp files when you exit the program. These temp files can also be used to testify against you in court.

The NT kernel was derived from VAX/VMS and it's mostly the work of Dave Cutler, an ex-Digital engineer hired by Gates to work on a new 32-bit Kernel. (http://www.microsoft.com/about/technicalrecognition/david-cutler.aspx)
If you want to get a feel of OpenVMS, telnet to jack.vistech.net. (http://jack.vistech.net/JACK.shtml)
Looks UNIX-y but has little in common.

The kernel in Windows 9x was a toy. There was no memory isolation between processes and no hardware abstraction layer (HAL). I could talk directly to your Sound Blaster from my poorly written Win32 game. If my game didn't step on someone's else's stack, it surely mishandled something in the hardware and there you have it, BSOD became pop culture. Oh yes, and i could overwrite memory in kernel space. Sorry, i just overwrote the I/O scheduler with my highscore, let's BSOD and call it a day. First OS to address this in personal computing space was OS/2, followed by Windows NT 3.1.

I highly recommend picking up a copy of "Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire" (http://www.amazon.com/Hard-Drive-Making-Microsoft-Empire/dp/0887306292) if you have an interest in OS development history, it's an epic adventure with just the right amount of technical bits thrown in to keep it very entertaining.

The Microsoft Research IPv6 stack was released after NT 4.0 shipped. Source code is publicly available and for the "historian programmer" makes for a very entertaining afternoon. (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/b92f7517-a39e-4c51-968e-079e7178807e/)

As for Firefox and its IPv6 support, my screenshot shows Firefox 2.0.0.20, which not only supports v6 but it prefers it over v4. They were just ahead of their time.

Why is there a will? Just like some watch football (i should probably say soccer, shouldn't i?) with a passion, i poke around at computing history trying to figure out where it all came from. It's my thing.

And, going a little off-track here, if anyone wonders (probably not), the "Hide file extensions" checkbox was there in NT4 and was ticked by default, just like in Windows Server 2012 R2 today.
http://i.imgur.com/XTczvv1.png
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bq-K8XgIAAAn3f9.png:large

Some things never change.

Another recommended book is "Accidental Empires" by Robert X. Cringely. IMO, it's by far the best and most entertaining book about the early PC industry.

> Need to have good source material to read and preferably academic reference

Read the book Digital Gold. It's a detailed history on the formation and history of bitcoin (basically everything 2015 and previous.). It's written by a New York Times reporter so it's from a reliable source. It's also amazingly well written, it basically reads like a novel.

https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Gold-Bitcoin-Millionaires-Reinvent/dp/006236250X

Quantitative Finance major here.

High Frequency Trading is insane. Everyone fights to shave off nanoseconds by putting their servers in the room as exchanges, orders are instantaneously cancelled in order to confuse other traders, companies have blasted through mountains in order to get perfectly straight fiber optic cables between point A and B. Order types complicated and predatory towards other traders. Goldman Sachs called the FBI on their own employee because he was suspected of stealing HFT code. On top of it all - the exchanges love HFT. More orders = more money. The exchange you trade on might pay you, or you might pay them but before your trade even gets there - a hedge fund or proprietary trading group might be paying to look at the order before anyone else.

If you're interested in the story, I highly recommend reading Flash Boys, When Genius Failed, and The Quants.

If you're interested in stopping whatever you're doing to learn how to develop machine learning algorithms and work on the street, PM me.

Showstoppers by Pascal Zachary

https://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0029356717/codihorr-20

A book about the personalities that created Windows NT. I thought it would be a dry read but I found it a fascinating peek under the covers of early Microsoft.

Amazon description

Showstopper! is a vivid account of the creation of Microsoft Windows NT, perhaps the most complex software project ever undertaken. It is also a portrait of David Cutler, NT's brilliant and, at times, brutally aggressive chief architect.

> than they do with Dogfish Head

Sam Calagione is very business-savvy, always had been. Hell, he wrote a book about how to run a successful business.

The "arty" image is in part truth and in part PR. He has famously lobbied lawmakers to change laws in his favor when he launched the brewery (and still does), secured investors to help grow his business, learned the art of contract negotiation, gets into trademark disputes to protect his business (he says that DFH spent more enforcing their trademark in 2013 than they spent launching the business in 1995), and more.

