> To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions.

https://sivers.org/multiply
You idea isn't worth anything until you have something in your hand to show off.

If you think you can take on an existing industry then you might want to think about a startup. If you want to be a startup founder, read and watch everything you can find about founders of your favorite company. Then try to find stories of founders that failed. Lots of people write post mortem blogs. This is important, because once again, ideas aren't worth much, and usually aren't that good. However a founder who knows how to run a startup is worth millions. Here are some good starting points of succesful founders.


yCombinator funded and advised reddit & a lot of other succesful companies:

http://playbook.samaltman.com/

https://news.ycombinator.com/

http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html

http://blog.samaltman.com/


Some other favorites:

https://sivers.org/

http://foundation.bz/

https://www.amazon.com/iWoz-Computer-Invented-Personal-Co-Founded/dp/0393330435 - Woz is an excellent example of an engineer who changed the world but didn't want to be a CEO, he just wanted to be an engineer. He's a success story, but it wasn't perfect, you can learn from him if you aren't interested in being the man in charge, but rather the man who makes things.

As far as making the product, it's unclear what you want to make, but you have to start with a prototype. For hardware/mechanical design Fusion 360 is free, and OnShape has a free account level. Electronics design (I have less experience with) but theres a free version of Eagle (which I've heard sucks) or you can search for alternatives to eagle. You can also buy a lot of useful components for prototyping from Sparkfun and adafruit. For manufacturing there are a few good companies that are good for low volume production, such as protolabs. https://www.protolabs.com/services/suite-of-services/. There are similar companies that will produce electronics. Although any software you will have to write yourself, or get a team of friends on board to help you out (congrats now you have a company). For anything in the prototype stage you're only sending schematics for the parts. They don't know what it does, and they don't care. Their business is making parts. Don't worry about having your idea stolen. The prototype will almost always be more expensive than you think. Of course everything gets cheaper when you scale to 1000s or millions of products, but this is when you can start proving that your product really is cheap. (Or maybe its not, and you have to go back to the drawing board or realize there is no future for your current project). Now that we're talking about cost, you should research all the products that you use in everyday life and find out how much they actually cost to manufacture. Tech gadgets are a great starting place just because theres always someone that wants to know much their $600+ phone costs to make. https://www.zdnet.com/article/heres-how-much-the-iphone-7-costs-to-make/. It's possible the existing products on the market are cheaper than you think to manufacture, but profit margins + employee salaries + utilities add up. Founders might start with a salary of $40,000/yr but a good engineer fresh out of college is 80,000 a year. If you live in NY or SF then in $100,000/yr and thats only the first year, they're gonna want a raise. And they're gonna need benefits, like health care, a free T passes, and free office snacks. Employees also need high end computers, and those fancy standing desks from steelcase that go up and down at the push of a button (I just got one ordered, can't wait for it to arrive)

Finally, every year there's one or two news stories about a genius high school student inventing something (most recent one is that ocean cleaning robot) or discovering something. But really there aren't companies run by teenagers. And most of the time nothing comes of those genius teenagers. I'm not saying this to discourage you. It's just another thing you have to research when you're reading about product design and becoming a founder. Maybe there are lots of teen CEO's and I don't know about them (I'm just a guy on the internet). Or maybe you find out why you're different than other teenagers, and you're product and company will succeed. You should consider that the value of your product is not monetary, if you go through with prototyping it, then maybe it's your ticket into a better university, and/or a good project to show when applying for a scholarship. And/or a good project to show capability when applying to an internship and/or research lab. I have college interns work for me, they all think they know how to make stuff, and they don't. And when they apply to work with me, it's clear they don't know as much as they think they do. Don't be like them, if you go through the entire process of making your product a reality, then someone will believe you when you tell them you know how to make stuff.

-hopefully this is somewhat helpful. Sort of got into rambling near the end... so hopefully it's not read as a put down. Feel free to respond in thread or directly if you want to chat more.

Fear cuts deeper than swords!

Grey Tribble!

Reminiscent of rain. If you turned a sound machine on and set it to "spring rain" and put this on you'd think your face was actually being caressed by gentle cooling drops of relaxing rain. :)

Weird food Haggis flavored chips. What? I love tasting new stuff. This intrigued me. :)

For my mom She loves horses. I once gave her an ornament with a horse on it that meant a lot to her. It's become sort of a tradition to get her an ornament as part of Christmas. This one is soo pretty. :)

Book! If you've watched the show I don't have to sell this too hard. :) I LOVE this show and really really want to read this book!

Less than $1. Technically... Digital delivery is a delivery method. It's not a food, polish, or anything to do with my hair. ;)

Cat related!

This key does nothing useful, but it looks awesome!

Across The Universe (movie). I had a friend who had the soundtrack. We listened to it pretty often. It's worth a watch just for the music alone, but it's a great watch. :)

Useful for zombies? Maybe?It's a knife that fits in your wallet like a credit card. It's at least a weapon that you could always have on you so you're ready at a moments notice. :) If only they made a credit card size folding flame thrower. ;)

Life changing. I need to be less fat... :/ This would definitely help.

Add on. My hedgehog loves these!

This is my second most expensive. My most expensive was the one for not being fat... lol. Before I used a wishlist I just added stuff to my cart and then saved it for later. This is the oldest item I've had stashed away. Every camping trip or competitive horse ride I went on with my mom/parents always involved sitting around the fire talking before heading off to bed. Whenever I get the chance to see them (we live in different states now) we still sit around a fire. This just reminds me of good times spent with family and essentially being home...

Bigger than a breadbox. For side table fishy times! :D

Smaller than a golfball. I'm obsessed with stars. I really love this ring. :)

Good smell! I bought the lotion and body spray on a whim when I was at the mall a while back. This stuff smells sooo good. It's like summer time!

Safe for work toy. These things look really neat. I saw them mentioned somewhere else and googled to see what they were. The video makes them look pretty cool. :)

I'm always late for class, but if I had a watch that I couldn't stop looking at I might just make it on time. ;)

Speaking of "can't stop looking at"... I'm obsessed with Doctor Who and David Tennant. :D

I added this to show someone else... I think it's crazy that they even make these. There's an appliance for everything! What beats fresh donuts anytime you want them? NOTHING! That's what... This is why I need that elliptical.. :P


Pm'd what I think is your name! :D

Oregon Cherries!

For anyone suffering from depression or mental illness, please know that there is absolutely help out there. Yes, maybe you have tried a lot of medications before, but maybe you’re new to this battle and need a little bit of help. Here are some things that have helped me:

-Friends and family
-seeing my doctor and being open with them about my feelings
-Reading (I’ll link some wonderful books down below).
-Being outside. Whether you’re walking, running, gardening or whatever. Being outside especially during a sunny day is wonderful.
-podcasts: The Hilarious World of Depression is a great podcast to listen to.
-meditation
-Believing in and being consistent with my medication.
-decent diet
-getting enough sleep

Here are some amazing books that have helped me:

Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things https://www.amazon.com/dp/1250077028/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_F6kZAbDERXVNH

Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir https://www.amazon.com/dp/0425261018/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_86kZAb5RJPPGJ

You Are Here: An Owner's Manual for Dangerous Minds https://www.amazon.com/dp/125011988X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_o7kZAb6QVETZH

Here is a link to the authors blog: http://thebloggess.com

Theres a lot of self help involved in mental illness. That’s the only way we survive. We can’t expect someone to be able to fix us. We can only try to understand and be kind to ourselves and know most importantly that depression lies and deceives us.

“Without the dark there isn’t light. Without the pain there is no relief. And I remind myself that I’m lucky to be able to feel such great sorrow, and also such great happiness. I can grab on to each moment of joy and live in those moments because I have seen the bright contrast from dark to light and back again. I am privileged to be able to recognize that the sound of laughter is a blessing and a song, and to realize that the bright hours spent with my family and friends are extraordinary treasures to be saved, because those same moments are a medicine, a balm. Those moments are a promise that life is worth fighting for, and that promise is what pulls me through when depression distorts reality and tries to convince me otherwise.”
Jenny Lawson, Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

“To all who walk the dark path, and to those who walk in the sunshine but hold out a hand in the darkness to travel beside us: Brighter days are coming. Clearer sight will arrive. And you will arrive too. No, it might not be forever. The bright moments might be for a few days at a time, but hold on for those days. Those days are worth the dark.”
Jenny Lawson, Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

Application is all fine and good. It's amazing when we use math to do create new wonders. But math is art.

