tweeting to the void Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Socialism: Being a Brief Statement of the Doctrines and Philosophy of the Social Labor Movement
S. Robert Wilson
@blurryelectron robert anton wilson had commented that socialism is an attempt to replace the family/tribe with a government. and yeah that doesnt work out
Paperback, 2018
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought
Andrew W. Lo
@visakanv Andrew Lo has a book Adaptive Markets basicly critiqying EMH one point he brings up is that smth that looks like EMH might start to emerge if conditions are stable and known, but since they change so much it doesnt usually happen in practice
Paperback, 2019
$22.95$11.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Philosophy: Who Needs It
Ayn Rand
@nobu_hibiki Ayn Rand talks about how she views her fiction as a vehicle for expressing the ideal man / philosophy Kafka talked about how all his writing was implicitly about his tyrannical father etc. etc.
Paperback, Mass Market, 1984
$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Interaction Ritual Chains
Randall Collins
@forthrighter so i think its fair to say that other people have a major impact on us and this works in interaction rituals. eg. weddings, concerts, sports etc. are all examples of interaction rituals (see interaction ritual chains by randall collins)
Paperback, 2005
$44.00$22.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Inferno
Dante Alighieri
i think modding is an under-explored form of learning and creation (i include fan-fiction and fan art as a form of modding) MOBAs started as a WoW mod think PUBG started as a Arma mod renissance paintings and dante's inferno are fan fics and fan art of the bible https://t.co/nGapUjgz83
Paperback, Mass Market, 2009
$7.95$3.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Authentic Relating: A Guide to Rich, Meaningful, Nourishing Relationships
Ryel Kestano
Reading about Circling and "Authentic Relating". liking it so far feels like a lot of rat, post rat, tpot norms originate from here. and even if you didn't explicitly encounter circling, you can still pick it up (*weakly*) by osmosis
Paperback, 2022
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Focusing
Eugene T. Gendlin
@VividVoid_ focusing by eugene gendlin. so good (its a therapy book, but also works good for meditation) the mind illuminated. very practical and so confusing that your mind will have a fidget toy while you meditate
Paperback, Mass Market, 1982
$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire (20th Anniversary Edition)
David Deida
(for more context, the book in question is The Way of the Superior Man by David Deida the book is filled with a focus on spirituality and love... and i smfh do not remember a shred of that?!)
Paperback, 2017
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up
Marie Kondo
@visakanv marie kondo pov: does it spark joy ppl's pov smfh: joy motherfucker. does it spark it? (this would be way funnier photoshopping her face onto samuel jackson holding a gun) https://t.co/ZXNppOLhpS
Hardcover, 2016
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ideal
Ayn Rand
@nobu_hibiki Ayn Rand talks about how she views her fiction as a vehicle for expressing the ideal man / philosophy Kafka talked about how all his writing was implicitly about his tyrannical father etc. etc.
Paperback, 2015
$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book