Anyone who think he's not just as in tune with how to run a business as any other savvy businessman is fooling themselves. That man knows his stuff. He wouldn't be where he is if he didn't.

I am currently reading Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us.

The description of how companies spike products like Oreo cookies with sugar & fats is frightening. I might need to check the book again but if I remember correctly one Oreo cookie has something like 5-6 tea spoons of sugar. I am hoping Parle-G is not in the same boat.

Now coming to your point of how to deal with this challenge: start with a plan of going through one day without Parle-G. No matter what, avoid eating a single Parle-G. If you feel cravings, have a glass of water instead. The next day will be easier. Soon, you will be a week without Parle-G and your cravings would have subsided.

I tried this with processed sugar and went 6 weeks without any processed sugar. Took a break for a day or two and am now trying to start the process all over again.

May I stand on a soapbox?

Automation isn't that simple. Automating processes that are already flawed to begin with is worse than no automation at all - as all automation does of a bad system is just compound the issue, and bring in new constraints.

Basically - automation is a solution, but it isn't the only solution - in fact, automation should be the last solution looked at it - and your solution should be the last step in the process improvement.

If you're serious about getting into management, and you work with processes that you feel could be made better or automated - I'd suggest the following reading:

The Goal

The Toyota Way

For those who would like a good read, Mr. Cringley based Triumph of the Nerds on his own book, Accidental Empires.

And both are far superior to the heavily-dramatized Pirates of Silicon Valley.

MIT opencourseware is pretty interesting

Also The Toyota Way is always a good start.

I'm currently reading a great book, Flash Boys , that goes into this. It's actually what got me researching and coming across this video. People were/are making millions from having this competitive edge, paying tens of millions to save literal nanoseconds.

I too am an outsider, and have no formal education/experience in the stock-market but this stuff is just so interesting!

• Here is the author of said book with the main character, Brad, debating with one of those who benefits from this speed
  
  
• Here is another video about the book and how all of this works. Super intriguing, will take you on a journey.
  
  
• Here is a tutorial on what "High Frequency Trading" is and how it works.
  
  
  

Maybe he read "Accidental Empires" by Robert X. Cringely. It's a superb account of the beginnings of the microcomputer revolution... I strongly recommend it.

This doesn't answer your question, but you may find Lords of Finance interesting in this context. It's an economic history of the events from the end of WW I up to the Great Depression. Although it was not written with recent events in mind, there are interesting comparisons to be drawn.

Great - btw. I really enjoyed reading "Founders at work" - I got that hint from Seibel's announcement of his upcoming "Coders at work"

A book called Digital Gold.

This book gives you more of a history behind bitcoin, how it started, what some of the hurdles were...etc. You'll better understand bitcoin because of it. It's not technical, but it does explain some things.

Excellently written.

https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Gold-Bitcoin-Millionaires-Reinvent/dp/006236250X/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1505798888&sr=8-5&keywords=bitcoin

You should look into Toyota, especially the Toyota Production System. For me they're the prime example of a company following a long-term vision over short-term profits. Liker's The Toyota Way gives some excellent examples in that regard.

Yup. I always make it a point to research history wherever I lived and during my time in Oakland / Emeryville, I discovered the Panthers were a resource for charity and the pre-coursers of what became the "Guardian Angels" with neighborhood watches, anti-gang activities, a whole host of positive out-reach.

The fact that it was operating in a very politically charged time, combined with political infighting made for a mess that collapsed in on itself very quickly.

The Bay Area was a colossal hodge-podge of "movements". Some of them admirable like the Panther's initially, as well as the Homebrew Computer Club which met both in Berkeley and Stanford and led to the various People's computer resource groups in the Valley, Acid experimentation which grew out of San Francisco and was toyed with by members of SRI - pre-coursers to PARC which led to GUI computing ala the "demo which changed the world" in 1968.

I recommend "what the doormouse said" for a really well written history of counter-culture and it's collision with defense research and the start of modern computing. Most people only go as far back as PARC, but SRI really is where things got started - and it was a pretty wild group. (Even wilder than the Stanford AI group which routinely had to chase down cart robots that decided the streets of Menlo Park were as valid as the lab hallways. Hint : the stripes down the middle of the road seemed the same to the pathfinding robots).

