/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>52644348
this retard would be against books

>>52644348
I hate this kike but I kinda agree, most books just repeat simple concepts 50 times and the only reason they exist is to drive sales so the author can retire, the real intention is not to carry information

>>52644378
>books exist to make the authors money
Are you guys really this stupid?
What do you expect people to make books for? To make you smarter for free without considering profiting?

>>52644593
thats why the catholic monks did it during the dark ages

>>52644378
>books are scams so authors can retire
Incredible logic

>>52644378
Totally agree with you, I'm reading pic related and it just repeats itself, well never.
>such a midwit lukewarm IQ take on books.
Maybe you lack the reading comprehension and applied logic to learn from literature

>>52644348
He's not wrong. No amount of books read come close to jewish nepotism. You cannot self improve your way into the synagogue.

>>52645414
When you are ready for the real shit, picrel

>>52644378
Imagine if people wrote books just to carry information
The world would be amazing

>>52645414
>>52645522
99.9% of the books are completely useless, just enter the first library and check the ratio between true educational ones and garbage like Obama biography or Warren Buffet copy-pasted history and strategies
Super-majority of books are only made to make some quick buck, just like super-majority of news websites are only searching for click-baits and not to inform people
I do read/study books but only an incredibly small set are actually useful

Since shit like Blinkist is a thing, most people apparently only read garbage and then complain about it being too long for its content offered

lol

>>52644593
>To make you smarter for free

yes believe it or not there was a time before capitalism took hold of our lives.

>>52644378
>most books just repeat simple concepts 50 times
Not in my experience. I read mostly history books and there's lots of facts there, told using historical sources and I found there is little repetition.
I also don't really have a problem with some repetition, it helps to understand and remember better.
My problem is that authors very often are wrong about some thing (as little as this thing can be as part of the overall information in the book), they're simply biased against ideas alternative to the mainstream (esotericism and nazism, most of all) and it isn't rare that the same author contradicts himself in a book. I'm speaking of academic works here.
What's a much worse problem is that there is lots of nonsense in books that are philosophical, in the sense that they show the author's view of the world. For example I had to stop reading a book on astrological houses by Dane rudhyar because there was little fact and mostly dumb and useless metaphysics and theology. I learned nothing from that shitty book.
I started a new better book where so far tells about the historical interpretation of the houses and its also very critical of shitty modern astrology.

>>52644348
He's not wrong, midwits will seethe.

>>52645730
I thought history was supposed to repeat itself?

>>52645771
Yes. First as tragedy then as farce.

>>52645589
>99% of books are useless
>Super majority
Are you sure about those numbers or did you just pull them from your ass?
>>52645674
No actually you’re wrong
The church controlled who could read and what books were reprinted even after the printing press was invented
It’s bankers who got control of the rights to the printing presses and they’ve had it ever since

>>52644348
>he's still not arrested
this is kind of disgusting
just donate billions to politicians and walk free
makes you think ftx was just a money laundering scam

>>52645791
>Are you sure about those numbers or did you just pull them from your ass?
>Source? You are not allowed to guesstimate
Reddit moment

>>52645660
Yep cryptokidz podcast is comparable to Les Misérables and Joe Rogan to the Merchant of Venice

>>52645807
You’re not allowed to guesstimate in finance
You type of people need to stay off this website

>>52645835
>books
>finance

>>52645796
> billions
Not even, just sub-100M.

>>52645883
You really are a special kind of stupid?
I’m glad you think 99% of books are scams

I'd say every very technical book is worth it. Could be medical, engin, chemistry, antyhing very specific.
Anything other than that is almost pure garbage. On the top finance books are the worst. Prly read 10-15 fat "good' finance books and they could be resumed in 10-20 pages. Actually added some stickers on the book so I can go back to these specific pages. The best value/read would be blogpost so I think SBF is right

>>52644348
>books are bad
this is why the world is headed into the dark ages again
retards think they're too big brained for books but don't even know how to change the oil in their own car or change a light bulb in the garage. yet they will burn all the books like Orwell's 1984
when it's all gone and the cancel culture purge has destroyed or somehow removed all the competent people who actually build and keep this modern world going. there will be no one left who has the capacity to build, operate or fix anything

>>52645907
ok bro shit like fifty shades of grey and how to win friends and influence people which make the bulk of books are finance, sure

