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Absolutely. You're probably just concerned about scale. You may think earning 3% is small when investing $1,000 ($30 ROI), but scale that up to say $25,000 and you get an ROI of $750. Still not a great deal of money, but way more than the smaller investment.

The problem becomes getting your foot in the door to earn those higher returns. You could take out a loan and make your bet on the market to build your bankroll (Buying on Margin), but if your first bet goes bust, you could easily be in trouble/debt for a very long time. This is Risk and how much you're willing to take on.


A great book you should read is Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefevre. It doesn't outline any trading strategies (that are useful today), but gives you a good idea on the philosophy of trading. Good luck to you if you decide to start trading.

David Deida has some really good insight into spiritual growth and sacred intimacy. I learned a lot from his book The Way of the Superior Man, which is also in audio book format. He has a generally more eastern philosophical view on the subject, incorporating ideas of masculine and feminine energy. It's very empowering and offers a great perspective towards understanding the role of sex in the greater picture of our being. Highly recommend his stuff.

I know you said no books, but a book called [The Power of Habit] (http://www.amazon.com/The-Power-Habit-What-Business/dp/1400069289) might be of interest to you.

There is some cool info in there about analyzing your habits to find out what the true habit is.

He has a great example that his afternoon trip to get a cookie in the lunch room wasn't about the cookie it was about walking around and seeing some people.

It goes in all sorts of other directions, but it gives you insight into the concepts of habits that might spark some change.

1. I think the actions of politicians are determined almost entirely by their desire to get re-elected (or else they would be outcompeted by politicians whose behavior was so determined). Thus I expect that having politicians, especially ones who have already been elected, read anything is unlikely to change their behavior.
   
   
2. What is meant by "literature"? Some economics textbooks are classics in their domain (like Exchange and Production, formerly called University Economics, by Armen Alchian). Or, for one more closely related to politics, I might pick Mancur Olson's The Logic of Collective Action. Perhaps by reading it, politicians could become less susceptible to pressure groups. But that would be merely a hope.
   
   
3. If we're going define "literature" more strictly, then I would recommend The Brothers Karamazov, because that's what I would recommend to everyone. Read it slowly, preferably with a friend or two so you can discuss it. Then read it again. Beautiful stuff.

It may well be increasing although the exact rate is debated and differs greatly depending on what clades and kingdoms you include. We appear to be in the middle of possibly the largest extinction event since the K-T Extinction 66 MYA that ended the reign of the dinosaurs. Biodiversity scientists term the present era the Holocene Extinction event.

In Bill Bryson's book A Short History of Nearly Everything he closes with these thoughts on the subject:

>Because we are so remarkably careless about looking after things, both when alive and when not, we have no idea-- really none at all-- about how many things have died off permanently, or may soon, or may never, and what role we have played in any part of the process. In 1979, in the book The Sinking Ark, the author Norman Myers suggested that human activities were causing about two extinctions a week on the planet. By the early 1990s he had raised the figure to about some six hundred per week. (That's extinctions of all types-- plants, insects, and so on as well as animals.) Others have put the figure ever higher-- to well over a thousand a week. A United Nations report of 1995, on the other hand, put the total number of known extinctions in the last four hundred years at slightly under 500 for animals and slightly over 650 for plants-- while allowing that this was "almost certainly an underestimate," particularly with regard to tropical species. A few interpreters think most extinction figures are grossly inflated.
The fact is, we don't know. Don't have any idea. We don't know when we started doing many of the things we've done. We don't know what we are doing right now or how our present actions will affect the future. What we do know is that there is only one planet to do it on, and only one species of being capable of making a considered difference. Edward O. Wilson expressed it with unimprovable brevity in The Diversity of Life: "One planet, one experiment."
If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here

You might appreciate the book Ignore Everybody (and 39 Other Keys to Creativity). The author has a lot of great advice about building a life as a creative person, and addresses thoroughly the entire "artistic integrity vs. paying the bills" issue.

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You're going to have your prioritize and manage your time really well. You can still have of fun in college even you need to get really good grades.I recommend you read this book.

I highly recommend reading Cal Newport's Be so good they can't ignore you.

(some info about Cal Newport: Cal Newport, Ph.D., (CS from MIT) lives in Washington, D.C., where he is a writer and an assistant professor of computer science at Georgetown University. He also runs the popular website Study Hacks: Decoding Patterns of Success. This is his fourth book.)


His most important argument is that Following your passion is a bullshit and dangerous advice. People like Steve Jobs give this advice, but when you follow their career they actually didn't follow this advice at all themselves.

So stop asking what is my passion and start asking how can I serve the world, develop skills, try to find and solve challenges.


here is a stop motion video which summarizes his book in a great way

Insanely good point.

