(Part 2) Reddit mentions: The best business professional biographies

Preface: This is my first post and it ended up rather larger than I intended, but such is the nature of this subject matter. Additionally please forgive any spelling/grammar errors, I am far from perfect in this regard and have come to rely too heavily on auto correct which constantly misses "to vs too" and so on... Bellow crept into my honours thesis when it was supposed to be below, you end up reading what is in your head not what is on the page, and for that I appologise in advance. Gulp Here goes the submit button.

I am doing my PhD thesis on something in this area (I am a philosopher) and thought I would just give my $0.02... which is actually a bit steep for what its worth. There is a way out of this "pathological trap" I think but it requires a fundamental overhaul of the way we treat the social sciences as a whole. There is essentially two things going on in what we label "social science" one is immutable and unchangeable and that is science, the other is closer to a social strategy than anything else. If a theory depicts the best strategy in a social situation it is not a science, it is a strategy, it does not tell us this is how things are, only that this is something we could choose to do. A lot of people seem to be confused by the difference. A scientific theory by itself is ethically neutral, it either is or is not the case. A strategic theory is not so disinterested, it is something that may be willingly acted upon with our own free will and the fallout of those decisions is on we, the actors.

To give an example, we know thalidomide works on suppressing nausea, and there was a time we did not know it caused birth abnormalities. So a strategy was devised. Given what we know about thalidomide we should use it to treat morning sickness. Strategy worked, really well, and 9 months latter had unforeseen repercussions. We would nail a doctor to the wall for administering thalidomide in this day and age to a pregnant women, s/he could not hide behind "its science and thus ethically neutral!" the strategic decisions of the doctor make him/her morally culpable.

Now the undergrad economists out there will shout "but where are you going with this, thalidomide has side effects, there are no side effects with neoclassical economics" while the post grad economists will shake their heads at them (not in all but in some cases, most undergrad economists I know are very sure of their discipline while most post grad and lecturers are much less so). Neoclassical economics (or more precisely in this case, the self interested "rational" agent) has essentially created a gigantic prisoner's dilemma, and the mantra is "fuck less yee be fucked" (again, granted not in all cases but usually where issues like these arise)

I can imagine two opposing cries from the same field, one saying "but that's just a model to facilitate prediction!" and the other saying "you obviously are misrepresenting "self interested" it is just to facilitate an agents unknowable motives!"... but this is confusing which is it? something definite we can use for prediction or a place holder because we cannot predict humans? It cannot be both, one of these options supposes that we are going to get reliable results from it, the other that we just call whatever happens "self interest" and have no way of knowing what will happen, or that we will just confirm all the results we get after the fact. (I cut some info here about Thomas Reid and his theories on Credulity and Veracity, I will link it in the reference at the end) It is in actual fact a worst case scenario, when Adam Smith used his butcher baker brewer example it was an appeal to their self interest not because they will not respond to anything else, but because it has more chance of working in worst case scenarios as well as best case scenarios and everything in between. This is a strategy, and I must admit a rather compelling and persuasive one. Here in lies the reflexivity, which is the amount a strategy is persuasive in terms of the decisions we make in the real world, that have a direct impact on the results predicted by the strategy. (Sorry that is rather confusing... "What will really cook your noodle later is would you still have broken it if I hadn't said anything?" - The Oracle - The Matrix [sorry if that's a misquote no time to go back and watch it again])

Sandri has done experiments into this area in ultimatum games, PD games and so forth, turns out that you are more likely to follow the expected results when you know what the expected results are and why. Who would of thunk it aye? I am not suggesting that if you learn about capitalism you will instantly be transformed into a monster or even that it is a sure thing, just that the arguments/strategies generated from what you learn are now part of the internal deliberative process when it comes to decision making in the area it is concerned with... it had damn well better be or what is the point of studding it? The point I am trying to make is that the results change after people have learned about the theory and the expected results... if it was a science they would not, only game theory and strategies do this. These are better models for understanding, explaining and predicting behavior for social strategies than some idealism of absolute knowledge, luckily we kind of recognise this.

So I mentioned there was a way out?

Well as the champion of neoclassical economics (Friedman) once put it in a paper on positive economics, the predictive power of a theory is more important than the assumptions that go into it, now I disagree completely but I cannot fault his reasoning... he just has his assumptions wrong. So knowing that knowing a theory makes you more likely to pursue it (the exact amount of which varies from theory to theory, even its valance changes but I wont bother with that here) and that it is a strategy and the actors employing that strategy should be morally culpable just like the thalidomide doctor. This in turn alters the weights in the game, I could choose to fire those employees and get a pay rise and call it efficiency, oh but my science is now widely recognized as a strategy and knowing that, I am also a fuckwad for doing it. But first why would it be widely recognized as a strategy? And second why should I care if I am a fuckwad?

First: predictability, we can get more accurate results, by treating the strategies as strategies rather than sciences. Sure we also need to admit that employing these strategies makes us ethically responsible but that's a small price to pay for more accurate predictions right?

Second: Because people don't actually like to be fuckwads in general (outside of the internet and high school I mean)... it's a ghost, a boogieman, none of my friends act like the self interested rational agent to the point of being a fuckwad, well ok may be once or twice but they are usually repentant and remorseful for it (myself included). However, what about all of them out there? Just because I have overwhelming experience completely contrary to this construct does not mean that the rest of the world is not out to get me! I just happen to know the best people on the planet and the rare few. So it is ok if I am a fuckwad to those strangers out there because they would of been a fuckwad to me right? No, of course not, it is unacceptable for anyone to be a fuckwad. Fuckwad is not the norm we should strive for, no matter what the strategy tells us. But this reflex stems from the very understandable desire "not to be the chump" to take Robert Franks words.

Not all of these strategies are bad mind you some strategies are really good (even within neoclassical economics, and capitalism as a whole) for everyone and these now (after we accept them as strategies and have accounted for reflexive influence... not going into that here) have probably a greater weighting, given the new information, we may finally stop prescribing thalidomide to pregnant women.

Are there tons of holes in this argument, sure. But cut me some slack I kept it under 1000 words... well I did initially now I check it it is around 1500. Also it may sound like I am picking on neoclassical economics here and its not really my intention, it is the strategies that it generates and their persuasive nature, even then this in itself is neither good nor bad till some one actually acts on them. And all of the social sciences have some amount of strategies within them and the reflexivity entangled with that.

