/biz/ - Business & Finance

[Anonymous No.19795385]

this is the top reading list taking from /lit. Now that ChainLink success is around the corner, take some time out over the next few months to really ground and develop yourself through the lessons in these books.
Remember smart people learn from their mistakes, wise people learn from others.
Enjoy!
I also went to the liberty of jotting down the estimated reading time for the entire collection at around 970 hours (the range being from 1.5 hour short stories to 70 hour big boi books).
Enjoy!
Also if you're new just invest in BTC/ETH/LINK don't waste the potential of your cash on shitcoin moon missions.

[Anonymous No.19795409]

I appreciate it says 2018 but classics are a classic for a reason so don't worry about that.

[Anonymous No.19795476]

>>19795385
Fuck man. It would take you around 4-5 months reading 8 hours a day to finish all these...

[Anonymous No.19795505]

>>19795385
Literally a shitty fucking book collection. Which faggots made this? All so fucking boring and gay

Go read meditations or the art of living to live the best life free of pleb shit

[Anonymous No.19795620]

>>19795476
but think of what kind of character you would have immersing yourself through such a range of emotional and thoughtful narratives, shit man thats how I find myself to keep motivated going through it - wondering who I am after finishing it all.

[Anonymous No.19795626]

>>19795385
>no Dickens?
>ngmi

[Anonymous No.19795657]

>>19795505
Hey man, I respect that its not your thing, but hopefully it resonates with people on this board who really want to excel their self-development before their crypto success. But yeah, aurelius, seneca etc. is an excellent place to start as well

[Anonymous No.19795680]

>>19795626
yeah thats a good shout man, surprised to see tale of 2 cities not on it as well but I have faith in the /lit board

[Anonymous No.19795702]

>>19795657
Here's a real reading list, peasant.

[Anonymous No.19795724]

I also want to say as well, ignoring any cuck or dumb ass soiboi wojacks, that audiobooks are a fantastic way of getting through the list, especially if you have millenial/zoomer attention span and struggle with focus. Plenty of great choices are available on Youtube

[Anonymous No.19795754]

>>19795385
>Read all of these shitty books
OR
>Pick up a textbook and learn to code
No wonder you faggots are broke.

[Anonymous No.19795802]

>>19795702
thats certainly a great philosophy collection, but I reckon it might be a bit too dry or intense for the layman - but yeah fair play if youve powered through that

[Anonymous No.19795875]

>>19795754
ah bro thats not the right attitude - open about being ignorant? Also why not both?

[Anonymous No.19795924]

>>19795657
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After a woman has had a one-night stand
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her courtship value
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or less than 0.

As why would you want to be the guy
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forty pounds lighter
for freeee?

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After a woman passes 25, whence she has generally been buttcocked numerous times and desouled, her courtship value is negative. It is the woman, who is now wired fiat bernanke cash and allowed to excel in fiat bernanke programs that drug up and dumb down boyz while deocntsructing da GREAT BOOKS 4 MENZ and creating far more debt than wealth while bankruping the West morally amnd moneetarily, who must pay the man so as to court him.

For a 25 year old multi-buttocked, desouled, bernankifed woman represents a huge risk to a man’s livelihood, his time, his conscience, his soul, his future earnings, and his general well-being. And the man must be compensated justly so as to have to court a woman over 25 who has been buttcocked and deousled and converted by the cenrta; bankerz into a vehicle of welath transfer lzozlz so dey could convert their masisve fiat debt into physical property by leveraging a woman’s sexuality for prviate profit gains while placing all teh risksz on good menz zlozzllz.

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[Anonymous No.19795928]

>>19795385
Bump great post. I been active on lit for a few years now, migrated over here relatively recently to get a lay of the land. This is a good list, not exhaustive but has some seriously good recs popular and unknown. Moby-Dick obv a great place to start and among the more accessible on the list (so long as length does not deter you). Currently reading Brothers Karamazov rn and it goes dummy hard. Something not on this list that I think many on this board would like is called Neuromancer by William Gibson. A Clockwork Orange is also incredible and can be finished pretty quickly too.

[Anonymous No.19795953]

>>19795928
Also, a great novel about "making it" is called Great Expectations by Charles Dickens...

[Anonymous No.19796040]

>>19795928
Appreciate the bump man. haha what a coincidence im reading Brothers as well, only started though so just up to book II, and thanks for the suggestion I came across Neuromancer in a chart a while back but couldnt remember what chart it was, ill have to look into it

[Anonymous No.19796070]

>>19795953
Cheers man, maybe this weekend ill try to collect a good selection of 'make it' books with the help of /Biz and /Lit and make a chart for us all to use when the green numbers start glowing up

[Anonymous No.19796092]

Just fucking lol at taking reading reccs from /lit/ pseuds. Here, have a real patrish reading list.

[Anonymous No.19796186]

>>19795385

shit reading list here's a real one

[Anonymous No.19796259]

Thanks for sharing this list Anon! Appreciate it. Been trying to get into reading slowly over the last 1 year.
Mostly reading 21st century books like Lean Startup, 0 to 1 and other startup related books till now. What is your opinion on those type of books?
Also what should I expect to gain by reading books from this list?