Let me steal and modify an analogy from Dr. Edward Frankel. You go to school and at school you learn art by learning how to paint fences and walls. Just ordinary fences in yards and ordinary walls in homes. Because if you are going to get a job painting, it's going to be by painting walls and fences. You've been trained to associate visual art with practicality and never learned about the Greats like Van Gogh, Picasso, DaVinci, Pollock and you don't hear of their works either. Because of this system, people go out claiming that they are familiar with art and hate it. Or, they leave wanting to get into a noble profession like design but have no interest in art that they can't apply. Should we hide the great gifts from these great artists, simply because most people want to become interior designers rather than studio artists? Is the work of Van Gogh made any less important by the fact that he didn't paint a hospital?

Math is an intrinsically amazing subject. Like all art, it is amazing for it's history, the stories of it's artists and their ideas that reflect humanity through the ages. For other artistic mediums, the general public at least knows the names of the great contributors and when they see or hear it, they know that they are looking at something amazing even if they don't understand it. There is a reverence for it, whereas math has an animosity. Even people who get quite good at using it have an apathy for anything they can't immediately scavenge.

Art offers a new way of thinking, inspires creativity and encourages people to break rules. Math is very strong in each of these categories. Even if you're not going to paint a masterpiece, learning how to see as Picasso did and learning why/how he broke the rules will only help you, not only in your professional life, but in every aspect of it!

I had an "extended" ischemic stroke, starting with left side weakness and ending with left sided paralysis, It sucked but I just think it delayed rather than precluded some aspects of recover, If she's not getting worse then things can definitely get better.

I don't know about everybody else, but it became apparent to me that doctors can do little to treat strokes beyond blood thinners and trying to take preventive measures, there is no cure or antibiotic equivalent for stroke, but that is no excuse for a professional stroke team to be sloppy. Please go full speed ahead as a patient advocate for your mom until you get answers, there should be a case-worker or social worker at the hospital who is obligated to help when you throw up red flags. At the same time, don't be too hard on yourself, it is wonderful that you are available for your mom and I firmly believe that even feeling helpless as we all do, that bringing positive energy, humor and love to her and rehab can only have good results, it may take 4 years but I'm learning the brain is always adapting, changing, re-wiring, often at your expense as strokes are assholes with a low sense of humor but a "thousand cranes" worth of good effort and energy will pay off in the end.

America's best stroke centers- https://www.womenschoiceaward.com/awarded/best-hospitals/stroke-care/ (no idea how good the list is but I would certainly encourage you to get a second opinion from someplace that is doing academic medicine if possible. find a young neurology professor.)

Wild idea but strong cbd (cannabidiol) Oil does not have THC, is not a controlled substance in the US, and may have neuro- protective or recuperative properties if administered quickly enough. (I'll let you Google for studies)

Others are probably tired of hearing this, but I would encourage you to read My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey May 26, 2009 by Harvard Dr. Jill Taylor = https://www.amazon.com/My-Stroke-Insight-Scientists-Personal/dp/0452295548/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1502488014&sr=1-1&keywords=my+stroke+of+insight+taylor

I think it's capable of being very effective in math or science. I'm no expert in either field but:

• A Mathematician's Lament/Lockhart's Lament puts forth a very impressive suggestion of teaching math by way letting students play with its practical effects, make guesses and test them, and guide them with questions to approach the appropriate law, theorem, or method of solving, before presenting it outright.
  
  
• The Montessori education method involves giving the students activities designed to illustrate a given concept and letting them develop an understanding of it by interacting with the materials.
  
  
• Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood by psychologist Oliver Sacks details the author's childhood love of chemistry, in which he describes a predominantly self-fueled course of study wherein he was able to discover concepts in the manner their original discoverers did: by observation and experiment, with books explaining those concepts and the encouragement of the titular uncle providing support and explanations as needed.
  
  Our understandings of math and science are built, discovery after discovery and discovery on discovery; most of these came from people for whom that curiosity, that love of discovery, is what drove them. And it's taken a few thousand years, because they had to find and make those paths and the discoverers were often few and far between, but now? the paths are known and paved and there's no reason why every student can't be given the materials to explore and the questions to answer and the guidance as needed to find out the answers and make those same discoveries the same way (if faster) that their original discoverers did, with confirmation, specifics, background information, history, etc. provided afterwards.
  
  That way the student gets the joy of exploring (especially if the beginning instruction is not too narrow; one wants to start with a "what can you perceive about this stuff? what can you discover about this stuff? what does it do?" set of preliminary instructions, not step-by-step instructions, the lesson starting out general, with free exploration, and then focusing in on the discovery being pursued, with assistance from the teacher as necessary.

I'm sure your friend has access to all the recovery literature he can handle, and more. I wouldn't even go there, if you are considering it.

I might go for some light entertainment.

Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods is about hiking the Appalachian Trail, it's an easy read and it's hilariously funny.

Cheryl Strayed's Wild is about hiking the PCT and is also a fun read.

For novels, I have to recommend A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan, and Middlesex by Jeffery Eugendes. They are both big huge sprawling books that are also super enjoyable and easy to read. (So they are not a new Moby Dick.) I've never read them, but I hear the Lord of the Rings books are completely absorbing too. They would take up a huge chunk of his time.

You might also send some comfort clothes. Some warm socks or slippers or sweatpants or a hoodie, something like that. (I'm a huge fan of LL Bean's sweats, they are super comfy and well made.) Also maybe an iTunes gift card if he's got an iphone or ipod.

Out of curiosity, what's the scifi book you're sending? I'm a big scifi fan too.

So I have a couple.
First is my Cousin, Dan Barry. He's the nerdiest guy I know, but he's still really down to earth and I still look up to him. His wife has written a book about how she managed to cure her stereoblindness that I would recommend to anyone.





My Uncle's best friend is a Tony Award Winning Lyricist, I tried to get him to come talk at my school, but he was super busy.


My Dad's Best Friend's Brother is a guy named Mark Olshaker, he writes books with John Douglas who was the basis for Jack Crawford in the Hannibal Lecter movies. Mark still talks about having to change me as a baby, because that's the kind of stories girlfriends want to hear about when meeting new people...

Gardening is very worthwhile and not just for the food. Start small and yes it can be very rewarding and frugal. The first year less so as you buy any equipment or containers you need, but look around the web there are tons of resources for new backyard gardeners. I like to dabble and grow small things in containers which is fun and rewarding. Herbs give you the best bang for the buck, easy and small amount of effort required and buying the leaves at the store is hugely expensive (1 small container of basil leaves $2.99 vs 1 large basil plant at Trader Joes for $2.99). Fresh herbs make such a difference when cooking.

However.... a great and humorous look at the other side is The $64 Tomato: How One Many Nearly Lost His Sanity, Spent a Fortune, and Endured an Existential Crisis in the Quest for the Perfect Garden. http://www.amazon.com/The-64-Tomato-Fortune-Existential/dp/1565125576

I'll reiterate a few listed here that I've read.

Let My People Go Surfing by Yvon Chouinard - Founder of Patagonia and how he went from a rock climber to the founder of a huge world wide known brand that give's back to the community.

Losing my Virginity Richard Brandson - Virgin Group founder. This one is an often hilarious detail of the odd way Branson made his way to the empire he now has.

Delivering Happiness Tony Hsiegh - Founder of Zappos. Focuses heavily on the importance of customer service, employee happiness and company culture.

And my personal favorite How to Get Rich by Felix Dennis. Felix was one of the wealthiest people in the UK from his publishing empire. How to Get Rich is a brutally honest account of his opinion of what it takes to get huge wealth. The first part of the book spends time explaining to you that you really do not want to get rich due to the sacrifices you are going to be making and the struggles you will face. The second part of the book explains how he has learned how to get rich, but it won't make you any happier, just have more choices. (some of this was paraphrased from a review on Amazon to help put my thoughts together)


I recommend all four of these, but for a very original take, How To Get Rich takes the cake.

