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The description for Cracking the Code sounds like a cancerous justification for more govt & more theft, what benefit does that one have?

Tell us more. How has it changed your life?

I also re-read Atlas fairly regularly (I lost count somewhere beyond 20 times). There is always something to get out of that book. Gulag Archipelago is an amazing read too. With Gulag the abridged version is actually much better, they mostly just organize the book & they include explainations of what is cut out & where to find it.

Good book, & the movie is actually pretty decent too.

Primeiro mergulhando em Platão, deitado na rede, em algumas várias férias. Logo Hegel e mais Hegel, e Platão e mais Platão :)

You too eh? That book taught me more about patience and observation of my world than any other book.

Yeah Maybe cause it was also an amazing time when I was younger and traveling the world. I think he has some interesting philosophy like romantics and .... (Can't remember, but more structured people). The sequel Lola was also great.

It seems the book hit us at the same age. I can remember reading it on “our last family vacation” and thinking the freedom the author had still had physical limits but it was enjoyed as ones life should be. Also Sequel? Interesting.

Similar stuff, but on a boat instead of the motorbike

So an anti bitcion stance got it lol

I like your list. How has Kierkegaard influenced you?

So following Kant and Descartes I was left with the limits of what can be known and understood by reason and experience from the senses. What I got out of Kierkegaard was what you do with yourself in that state. Without verifiable deductive proof and with imperfect senses, uncertainty permeates everything. And that’s just it. That’s the state you live in. You exist, you can’t know much more, and there is no fool proof way out to anything else. For a young, very too much, rational person as I was at the time, the obliteration of logic as “the path” to truth was disruptive. Kierkegaards embrace of the aesthetic, and the “leap of faith”, based on nothing more than will and the generation of passion to live according to a choice despite there being no proof for it and the absurdity you will confront in it was important in maturing myself beyond the purely logical limited existence I would have tried to live otherwise.

By Paulo Coelho

Born to Run got me started with barefoot running.

why we sleep is probably the most impactful book i’ve come across for health and performance improvement. any non-fiction as the fifth pick on your list?

Here are some absolute masterpieces that have left a lasting impression on me: - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami - A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara - Conversation in the Cathedral by Mario Vargas Llosa - Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry - Stoner by John Williams - The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt - Confessions by Jaume Cabré - A Treatise on Shelling Beans by Wiesław Myśliwski - The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco - Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

Nice! What do you think about A Lodging of Wayfaring Men?

Just added this to my book buying list!

To think it was published in the mid 2000s and before the whitepaper! It reminded me again how we are standing on the shoulders of giants and free-thinking minds, who conceptualized fictional places like Galt's Gulch (physical) or Gamma (digital), then created digital reality (Bitcoin or nostr), giving us the chance to shape our physical reality and become wayfaring giants ourselves, utilizing our full potential and inspire others.