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adam

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The Point (Why a Book Club?):

1. Read interesting books,
2. Apply the thinkings to your life as applicable
3. Discuss findings and results with others

Oh, and also it'll be fun.

Lets Talk About Books

I'm interested in both fiction and non-fiction, some examples I've already read (but wouldn't mind reading again for the refresher and conversation) might be:

Non-Fiction

• The Spider and the Starfish (a book to understand decentralization)
• The Master Switch (a book to understand the cycle of disruptive technologies and the habits of monopolies in the post-civil war american experiance)

Fiction

Snowcrash (a book to understand a multi-polar future "free agents" scenario) Reamde (a book to understand the power VR will have on our lives)

In the future we'll have some kind of token access wackyness but for now lets just start things off in this thread and once the thread gets too difficult to manage we'll switch to a new public board.

What books should we add to the list? Give a title, link to it on amazon and if you've read it what you think the broad reason to read the book is.

What Should We Read First?

Posted on June 7, 2015 at 4:20 PM

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• BitCoinDaddy

  

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  How about putting some LTB disruptive panache into strengthening the disruption envisioned via The Madison Fund which is/was inspired by Charles Murray, in his recent book 'By The People'
  From the site

  "American freedom is being gutted. Whether we are trying to run businesses, practice vocations, raise our families, cooperate with our neighbors, or follow our religious beliefs, we run afoul of the government - not because we are doing anything wrong but because the government has decided it knows better. When we object, that government can and does tell us, "Try to fight this, and we'll ruin you."

  Sound familiar? There are a lot of people getting ready to take Charles Murray's Libertarian disruptive inspiration and run with it. I am reading this book now.

  Posted on June 7, 2015 at 5:32 PM
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• adam

  

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  @bitcoindaddy How about putting some LTB disruptive panache into strengthening the disruption envisioned via The Madison Fund which is/was inspired by Charles Murray, in his recent book 'By The People'
  From the site

  "American freedom is being gutted. Whether we are trying to run businesses, practice vocations, raise our families, cooperate with our neighbors, or follow our religious beliefs, we run afoul of the government - not because we are doing anything wrong but because the government has decided it knows better. When we object, that government can and does tell us, "Try to fight this, and we'll ruin you."

  Sound familiar? There are a lot of people getting ready to take Charles Murray's Libertarian disruptive inspiration and run with it. I am reading this book now.

  Thanks for the first suggestion, I picked up a copy just now - I figure we'll pick the first book once the first batch of attendees self-identify themselves

  Posted on June 7, 2015 at 6:55 PM
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• philder

  

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  Depending on how we wish to define "disruptive", I'll add "The Unfoldment" by Neil Kramer. Covers various philosophical, mystical and personal growth topics, and whilst it can get a bit "woo", there's a great deal of thought provoking stuff in there about how we interact with the world, the various conditioning forces at play and how awareness of such can help you develop as an individual. I'm as resistant to "mystic woo" as they come, but by reframing some of the terminology, I've managed to get a lot out of it, if only in how I view and interact with the world. I'd consider that disruptive in its own way. Largest journey, single step and all that.

  Also, Conversations on Collapse is interesting, as indeed is the C-Realm podcast from which the transcripts are taken. Subject matter has evolved over time, but is usually thought provoking.

  Posted on June 9, 2015 at 5:19 AM
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• cherapple

  

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  I like the extra motivation to make more time to read. Reading books is like exercise. It requires making an appointment with myself every day. (I manage to accomplish the exercise better than the book reading.)

  I bought a copy of The Starfish and the Spider months ago, but I haven't yet carved out the time to read it.

  Posted on June 17, 2015 at 7:56 AM
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• Bernhard

  

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  hey lets talk films! lets talk music !

  Posted on June 17, 2015 at 8:34 AM
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• optictopic

  

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  I am reading Stealth of Nations: The Global Rise of the Informal Economy. I'll add the ones you listed to my reading list. Adding a book club page to this website and providing a portal link to kindle etc could be a cool side stream of income to support this website.

  Posted on June 17, 2015 at 10:29 AM
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• kchong

  

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  Fiction- Parallel Stories: A Novel by Péter Nádas For time and space.

  http://www.amazon.com/Parallel-Stories-Novel-P%C3%A9ter-N%C3%A1das/dp/1250013909?tag=duckduckgo-d-20

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• samxjain

  

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  so much information

  Posted on June 20, 2015 at 11:06 AM
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• elokk

  

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  For those of us that find it difficult to make time to read all the great, informative books out there I would highly recommend downloading audio books . Instead of listening to commercial ridden terrestrial radio while driving, turn on an audio book. I recently did this with Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money. Very interesting story that will keep your interest peaked.

  Posted on June 21, 2015 at 7:05 AM
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• kchong

  

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  Non Fiction- The Age of Acquiescence, by Steve Fraser

  "It is this imaginative capacity that is missing from our second Gilded Age, a theme to which Fraser returns again and again in the latter half of the book. The latest inequality chasm has opened up at a time when there is no popular memory — in the United States, at least — of another kind of economic system. Whereas the activists and agitators of the first Gilded Age straddled two worlds, we find ourselves fully within capitalism’s matrix. So while we can demand slight improvements to our current conditions, we have a great deal of trouble believing in something else entirely."-Naomi Klein NY Times review on Fraser's The Age of Acquiescence

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