[Anonymous No.19796269]

>>19795385
where the torrent?
memes by side (IJ) never understood the love for Stoner. Either someone at /lit/s a fanboy or I'm missing something. No way in fuck thats a Top10 book

[Anonymous No.19796273]

>>19795385
I have a retard brain. I've read a lot of books but I can't retain the information, I created a list so I could keep track of every book I've read. I forgot about it, rediscovered the list about a year later and some of the books in the list I don't even recognize the title.

Other books on the list, at best, I can remember one, MAYBE two meaningful things from it. I like reading, it's relaxing and I feel like I'm doing something productive, as opposed to watching YouTube. But quite clearly reading books isn't really working for me, should I even bother continuing?

[Anonymous No.19797205]

>>19796273
This - I have the same problem - how do you solve this?

>>19795657
How do you solve the above?

[Anonymous No.19797208]

>>19796259
These are some good questions. Re: the startup books -- Hard to say as I haven't read the ones you mentioned in particular, but if you're interested in startups or trying to start one yourself then it's probably a good place to be. I'm more concept-driven when it comes to stuff like that, so when I was trying to scratch a tech itch, I read something like The Master Algorithm by Pedro Domingos about machine learning. As for what you might gain from reading the books on the /lit/ list, almost exclusively novels except for 4-6 works of philosophy/theology, this is a question that philosophers have been debating for centuries: the utility of the aesthetic experience (which is essentially experiencing art, which is what you are striving to do by reading novels). It's really hard to put into words. Books are knowledge, yes, but books are also reflection. You may find these novels to lead you to a greater exploration, if not understanding, of yourself, your desires, your aspirations, your fears. I can't really explain it well. I'd suggest starting with one of the books and just keep reading, even if it's boring or doesn't make sense. Ones with good stories will be Moby-Dick, Brothers Karamazov, Slaughterhouse Five

[Anonymous No.19797292]

>>19797205
>>>19796273
>This - I have the same problem - how do you solve this?
I'm about to dump some lit chars, they have one on overcoming attention deficit, teaching yourself to read deeply, hopefully I can find it!
https://4chanlit.fandom.com/wiki/Charts

[Anonymous No.19797320]

>>19797292
This bizlit one is a bit dated, but has some good fundamentals

[Anonymous No.19797382]

>>19797205
One way of solving this, which I am too lazy to do, is highlight the best bits of the book, go back and put those highlights into a Google Doc. Have all your docs organized, and periodically open those docs to review and absorb that information.

It takes discipline, because natural inclination when we wake up is to some unproductive activity like fuck around on biz on or youtube, and fry our dopamine receptors for the day.

[Anonymous No.19797441]

>>19797382
>>19797205
I found a picture of the chart but it's a dead link from google images so no file. All the same, here are the titles, all geared towards helping with attention deficit and/or dopamine frying from social media:

Your Brain on Porn
Overcoming Distractions
The Adult ADHD Toolkit
Attention Revolution
Atomic Habits
Hyper Focus
Deep Work

should be able to download all of these on libgen or get audiobooks from your library/internet

[Anonymous No.19797470]

>>19797292
Books for teenage boys, you know who you are

[Anonymous No.19797499]

>>19797470
Doomer lit

[Anonymous No.19797534]

>>19797441
I mean seriously, imagine making it while being on a dedicated journey of self-discovery through great works of art... You'd be in a room full of vultures and be able to out-maneouvre them all in conversation after spending a little time with Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Dickens, Melville. You would expose Dan Bilzerian for the knuckle-dragging idiot that he is.

[Anonymous No.19797611]

>>19797205
People don't read books to memorize them, retard. As long as you think about what you're reading you'll take lessons away from it
Do you remember the date and circumstances of the week you learned to ride a bicycle?

[Anonymous No.19797661]

>>19797441
teach yourself computer science, make your own shit coin or at least know which projects are legit by knowing what's being talked about in a whitepaper

[Anonymous No.19797789]

80 pages from finishing In Search of Lost Time fellas. Sodom and Gomorrah and Swann's Way prob by my fav two volumes.

If anyone wants true biz lit read JR by Gaddis.

[Anonymous No.19797894]

>>19795924
>For a 25 year old multi-buttocked, desouled, bernankifed woman represents a huge risk to a man’s livelihood, his time, his conscience, his soul, his future earnings, and his general well-being. And the man must be compensated justly so as to have to court a woman over 25 who has been buttcocked and deousled and converted by the cenrta; bankerz into a vehicle of welath transfer lzozlz so dey could convert their masisve fiat debt into physical property by leveraging a woman’s sexuality for prviate profit gains while placing all teh risksz on good menz zlozzllz.
I dunno why but this, of all things, made me fucking spit coffee all over my keyboard.

[Anonymous No.19798096]

>>19796092
>Woolf
>Faulkner
>no Joyce
a list for plebs

[Anonymous No.19798116]

>>19797789
How the fuck do you get an English copy of JR

[Anonymous No.19798267]

The sovereigns reading list

https://propertarianism.com/basic-concepts/reading-list/

[Anonymous No.19798275]

>>19796273
>>19797205
Hey guys, sorry I was afk with family. Well I think thats an important note to make because after all if we don't seemingly retain the knowledge than whats the point? Whilst at uni I thought likewise and put myself off reading because of it. It makes me think of the quote by Ralph Waldo " I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me". So in short, even if you can't remember the chapters, events of a book, or even just the general narrative, it doesn't mean that a latent change hadn't occurred. Even if its seemingly negligible stick with it and I would have no doubt you will find it making a positive impact. Honestly if you find yourself still struggling with attention whilst reading get on the audiobooks, if I just need to relax Ill play rocket league and just have it on in the background - we're only human so sometimes you gotta find some sneaky workarounds to make up for our limits (plus it allows me to play videogames without feeling like Im wasting time haha). Good luck

[Anonymous No.19798295]

>>19797661
>>19797499
>>19797470
>>19797320
>>19797292
>>19796092
Thanks for the charts guys! looks like some great selections available for those looking into niche reading

[Anonymous No.19798500]

>>19795724
Hey, I gave a try to the audiobook of Moby Dick and I have to say it's pretty good, thanks for this thread

[Anonymous No.19798612]

>>19798500
Excellent man, you're in for a treat. And thanks I appreciate that, without Biz I wouldnt have known about LINK so wanted to give back

[Anonymous No.19799128]

>>19798116
>How the fuck do you get an English copy of JR
???? Its original language is English

>>19798096
I agree but keep in mind that St. John's adopted this curriculum around 1935 when Joyce was seriously bleeding edge. Faulkner and Woolf were probably added some time between 1935-1970 and they would both have an easier time clearing any hurdles to be added. Joyce often offends delicate sensibilities, and I say this as someone who claims Joyce as his favorite author, I read his corpus (minus Finnegans Wake) once a year

[Anonymous No.19799164]

>>19795724
>I also want to say as well, ignoring any cuck or dumb ass soiboi wojacks, that audiobooks are a fantastic way of getting through the list, especially if you have millenial/zoomer attention span and struggle with focus. Plenty of great choices are available on Youtube

[Anonymous No.19799214]

>no Mein Kampf
Gargabe.

[Anonymous No.19799225]

Great thread anons. It's good that people are turning off the electric jewtube and reading more books.

[Anonymous No.19799490]

Big fan of the positivity op

[Themistocles No.19799568]

>>19795385
I've read 37 of these, does that make me the literary king of biz?
Also hold +10k Link

[Themistocles No.19799655]

>>19796092
read 44 of these, can confirm it's a good list. Heavy on dry philosophy though.

[Anonymous No.19799702]

>>19799225
Lord knows how much time we waste on youtube

>>19799490
Thanks man, right back at you

>>19799568
Awesome man, well you're certainly doing a lot better than I am! thankfully I can match you in the 10k+ club ;)

[Anonymous No.19799887]

>>19795505
>all so boring and gay
Have you read any of those books? 2666 is boring and gay to you, yet you recommend someone read Aurelius’ Meditations? Really dude?

[Anonymous No.19800052]

>>19795385
Will read all of these once I make it. Fuck wasting money on cars and mansions. Gotta read and develop yourself instead.

[Anonymous No.19800213]

>>19799887
>hating the one and only good book

NGMI FAGGOT

[Anonymous No.19800376]

>>19795385
Wow I never expected lit to have... such a good taste in literature. I half expect every 4chan board to just have the worst idea/understanding of everything. Thanks for that little enlightenment, maybe I'll g>>19795385
o see what the board is like.

[Anonymous No.19800402]

>>19800213
He's right though

[Anonymous No.19800414]

>>19800000

[Anonymous No.19800422]

>>19795385
Finally a list that isn't obviously bait.

[Anonymous No.19800439]

>>19795724
I read physical books, but throw an audiobook on when I drive or game. I figure it's a nice bonus coupled with traditional reading.

[Anonymous No.19800465]

>>19795924
Excellent prose, anon. We have another BAP in the making.

[Anonymous No.19800480]

>>19795385
No Atlas Shrugged?

[Anonymous No.19800513]

>>19795385
Some of those are good, like the bible, and the republic.
The rest are cringe, as if a teenager discovered the backbone of pop-culture.

[Anonymous No.19800593]

>>19799887
Meditations is one of the most important works in the history of the West you fucking pseud

[Anonymous No.19801464]

>>19795505
so edgy

[Anonymous No.19801576]

>>19800480
Found the anon that can’t read

[Anonymous No.19801991]

>>19797470
>>19797534
I love you guys

[Anonymous No.19802075]

>>19795385

>ChainLink success is around the corner

fucking imbecile lmao

don't forget to leave a suicide note you fucking pleb lol