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Marc Andreessen is a venture capitalist. Effective accelerationist (e/acc); technology brother; GPU supremacist; shoggoth disciple. Create abundance or die trying. Let's make sand think!

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Book Cover for: Men, Machines, and Modern Times, 50th Anniversary Edition, Elting E. Morison

Men, Machines, and Modern Times, 50th Anniversary Edition

Elting E. Morison
Marc Andreessen -- e/accMarc Andreessen -- e/acc

In conversation with Sam Harris about the three-stage process of new teach adoption: "I used to think that I was fantasizing this, but then I found a book that explains it by this MIT professor from 50 years ago, pre-internet, where this goes through the history of new technology."

Paperback, 2016

$22.95$11.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles, Thomas Sowell

A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles

Thomas Sowell
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15. Two of Thomas Sowell's many brilliant books on how our current politics and culture came to be: A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy

Paperback, 2007

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Book Cover for: Folk Devils and Moral Panics: The Creation of the Mods and Rockers, Stanley Cohen

Folk Devils and Moral Panics: The Creation of the Mods and Rockers

Stanley Cohen
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"Stanley Cohen investigated a series of 'moral panics' in Folk Devils and Moral Panics. Cohen describes the reaction among the British public to the seaside rivalry between the 'mod' and "rocker' youth subcultures of 60s/70s. In a moral panic, 'the untypical is made typical.'"

Paperback, 2011

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Book Cover for: Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell

Homage to Catalonia

George Orwell
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3. Four books on the Spanish Civil War, which was the trial run for the hundred years of Western history that followed. The Spanish Civil War by Hugh Thomas Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell Spain In Our Hearts by Adam Hochschild Mine Were Of Trouble by Peter Kemp

Paperback, 2023

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Book Cover for: Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon, Colin Bryar

Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon

Colin Bryar
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Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon Hardcover by Colin Bryar, Bill Carr https://t.co/CaCXwFU7cN

Hardcover, 2021

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Book Cover for: Alexandre Kojeve: Wisdom at the End of History, James H. Nichols

Alexandre Kojeve: Wisdom at the End of History

James H. Nichols
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18. Three books on the philosophical underpinnings of our time: The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama Alexandre Kojève: Wisdom at the End of History by James Nichols Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche

Paperback, 2007

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Book Cover for: Fascism: The Career of a Concept, Paul Gottfried

Fascism: The Career of a Concept

Paul Gottfried
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9. Two books on fascism and anti-fascism, titled Fascism and Anti-Fascism respectively, both by Paul Gottfried.

Paperback, 2017

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Book Cover for: Hitler: A Global Biography, Brendan Simms

Hitler: A Global Biography

Brendan Simms
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5. Two comprehensive biographies of Adolf Hitler. Hitler: A Global Biography by Brendan Simms Hitler: Ascent and Hitler: Downfall by Volker Ullrich

Hardcover, 2019

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Book Cover for: Public Choice Theory and the Illusion of Grand Strategy: How Generals, Weapons Manufacturers, and Foreign Governments Shape American Foreign Policy, Richard Hanania

Public Choice Theory and the Illusion of Grand Strategy: How Generals, Weapons Manufacturers, and Foreign Governments Shape American Foreign Policy

Richard Hanania
Marc Andreessen -- e/accMarc Andreessen -- e/acc

16. Public Choice Theory and the Illusion of Grand Strategy by Richard Hanania -- a sobering reexamination of how democratic governments actually make decisions.

Paperback, 2023

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Book Cover for: The Managerial Revolution: What is Happening in the World, James Burnham

The Managerial Revolution: What is Happening in the World

James Burnham
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This is true. It’s the older, bourgeois, pre-managerial model of capitalism that created the modern world. Contrast with the present degraded, wokified, zombified oligarchy. The book to read -> The Managerial Revolution: What is Happening in the World https://www.amazon.com/Managerial-Revolution-What-Happening-World-ebook/dp/B07MMDWBQN/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= https://twitter.com/mr_scientism/status/1519041920806395907

Paperback, 2021

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