Then you have disasters like Jim Jones ...

If you enjoyed The Big Short, check out Michael Lewis' latest book Flash Boys. It profiles "a small group of Wall Street guys who figure out that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders and that, post–financial crisis, the markets have become not more free but less, and more controlled by the big Wall Street banks." They then set out to create a fairer stock market. It's a really fast-paced, fascinating read.

Read this book. It's all about why Sega was great for a time. Plus it's a really good read.

https://www.amazon.com/Console-Wars-Nintendo-Defined-Generation/dp/0062276700

The history of Toyota and Honda are interesting on this

Honda’s global strategy? Go local. tldr Honda are a lot less automated then you would think as this improves their ability to innovate

The Machine That Changed the World and others on Toyota go into how they changed their production methods

If you want a great book about computing in the heady sixties and seventies, I highly recommend John Markoff's What the Dormouse Said

Well now, since we are sharing books, let me add mine to the pile!

This is an extremely interesting look at the food industry and the amount of thought that goes into making food (usually junk food) as addicting as possible.

This is a must read: "From Good to Great" - http://www.amazon.com/Good-Great-Companies-Leap-Others/dp/0066620996

The Toyota Way is great engineering management book and a good introduction to Lean Thinking.

• “Mastering Bitcoin: Unlocking Digital Cryptocurrencies” by Andreas Antonopoulos
  
  
• “The Internet of Money” by Andreas Antonopoulos
  
  
• “The Internet of Money (Volume 2)” by Andreas Antonopoulos
  
  
• "Mastering Ethereum: Building Smart Contracts and Dapps" by Gavin Wood and Andreas Antonopoulos (Available for Preorder)
  
  
• “Digital Gold” by Nathaniel Popper
  
  
• “Cryptoassets” by Chris Burniske and Jack Tatar
  
  But, the internet is also your best resource.
  

I'd attend this 20 week program: https://www.siebelinstitute.com/education/certificate-studies/master-brewer-program/

and then work for a craft brewery of the size you are interested in emulating and learn from the best until you can earn the capital to start on your own. Also read http://www.amazon.com/Brewing-Up-Business-Adventures-Founder/dp/0470942312/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8 by the founder of Dogfish Head Brewery

Did you? His father was a big shot lawyer, his mother was on the board of many companies and had many connections. His mother's family is well connected in the Seattle area. This is well stated throughout some of his biographies (notably HardDrive and you should probably read up on Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell to get an idea on a big part of how Gates rose to success.

I've not seen it, so I'll have to look it up. Thanks!

Related media to NUMMI - The Toyota Way is an excellent book to learn about Toyota's production system, and the lessons learned from implementing it at NUMMI.

Yes, you're correct. Originally it was Nintendo / Sony for the Play Station. That one's very well documented, as Nintendo wound up going with Phillips later on. However, the hardware in question for that one wasn't what would become the Playstation (one word, not two).

Sony was going to go with Sega a few years after the Nintendo snubbing, but Sega's Japanese officials decided that they wanted to go a different way (Thomas Kalinske, the CEO of Sega of America, wanted to partner with Sony as he really liked their hardware).. so after Sega of Japan snubbed Sony, Sony went into business for themselves. The hardware they released as the Playstation (one word) is the same hardware that that they would've teamed up with Sega for. So! Had SoJ (Sega of Japan) not been idiots, Sega could've lead the 32-bit market and not released the Saturn, and the entire gaming market today really might be completely different than what we know of it now.. The war between Nintendo and Sony (and later Microsoft, who joined in with the original Xbox later on) would've been Nintendo vs Sony/Sega. Sega had been beating Nintendo pretty badly in sales prior to SoJ's meddling towards the end of the 16-bit era (when Nintendo launched Donkey Kong Country / the Super FX chip and took back a large part of what they lost to Sega), so Sega/Sony very well might have taken Nintendo out of the gaming market entirely..

(highly recommend reading The Console Wars book, it goes into detail about Sega during those days as it's written from Kalinske's point of view)

I know it isn't exactly what you are looking for, but I'd recommend:

http://www.amazon.com/Accidental-Empires-Silicon-Millions-Competition/dp/0887308554

If you are interested in computer history.