Some of the things/people/articles referenced not putting up a proper bibliography here as it seems to me this may be more productive in giving credit for those that lack access to JStor and the like.

http://www.amazon.com/Reflexivity-Economics-Experimental-Self-Referentiality-Contributions/dp/3790820911 Sandri (warning horrably esoteric and dry read... very informative but yeah... it's a hefty price for eye sand paper.)
http://www.amazon.com/Wealth-Nations-Bantam-Classics/dp/0553585975 Smith (also available on Project Gutenberg, I think so many people quote the bits that help them and ignore the gigantic tracts that condemn them from this)
http://www.amazon.com/Essays-Positive-Economics-Phoenix-Books/dp/0226264033 Friedman (The guy was brilliant I cannot take that from him, Samuelson disagreed and so do I and they managed to remain friends and civil. I wont reference any Samuelson here as it is not really relevant to the current discussion out side of the "scientification" of economics by the mathematisation and formalising of economics.)
http://www.amazon.com/Passions-Within-Reason-Strategic-Emotions/dp/0393960226 Frank (Cracking read)
http://www.amazon.com/Inquiry-Human-Principles-Common-Sense/dp/0271020717 Reid (Another Cracker and well ahead of its time I think, Also I have just discovered I have lost my copy.)
http://www.amazon.com/The-Matrix/dp/B000HAB4KS (For the hell of it)

*Edited Spelling/Grammar/Matrix ref

Thanks for making it this far.

Wookiee

Here are all the books with amazon links, Alphabetical order :)

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• Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant by W. Chan Kim et al. Link: http://amzn.com/1591396190
  
• Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh et al. Link: http://amzn.com/160941280X
  
• Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown Link: http://amzn.com/0804137382
  
• Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days by Jessica Livingston Link: http://amzn.com/1590597141
  
• How Google Works by Eric Schmidt et al. Link: http://amzn.com/1455582344
  
• Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World by Gary Vaynerchuk Link: http://amzn.com/006227306X
  
• Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way by Richard Branson Link: http://amzn.com/0307720748
  
• Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath et al. Link: http://amzn.com/1400064287
  
• Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck Link: http://amzn.com/0345472322
  
• Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time by Keith Ferrazzi et al. Link: http://amzn.com/0385346654
  
• Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable by Tim S. Grover et al. Link: http://amzn.com/1476714207
  
• Rework by Jason Fried et al. Link: http://amzn.com/0307463745
  
• Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else by Geoff Colvin Link: http://amzn.com/1591842948
  
• The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss Link: http://amzn.com/0307465357
  
• The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth by James Altucher Link: http://amzn.com/150100994X
  
• The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison: *God Doesn't Think He's Larry Ellison by Mike Wilson Link: http://amzn.com/0060008768
  
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz Link: http://amzn.com/0062273205
  
• The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business by Clayton M. Christensen Link: http://amzn.com/0062060244
  
• The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries Link: http://amzn.com/0307887898
  
• The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime by MJ DeMarco Link: http://amzn.com/B004BDOUAI
  
• The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph by Ryan Holiday Link: http://amzn.com/1591846358
  
• The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller et al. Link: http://amzn.com/1885167776
  
• The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company by Steve Blank et al. Link: http://amzn.com/0984999302
  
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell Link: http://amzn.com/0316346624
  
• Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth by Gabriel Weinberg et al. Link: http://amzn.com/1591848369
  
• Unlabel: Selling You Without Selling Out by Marc Ecko Link: http://amzn.com/1451685319
  
• Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel et al. Link: http://amzn.com/0804139296

Hello! I am a social investment supporter. My journey started last year when I read Hans Rosling's book: Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World -- and Why Things Are Better Than You Think. According to Hans, the best investment opportunities are in the emerging markets of Asia and Africa. He described how we should look at statistics to make smart business decisions. I especially liked how he was optimistic about the future of the world and how countries are working hard to get out of poverty. It's not an investing book per se but it gives a good insight on where you might want to focus your attention if you want to make a difference in this world. It also solidified my rule to invest in the Philippines only and not be distracted by any foreign investment product (as I am currently based abroad).

Here's a TEDtalk as an intro to Hans Rosling: https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_reveals_new_insights_on_poverty/


I further asked myself how could his ideas be particularly applicable in the Philippines, where a lot of my countrymen are still living in poverty? Fortunately, I found Vince Rapisura on Facebook and he constantly discusses being a "Social Investor." Before meeting him, I have never heard anything about Social or Impact investing. I thought investing was just to make my money work for me. But through him, I learned that investing can create more value than just mere profit. We can select investments that have a conscious goal of making a positive impact on society. Vince's company, SEDPI, is focused on such ventures and his presentations are on his website: https://vincerapisura.com/impact-investing-handouts/

I am still reading more books about the topic and my search got me to Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty. It was written by Muhammad Yunus and he earned a Nobel Peace Prize for his work in Bangladesh. I think his concepts are pretty similar to what Vince is doing with his company.

Let me also share this episode about Tagum Cooperative (which Vince has been raving about recently) and I must say their work and mission are inspiring: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQbtbORwUfE

Sorry, I am just blabbing about my recent reading/watching list but to answer your question, yes, socially responsible investments have been on my mind lately and I got excited when I saw your question. I admit that I still have an index fund and I know that some companies there don't have the best reputations, so I am slowly transitioning and studying more materials in order to invest in enterprises that I can understand and have the same principles as I do. It is a hard task but hopefully, I would get there. If you ever have a chance to attend a seminar by Vince, I'd say go for it.

Read these books, in this order:

Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist
https://www.amazon.com/Buffett-American-Capitalist-Roger-Lowenstein/dp/0812979273/

The Little Book That Still Beats the Market
https://www.amazon.com/Little-Book-Still-Beats-Market/dp/0470624159/

Margin of Safety (only available in free PDF now, out of print)
https://files.leopolds.com/books/Margin.of.Safety.1st.Edition.1991.Klarman.pdf

Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits
https://www.amazon.com/Common-Stocks-Uncommon-Profits-Writings/dp/0471445509/

The Intelligent Investor
https://www.amazon.com/Intelligent-Investor-Definitive-Investing-Essentials/dp/0060555661

They'll teach you what's called value investing. As a system it was approximately originated by Benjamin Graham, Warren Buffett's mentor. It's the only system of investing that has been shown to consistently work over an extremely long period of time (nearly a century at this point) and anybody can learn to utilize it.