Super girl power book-buying trip today - I guess I'm in need of some girl time or something. Came away with:

• Hard Choices, which has been on my to-read list for awhile - picked it up, in hard cover, for $15! What a steal!
  
• The Enchanted: A Novel, which was my "never heard of it, but I touched it and now I have to buy it" option - it sounds pretty neat, and I'm pretty excited to read it.
  
• Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, which, yes, is based on that movie with whatsername. I love introspective self-exploration stories, so I think this will be a great read. I'm sad though, because I didn't pick up the copy with the original cover art - they only had the copy with the movie art :/
  
  What are you currently reading? Anything you'd recommend to someone like, oh, I dunno - me?

I posted a similar question on here for a gift for my boyfriend, and I got a lot of great responses so I decided to make a "panic box" for him with lots of different ideas.

He is big on scents for soothing, so I got him a relaxation blend and frankincense essential oils, as well as his favorite incense.

He is also very responsive to tea, so I got him this pregnancy tea. I know that seems weird, but it was one of the few on Amazon that had chamomile and oatstraw. Although I didn't really expect them to work, I also got him stress mints, calm drops, and moon drops in hopes that having something to suck on might calm him down if some minor anxiety pops up.

As for books, after reviewing this thread here, I got him this anxiety memoir since he seems to benefit from reading other people's stories (shout out to this subreddit! Thanks guys!), as well as this workbook.

Finally, I got him a panic pete to give him something to hold and squeeze when he was anxious. Out of all the things I got him, he loved panic pete the best!

As a final, personal touch, I printed out this article which he loved reading when he is anxious, and included some of the calming mantras I found here.

Hope at least some of this helps!

Shantaram. Rich, marvelous book.

Also Auntie Mame. FYI the movie with Rosalind Russell may change your life. At the very least it could become your favorite movie ever.

The books by Hornby that everyone mentions are good.

Motherless Brooklyn is really good. So is Ghostwritten by David Mitchell. Not so much that they're happy, but that they're engrossing. And they're not, like, Atonement.

Oh! Duh! Happiest book ever maybe: A Confederacy of Dunces. The story behind its publication is tragic, but the book, pretty much everyone who's read it says, is the funniest ever.

Catch-22 also is really, really good. And funny! If you're into irony anyway.

Patagonia is a leading outdoors company for clothing especially, such as gear for climbing, hiking, rafting, etc. They essentially created the outdoors industry back in the day. Yvon Chouinard is the founder and is a very interesting guy. His autobiographical account of starting the company is great. I'm a business person at heart and he's one of my favorites, although I have many.

I'll have to look into flax seed. I've avoided seeds + nuts almost completely but I figured the oil would be okay. I'll have to look into that. Agreed on soy - terrible.

Yeah but I think explaining yours or my regimen on eating to someone without any care for their diet is going to look at it as a lot of sacrifices. I don't particularly think it's a sacrifice either - I love my food and cooking - but it would take a lot to get someone on a different level of thinking about it. Reminds me of this quote:

"Flight is considered a disease to a bird born in a cage."

As far as the meat goes, I limited my consumption to perhaps 1/3 of what is considered a portion in the US (by restaurants, not the FDA). I don't really know weights for meat but I'd say perhaps 1/4 pound or so. Not much. GI tract didn't react much, except to drain me of a bit of energy. Compared to eating vegetables all the time for 6 months, it definitely took more energy to digest. But the clarity of mind improvement is great.

It will probably depend if you are doing marketing for yourself or your company, or if you work as a consultant or in an agency working with multiple clients.

I personally work at an agency, and my experience is not about fully internalizing frameworks but combining elements of various. I am constantly reading different books, and going through courses. Every client I do work for, I change the framework, and tailor it to their objectives.

The only advise I can give you is to continuously learn, look into different frameworks, books, and even re-read or redo courses like hub spot. I find every time you do those, your mind is in a different state and you take different valuable insights than before.

The thing I believe you need to internalize to do great marketing is to always think about the customer and how anything you do is adding value to them or helping them make the right decision. If you are interested in that I recommend reading Delivering Happiness (https://www.amazon.com/Delivering-Happiness-Profits-Passion-Purpose/dp/0446576220)

You might be interested in Fixing My Gaze, a book by neuroscientist Sue Barry on using vision therapy to gain 3-D vision. It's been at least a year since I've read it, but I remember her discussing how beautiful she found watching snow fall when she could see the space between the flakes.

Barry shares similar experiences in a TED talk. The start of the talk is worth watching for context, but if you want to jump straight to her experience of 3-D vision, it starts at 11:00 minutes.

In the book, she mentions a truck driver who had to quit his job after gaining 3-D vision because he could no longer use his lazy eye to read signs while his dominant eye watched the road. However, I got the impression most people who gain it consider it worthwhile.

I don't think it was posted yet but the book Paper Tiger tackles this exact mental exercise.

I don't want to spoil the ending, but I'm sure you'd be able to tell from the author's name whether or not he made it. BUT, he does an excellent job of portraying just how much better a tour pro is than the scratch golfer (and just how much better a true scratch golfer is than a weekend warrior).

It is a fantastic book and deserves to be read by any golfer.

Ooh I love reading but I've never owned any kind of ereader. I'd love a used one 😊

Cowabunga!

I have a hard time picking my favorite anything so here is a potential favorite of mine

Believe it or not, I actually am currently reading The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I don't know what's taken me this long to get into it, but I just picked up the ultimate set from the library a couple of days ago, and I'm loving it. Adams was a genius.

I'd love a copy of this book, since I've just gotten into the Netflix series and would like to read what inspired it.

You ALL still have Zoidberg!

Thank you so much for the raffle!

Hey! Thanks for checking up on my progress. I have been doing good, I am still playing 5 days a week from dawn until dusk. The local course have given me free reign of the place for absolutely no cost, I even have a few minor sponsors now, so I will be playing in more than one qualifier now.

I have been working on < 100 yards a lot now, for I see it as a weak spot in my game, I am currently trying to get a minor sponsorship from Callaway or Cleveland for some wedges that are actually made for me (No dice so far).

I have been playing [This Course] (http://www.frenchlick.com/golf/petedye/history) A lot when I can, I have been playing from the pro tee's and shooting anywhere from -2 - +2, so I am about where I want to be.

My caddy has came along way, has been going up every weekend to the course I will be playing the qualifier at and has been walking the distance of every one of my shots from previous rounds and evaluating what would be the best club to use in different situations and weather conditions.

I plan on updating this entire post at the end Sept. right before the "Dooms day" as we have starting calling it.

I have been also been working with a nutritionist and a golf pro. After I read This book. It opened my eyes to a lot of things I had absolutely no clue about.

I hope this was enough of an update, feel free to update everyone else of /r/golf if you would like, I am about to leave for my nightly putting!

Keep them in the fairway!

By a comedian: Let's pretend that never happened by Jenny Lawson, or Dear Fatty by Dawn French. One is sincere and sweet and feel-good; the other is dangerous to read in public.

Obscure non-fiction: Round Ireland with a Fridge by Tony Hawks. The book to give as a gift if you're not sure what someone else enjoys reading.

Chick-lit: Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner. Over ten years old now, but a funny, sweet, girly novel. Happy ending, or course.

Had this list together from a blog post I wrote a few months ago. Not sure what exactly you're looking for, but these are my favorite books and I'd recommend everybody read them all. There are other great books out there, but this is a pretty well rounded list that touches everything a company needs.

The Lean Startup https://www.amazon.com/Lean-Startup-Entrepreneurs-Continuous-Innovation/dp/0307887898

Business Model Generation https://www.amazon.com/Business-Model-Generation-Visionaries-Challengers/dp/0470876417

Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products https://www.amazon.com/Hooked-How-Build-Habit-Forming-Products/dp/1591847788

Talking to Humans https://www.amazon.com/Talking-Humans-Success-understanding-customers-ebook/dp/B00NSUEUL4

Predictable Revenue https://www.amazon.com/Predictable-Revenue-Business-Practices-Salesforce-com/dp/0984380213

To Sell is Human https://www.amazon.com/Sell-Human-Surprising-Moving-Others/dp/1594631905

Rework https://www.amazon.com/Rework-Jason-Fried/dp/0307463745

Delivering Happiness https://www.amazon.com/Delivering-Happiness-Profits-Passion-Purpose/dp/0446576220

I enjoyed Just For Fun - The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary.