That E3 must have been the highlight of Steve Race's career. He had left the failing Sega just about a year before over difficulties with (among other things) SOJ's refusal to allow him to do these kind of stunts.

Some other funny and silly things Race did during E3 1995 included putting PlayStation napkins on every table at the SEGA party, and releasing PlayStation balloons all over the Convention.

It really is too bad that less than a year after launching the PlayStation both him Olaf Olafsson(the guy talking) and most of the nonjapanese staff at Sony's Interactive Entertainment division got fired, despite the Play Station doing amazingly.

if your interested in more of the story the end of the book console wars covers it quite extensively. Its mostly a book about SEGA and even at that mostly about Tom Kalinske but its got a lot of good background on both Nintendo and Sony as well.

> this is a conspiracy for the government to gain access to the legislative right to censor the internet?

yes.

> Show me any example where that was ever in question that it was argued that the US government simply lacked the legislative jurisdiction to do so.

You are asking me to prove the various reasons for inaction. That isn't how evidence works. Fuck off.

> There have been questions of first and fourth amendment overreach, sure ... but show me a case where, had the internet been a title 2, it would have made any difference.

I already have. Closed platforms like TV and broadcast are commandeered and applied with bright line rules and regulations. You really don't get it. It's not like people now are actively getting on TV and radio and breaking the rules that the FCC have put in place. It is the very fact that those rules exist before someone breaks them. It is the difference between offense and defense. Between overt violence and structural violence. Between Realpolitik and Noopolitik. It isn't about playing cat and mouse like they have been doing. It is about subverting the freedom online by co-opting the platform and making it their turf that they control. If you create the maze you can lead people wherever you want. Perhaps you should do more reading on the history of opened and closed platforms

No but I just read Micheal Lewis's new book "Flash Boys" about late 2000's Wall Street adoption into technology, and a significant chunk of it had to do with programmers and algorithms. Flash, as in milliseconds. Really crazy world that stock traders live in. Good luck and stay out of trouble around those guys!

Link to the book. 2000+ reviews, I guess I am not the only one that liked it!
http://www.amazon.com/Flash-Boys-Michael-Lewis/dp/0393244660

I also recommend Digital Gold. Tells the history if bitcoin. Great read.

https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Gold-Bitcoin-Millionaires-Reinvent/dp/006236250X

You might like these pictures of the (an?) original, taken at (Nokia) Bell Labs. More dust. https://imgur.com/a/wPYNY3z


We owe so much to them (Cell phones, Satellites, C, Unix, etc etc). For those interested,this is a nice book on the topic:
https://www.amazon.com/Idea-Factory-Great-American-Innovation/dp/0143122797

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

Yeah read Accidental Empires and see really what Bill Gates did. Genius but not an inventor in IMHO. The BASIC interpreter start got the company started was a port not invented. DOS was bought not invented. Windows was copied. And so on...

I would also argue that Gates and Jobs are more alike than different. They were visionaries that could recognize technology see its market potential before most others. Neither invented they just improved and packaged technology better than the actual inventors

This one is from one of the engineers who made the original Macintosh and includes information from a bit before and a bit later of Mac's story. It is a book form of this site basically (which i think has slightly more content than the book), but i find the book much easier to read than the site.

There is also another book about Microsoft's early history (until ~1992). I have read a Greek translation only so i'm not sure if it is the same, but based on Google's preview of a few pages i think it is this one. I do not have the book with me (i am in Poland and i left it in Greece) so i cannot confirm if it really this is the one i'm talking about. It is hard to find a translated book published almost two decades ago :-P

The way I see it; it sounds like you have a staff member abusing your lax policies and shouldn't work for you.

Jim Collins says "Your people are not the most important asset to your company, the right people are" and I couldn't agree more.

Ask yourself, if he quit today would you be relieved?

Would you hire this staff member again if given the opportunity?