>>52645791
>or did you just pull them from your ass?
Yes
>>52645835
I don’t guesstimate
I gutstimate
>You type of people need to stay off this website
>the website is an armenian khorovats forum
The only thing I know is that every time I enter a book store I see garbage all over, best sellers are literally woke stuff or irrelevant famous person biography number 72628

The only real thing that make books worth smth is that your mind is somehow active and your attention span is on focus mode. So it's still better to consum books (even average) than consum social media for example. But that's it. In most cases it's way better to do a good hike in nature than reading the last barack obama toilet paper

>>52644348
>I dun need all dat readin' like 'em city slickers do, now give me 300 million dollars for my derivatives exchange

>>52644348
The guy who robs people who didn’t do their research tells people not to do research. You can make a point about the publishing industry, but i don’t believe that he concerned with improving the public discourse.

technical book > Hike & nature > Good quality podcast > Good & specific tutorial (Youtube but very selective) > average book > social media

>>52645924
I didn’t say anything about finance books
This is a finance website
Are you acting dumb on purpose?
>>52645928
You know that 99% of books are lame because of the books you see in stores?
Got it
I’m sure there’s a lot of shorty books just like anything else in life.
You have to be an idiot to discourage people from reading more books. We have enough sheep already

>>52645919
Just google it or pay someone else to. Not that hard, boomer.
Technical books are entirely unnecessary in the current era of internet and smartphones. Novel story and puzzle books are all that remain of reasonable usage. Yes, you CAN walk to the store, but most people, especially boomers, use a vehicle. After a certain point, you need to admit that your nostalgic fetish for inferior forms of communication are a hindrance propped up by an outdated system of academia scamming its clients and, beyond, it has no reasonable usage, having been made obsolete via the natural progress of technology, much like all other aspects of the lead-brained 30 year-old boomer life.

>>52645939
The best way to keep your mind focused and sharp is to engineer and then create something
Coding or building something from A to Z and solving problems one by one and gaining experience teaches you way more than a theoretical manual
Some people likes to fry their brain on reality shows and soap operas (totally passive)
Other ones like to read a book
Other ones like me like to think, engineer and build (totally active)
Books for me are instruments you need to use for something, if it’s just “to pass time” they are pretty dumb, barely above “playing Candy Crash” level

tImE iS mOnEy, NoCoInErS

>>52645964
>You have to be an idiot to discourage people from reading more books.
No, I encourage people to think, invent, build stuff. Books are just part of the toolset. Just reading books for the sake of reading books is pretty pointless

what exactly is there to be skeptical about in regard to books?
does he think they are some kind of conspiracy against very smart boys like him when he cant pay attention long enough to parse a sentence?
the more i hear this guy say, the more i'm convinced he is a functioning retard who only got anywhere because he has the (((silver tongue))) genetics and can say loads of shit that means next to nothing in any concrete sense
he got rich through discovering a simple arbitrage
one
one simple technique
and people then regard him as a genius and are surprised when they give him their money and it disappears
the fact people were having investor meetings with him while he wasnt even paying attention and they still gave him money is almost beyond belief except for the fact that it actually happened

also itt loads of midwit losers who have never read a good novel and think books are only information stored on paper
pick up a classic you niggers
our society was founded on the classics
no wonder we're doomed

>>52645964
Have you ever scrolled through Amazon? There are over 48 million books. If 99.9% are useless that means there should be 48 thousand useful books. Maybe 99.9% is too optimistic.

>>52644348
I've never read a good blog post
some okay, but none genuinely good
>>52645660
podcasts are a waste of time, there has not been a single podcast where everything couldn't be written on a single piece of paper (or on a post it note)

>>52646070
Most Americans can't read in general

You're literally talking to literal sub 80 iqs

>>52646022
No one is saying to read books just to read them
Why do you guys keep building up this straw man argument about books?
They’re just paper with information on it.
I’m glad you agree with SBF and think books are overrated
I think people like you guys are why everyone is playing candy crush
You think candy crush is actually better than reading
That’s how stupid you are
>>52646097
I disagree but I’m not an illiterate zoomer

>>52646134
>posts something that says most Americans can read
>thinks it says most can’t read
Those reading skills anon

>>52646039
He's a scheming liar and a hypocrite, don't listen to what he says

In another interview he quotes his favorite books "Doing Good Better"

It's just a way to get goys to trust more in fungible online information as opposed to real world unfungible info

>>52646164
Everytime I post this everyone always gets hung up on the first part failing to notice that 54% of adults have a literacy below 6th grade.
Do you know how low the standard for 6th grade is?
That means most adults cannot read a harry potter book.
Keep in mind the keyword BELOW, which means these adults have a range where 6th grade is the highest.
Would you qualify a 1st grader as literate? A second grader? Because I would not.