There is an audio-book version available.

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Unsure of the audio-book availability but these are recommended as well:

• The Cathedral and the Bazaar (Eric S Raymond)
  
• In The Beginning...was the command line (Neal Stephenson)
  
• Free Software, Free Society (Richard Stallman)
  
• Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (Steven Levy)
  
  EDIT : added some more books

The old man is snoring

On a rainy day I love to curl up with a nice book! I binged watched Orange is the New Black and I'm having trouble waiting for the second season to start so I'd love to [read the book to tide me over.] (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0385523394/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pd_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=DARV9ZGRO46I&coliid=IJWPWMMPGNB9J) I haven't read it yet but if you haven't watched the show you should! It's one of the best things to come out on TV in awhile. The characters are so real and genuine and they look at a lot of issues that other shows really don't touch upon enough (like lgbtq issues) and I'm sure the book would be an interesting read too!

Thanks for the contest!

The Abhorsen Trilogy (Sabriel, Lirael, and Abhorsen) by Garth Nix! It's a fantasy with teenaged girls (Sabriel and Lirael) as the protagonists (and their adorable and bizarre and not-what-they-seem cat and dog, respectively, companions). I loved, loved, loved these books when I was in middle school.

For graphic novels, Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi and Guy Delisle's travelogues (Pyongyang, Shenzhen, and others) are great introductions to unfamiliar countries and cultures. And they are non-fiction!

Also:

The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings (J. R. R. Tolkien)

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)

Coraline (Neil Gaiman) [also: The Graveyard Book, Stardust, and Odd and the Frost Giants, as well as anything else age-appropriate written by Gaiman]

Dracula (Bram Stoker) [...I loved it when I read it in middle school!]

The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky)

The Fault in Our Stars (John Green)

Most of what's on here is fairly classic straightforward detective stuff, which is great, but I've always been a sucker for mysteries that merge with other genres or do unusual things. A good handful if that's your bag:

• The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster - 3 short novels packaged together and vaguely related. Also a pretty great mindfuck book
  
• Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem - detective novel whose narrator has Tourette Syndrome
  
• The Alienist by Caleb Carr or In the Shadow of Gotham by Stefanie Pintoff - Historical fiction/mystery taking place around the turn of the century and during the dawns of forensics/criminal psychology/criminology
  
• Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan - Sci-fi/hardboiled detective novel in a future where the human mind can be digitized and backed up off-site, rendering murder irrelevant. Terrific book, I find myself compelled to reread it and its sequels every year or so.
  
  Those are all more or less "detective fiction" style mystery, if you're looking at the broader genre I cannot recommend The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon any more highly. I haven't been sucked into writing like that in a long long time.
  

I've thought about teaching! It's definitely an option if I can't get into grad school. I'm not sure how qualified I would be, but I feel like that's a personal issue, you know? I feel so old and so young and I'm not sure I'm authoritative enough to actually teach people! It would be awesome though.

Psych is SO FREAKING COOL but the science-y parts were way over my head! I've thought about a masters in guidance counseling or something too, since I have a BA instead of a BS. I'm excited that you're going to be out there helping people in ways I can't! I've heard it's a tough (but rewarding!) job. If you haven't read them yet you should check out Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir and Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety. Those books completely altered my views on mental illness in a good way!

Books can be very helpful as well. [The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook] (https://www.amazon.com/Anxiety-Phobia-Workbook-Edmund-Bourne/dp/1626252157/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1466618329&sr=1-4&keywords=anxiety) is a great one to start with as well as My Age of Anxiety.

Monkey Mind and Agorafabulous are great books when you want a good laugh and realize other people have similar experiences as you.

I'm currently reading Oliver Sach's book Uncle Tungsten.

For a less violent experiment, try mixing Iodine with either Zinc or Antimony.

>If I added two or three drops of water to the mixture, it would catch fire and burn with a violet flame, spreading fine brown iodide powder on to everything.

He has particular fascination for the purple cloud emitted from these reactions.

>With chemistry such as this, one was playing with fire… huge energies, plutonic forces, were being unleashed, and I had a thrilling but precarious sense of being in control — sometimes just. This was especially so with the intensely exothermic reactions of aluminum and magnesium; they could be used to reduce metallic ores, or even to produce elemental silicon from sand, but a little carelessness, a miscalculation, and one had a bomb on one's hands.

This (and many other) fascinating chemical reactions can be made with seemingly-inert elements. The book goes in to great description on many wonderful experiments, including most of the atomic theory development through the late 17th to early 20th century chemists' discoveries.

>One could put magnesium in cold water, and nothing would happen. If one put [just] it in hot water, it would start to bubble hydrogen; but if one lit a length of magnesium ribbon, it would continue to burn with dazzling brilliance under the water, or even in normally flame-suffocating carbon dioxide.

All quotes from the chapter "Stinks and Bangs" Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sachs (author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat).

I understand why you're bummed out about it. Just don't add it to the list of things you "should" feel bad about. I know I did, but just read what you want to read; if you don't want to read for a bit, that's ok. Hyperbole and a half and The Bloggess' blogs are good (both also have books, although I've only read The Bloggess' Lets Pretend This Never Happened); always makes me feel better that seemingly nice, cool writers have felt the same. Hang in there until you feel better.

Edit: punctuation. Also, don't feel bad. For a long time I wouldn't read anything which didn't definitely have a happy ending (couldn't deal with more sad).
Edit 2 - over correction of words...

On rainy days I love to try new recipes to cook with my roommates! My favorites are Indian or Spanish recipes :)

if I win I would love this book about strokes, as it's required reading for my fall semester of grad school!

Two months is enough time to get through several books, but if you're anything like me you'll need a variety depending on your mood at the end of the day. I'm guessing you like interesting stories that are still somewhat socially/philosophically transformative, so here's a few personal suggestions:

End-of-the-day short reading spells:

• Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (mentioned earlier by littlewren42)
  
• Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro
  
• Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman
  
  
  Something a little heavier:
  
  
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
  
• The Leopard by Guiseppe Di Lampedusa
  
• The Notice by Sean Chandler
  
  Something to make you smile (you'll really need this at some point):
  
  
• Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson
  
• Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
  
• Imaginary Jesus by Matt Mikalatos (note this is the audible version, I couldn't link to the kindle version). This last one has a slightly religious skew, but I (a non-christian) didn't find this annoying. Plus I needed a third book.

Love and Math

This little gem of a book covers everything in math from knot theory to abstract algebra. However, it's written in a very clear and concise way that it feels more like a narrative than a math book. Frenkel intersperses his tangents about number theory with his own, personal experiences in Russia and the United States, in particular, with his experiences with antisemitism in the USSR. While the book does deal with advanced mathematics, it's easily understandable to anyone with a basic background in math. A wonderful read, and I would highly recommend it.

I love to see service stories like this. It's about doing what's right, not what's policy, and you definitely did that. If you have't read it yet, try picking up the Zappos book and giving it a read (or even passing it along to the boss folk). Has some great info on things like this.

To help her create, balance, and contextualize all the new relationships she'll be forming in college: Sex God by Rob Bell and The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman (Both of these books will affect how a person approaches relationships with family, friends, and lovers. Can't recommend these enough.)

To encourage some introspection: Wild by Cheryl Strayed

Guilty pleasure: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn or The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson or The Secret History by Donna Tartt

And to promote the journey of becoming her own person: The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand and On the Road by Jack Kerouac

I'm fond of Thai Ajahns as well. Ajahn Brahm is my favorite, his book Who ordered this truckload of dung? is super easy to read and is split up into many small, relatable yet powerful stories/teachings.

I would really like to read [Wild] (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0307476073/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=1KW5XWA99ZFZK&coliid=IEGUJUFTLXKGY). I love the outdoors and real life stories of adventure and travel.