Hahahah, after readying the actual book Console Wars, I wouldn't be surprised :) The business behind our favorite childhood consoles is pretty interesting. I highly recommend it: https://www.amazon.com/Console-Wars-Nintendo-Defined-Generation-ebook/dp/B00FJ379XE

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My favorite book? That is a hard question since I myself own a good bit of books and have a large amount of books which I own but I would have to say that it would be Console Wars since is a good read about the old Nintendo-SEGA rivalry

The Carterfone was acoustically coupled to the phone, not electrically. This is why early modems required you to put the phone in a special cradle rather than just plug into it.

While the carterfone ruling was indeed a landmark, it was a regulatory revision in the 70s that led to the development of the RJ11 jack, and ultimately the breakup of the Bell system in the late 80s that led to private phone ownership being viable

If you want to know more, here are some good books on the phone system:

• Exploding the Phone
  
• The Idea factory

The book this is excerpted from looks good. Another excellent, and better known book on the topic is Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us, which is a #1 New York Times bestseller.

The book in the Salon article may be just as good as the bestselling one, but published a few months later. At any rate, Salt, Sugar, Fat is the one that defines the discussion on the topic.

Read Hard Drive if you want a better picture about gates.

100x better than the Pirates movie.

Internet search will find quite a few sources verifying. There's a general consensus, it seems, that this is legit.


In his book The Dark Net, author Jamie Bartlett recounts how it went down:

>In 1972, long before eBay or Amazon, students from Stanford University in California and MIT in Massachusetts conducted the first ever online transaction. Using the Arpanet account at their artificial intelligence lab, the Stanford students sold their counterparts a tiny amount of marijuana.

The bongwater-flavored e-commerce origin story isn’t a secret—John Markoff also wrote about it in his 2005 book What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry. But it’s been stuck good in my maw (I am now a 92-year-old prospector) since I read The Dark Net while Ross Ulbricht’s life sentence for his crimes operating the Silk Road came in.


https://gizmodo.com/ask-the-dark-net-author-about-the-internets-underworld-1708463753

Since the 1970s, the USDA has strongly encouraged the increased consumption of cheese in an effort to reduce the amount of surplus milk and cheese the government is obligated to purchase. Part of this strategy involved lobbying private industry to increase the amount of cheese included in fast and processed foods. Consequently, average cheese consumption has increased to 33 pounds per person per year, a threefold increase since the 70s.

It's hard to say for sure if this is the main cause of the difference you noticed, but it seems that it is a sign of a larger food trend.

Source: Salt, Sugar, Fat

Personally, I'm not huge on social media, especially FB. You need feet in the door as you are a physical business. Just getting virtual clicks isn't enough.

What you need is good old fashioned business advice. The fundamentals of business never change even though the tools (such as social media) do.

I recommend these two books:
Good to Great

Fish!

First off, I really loved your book about starting the company. It was an incredibly informative and insightful read.

My Question: What important bit of advice would you offer to smaller breweries/brewpubs just getting started in this quickly evolving market?

The Curve of Binding Energy: A Journey into the Awesome and Alarming World of Theodore B. Taylor
by John McPHee

Assassination Vacation
by Sarah Vowell

Public Therapy Buses, Information Specialty Bums, Solar Cook-A-Mats and Other Visions of the 21st Century
by Steven M. Johnson

Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date
by Robert X. Cringley

Tog on Interface
by Bruce Tognazzini

I am going to start doing this in every US telecommunications thread.

Read Tim Wu's The Master Switch.

It is a thorough, extremely interesting, and very smart examination of the history and the possible futures of the telecom industry. All these random redditor comments add nothing to it, and if everybody read it, the discussion could be so much better.

I remember reading Good to Great back in college business class about these transitions in business. Pretty interesting.

If brewing is something you really love just ask yourself it you'll get the same enjoyment from it when you have to do it. If so, go for it.
I read something recently that might resonate - "In a years time would you wish you started today".

What sort of size are you looking at?
The 200l Braumeister pilot system may be an option but it is €10k+

Have you read any books on the subject e.g. http://www.amazon.com/Brewing-Up-Business-Adventures-Founder/dp/0470942312

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>I wanna gift a book on bitcoin to someone. Preferably a beginners guide. I searched this sub for some good recommends but there's a lot of them it seems.

> This is the #1 most reviewed on Amazon.

There is an excellent book titled Showstopper about the creation of Windows NT. Obviously it's quite dated now however the work is very revealing documenting the enormous task of crafting a new OS.