The first book will give you a close-up walk-through of value investing by following Buffett from his earliest days forward, including how he thought about investing (the most important aspect). That'll prime you to more easily be able to understand and digest the next value investing books. Once you have digested enough about value investing, you'll be able to adapt its ways to the things you're particularly good at (there are various styles or approaches to value investing; the best at it all use slightly different custom techniques in how they find stocks, what kind of levels of value they require before they invest, when they prefer to sell or not, risk tolerance, etc). As a system it's fundamentally built around logic / reason as the primary tools of appraising investments and making decisions, it encourages you to push emotion out of the equation of investing as much as possible (and in doing so, you automatically acquire a dramatic leg up over most investors big and small).

Of critical importance: value investing is not about producing small conservative returns. The best value investors have smashed the market's average returns over extremely long periods of time and they have tended to beat all other types of investors. Value investing is about: 1) not destroying capital, so that you can retain and compound it, taking maximum advantage of the extreme power of compounding returns; 2) picking investments that have an appropriate margin of safety (they've been significantly mispriced by the market), that protects your downside, while exposing you to a very large potential upside.

Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson is pretty good. He did a great job of explaining what Jobs did, why he did it, his past life and what inspired him to do what he did. I also think the book helps you think more about why he Steve Jobs acted the way he did. He pushed people to their limits and to the best products with the best design and taught people to never settle. His vision of what computers and future tech should look like and his tough attitude are the qualities people praise when calling him innovative and a world-changer.

Also, you kind of get a peak at how he always had an independent spirit. Someone early on inspired him to cherish great design.

Here's a link to the book, it has great design too! https://www.amazon.com/dp/1501127624/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_qtcGxbSTMBJ81

No offense but your grasp of Hayek's work and its importance in economics is pretty superficial at best, and wildly off base at worst (e.g. "basically one idea", though I'm not sure how literally you meant that). And you don't have to take my word on it, several prominent Nobel prize winners-- working in diverse fields in economics-- were deeply influenced by his work, and notably the fields in which they were most prominent seem to have little if anything to do with business cycles or political polemics like RtS (for what it's worth, in my view RtS is Hayek's least interesting work by a fairly significant margin). Just off the top of the head: Douglass North, Elinor Ostrom, Vernon Smith, James Buchanan, and Ronald Coase.

North himself is on the record in saying Hayek was the greatest social scientist of the 20th century. That would be an astonishing claim for someone of North's stature to make if Hayek's important work was limited to business cycles (which, as you correctly note, hasn't found any kind of widespread acceptance in contemporary econ) or political polemics. It's at least slightly less astonishing if you drop that assumption and instead recognize that Hayek worked on a number of other projects, and that his work in particular on institutions and how they structure human behavior laid much of the groundwork for North's own later work.

It's probably also worth pointing out his influence hasn't been limited to economists, e.g. see political philosopher Jerry Gaus's work. I think John Tomasi is another, though I'm not as familiar with his work.

For secondary sources, you might find Bruce Caldwell's intellectual biography Hayek's Challenge to be a useful starting point, or perhaps Peter Boettke's FA Hayek. For primary sources, I'd recommend starting with the first volume of the Law, Legistlation, and Liberty series, Rules and Order.

We have a user here, u/grandissimo, who is an author of several Las Vegas books, a writer for Forbes, and is currently the Director of the Center for Gaming Research at UNLV. He has a few books that you may be interested in. My personal favorite is Grandissimo; a book about Jay Sarno, who built Caesars Palace and Circus Circus, but was a complete degenerate yet shaped how the city's casino industry is fundamentally positioned today.

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You can also check out a fantastic response he did in r/AskHistorians to the question "How much truth is there that the Mob built Las Vegas?". Super interesting thread to read through that gives great background to the history of our lil town.

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If you're looking for a more modern day history, Winner Takes All is a book on the dynamic of the top CEOs of the city and how they all have different visions for the city and their companies.

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One I have not yet read but intend to is Blood Aces. It's about Benny Binion - mob boss, casino owner, and creator of the World Series of Poker. He's another huge influence on how casinos operate today. If I remember correctly, he was the first one to put chairs in front of slot machines, offer complimentary rooms and drinks to players, and much more.

Maybe this?

From: https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/kochland-examines-how-the-koch-brothers-made-their-fortune-and-the-influence-it-bought

>If there is any lingering uncertainty that the Koch brothers are the primary sponsors of climate-change doubt in the United States, it ought to be put to rest by the publication of “Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America,” by the business reporter Christopher Leonard. This seven-hundred-and-four-page tome doesn’t break much new political ground, but it shows the extraordinary behind-the-scenes influence that Charles and David Koch have exerted to cripple government action on climate change.
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>Leonard, who has written for Bloomberg Businessweek and the Wall Street Journal, devotes most of the book to an even-handed telling of how the two brothers from Wichita, Kansas, built up Koch Industries, a privately owned business so profitable that together they have amassed some hundred and twenty billion dollars, a fortune larger than that of Amazon’s C.E.O., Jeff Bezos, or the Microsoft founder Bill Gates. The project took Leonard more than six years to finish and it draws on hundreds of hours of interviews, including with Charles Koch, the C.E.O. and force without equal atop the sprawling corporate enterprise. (David Koch retired from the firm last year.)
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>While “Kochland” is more focused on business than on politics, in line with Leonard’s “The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America’s Food Business,” from 2014, it nonetheless adds new details about the ways in which the brothers have leveraged their fortune to capture American politics. Leonard shows that the Kochs’ political motives are both ideological, as hardcore free-market libertarians, and self-interested, serving their fossil-fuel-enriched bottom line. The Kochs’ secret sauce, as Leonard describes it, has been a penchant for long-term planning, patience, and flexibility; a relentless pursuit of profit; and the control that comes from owning some eighty per cent of their business empire themselves, without interference from stockholders or virtually anyone else.
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>Saying anything new about the Kochs isn’t easy. The two brothers have been extensively covered: they are the subject of Daniel Schulman’s excellent biography “Sons of Wichita,” from 2014, and the focus of much in-depth investigative reporting, including a piece I wrote for The New Yorker, from 2010, and my book “Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right,” from 2016.
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>Leonard, nonetheless, manages to dig up valuable new material, including evidence of the Kochs’ role in perhaps the earliest known organized conference of climate-change deniers, which gathered just as the scientific consensus on the issue was beginning to gel. The meeting, in 1991, was sponsored by the Cato Institute, a Washington-based libertarian think tank, which the Kochs founded and heavily funded for years. As Leonard describes it, Charles Koch and other fossil-fuel magnates sprang into action that year, after President George H. W. Bush announced that he would support a treaty limiting carbon emissions, a move that posed a potentially devastating threat to the profits of Koch Industries. At the time, Bush was not an outlier in the Republican Party. Like the Democrats, the Republicans largely accepted the scientific consensus on climate change, reflected in the findings of expert groups such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which had formed in 1988, under the auspices of the United Nations.