It's the backpedal to soft blow the problem, which is horrendously abysmal

>>52646164
>54% of adults have a literacy below 6th grade level

>>52646134
not surprising considering the standard of their discourse
remarkably few notable writers have come from america
you'd think for the size and age it would have been able to produce a few more by now but all the best ones were old stock descended and died before 1950
since then its just been 500 page tomes of pilpul and sexual neuroses

>>52646188
Most adults you know can’t read a Harry Potter book?
You believe that junk you posted?
You must be around a bunch of retards
I can’t imagine the nasty white trash you must come from that you believe that most adults can’t read.

You must be one of the most gullible people I’ve ever met.
I’ve had Spanish speakers go through hiring processes for being a maid and I’ve never had one who couldn’t read English papers I have them sign

You guys must be from Alabama, if most of the adults you know can’t read

>>52646296
I don't need anecdotal evidence to back up hard statistics which I know are true.

https://www.thinkimpact.com/literacy-statistics/#:~:text=The%20literacy%20rate%20for%20adults%20across%20the%20U.S.%20averages%2088%25..

>M-MUH ALABAMA
California has the lowest adult literacy, Alabama mogs the fuck out of it.

>>52644348
based catalogue

>>52644348
I think he's right about some, maybe even most books. Publishers want authors to fluff up books so they will sell better, when the core ideas of the book could be expressed in one chapter. But there are sometimes books that need to be long due to the subject having a vast depth.

>>52646296
This is why we have statistics. So morons like you can't project your tiny tiny insignificant experiences onto the rest of the population. Without looking like a moron, anyway

>>52646132
>I've never read a good blog post
some okay, but none genuinely good
Even Arthur Hayes blog is better than any book written by Paul Krugman
One is a nigger and the other one is a Nobel Prize, so you do the math
Lyn Alden blog is 100x more useful and truthful (and up-to-date) than any keynesian book

>>52644348
/lit/ brahs we won

>>52644348
You're all retards for following a "man" who had bitch tits at 30.
Imagine how lazy this fat fuck is.

>whole thread is retards saying they don't read and prefer youtube
Check out the OP wow you are in good company!

>>52644348
i actually agree with that

books are overrated and midwits feel smart for reading them

>>52644378
Depends on why the book was written. As this anon here pointed out >>52645730, history books make sense due to the amount of information contained in it's pages but 99% of self-help books should have been a one hour lecture.

>>52646296
I sure hope this is some A-grade trolling, because otherwise you are just mouth-shitting your teeny tiny anecdotal evidence like it's statistically relevant at all. You do realize that you and your seven buddies don't account for the entire country, right?

>>52644378
ya it really seems like nepotism people pretending that their success is attributed to secret arcane knowledge acquired by reading noah goldstein's autobiography about running adobe's HR department in 2005

>>52646411
I dont understand, was posting a pic of the MMT nonsense book supposed to be a dig against books?
>Paul Krugman bad!
More than likely have never read a single one of his books
>Brings up a black entrepreneur to compliment and then calls him a nigger
>the other one is a nobel prize
>someone named lyn alden
>google lyn alden
>sm investor bro clone #01040023445610410
just go to bars, I know youve never had sex before and it pisses you off, just go to bars, you dont have to go around closing time but if that works for you then do that and you will eventually pick one up desperate enough to fuck you

He got that from andrew tate

>>52644378
Repetition of information is how you remember what the subject matter is regarding you fucking faggot

>>52649087
Bro are you okay? For real how low IQ do you have to be to not remember what the book you're reading is about and you need to have repeated reminders every other page.

Like dude, come on.

Most of the replies to OPs post are living proof that 90% of this board is physically and mentally retarded.

>>52644348
>Bankman says he doesn't read books
>That ugly ceo lady says something about not knowing maths or some shit.
It was funny to see that Enron guy coming in and saying these people didn't know wtf they were doing.
It's amazing how completely incompetent retards got entrusted with billions of dollars.
I can't even blame them entirely.
Apparently they didn't know what they were doing with the money half the time and were just having a good time.
If they actually knew how to balance a book they could have atleast reigned themselves in and cooked the books appropriately

>>52646132
I've liked a lot of the slatestarcodex blog posts if you're willing to challenge that premise.