I recommend Flash Boys to anyone that wants a bit more of a description of HFT. It's a pretty quick, insightful read.

I'm not sure how relevant this is, but I really enjoyed What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the PC Industry.

The "market " is a fixed ponzi scheme , ran by black boxes.
The best located black boxes can view and trade , or view and create a price and trade ,micro seconds before the competing black boxs. Seriously.
The human "investors" provide the food for the black boxes. The banks lick the icing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_trading

http://www.amazon.ca/Flash-Boys-Michael-Lewis/dp/0393244660

I just read Digital Gold, which I'd recommend. It's more about the history of Bitcoin and major events around it, as opposed to details about the technology. But it does explain what Bitcoin can do, who can benefit from it, etc.

For those of ya'll who aren't familiar with Tim Wu and are interested in learning more about his stance (especially w.r.t. net neutrality), I highly recommend his book, The Master Switch.

Definitely this. And look what I found.

Followed by Nerds 2.0.

Also, I highly recommend the book: Accidental Empires.

Just wanted to make some counterpoints to what you said.

• There's a book What the Doormouse Said which makes the claim that the culture of the area did have an affect on it becoming a tech hub. It cites difficulties many startups had in procuring venture capital from New York companies, but people in the Bay were more open to new ideas and were willing to take those chances.
  
  
• I love the weather in SF. It's never humid, never freezing cold, and never unbearably hot. Also the east side of the city rarely experiences fog.
  
  
• There's plenty of foliage in the neighborhoods. Not really sure why you felt the need to mention this.
  
  
• SF is as interesting as NY or Chicago IMO. There's plenty of art, culture, and events.
  
  
• It's still the liberal mecca of the US, but if that's not your thing, you're gonna have a bad time.
  

/r/history has a great wiki - https://www.reddit.com/r/history/wiki/recommendedlist

but, it doesn't look like a lot of Great Depression stuff there.

The only entry I saw in a quick glance was:

• *Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed. It's about the Great Depression in Europe. (Also available on audio and MP3 format.) Review of it from the NY Times Book Review.
  
  (and I assume you are looking for US Great Depression)
  
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  Here's a link to some photographers, you can search their names for more: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/meet-photographers-charged-documenting-depression-era-america-farm-security-administration-180964123/
  
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I would like to hear it.

The Idea Factory was a good read.

https://www.amazon.com/Idea-Factory-Great-American-Innovation/dp/0143122797

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I was just reading about this! The Idea Factory is a great book that tells the story of Bell Labs.

Not Brent here. If I had the inclination to keep an office library the book Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft would be in it. A very interesting read even today.

Reading all of these three books will provide a very well-rounded over-view of these (and many other) events. They are all very quick reads and quite fascinating:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_0_19/182-4895270-7226860?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=fumbling%20the%20future&sprefix=fumbling+the+future%2Caps%2C410

http://www.amazon.com/Accidental-Empires-Silicon-Millions-Competition/dp/0887308554/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1410918861&sr=1-1&keywords=accidental+empires

http://www.amazon.com/Insanely-Great-Macintosh-Computer-Everything/dp/0140291776/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1410918880&sr=1-1&keywords=insanely+great

> https://www.amazon.com/Salt-Sugar-Fat-Giants-Hooked/dp/0812982193
> There are plenty of cites in this book.

A journalist's pop book is not demonstration of a conspiracy by every corner of the food industry to get people addicted to anything.

> You're mirroring. Reread your mistakes and let me know when you correct them.

Mmmmm yeah I kind of figured it was going to go this way eventually. A lazy attempt to source something you said and then running away.

AH well, maybe the 5th time I try to get you to clearly state what you're trying to say will be the charm.

Not directly related, but have you read Beer School? It's about the Brooklyn Brewery and how they managed to get started. It's a really good read.

http://www.amazon.com/Beer-School-Bottling-Success-Brooklyn/dp/0470068671

The FCC has almost always been used to further corporate interests. See Tim Wu's The Master Switch if you want a good account of how it has basically always been business's way of controlling the industry.

I wish it were in PDF form. I bought it on Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/books/dp/0887306292

54 used from 0.01, not bad pricing.