A book no one but me has ever heard of...

Gig: Americans Talk about Their Jobs

Link: http://www.amazon.com/Gig-Americans-Talk-About-Their/dp/0609807072/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259908374&sr=8-1

Gig consists of roughly 120 concise interviews with American workers. What's fascinating is how every worker talks differently as well as the amazing variety of workers they found. Everyone from transvestite prostitutes to major film directors to kids selling lemonade are talked to. And each segment is edited so that you never hear the questions being asked, just the responses. It's an amazing book that taught me as much about people as any psychology textbook I've ever read - and with each interview segment being only 3-6 pages long, its easy to pick up and put back down.

If you ever find it in stores, I recommend reading the interview with the crime scene cleaner. Quite interesting, that one.

(The interview with the lawn mower is pretty funny too).

Pick up a book like Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs by John Bowe or What cops know by Connie Fletcher and follow that style. Avoid stylizing or editorializing the stories; just write down verbatim what the interviewee says. This way each story is like a vignette and it's like you're hearing a firsthand account rather than through the filter of the writer.

Go to bars and offer to buy someone a drink, then tell them about the book and ask if they have any good stories. Carry a tape recorder; but make sure that you let them know that their full name won't be used (or have them use a pseudonym). Go to an AA meeting or two for perspective as to how recovery looks (but don't make your account to specific), there are always good stories there - and yes, go to some other alcoholic treatment alternatives. Wherever there is alcohol, try to be there. Get as much perspective as possible; you can always cut it down later when you edit.

After a few weeks of gathering stories, pick out your best and write up a synopsis to send into a book agent (major publishers don't accept unsolicited manuscripts).

Whenever it's done, lemme know and I'll pick up a copy :)

Good luck!

Great list! I would like to add a few more:

Stay in tune with what is actually happening downtown/on the strip. u/MsKim has a list every week. Great new restaurants open every few months - Mr. Chow at Caesars Palace will be a must and opens soon but many locals do not know about it!

Grab a Vegas Seven, Las Vegas Weekly, or any of those free local magazines when you see one.

Also, keep up with the financial news of these companies. More than 50% of the labor force in Las Vegas works for the hospitality company in someway. Being knowledgeable about your economy, I think, makes you feel more 'at home' too.

Hell - why not learn a little about the fascinating history of this city! There are a ton of great books out there on the history of Las Vegas. My favorite is Grandissimo. It's written by Dr. David Schwartz who often contributes to Vegas Seven. He's a great writer and very nice guy.

Oh, and, watch the movie Casino. It's based off a real story that's right in your backyard.

The original title is "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations," but it is generally referred to as "The Wealth of Nations." It is a compilation of books written by Smith and if you are interested in it you can find one here and it looks like the kindle addition is free. I'm sure you could also find free ebook versions somewhere else.

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

> Millionaires are millionaires, they make it on somebody else's back

I understand where you're coming from, but this is dismissive, ignorant, and cynical. 'Billionaires' I'd accept, but millionaires who have come by their wealth through moral and honest hard work are all around us. For example, I just finished reading an interesting autobiography by founder and CEO of Sierra Nevada brewery... TL;DR he leveraged everything he had and worked 7 days a week reinvesting everything he made for a decade to get off the ground. The company is deeply invested in water and energy conservation, improving sustainable farming operations, investing in employee well-being and the well-being of the surrounding community, etc. He doesn't mention it in the book but he has also spent many millions of his personal wealth purchasing land in the Sierra Nevada foothills to then donate it to the state as nature preserves. These people exist, they're just often humble and not dramatic enough to be of media interest.

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Since this is a issue I really care about, let me give you my 2 cents. My backgorund is this, I started reading economics gut into austrian economics and got ouf of it a little bit again. Meaing that for some time I tought only austrians had insights but then found much more diffrent economists that also had great insides.

Lets get to it. I think to a some extent they talk past each other. In some ways they agree.

Murphy keeps making the point that what we learn from econoimst and how most arguments we make are not empricly tested but logicly deduced. This is clearly correct. On the otherhand you have friedman who agrees but still wants to attmept to test them.

It seams to me that you can easly except that we can not really test many of the clames very well but just because something is very hard does not mean we should not do it. Meaning that when you do empirical work, you have to be aware of the limtations of empical work.

Hayek was asked how then in such a complex system can we falsify a theory (assuming the are both logicly possible). Hayeks answer basiclly is, its very hard, lots of experiments, lots of thinking, lots of time.

So the question it all comes down to is, given emprical stuff is so hard should we even try it. It seams to me that we should, because if we dont we will just have two logicly consistent systems with diffrent assumtions about human action. Groupe X belives that increas in minimum wage does not increase unemployment because they belive humans act like that and the others disagree. For such cases it is usful to test these.

So for me it comes down to this, use clean well thought out logic of human action system, think abut how people would act, there insentives and form a theory. Then think of a way to test this theory as well as you can, cleary admit that the tests are probebly not clear enougth and much more testing has to be done befor we could call the system anything close to a low.

I also have to note that most modern austrians or GMU school if you like do follow that approch much closer then the Mises one.

For anybody who cares about this I would recomend a book, Hayek's Challenge: An Intellectual Biography of F.A. Hayek (http://www.amazon.com/Hayeks-Challenge-Intellectual-Biography-Hayek/dp/0226091937). The book is really in large part about methodology so dont let the title fool you to much.

There is one more thing they differ about, namly how you deal with assumiton that seam to be wrong but still deliver good results but I dont want to get into that, since my thinking is not 100% on that yet.

Edit: That guy at 47min does not get the debate at all.

Edit 2: Murphy on GD. I think the standard view with austrians is that both money and govemrent intervantion worked togather. One would have to ask everybody. There is clearly a groupe including murphy who dont buy the money stuff at all but I do think that the GMU Austrians (or Free Banking Austrians) would largly disagree.

Edit 3: Murphy makes a good point with the price example. In large part Friedman agrees but one would still wants to test it the other does not.

Edit 4: About P. Schiff. The housing bubble is not the same as the larger crisis. Schiff know much about the housing market but that has not much to do with the larger crisis or with autrian theory. The market is never in complet equillibrium, that means any one actor can be better then the market but it is unlikly that you can consistently outperfrom the market.