Best book I read in the past year would be Beloved, which I read in my Women's Literature class.

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Here are some I've enjoyed:

• Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time by the CEO of Starbucks
  
  
• Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by the founder of Zappos
  
  
• Raising the Bar: Integrity and Passion in Life and Business: The Story of Clif Bar Inc. by the founder of Clif Bar
  
  
• Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman by the founder of Patagonia Sportswear
  
  
• The PayPal Wars: Battles with eBay, the Media, the Mafia, and the Rest of Planet Earth by PayPal's first senior director of US marketing
  
  
• Against the Odds: An Autobiography by the founder of Dyson
  
  
• The Rebel Rules: Daring to be Yourself in Business by the founder of Joie de Vivre Hotels

Thanks for the well thought out and written response. Would you consider cases of advanced age like Sue Barry to be outliers then? Her book kicked off quite a bit of discussion in the field when it dropped (disclosure: my wife is an OD and knows Sue well).
> New England Journal of Medicine: “One axis of [Barry’s] book is a graceful and grateful appreciation of a newly acquired ‘ability to see the volume of space between objects and to see each object as occupying its own space’ – revelations that allowed her to live ‘among’ and ‘in’ the things of this world and gave her first movements of snow falling, trees branching, and a faucet arcing out of the sink…. The book’s main contribution, however, is exposing the wrong-headed dogma that acuity and binocular vision can be restored only during a critical developmental period.”

Wow. All Hail the $64 Tomato http://www.amazon.com/64-Tomato-Fortune-Endured-Existential/dp/1565125576 Thanks for the update and good luck with your next version.

Luckily I've got a bunch of that build list already so maybe not as expensive as your setup for me.

Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson is one of the funniest books I've ever read and makes an excellent gift. If you've never read The Bloggess, she writes insane and hilarious stories about everything from social awkwardness at parties to that feeling when you go to your agricultural class at your Midwest highschool and wind up elbow-deep in a cow's vagina...definitely one of the funniest ladies' memories I have ever read!

> Lately I get this weird feeling, kind of withdrawn when I get down on myself. This is relatively new. I don’t feel like eating, talking, hanging out, I just want to zone out in front of a TV, book, or game, anything distracting

This is textbook depression.

> I don't even know what it is but it makes me feel like I'm crazy, which in turn makes me feel worse about myself. I try not to say anything, but honestly, negative thoughts about myself are so constant, sometimes they spill out of my mouth before I can stop them.

Not to cause you more anxiety but I've had two former relationships that ended on this very issue. I eventually gave up complimenting her. It's very difficult to be with someone you find genuinely beautiful with amazing qualities and every time you share this with them they shoot you down or don't believe you. Then the minute you stop trying you get the opposite, "you never compliment me" well yea, I know, I tried that. I wish I had an answer for you but continuing to professionally treat your depression and anxiety is the best path because it's definitely related to this issue. Depression and anxiety aren't just things you cure. You will always live with both. A bit like an alcoholic that has to wake up everyday and remind themselves not to drink. You might enjoy the book, Monkey Mind as well.

It a good thing that you could talk yourself out of it. And that was very brave of you to think about tibet and making such a sacrifice for them, but there are better ways to do things. Maybe you can pour in your passion by writing a book about your experiences. There have been a lot of memoirs lately like I am Malala, Orange is the New Black.

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) It's funny and similar to other books on your wishlist.

[Spending the Holidays with People I Want to Punch in the Throat: Yuletide Yahoos, Ho-Ho-Humblebraggers, and Other Seasonal Scourges]
(http://smile.amazon.com/Spending-Holidays-People-Punch-Throat-ebook/dp/B00SPVZ9RA/ref=zg_bs_156281011_33) It's the right time of year for this one :)

Let's Pretend This Never Happened By an author you have wishlisted.

I have a book on my Contests wishlist if I win. Thanks for your contest :)

If youre new to researching the subject then maybe it could be a good idea to read/listen to things about anxiety in general. It really helps to listen to stories of dealing with mental illness. You'll never find anyone that has exactly what you do, but you always see characteristics that you find in yourself. Its nice to hear people talk about it put it into words better than you can yourself.
I would recommend:

book: Monkey Mind

podcast: Mental Illness Happy Hour

The thing about some feel goods, is that there needs to be a preset disaster to compare, but one of my all time favorite authors is Frederick Backman. He writes like John Green, but in my opinion, better. My Grandmother Asked Me To Say She's Sorry is in my top ten books.

Also, The Girl Who Chased The Moon by Sarah Allen could be more what you're looking for, but with a bit of magical realism.

However, this book is a memoir but it's damn hilarious. It's Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson. I laughed so hard I cried.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0065S8R38/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

A GREAT book to read is Monkey Mind by Daniel Smith. There would be great quotes and first hand experiences to talk about and have examples. As far as scientific research use your schools library to find peer reviewed articles. Are you in college ot high school??

Uncle Tungsten

Oliver Sacks is a great writer, while more known for his popular neuroscience books his memoir has both great stories and outlines the history of chemistry really well.

Although this is an interesting article, I don't think it's fair to make generalizations about male privilege as a universal concept based on a single anecdote. There is plenty of anecdotal evidence to the contrary too.

One interesting story is that of Norah Vincent, a lesbian journalist who lived as a man for a year and a half, and wrote a book about her experience. To quote from this interview:

> Men are suffering. They have different problems than women have, but they don't have it better.

And her conclusion is completely opposite to that of the woman in the article:

> I really like being a woman. ... I like it more now because I think it's more of a privilege.

Contrasting these two stories shows that experiences really vary from person to person, so please don't turn this into a feminist circlejerk about how men have all the advantages and women have none.

It's not really the nature of the beast and many companies openly acknowledge that corporate sustainability still requires a symbiosis (so to speak) with community and government. There are many that choose to ignore this, but I think you're perhaps a bit too pessimistic in regards to corporate responsibility - if you don't mind me saying. Take a look at the outdoor supplier, Patagonia, for example. The founder openly states that he would have closed up shop years ago if he put profits ahead of giving back.

"Build the best product, cause no unnecessary harm, use business to inspire and implement solutions to the environmental crisis."

• Patagonia's Mission Statement
  
  I highly recommend the founder's book.
  Let My People Go Surfing - Yvon Chouinard

I'd like to read [this] (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0036S4B6M/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=1X36WYKZUI4GQ&coliid=I1O5NRAZYQBX81) as an ebook on my kindle. I love the TV show, and I've been pretty interested to read the book.

Patagonia is fantastic. From them being a b-corp and the practices they put in place, they are one of the only companies out there that you can truly trust.

Give the founders book a read, it was great to read about how he accidentally started the company. Amazon

I hope everyone has an amazing labor day!

Loved the Netflix series and I really want to read the book
OITNB

I love Apple and am forever indebted to Woz, but...

Having read his auto-biography iWoz I can tell you this man is a perpetual child with all the naiveté of a child and the wonderful perspective on life that comes with that.

Whether taxing corporations like individuals or individuals like corporations is a good idea or a horrible idea isn't the point. The point is, I wouldn't take economic or political advice from Wozniak.

I'm really sorry for that, man. That's what they said would eventually happen to me as well when I was 14 so I should wear corrective lenses. I hated glasses, not to mention the difference was so drastic that the doc had to prescribe a small number for my right eye as well, so I ended up ditching them for good. 23 years later, the right is still fine and dandy, except for the whole stereopsis thing, of course. Funny thing is, Lasik would totally take care of the defects in the left, but I'd still have the amblyopia, since the brain got accustomed to that one sending utter shit so it ignores it. However, recent research has proved the brain is much more flexible than previously believed and amblyopia can be corrected through therapy well beyond the infancy, like the old literature used to teach. [This book] (https://www.amazon.com/dp/0465020739/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_hIkavb1A4CJ77
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0465020739/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_hIkavb1A4CJ77) is a wonderful account of how a neuroscientist was finally able to develop tridimensional vision in her forties. Trouble is, the breakthrough therapy is proprietary afaik, and I don't have a few thousand bucks just lying around so it won't happen any time in the near future for me. It would certainly be nice to get a spare eye at some point, though.