There is a book that goes really deep into the history and story of rapture before you ever set foot into the game and gives insight into a lot of what you mentioned. Very good read if you get the chance

Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/BioShock-Rapture-John-Shirley/dp/0765367351

I feel also like BioShock:Infinite delves a lot into the whole 'Lower vs High class' thing too with Comstock going full out armageddon on the Fitzroy resistance.

I have two. One that changed my macro view of the world, and one that change my micro view.

World-Systems Analysis by Immanuel Wallerstein offers a brand new model for how the population of the world functions. I stopped looking at nations and economies as independent actors and started looking at as global capitalist society. Fascinating work. I now see a random economic or poltical story in the news and can easily understand why that is happening and/or who it is affecting.

On the micro side, What Makes you Not a Buddhist taught me so much about what makes humanity tick and why we do the things we do. The buddha was an incredibly smart dude, and pretty much figured out the core reality of humanity way before anyone else began to approach it. I'll see a random thought or truism and go "That's really buddhist".

For example the link from /r/videos This is Water that hit the front page a few weeks ago is really about the benefits of compassion, which is one of the biggest core ideas of buddhism (having compassion will bring you peace).

I guess these aren't literature, but they changed my life drastically nonetheless.

The most complete explanation of his ideas is probably Das Kapital, but it has a well-deserved reputation for being particularly difficult to get into. A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy also has some good insights into his thoughts while the later Critique of the Gotha Progra has more detail concerning what a communist society might actually look like. If you're looking for a secondary source, Karl Marx's Theory of History is excellent.

The big issue being that it's impossible to determine the purpose of the figurines, they could have been fertility idols just as easily. They could also be symbols of wealth and prosperity (it takes a lot of food to get fat in pre-civilization). They could even be depictions of a leader of some sort of matriarchal tribe (many social theorists have posited that before agriculture, most peoples were in a matriarchy). So the purpose is difficult to state. But that also goes for pretty much every depiction of nudity between then and the first time someone explicitly made pictorial/statuary things for the purposes of sexual stimulation and labeled it "porn".

Source; Lots of general knowledge from my studies, a good starting point being: http://www.amazon.com/History-Sexuality-Sourcebook-Mathew-Kuefler/dp/155111738X

Treatise on the Gods by H. L. Mencken. The author was ahead of his time in sizing up religion and its impact upon society, and does so scathingly and humorously.

Mises.org - What I think of as the "default libertarian position", to which others are compared. Some minarchists, some anarcho-capitalists. Ranging from culturally conservative to culturally neutral.

Reason Magazine - Reformist libertarian magazine. Mostly utilitarian moderates opposed to cultural conservatism.

Bleeding Heart Libertarians - Culturally radical libertarians, mostly minarchists and moderates with a few anarcho-capitalists. Recently had a debate about the NAP. Some deontologists, some virtue ethicists.

Center for a Stateless Society - Culturally radical free-market anti-capitalist anarcho-capitalists, and a few left-wing anarchists.

EconLog - Blog run by libertarian economists, though the material is accessible to the layman. The related EconLib has libertarian articles and books, and a few non-libertarian books about economics.

Roderick Long - Quasi-Objectivist virtue ethicist, culturally radical anarcho-capitalist.

Lew Rockwell - Former Ron Paul staffer, cultural conservative.

David Friedman - Utilitarian anarcho-capitalist, son of Milton Friedman.

Capitalism and Freedom - Book arguing for moderate libertarianism on utilitarian grounds.

/r/Libertarian - Mostly minarchists, sometimes culturally conservative.

/r/Anarcho_Capitalism - Anarcho-capitalists, as one would expect.

/r/Objectivism - Objectivists, as the name implies.

/r/LibertarianLeft - Mostly left-wing anarchists, but there are some left-leaning anarcho-capitalists too.

If you want more, I still have plenty of resources.

It's actually total transportation costs that gets me upset with modern agriculture. If you're part of a CSA, the farmer portions out the food into boxes, and transports it to the customers. If you buy a banana from Ecuador, the bananas have to be carefully handled, boxed, transported in a gigantic refrigerated ship, stored locally in appropriate storage. All of this time and material uses a great deal of energy, and also wastes a good deal of food, since not everything makes the trip in an edible state.

Barbara Kingsolver wrote a book about five years about her family's year-long experience of living as locavores. She writes very persuasively about obtaining greater quality of food, feeling more connected to the community and the food it produced, etc. Her choices are definitely not for everyone, as she and her her family were totally committed.

You mention local employment, but I think that's a wash, not really worth mentioning. You could argue both that people like Kingsolver took work away from farmers that could have supplied their needs, but also that the family gave their money away to other local businesses for supplies, advice, and services, all adding to local employment.