Edit 5: Took out one paragrapth, that I am not sure about.

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If you're interested in Buffet, I highly recommend this biography. It's an excellent book about a truly inspiring and courageous person, and it also doubles as an incredible history of the stock market over the last 80 years and one of the better introductions to the basics of investing in the stock market that you'll ever read.

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You've strangely conflated development infrastructure with players. Importing Korean players would do nothing to help teams understand how to scout out promising native talent and coach them to success -- which is the main reason why Korea got so good to begin with.

>It's a universal concept across competitive sports, and it makes sense that it would apply to esports as well.

Importing players to help build your infrastructure is not a universal concept around sports. Nobody in traditional sports is stupid enough to expect a player to help your scouting and development operation.

There are other universal concepts around sports though: the concept of representing your country. No other sport with major national/regional based international competition allows players to compete for nations/regions they aren't a part of. Another concept that is generally understood in traditional sports is that it takes time and effort to develop players. NA teams compare raw NA rookies to experienced import vets and conclude that NA doesn't have talent. If they had any prior sporting experience they would know that those are apples-to-oranges comparisons. Focusing on developing internal talent instead of chasing sexy external options is the main way Billy Beane was able to surpass his rival is Moneyball.

Likewise, in The Extra 2% Joni Keri describes how the Rays rebuilt by stopping to sign overvalued free agents in favor of focusing on scouting and drafting young promising players into their own system like David Price and Evan Longoria -- a process that eventually led to a Pennant.

If you want to make overtures towards traditional sports, you really should read more about them before spouting ignorant nonsense.

There is a great biography about him as well if anyone is interested in learning more: http://www.amazon.com/The-Billionaire-Who-Wasnt-Secretly/dp/1610393341/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1405815952&sr=8-1&keywords=chuck+feeney

It's a fascinating read about how he started up the Duty Free empire and beyond.

I would check out Chuck Feeney, he's a guy who has given away about $8 billion in his lifetime and lives a pretty modest life himself. From what I read somewhere, he only has about $2 million for himself.

There's a good book about him, if you wanna pick it up from Amazon:

The Billionaire Who Wasn't: How Chuck Feeney Secretly Made and Gave Away a Fortune https://www.amazon.com/dp/1610393341/

Good luck on your noble endeavor!

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I just finished the Steve Jobs biography. It was pretty awesome and has me occasionally questioning my worldview and what I'm willing to accept from myself as "good enough." I've been recommending it to everyone who brings up books.

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Title: Steve Jobs

Author: Walter Isaacson

Genre: Biography

Would love to get some biographies in here, and some motivation myself to read more of them. Walter Isaacson is also a fantastic biographer; I read his biography of Albert Einstein and it was incredible as he really has an eye for taking a person and using his or her life as a prism for society.

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

Well, Steve Jobs hated the idea of a stylus.

And personally, I think he was right. "God gave us 10 styluses..." adding a stylus took away from the simplistic nature of apple products and Jobs' vision: an easy to use integrated hardware-software bundle that would connect your entire life. And he did A pretty damn good job in my opinion. and now Apple is sticking to their guns with going for simplicity, and cutting the cords on the headphones.

EDIT: In the biographical book, Steve Jobs he even told Isaacson (the author) that he had plans to revolutionize the textbook industry, because he thought it ridiculous that a 21st century society had to carry around heavy textbooks to help with learning; and wanted to make something (an iPad app? a new tablet altogether? I dunno) to make textbook buying and using altogether through apple products. I wonder what it would've looked like because, as a university student, I see a desperate need for change in the textbook industry, but I won't talk about that here.

Also, I don't sponsor the book or author, I genuinely thought it was an excellent book

Can you post a purchasing link to amazon?

Edit: Of course, instead of answering a question down vote the shit out of it, that's helpful.

Edit 2: OP was kind enough to provide me with a link
Whoever wondered what book it is can buy it without asking a bunch of condescending pricks for help.

Totally depends. People have made Billions during crashes- selloffs tend to be faster than bull runs, so traders holding short positions can make money hand over fist.

John Paulson made $15 billion in 2008 by betting against the housing market, for instance.

https://www.amazon.com/Greatest-Trade-Ever-Behind-Scenes/dp/0385529945

Then yes, if those investors close their shorts at the right time, and try to catch the bottom of the crash, they can pivot long and buy up assets cheap. As can anyone sitting on cash.

Given, this is much easier said than done, trying to time markets is like trying to surf in a hurricane.

i like Ron Chernow's historical biographies.

I've read his books on John D. Rockefeller, JP Morgan, and am currently reading Hamilton.

They are well researched, and he tells a good story.

In fact, iirc, you are local-ish to me so you can borrow one of them from me if you'd like. If I can find them (having moved recently).

Oh you are in for such a treat!!

Let me take you down the rabbit hole and show you who Steve Jobs really is.

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1997.

Apple has 90 days of money left. Out of desperation, Apple requests Steve Jobs to come back to Apple and help "make apple healthy" again.

He gave a status report at Macworld Expo, just days after he returned.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEHNrqPkefI

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1998.

One year after Steve Jobs proposed a plan on how he will fix apple, he returns to Macworld to show the results of his toil.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2wLzTyk9oc


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1999.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrErYJhvAFo

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After this, you have the famous presentations for the introduction of the ipod, iphone and ipad.

And if you are still not satisfied after watching all these videos, then I highly recommend this book

I'm not sure whether this is what you are meaning but this book still gets me excited and wanting to do something batshit mental.

This book is one of my biggest inspirations too!

Read The Book.

It's a pretty awesome read.

I like biographies of famous people a lot.

Augustus, by Anthony Everitt: I find Augustus fascinating because his rise to power was one of the very very few examples in history where a Trio of teenagers defeated their enemies against overwhelming odds and succeeded creating an order lasting for more than two centuries. (The Principate stopped working after Septimius Severus took power in 193AD)

FDR, by Jean Edward Smith: FDR is simply my favorite US president.

Titan, The Life of John D. Rockefeller, by Ron Chernow: Rockefeller was born in a very poor family, never had an university education, and became a billionaire by the end of 19th century. Regardless how you view him today, his rise made an excellent story.

Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson: He was a jerk, but also a genius. His love/hate relationship with Bill Gates is story for the ages. This book also shines some good insight into the tech industry. I have to say this book helped me making lots of money in stocks.

There is a book. It's brilliant and well worth the read!