I recently finished Let's Pretend This Never Happened - it made me laugh during a rough time but also made me feel like everyone is maybe a little bit weirder than I think they are (including myself) and that's great.

If you ever get a chance, read Yvon Chouinard's (founder of Patagonia) book Let My People Go Surfing. It will give you a good insight as to how he thinks and how the company Patagonia is run.

For example, they were one of the first, if not the first company to make a daycare center within the headquarters.

The reason for the title of the book was, he couldn't expect his employees to be thinking about working on a day that had nice waves, so he created flex time and let his employees take time off to go do the things they loved.

Well, I just finished up "Delivering Happiness" the other night. That was my second time reading that and each time it has inspired me to find my niche in the world and sparked the fire to start a buisness.

And thank you for the welcome :)

I know I'm a little late to this conversation, but for anyone who is seriously interested in following this thought exercise, I would suggest reading the book "Self-Made Man" by Norah Vincent, who spent a year as a man. There are some pretty interesting insights, I thought.

Non-fiction wise I really, really enjoyed this and gave it to a friend last Christmas, got her into buying comics.

That Rad Kindle Case is absolutely adorable<3

I want to read this book because I loved the show and cant wait until season 2!

Books are awesome

You should check out "Just for Fun" it's a biography about Linus Torvalds who wrote Linux. It's a fun and pretty quick read.

http://www.amazon.com/Just-Fun-Story-Accidental-Revolutionary/dp/0066620732

Wild by Cheryl Strayed is a perfect follow up piece for Krakauer. Haunting, humble, and abrasively honest at times.

In addition, the other recommendations (South, The Lost City of Z, Walden on Wheels) are great reads as well.

I found What Should I Do With My Life: The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question inspiring.

I would also recommend Delivering Happiness: A Path to Passion, Profits, and Purpose. It won't necessarily help you find your passion but it will show you how to proceed once you do.

I have the same thing. Didn't actually realize it until I was an adult. But in retrospect it explains a few things.


Know those "Viewfinder" things that you would load with these little disks with images? I had no idea that it was supposed to look 3D when you looked through those, I just thought it was a really boring toy. Big deal, you look through it and see an image.

Also binoculars are pretty pointless to me as I can really only look through one eye at a time so I'd do just as well with a telescope.

Terrible at foosball because it's hard to judge then the players are lined up with the ball. Same goes for badminton when the birdie is above my head, can't really judge when it's within striking distance.

You might be interested in checking out this book: Fixing My Gaze by Susan R. Barry. The woman is a neuroscientist with strabismus and she goes through optometric vision therapy when she's in her forties and is able to gain full stereovision. I'm hopeful that I'll be able to do it someday as well.

Let's Pretend This Never Happened is one of the funniest things I've read in a long time. Enjoying anecdotes about taxidermy is the sort of humor you need to have to properly enjoy it.

Trenutno citam:

• Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
  
• Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy (Josef Steiff)
  
  Planiram i citati:
  
  
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
  
• Het Achterhuis (Anne Frank)
  
• Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
  
• Pyongyang (Guy Delisle)
  
• I bilo njesta od Alan Watts
  
  Evo moj 'library' :P
  http://i.imgur.com/Xpe7Vk5.jpg
  
  Moj tip za vas je Shantaram. //switch to English now, because it's a lot easier. It's about a guy who escapes from a prison and goes to Bombay. He starts off low and grows both spiritually and materialistically in the streets of Bombay. It's like GTA: Bombay but with more places (Indian countryside, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Africa). I've already been interested in India because of films like Darjeeling Limited, but this book sealed the deal: I want to visit that country.

"Love and Math" by Edward Frenkel. Here's a link. I've been listening to it on Audiobook on long drives. It's great so far.

Here are some of my favorites. Paper Tiger (The writer tries to get down to scratch and complete Q-School), The Big Miss (Hank Haney's take on being Tiger's coach), John Daly - My life in and out of the rough cause well, John Daly. And I'm currently reading Slaying the Tiger which is really good so far.

Loved it. Just for fun about Linus Torvalds was good as well.

Give yourself more time. The last major hurt wasn't that long ago.

It is really difficult to let go of attachment to the person you loved and trusted. OK, maybe extremely difficult. And a third of your life too. All those hopes, dreams and plans. You have a huge hole in your life that will take time to fill in.

Have you tried Cogitative behavior therapy at all? Or meditation? Personally I find a lot of contentment after reading or watching Ajahn Brahm. but I am sure it is not to everyone's taste.

I know it's hard. For me the first d-day was over a year ago. I can't say it gets easier, but now it seems the moments of crushing grief and intense longing are farther apart. Still not 100%.

I wish you luck.

Yeah! It's based on a true story. :) Link!

It's much harder to be a man than it is to be a woman. Read "Self-Made Man" by Norah Vincent. The author (a woman) disguises herself as a man and lives that way for several months. Kind of a "Black Like Me" experience. She comes to the conclusion that, compared to men, women have it pretty easy.

Linus wrote a book called Just for fun about this whole thing. It's a pretty nice read if you like Linus' style of storytelling.

Here's another example of a great non-fiction graphic "novel". It's growing and definitely warrants being distinguished from fiction.

> how best to pick them up because they've never tried to pick themselves up There was a link posted to this subreddit that I read last night about a woman who went undercover as a man and tried her hand at seducing women

If you're referring to Self-Made Man, then the author did have experience picking up women, seeing as she is a lesbian.

read the book Paper Tiger

https://www.amazon.com/Paper-Tiger-Obsessed-Golfers-Quest/dp/1592402992

easy read and you can get it for like five dollars. i found it very interesting.

There are a few writers I've read that I find write really well on what it's like being a woman. Their stories just resonate with me because most of the time they're things I've had happen to me or someone I know. They tell these succinct stories in a way that makes my ribs hurt from laughing so hard but there are a few that make me sob as well because you can tell these are real women writing about real life. They're not perfect, they fuck up, and they do stupid things. I'd say that they mostly write about their 20s and 30s but all of them, particularly Laurie Notaro, tell stories of their childhood and teenage years.


Jenny Lawson

1. Let's Pretend This Never Happened (A Mostly True Memoir)
   
2. The Bloggess
   
   Laurie Notaro
   
   
3. I Love Everybody (and Other Atrocious Lies): True Tales of a Loudmouth Girl
   
4. It Looked Different on the Model: Epic Tales of Impending Shame and Infamy
   
5. The Idiot Girl's Action Adventure Club: True Tales from a Magnificent and Clumsy Life
   
6. The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death: Reflections on Revenge, Germophobia, and Laser Hair Removal
   
7. We Thought You Would Be Prettier: True Tales of the Dorkiest Girl Alive
   
8. Autobiography of a Fat Bride: True Tales of a Pretend Adulthood
   
   Susan Jane Gilman
   
   
9. Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress
   
10. Kiss My Tiara
    
    tl;dr - I've read a LOT of humorous memoirs written by women.
    

Happy Birthday! I love reading and have been expanding my collection recently. I'd splurge for any of the books on my wish list.

/r/askscience taught me more about biology and evolution than I ever learned in school.

Uncle Tungsten taught me more about the elements than I learned in high school chemistry. I highly recommend it. Very easy to read, not that long. Kind of an autobiography of a boy that grew up in London during WWII. Who was really interested in chemicals and started collecting the periodic table.

More fun than really about programming, i really enjoyed Just For Fun

I think you're going for this?
https://www.amazon.com/64-Tomato-Fortune-Endured-Existential/dp/1565125576

If you're not.. read it. It's an awesome, funny book.

Well, first of all you need to understand what Linux means in open source software community, you can watch a TEDTalk of Linus Torvalds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8NPllzkFhE and read the history of linux kernel, I recommend this books

Rebel Code: Linux And The Open Source Revolution

https://www.amazon.com/Rebel-Code-Linux-Source-Revolution/dp/0738206709

and

Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary

https://www.amazon.com/Just-Fun-Story-Accidental-Revolutionary/dp/0066620732

My Stroke of Insight by Jill Taylor: A neuroscientist has a stroke and learns to walk, talk, eat, write, or recall her memories.