>>52644348
The publishing industry is one of the most corrupt and consolidated on the planet, and has been for at least a solid 70 years now. It's truly a cartel, and people wonder why people don't give a shit about contemporary "literature."

>>52645414
I know this is unrelated, but I have a degree in chemistry. It was pretty useless except in a very niche circumstances. When I went to state prison for manslaughter (drunk driving accident) I was protected by ag group for answering all their chem questions. They even offered me a job with their buddies when I got out. There was a show called "Breaking Bad" on TV at the time and everyone wanted to cook meth.

>>52646132
>podcasts are a waste of time
Every single podcast episode could be boiled down to 15 minutes (maximum - it's usually 5 minutes) of useful information or high quality entertainment. Some of them contain absolutely zero value, like when Joe Rogan is "interviewing" one of his fellow unfunny comedians about drug abuse.

FUCK THIS KIKE GOBLINA

>>52649087
Cope

>>52644378
Pudgy American fingers typed this post, while sweating. Try reading something that wasn't shilled to you on late night television.

>>52645589
You're supposed to filter the good ones out, brainiac

>>52645917
Reading books also improves your mastery of language and writing. It will help prevent making absolutely abhorrent posts like this one.

>>52650279
She just said that she doesnt use mich math beyond grade10 math. Which is accurate for the world of finance desu

>>52652076
Please don't defend her. She's an idiot that shouldn't have benn given control over billions of dollars. Maybe a laundrymat

>>52648665
>google lyn alden
hello tourist

>>52651194
How does it feel knowing that fat Americans rule the world with an iron fist, that you are a subject to American hegemony and military dominance?

>>52648665
I don’t need to read Krugman like I don’t need to read das Kapital to know that it would fill my head with useless information and waste my valuable time.

Eat shit, pseud.

>>52644348
>midwit scams dimwits to the tune of hundreds of millions
Apparently ethics are reserved for retards and geniuses.

>>52645813
>tfw lets players are equivalent to crime and punishment

I think he will Arkancided live on Zoom on November 30. Rolling. RIP Nicolai Mashegian. His unquiet sprit will mete out justice to SBF.

>>52644348
Makes u think

>>52655097
lol I don't need this dude to tell me how to live my life for God and to harden my soul against the savages and blows of The Serpent King.

>>52650602
Yeah fuck the publishing industry
And fuck idiots like you and SBF too

>>52655097
>stop cooking, eat more goyslop
This guy is definitely glowie approved
Where did Israel find this dude?

>>52655113
this

>>52650602
If I wanted to get my writing out there what would be a better way?

>>52658838
Github

>>52645771
It does not. It is only a meme for people who have simple understanding of history for example Marxist

>>52651257
>/lit/

>>52655097
Dumb take because he is only factoring in time. Nutrition is one of the main drivers of health. If you eat garbage someone else prepared you will not be able to track macros and will end up fat or nutrient deficient leading to low energy. Only way you can guarantee high protein healthy meals is to make them yourself.

>>52655097
u still wait to be served if u go out
one trip a week to the store, big deal
what a douche

>>52655097
Dunning-Kruger demon.

>>52655097
Cooking doesn’t take that long
Washing dishes is worse

>>52644378
>>52644348
I actually agree with him.
I taught myself to read using books and quickly found that most books wern't good for relaying information especially when it comes to fiction, there are some books that are needed like coding and historical data but 99% of books are just repeated trash to make the author money.

Also books aren't a good way of reading, computers/screens that don't require bending the neck or focusing the eyes are much better at least for my brain.

I'm also severely autistic and dropped out in the third grade, my ex assumed because I don't read books that I must be low IQ, she could never beat me in tests even though she was on the deans list at UMKC.

>>52645660
>>52644348
Why do zoomers, even highly educated zoomers, hate reading so much?

>>52661521
>I'm also severely autistic and dropped out in the third grade
Yeah it really shows

>>52655097
Unironically think this faggot needs to go before SBF.
and I hate kikes.
He must be a kike then my radar is screaming glowops when I see him.

>>52661557
>Omg I got him
Yeah I've heard this my entire life champ you're a dime a dozen.

>>52644348
every time a cryptard loses money it makes me happy

>>52661545
zoomers have zero attention span so they cannot focus enough to read a book, they have been raised on instant dopamine loops (not their fault)