The 33 Strategies of War

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The E-Myth

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Mastery

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Crucial Conversations

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Great Business Teams

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Power vs. Force

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Barbarians to Bureaucrats

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How to Win Friends & Influence People

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The Hypomanic Edge

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The Law of Success

This comment reminded me of another book along these lines. I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59 He talks all about what it was like to join Google early.

Now that I thought of that I'm going through my reading history and think that Steve Jobs might also be interesting to you. There is also Wozniak's book iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It but since I have not read it I can't really comment on it.

That book already exists: Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs. Sounds boring, but it's totally awesome.

I found Confessions of an Advertising Man to be incredibly interesting and inspiring.

If someone could invent a medication that kept me constantly hypomanic, without spiraling up or crashing back down .... man, I would pay good money for that. Hypomanic is the only time I feel like "me", as I think of and identify myself.

There is actually a theory out there that many very successful people are just mildly hypomanic at all times .... there's a book on it called They Hypomanic Edge ... (sorry for the ugly link!)
http://www.amazon.com/Hypomanic-Edge-Between-Craziness-Success/dp/0743243455/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1370123939&sr=1-1&keywords=hypomanic+edge

Don't forget John Paulson, who made muuuuch more than Burry in 2007-2008.

https://www.amazon.com/Greatest-Trade-Ever-Behind-Scenes/dp/0385529945

+$15,000,000,000 would have made a good Robinhood Screenshot.

Biggest YOLO of all time.

Yeah. Except they only transport their burgers (from wherever they make their burgers) as far as they can w/o having to freeze them.



I read about it in this book a few years ago. Really, really interesting.

Well, he did write an entire book on the team. He's mostly an Expos guy IIRC, but he probably harbors some feelings for the intelligently run Rays

While mania is destructive, hypomania is (sometimes) thought to be very useful

Lots of mental disorders are double-edged swords like this: schizophrenia can cause these psychotic breaks, but also brilliance (the little girl in the title and also John Nash); autism can paralyze a person but can also create savants

That gives insight into why mental illnesses are so pervasive and hard to treat

If you want to dig deep into the history of Sierra Nevada specifically, Ken Grossman’s book is a great read. https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Pale-Sierra-Nevada-Brewing/dp/1118007360/ref=sr_1_1

I love your perspective on this. Similarly, a while back someone did a lot of research on hypomania and discovered a likely connection between it and entrepreneurship:

https://www.amazon.com/Hypomanic-Edge-Between-Craziness-Success/dp/0743243455

tl;dr The incidence of mania in a population was found to be proportional to the fraction of immigrants and their descendants in that population, and the countries of with the highest rates of mania also had the highest rates of entrepreneurship.

Hypomanic? Start a company. BPD? Not sure yet.

There are three things mixed up here. One is the valid ritual use of symbolism. That Iamblichus book somebody else mentioned the other day is explicit that all this is in the most ancient written texts in Sumeria and Babylon. The symbol communicates what is inexplicable in our everyday human language.

There are a number of eye glyphs in Wallis Budge's Gods of the Egyptians to cite the most obvious example of this.

The second thing is the cottage industry of illuminati books where masons or the jesuits or the jews supposedly have the power to manipulate us into buying a billion Beatles records, 99.9% of which is fiction although a small amount, such as the work of Texe Marrs you cite is fascinating.

The third thing is purely mindless mass market fad and fashion like Lady Gaga. They do what works and gets attention and the world's greatest marketers (like this guy) are unanimous that nobody understands what works and it is ALL hit and mostly miss.

Jonah Keri already wrote this book. It's called The Extra 2%, and it's awesome.

Edit: It's even got some segments in it where he interviews Lewis.

Here yo go:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Spycraft-Wallace-Robert-ebook/dp/B005R20UVK

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Skunk-Works-Personal-Memoir-Lockheed/dp/0751515035

Enjoy ;)

http://www.amazon.com/In-N-Out-Burger-Behind-Counter-Fast-Food/dp/0061346721

Great book about In-n-out

There is a whole category of small businesses that work exactly this way. They intentionally reject investors and stay privately owned to do something extraordinary for the employees or community rather than chase growth at any cost. Check out Small giants, many of the companies shown as examples in this book try to be the best place for their employees.

... Steve Jobs viewed his father "my sperm and egg bank. That's not harsh, it's just the way it was, a sperm bank thing, nothing more". I'm not sure what you're arguing about when his father had minimal impact on his early life.

Page 14 of his autobiography.

If you want look for immigrant success stories, there are better examples than Steve Jobs.

The Only Difference Between God and Larry Ellison: God doesn't think he's Larry Elisson

Now on Amazon: https://www.amazon.ca/Difference-Between-God-Larry-Ellison/dp/0060008768

If someone wrote 'The Game' on business, Larry would be the Oracle behind it.

You should give this a read! Such a fascinating book.

Not any particular articles have in mind, sorry.

This was an excellent book on him though...
https://www.amazon.com/Buffett-American-Capitalist-Roger-Lowenstein/dp/0812979273/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1466722700&sr=8-7&keywords=Warren+Buffett

What's the difference between God and Larry Ellison?

God doesn't think he is Larry Ellison.

https://www.amazon.com/Difference-Between-God-Larry-Ellison/dp/0060008768

There is a biography of him that is titled The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison: God Doesn't Think He's Larry Ellison

What Should I Do With My Life and Gig are pretty practical suggestions.

The Wealth of Nations

How many husband and wife driving teams are out there?

(Also, the husband/wife truck driving team was one of my favorite interviews in the book Gig. I've never seen a couple finishing each other's sentences so often or so perfectly. You could tell these were two people made to be around each other 24 hours a day.)

I've read Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal.

https://www.amazon.com/Hatching-Twitter-Story-Friendship-Betrayal/dp/1591847087

That gave a really interesting insight into how Twitter got founded. You might also like Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson.

https://www.amazon.com/Steve-Jobs-Walter-Isaacson/dp/1501127624/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1465954395&sr=1-1&keywords=steve+jobs+walter+isaacson

I know it's not a book specifically about a company, but it goes into the founding of Apple, the hiring of some key and not so key employees and into him operating his other computer company NeXT and Pixar at the same time.

favorite books (in response to my question)

RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon by Richard Nixon

Confessions of an Advertising Man

These incidents are mentioned in Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs and also Steve Wozniak's autobiography, iWoz. Both of these books are well worth reading.

Respectfully, this is covered in his autobiography by Walter Isaacson.


The doctors actually wept with relief (when the test results were concluded) because, the cells proved to be the very treatable kind of cancer (sorry I don't recall chapter & verse at the moment). Had he elected on immediate surgery & treatment to deal with the issue; his survivability would have been nearly assured.


Instead; he opted to follow hubris and put his faith in hippy fad diets (same playing field as faith healing) and eschewed his learned doctor's advice. This gave the cancer what it needed, time. Sadly the rest is history:(


As to the quote: Steve only wanted "A game" people on his team(s) - edited for spelling. If you weren't that kind of talent, you were less (in his eyes). So the philosophy of the quote reconciles with his view.


edit to add: here is an alternative source if you do not wish to read the book. But, I recommend the book, it's a good read.

I miss Steve!

I'm currently reading Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
a good biography.

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I enjoyed Grandissimo which tells the story of Jay Sarno, who originally built Caesars Palace and Circus Circus. I think the author may lurk around here.

Depends how little of an aviation guy you are. Here's the Amazon UK link for it if you want reviews.

Here's the wikipedia link to learn some of the basics about the Skunk Works.

In short though, think of all the cool, black aircraft made for the US Air Force. Most of it was made by the Skunk Works who were a part of Lockheed Martin. Very impressive technology designed for a very demanding and dangerous job.

Well, his biography is coming out next month. It will probably expanded significantly around that time.

http://www.amazon.com/Steve-Jobs-Walter-Isaacson/dp/1451648537

A few links you might like. Warning, many of these are long:

http://www.thocp.net/index.html

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7707585592627775409

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=440334862070787846

http://oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyJAX8F2jPg

http://www.amazon.com/The-Difference-Between-Larry-Ellison/dp/0060008768

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4hO_-TuTlo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S23yie-779k

If you're a ballsy motherfucker

If you're a straight up troll

My point still stands: the men in porn aren't really enjoying themselves either. source Porn objectifies everyone involved, which is kind of the point. And everything you said about acting and gratification applies equally to male porn stars.

You should read this book or watch the documentary Inside Job

The book gets a little boring but it's relatively short and explains everything quite well.

The doc gives a worldly view to the entire crisis.

Enjoy!

>The Kochs' place in funding climate denial is covered well in the recent book Kochland by Christopher Leonard. They were big funders of a key 1991 Cato Institute conference, which mobilized furiously after President George H.W. Bush announced he would support a climate change treaty. They went on to spend gargantuan sums boosting upthe handful of credentialed scientists who deny climate change, funding climate-denying "think tanks" and publications, donating to climate-denying politicians (and refusing money to those who don't), and so on. Greenpeace estimates that between 1997 and 2017 the Koch family spent more than ExxonMobil funding climate denial, and thus established climate-change denial as conservative dogma. While conservative parties in almost every other country have endorsed at least some kind of climate policy; the reason Republicans still do not is to a great degree the responsibility of just two men.
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>One underrated part of extreme inequality is how it warps the public discourse. In this case, two ultra-rich men with a bottom line to protect were able to spend so much on propaganda, campaign donations, university donations, and so on that they turned the brains in one of two American political parties to rancid tapioca. A nation with an egalitarian income distribution is one in which regular people have a much greater freedom to think.

The Koch family fortune has ties all the way back to the Nazis and their greedy conservative influence has done immeasurable damage to the world.

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/0619/037.html

https://www.amazon.com/Hypomanic-Edge-Between-Craziness-Success/dp/0743243455

https://www.amazon.com/Snowball-Warren-Buffett-Business-Life/dp/0553384619

https://www.amazon.com/Steve-Jobs-Walter-Isaacson/dp/1451648537

Is this what you mean?

FWIW, I think regulation has changed so dramatically since Morgan's time that very few of his tactics would be applicable to today's world.

Relevant: Maybe he's right!

The book of Jobs or the book of Job?

As of today, for some reason, the Steve Jobs Kindle book is more expensive than the hardcover.

Here is the book - took me long enough to find it!

Banker to the poor - by Muhammad Yunus

http://www.amazon.com/Steve-Jobs-Walter-Isaacson/dp/1451648537

Start from here. http://www.amazon.in/The-Wealth-Nations-Adam-Smith/dp/0553585975?tag=googinhydr18418-21

https://www.amazon.com/Steve-Jobs-Walter-Isaacson/dp/1451648537

https://www.amazon.com/Wealth-Nations-Bantam-Classics/dp/0553585975/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1497634203&sr=8-1&keywords=wealth+of+nations

Besides Ogilvy On Advertising , Confessions of an Ad Man http://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Advertising-Man-David-Ogilvy/dp/190491537X

https://www.amazon.com/Steve-Jobs-Walter-Isaacson/dp/1451648537/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1521107191&sr=8-2&keywords=jobs

Read both of David Olgilvy's books. Then read them again.

Confessions of an Advertising Man

Ogilvy on Advertising

This book confirms it.

Relevant

Great read

For home brewing check out Charlie Papazian's books:

https://www.amazon.com/Charlie-Papazian/e/B000APNS36/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1

For more recent history of ABInBev buy-outs, there is a new book about the history of Goose Island and the AB Buyout: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075TGFCLB/?coliid=I2LXZVBPAKF3PP&colid=2YSL69HF0HW9V&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it

For the history of Sierra Nevada: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1118007360/?coliid=I112DGOG2QCE0S&colid=2YSL69HF0HW9V&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it

Brooklyn Brewery: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0470068671/?coliid=IGH5AQOEB9RBE&colid=2YSL69HF0HW9V&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it

Nope that's a Larry Ellison [book] (http://www.amazon.com/The-Difference-Between-Larry-Ellison/dp/0060008768) I can't accept that answer as a punchline.

The Devi's Casino by Vicky Ward.

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The Greatest Trade Ever by Gregory Zuckerman

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They give a look inside the firms that failed and gained (and how) in the crisis.

I think this is just another example of why it sucks to be British

• Failure is Not an Option
  
  
• The Lost Moon (now called Apollo 13)
  
  
• Steve Jobs

I think he's making reference to the fact that in Walter Isaacsons autobiography "Steve Jobs", when Jobs first got the news of the Cancer, instead of recieving medical treatment Jobs went down the root of extreme dieting in hope to cure his problem.

I'm questioning your premise, not bringing down the OP. Chill out and learn how to respond to criticism.

edit: I know for sure that some of your examples are objectively wrong. To call Warren Buffet an idea guy is absolutely laughable and completely impractical as an example for the OP. Buffet worked his ass off as an employee for years, saving up money and eventually became a part of several investment partnerships, where he basically picked stocks and invested in business.
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Buffett

My source re: Larry Ellison is this book, https://www.amazon.com/Difference-Between-God-Larry-Ellison/dp/0060008768 - which I read about a decade ago.

re: Notch, just Google him.

Spreading this kind of misinformation is downright destructive for people who consider themselves 'idea people,' because it perpetuates a myth that some of the greatest entrepreneurs didn't have hard skills. Don't forget that Notch, Larry Ellison, Steve Jobs, and Bill Gates were all good to great programmers. Jobs also knew hardware. Notch had made a ton of games before Minecraft.

I just looked up Dan Peña and... he started in real estate and worked in investment banking and then as a CEO-for-hire before founding a company that forced him out a decade later. He has a book about how litigation is just a business tool. Not a great role model for OP, who wants to change the world with million-dollar ideas!

OP already has some hard skills - he can program! Don't blow smoke up his ass by telling him he can just take his brilliant ideas and get good at shopping them around.

Look, I've given a ton of advice in this thread. I'm not getting down on OP. They're obviously very enthusiastic and have a lot of energy.

But this idea that there's a class elite entrepreneurs that just shop ideas around? You can't name a single entrepreneur who actually did this! Ad agencies - really? Like Don Draper is a role model for an aspiring entrepreneur? And your other examples are about philosophers and writers. You can't even back up your own advice with hard facts about it. What you wrote sounds really inspiring, but I don't see anything in it that you can back up with data.

Giving bad advice is worse than giving none at all.

It was visionary, it changed personal computing, it was not successful.

>This is an undeniable truth.

No its not. You are looking at history through revisionist lenses. Even Jobs states it was a failure in his own autobiography for goodness sake. You are confusing influential with commercially successful.

>How anyone can call a Macintosh a commercial failure is beyond me.

Yeah, how Apple and Steve Jobs can call the original Macintosh a failure is beyond you.

>Also wtf is valuewalk?

How about, the L.A Times then. Heard of them? You know, who the article sourced.

And who is the LA Times sourcing? Jobs biography. Heard of it?

I'd recommend reading many sides/perspectives so that you can formulate an independent mind and not just be a mouthpiece of some economist's ideology. For instance, I disagree with a lot of Marx, but I think his materialist critique of history and his critique of capitalism are very useful and a lot of it is correct. His solutions/recommendations are shit, but that doesn't discount his contributions. My recommendations:

Generally Considered Right-Leaning Economics:

Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson: https://www.amazon.com/Economics-One-Lesson-Shortest-Understand/dp/0517548232/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1510274539&sr=8-1

F. A. Hayek, Road to Serfdom: https://www.amazon.com/Road-Serfdom-Documents-Definitive-Collected/dp/0226320553/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1510274634&sr=8-1

F. A. Hayek, The Fatal Conceit: https://www.amazon.com/Fatal-Conceit-Errors-Socialism-Collected/dp/0226320669/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1510274634&sr=8-3

Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations: https://www.amazon.com/Wealth-Nations-Bantam-Classics/dp/0553585975/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1510275227&sr=1-3

Frederic Bastiat, The Law: https://www.amazon.com/Law-Frederic-Bastiat/dp/1612930123/ref=pd_sim_14_5?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=31TE91RXV0Q2XPPWE81K

Also read: Thomas Sowell, Milton Friedman, and Ludwig Von Mises

Generally Considered Left-Leaning Economics:

J. M. Keynes, The General Theory: https://www.amazon.com/General-Theory-Employment-Interest-Money/dp/0156347113/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1510274943&sr=1-3

Rosa Luxemburg, The Accumulation of Capital: https://www.amazon.com/Accumulation-Capital-Rosa-Luxemburg/dp/1614277885/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1510275041&sr=1-2

Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution: https://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Writings-History-Political-Science/dp/0486447766/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1510275041&sr=1-1

Also read: Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Trotsky. Modern day Left/Keynesian economist is Paul Krugman.

Anarchism:

Emma Goldman: https://www.amazon.com/Anarchism-Other-Essays-Emma-Goldman/dp/1484116577/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1510275717&sr=8-1

If it interests you, pick up Isaacson's biography of Jobs. It's a bit dry but you'll get an idea of it. He was basically an unabashed, brutal perfectionist to the extent that he nearly bankrupted his blossoming company several times because of it. He was a crazy hipster who was interested in nothing but homeopathic medicine, never showered because he hated chemicals, and was an asshole to his closest friends and he belittled his coworkers for efforts he deemed unworthy of his company on a nearly daily basis.

More reading on it, if you care. I know it's gawker but at least they link to good sources.

steve jobs was a grade a+ cunt. there are even more examples in w. isaacson's book.

i'm not condoning such cuntish behaviour but today's business environment awards that exact kind of behaviour: be a loud, aggressive, manipulative, abusive, exploitative, lying cunt! if you're a hardworking, silent, keep your head low sort of person -like your parents told you to be-, you won't even pass job interviews for the jobs you're qualified to.

Here's his book. http://www.amazon.com/Steve-Jobs-Walter-Isaacson/dp/1451648537/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1369047209&sr=1-1&keywords=jobs

But I'll warn you, it's extremely long and boring, and hugely redundant. It goes something like this:

• Steve Jobs does something stupid.
  
• Steve Jobs takes credit for someone else's work
  
• Steve Jobs acts like an asshole, and virtually abuses everyone around him
  
• Steve Jobs steals something
  
• Steve Jobs acts like a fuckhead to his family and literally everyone he knows.
  
  Rinse and repeat for literally about 600 pages. After about 3 chapters, you're bored, because you know exactly what the next event is going to be. And I mean that. I still wonder why I suffered through the entire book instead of putting it down after a few chapters, I guess I figured I'd give him a chance to change... nope. Extremely well written book, by a very reputable and amazing author.... unfortunately, the subject matter was shit.
  
  He was a thief, a narcissist, and a sociopath.
  

It's from his biography. The exact quote is this:

> Our lawsuit is saying, "Google, you fucking ripped off the iPhone, wholesale ripped us off." Grand theft. I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong. I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go to thermonuclear war on this. They are scared to death, because they know they are guilty. Outside of Search, Google's products—Android, Google Docs—are shit.

I typed that up; any typos are mine. The quote dates from the filing of the original HTC lawsuit in 2010.

Edit: the number of times "what a douchebag" and similar have turned up in my inbox in response to this is vaguely distressing until I recall the context.