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks: Interesting case studies of patients who suffered from extreme/rare neurological disorders.

Far From the Tree by Andrew Solomon: Not necessarily speech-language pathology specific, but it includes chapters identity, self-perception, social perception of people with autism, Down syndrome, and Deaf culture. I read this book recently, and it's absolutely brilliant.

Not OCD, but I think you'd like [Motherless Brooklyn] (http://www.amazon.com/Motherless-Brooklyn-Jonathan-Lethem/dp/0375724834) by Jonathan Lethem. The main character has Tourette's and it is wildly poignant and hilarious at turns.

"A graphic novel cannot be non-fiction." What? A graphic novel can easily be nonfiction. That is OP's point. Example: http://www.amazon.com/Pyongyang-Journey-North-Guy-Delisle/dp/1897299214

I think you are the one stuck on semantics.

Edit: Clarity.

iWoz is a really great read. Worth snagging if you haven't read it yet.

I'm in the middle of 5 different books because I am a bit of a moody reader (sometimes I'm in the mood to read something funny, other times I want something mysterious, something informative, something that will give me second hand embarrassment, etc.)

Currently I'm reading:

• Everything's Eventual by Stephen King
  
• Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman
  
• Paddle Your Own Canoe by Nick Offerman
  
• Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
  
• The Food Truck Handbook by David Weber
  
  On my "next to read" list:
  
  
• The Little Friend by Donna Tartt
  
• Not That Kind of Girl by Lena Dunham

Hahaha. Yes. The show is based on the memoir by the same name. Author is Piper Kerman. Here is the Kindle Link

Absolutely - they're from the book, Who Ordered This Truckload of Dung?, a book written by Ajahn Brahm, a head monk at a monastery in Perth, Australia. If you have a second, YouTube him - he gives incredible talks about Buddhism and life, and he's actually pretty funny.

More technically speaking, the Five Remembrances above are Ajahn Chah's modern translation of the five remembrances from the Upajjhatthana Sutta. (I didn't know that - had to look it up, haha.)

You might be interested in the book The $64 Tomato

In my experience, it's not any cheaper that shopping at a produce store, but the quality of the produce that you can get is much higher from your garden. I have kids, and I think it's very useful for them to understand where their food comes from.

You can do gardening on the cheap, but it takes a lot of time and effort. Ie going on Craigslist and Freecycle for cheap containers and pallets. Maybe even manure if you're in a more rural location.

Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood by Oliver Sacks. Sacks is best known for writing case studies of his patients as a neurologist, such as The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat. Uncle Tungsten is part memoir, part history of and introduction to chemistry. There's nothing quite like it out there.

The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins. Dawkins's Twitter antics notwithstanding, this book is an unmissable classic in biology.

Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter. An ode to consciousness, full of puns, music and metamathematics.

Mind, Body, World by Michael Dawson. This is a textbook, but it's (legally!) available for free online, and it's totally engrossing. The author uses his work in music cognition to introduce the major theories and paradigms of cognitive science and show how there isn't as much separation between them as it seems.

As an adult with strabismus (proof) can I recommend a book? Fixing my Gaze
is incredibly insightful and a really easy read.

You might have better luck looking for the book Who ordered this Truckload of Dung?

This looks really interesting, I can't wait to read it. Thanks for the post.

For another look at the Hermit kingdom, I suggest picking up Pyongyang: A Journey to North Korea by Guy Delisle

I came here to recommend Cuckoo's Egg but someone beat me to it. I will drop a suggestion for a related book called Just for Fun. It's a biography of the creator of Linux, Linus Torvalds. He didn't necessarily hack anything, but the book does a great job of explaining why he was so revolutionary in his field. I learned a lot about the early history of computers and the Internet through that book.

I'm more of a graphic novel fan (such a snob, I know). Big fan of Guy Delisle's travelogues, especially Pyongyang.

I also grew up on Tintin and Asterix comics, I still have all of them in English and French on my shelf, though I added some of the rarer, politically incorrect ones like Tintin in the Congo in recent years.

I recommend reading Paper Tiger by Tom Coyne. He writes about his attempts at doing this. Great insight and also highly entertaining.

https://www.amazon.com/Paper-Tiger-Obsessed-Golfers-Quest/dp/1592402992/ref=nodl_

West of Eden: The End of Innocence at Apple Computer
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00295MJHG/?coliid=I1Q8J5K347MYXY&colid=1J9YDKJ5WZ8PB&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it

Sophistication & Simplicity: The Life and Times of the Apple II Computer https://www.amazon.com/dp/0986832278/?coliid=I1I3Q5B2K8YST7&colid=1J9YDKJ5WZ8PB&psc=1&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it

iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It https://www.amazon.com/dp/0393330435/?coliid=I3IE3KZUF3E6WN&colid=1J9YDKJ5WZ8PB&psc=1&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it

I think I've been having similar problems lately. Except I don't say "man up," I say "oh, god it is that time of the month again..." (and it always is!)

Anyway reading this book might help: http://www.amazon.com/Who-Ordered-This-Truckload-Dung/dp/0861712781/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1377297592&sr=8-1&keywords=who+ordered+this+truckload+of+dung

My husband likes to listen to Ajahn Brahm's lectures on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiu7iHzYQhQ

If you're interested, I highly recommend his book, he goes through exactly how and why Patagonia products and practices are the way they are. Let My People Go Surfing

I bought a pair of sandals from them years ago, and they don't show a single sign of wear.

If you haven't already, you should look into My Stroke of Insight. The story is told from a neuroscientist who had a stroke. It really helped me understand what it is like to have a stroke and how to get better.

Orange is the new black looks great!

This book by Ajahn Brahm kept me from trying again and put me on the road to recovery, better than thousands of dollars of therapy. It's about accepting the shit and the hardships in life, but in a very different way than the Stoics portray it. Maybe give it a look.

You're talking about Love and Math ( https://www.amazon.com/Love-Math-Heart-Hidden-Reality/dp/0465050743)

You said you love books

I love his book "Who ordered this truckload of dung?" http://www.amazon.com/Who-Ordered-This-Truckload-Dung/dp/0861712781

Most recently, Wild by Cheryl Strayed. I really expected it to be overwrought, a cliche "how I found myself" story, right out of the genre of Eat, Pray, Love. It was so much more. I would recommend it to anyone, but especially to young women.

[Wild, by Cheryl Strayed] (http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0307476073?pc_redir=1406193150&robot_redir=1)

The guy you mention on Numberphile: Edward Frenkel, read his book, it is awesome
http://www.amazon.com/Love-Math-Heart-Hidden-Reality/dp/0465050743

This is a great book https://www.amazon.com/64-Tomato-Fortune-Endured-Existential/dp/1565125576

If you are stereoblind/have monopsis please consider vision therapy. Don't listen to doctors who say you are too old: find one who will treat you. I've now seen in 3D a few times and it has been simply amazing (was born with a crossed eye that ended up turning into a lazy eye.... two surgeries later it looks good but no 3D nor depth perception.

I also highly recommend the book: Fixing my Gaze

The most excellent book you will ever read on the discovery of the elements is Uncle Tungsten. I suggest you pick it up immediately if you haven't already (I can't recall if it specifically answers your question, though).

>When one woman went undercover as a man, she realized that men are entirely invisible, without anyone to help them, without anyone to care about them. She became thoroughly depressed and gained a new sympathy for the modern man.

Source for those curious. The above is a bit oversimplified I think, but in general the author did acknowledge that men don't live as well or as freely as many women think.

I'm not agreeing that it's a great idea to force your artsy girlfriend into loving math, but if she's open to it try this one:

https://www.amazon.com/Love-Math-Heart-Hidden-Reality/dp/0465050743

Not just a plot, but based on a true story - a memoir of the same name.

Ooo! I do. Kind of.

Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Letham

Another "just for fun" project was Linux.

I sometimes dearly wish that the programmer bunch on the internet could be less cynical and more ... fun. But then I look at myself, browsing the proggit on a Friday night looking technical stuff to read after working hours. What is wrong with us?

You might want to read Just For Fun, it explains his stock holdings in some parts of the book, specifically in relation to Red Hat, SUSE, and how stock splits work from a kernel developer's perspective.

He was given EARLY Red Hat stock and they've gone on to gorilla the market in revenue.

https://www.amazon.com/Just-Fun-Story-Accidental-Revolutionary/dp/0066620732

A few things:

A) If you have read Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem

B) If yes to A, how accurate his portrayal of someone with Tourette's is.

C) ZENGEANCE!!!

This one. I really enjoyed it.

I really enjoyed "Wild" by Cheryl Strayed.
https://www.amazon.com/Wild-Found-Pacific-Crest-Trail/dp/0307476073

I really like Jenny Lawson!

Frank and Beans!

Depends on skill, free time, climate,crops. It's not for everyone, though.

Has anyone read the graphic novel Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea?

It's about a French animator who is in North Korea for business because its cheap to have animation done there. There is a part where he travels (by guide, of course) to a museum that is deciated to all the great things foreign nations have said about North Korea. Apparently, a lot of the items are either from known parody sources and others are obviously fake.

I hear it's moving into Vietnam as Korean wages get higher. There's also the North Korean animation industry, which has some pretty interesting results.

Other techniques include using a piece of string held to the nose! This is a good read:

Fixing my gaze

> it is much tougher to be a woman in this world than a man.

I think giving this book a quick read might suggest otherwise.

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.

Here is the book that the show was based on:

http://www.amazon.com/Orange-Is-New-Black-Womens/dp/0385523394/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1377290448&sr=8-1&keywords=orange+is+the+new+black

It is actually based on the incarceration of Piper Kerman. I have read the book and the show is actually much better than the book in my opinion in this case.

A suggestion for his next gift:

The $64 Tomato

So, there was a Christian Evangelical who did something like this: Timothy Kurek, Jesus in Drag.

There are people who have also done similar things. Black Like Me. Self-Made Man.

I don't know how I feel about this. For one, it doesn't feel kosher, and there are so many layers of privilege... and so much disbelief as to whether he'll get it right, or how much he'll get wrong.

You know what I think here? Common People. Specifically, the lyrics "Cause everybody hates a tourist, / especially one who thinks its all just a laugh."

He's going to be a tourist. He'll have the ability to call his dad to end it all, so to speak. He won't really have all his friends vanish, or have those bridges burn, or lose his roots.

I understand the value in having someone cross those lines, and then go back and educate those that didn't what it's like on the other side. I appreciate how difficult it can be. I don't want to dissuade your son from his project, but it makes me so uncomfortable.

Big question. Most professional mathematicians view mathematical truths/objects as something existing in a platonic realm, that they get to explore and discover. I'd argue that the practice of research mathematics somehow tends to make this view feel intuitive, and a very passionate explanation of it (though perhaps not the most philosophically self-critical) can be found at Love and Math.

This view is not so shared by a large number of philosophers and physicists (who in the later case, I'd say tend to be very suspicious of dualism). The Wikipedia article on foundations of mathematics has a lot of more details. I recall that David Deutsch's The Beginning of Infinity and The Fabric of Reality contain examples of this view that felt particularly convincing.

I found this book by accident. I really enjoyed it. It was my introduction to North Korea. And its a graphic novel. Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea http://www.amazon.com/Pyongyang-A-Journey-North-Korea/dp/1897299214

Yes Read a book. I suggest [Motherless Brooklyn] (http://www.amazon.com/Motherless-Brooklyn-Jonathan-Lethem/dp/0375724834) by Jonathan Lethem.

Yes. Guy DeLisle wrote one of his more well-known graphic novels about his time supervising N. Korean animators, called "Pyongyang".

Hope you know that the series is based on a memoir. Why not dive straight into an inmate's mind?

Steve Wozniak comes to mind.

His autobiography http://www.amazon.com/iWoz-Computer-Invented-Personal-Co-Founded/dp/0393330435

Edit: Another is Robert Noyce (biography http://www.amazon.com/Man-Behind-Microchip-Invention-Silicon/dp/019531199X)
He and Jack Kilby are the ones we have to thank for integrated circuits and the microchip. They are the reason our PC's dont take up entire office buildings. Also, Robert Noyce founded Intel together with Gordon E. Moore. Also, lastly Gordon E. Moore biography http://www.amazon.com/Moores-Law-Silicon-Valleys-Revolutionary/dp/0465055648

If brain events other than epilepsy are of interest, I can recommend a couple of things. My Stroke of Insight is a memoir by Jill Bolte Taylor, a neuroscientist. The description of the experience of a stroke by someone who really understands the brain is fascinating. A Bomb in the Brain is Steve Fishman's account of suffering a cerebral hemorrhage while in Nicaragua, trying to get competent treatment, and making his way back to the U.S. It's 25 years old but still sticks in my mind.

Seems like one of those things where you'll spend more money in the learning that you would in just buying. Read this.

http://www.amazon.com/Orange-New-Black-Womens-Prison/dp/0385523394/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1374690422&sr=1-1&keywords=orange+is+the+new+black is the original book.

The lesbian angle is very much a big part of the series and not just with Piper.

So you believe scientists who have NEVER taken these things because they haven't come up with evidence to support it yet, when you could also just go yourself and come with plenty of hands on experience. If you don't know that it can take you there, then you haven't gone there. That is all. You didn't take that road so you don't think it exists.

So your proof that something doesn't exists is that YOU haven't been there and that scientist who also have not been there agree.

However if you were to ask this scientist among many OTHERS who HAVE been there. They'd say it's real.

Well this is based on a true story. Some of the stories and characters may have been exaggerated a bit, but you can get a book written by Piper. This show is probably close enough to the real thing
http://www.amazon.com/Orange-Is-New-Black-Womens/dp/0385523394

Two fine books about hiking the PCT are The Cactus Eaters, by Dan White, and Wild, by Cheryl Strayed.

Consultant is a weird word to use, she wrote the book that the show is based on.

Also, I think linking her twitter (@Piper) instead of email would be a nice thing to do.

RTFM.

;-)

No idea. Lol. I'm in the US. Maybe Amazon?

The guy that wrote The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat (Dr. Oliver Sachs) also wrote a great book called Uncle Tungsten — he writes of this desire (to be rid of desires) over an entire chapter; although in his case he is writing more as a homosexual (in a time when this was not tolerated publicly) so maybe this influence his writings, more (although he doesn't discern between men or women in his fear of desires).

I read a bizarre graphic novel called "Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea by, Guy Delisle. Worth a read.
https://www.amazon.com/Pyongyang-Journey-North-Guy-Delisle/dp/1897299214

Reminds me of a book I just read: https://www.amazon.com/Pyongyang-Journey-North-Guy-Delisle/dp/1897299214

This was from his experience in NK years ago but sounds just like the propaganda that we associate with them now.

You might be interested in this book: Self-made Man

http://www.amazon.com/Self-Made-Man-Womans-Journey-Manhood/dp/0670034665

About a woman who disguised herself as a man and documented her experiences.

Hey! You may want to check out this book. It seems totally up your alley. It's a memoir by a woman who dropped everything and hiked the PCT, published in 2012, has gotten a ton of acclaim:

http://www.amazon.com/Wild-Found-Pacific-Crest-Vintage/dp/0307476073

Recommend Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard's manifesto Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman

You don't start jogging around your neighborhood and then do the PCT.
Some people do it's not as hard as you guys want to believe.

Same, I was just learning about the whole FOSS and Linux community, after finishing Just for Fun, I was just so impressed that I installed Ubuntu.

I use Win7 on my Desktop at the moment, and use 9.10 Desktop Edition on my Netbook and on my personal server, I use the obviously the Server edition.

In his book, he says that he didn't name the OS, he wanted to name it Freax originally.

If you haven't yet, give this a read - https://www.amazon.com/Let-People-Surfing-Education-Businessman/dp/0143037838

Still Alice by Lisa Genova


Wild by Cheryl Strayed


Room by Emma Donoghue


Go Ask Alice by Anonymous

You should check out Wild. It's the memoir of a 22 year old woman's solo PCT hike.

In Wild she backpacks and survives the Pacific Crest Trail with very little.

Currently reading Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood