If you’re trying to get your head around new cryptocurrency ideas and concepts see the books below. It’s a new field, and there still aren’t many published books to describe it. Since cryptocurrencies are developing so fast, I doubt that books are even the proper medium to get a real understanding of what is currently happening. But for the armchair warriors like me these books can concretize some of the ideas and introduce you to some of the main developers.
As a kid, I loved reading. I got sucked into the Lord of the Rings, C.S. Lewis, Phillip Pullman, J.K. Rowling, Piers Anthony, Redwall, the Game of Thrones, etc.
Not too surprising that I sought a career as a librarian. But for anyone out there who hasn’t yet gained a love for reading, here are 5 practical reasons you should take up reading as a hobby.
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is a novel about Junior, a poor kid who grows up on a reservation in Washington state. Maybe because much of the book mirrors Alexie’s life, it seems like a memoir.
Alexie’s book is at turns touching, funny, and tragic. Junior, the protagonist, is not only poor and outcast by friends and family, but he is also bullied constantly. You will find yourself cheering and empathizing with the bookish underdog that is Junior; who despite his deficits and challenges, manages to live life pretty much like anyone else.
One Mighty and Irresistible Tide is about how immigration law has changed over the decades, primarily between 1924 and 1965 but also more recently.
Jia Lynn Yang studies the men in positions of power that determined what American immigration law should resemble. She shares their upbringing, private letters, and the context in which they acted.
The premise is that you should learn how to take good photos of yourself and that the selfie should be considered a form of art.
Well, I buy it…
If you’re trying to lessen your negative environmental impact on the world, composting can help a great deal.
Living in the country and composting is easy. All you need is a place to throw your food scraps and any fallen leaves, sticks, and grass clippings to get a good balance of carbon and nitrogen.
In an urban environment, composting can be more complicated…
The Sovereign Individual imagines what changes are to come from the Information Revolution. A revolution that will bring in the fourth stage of human economic life; that of the Information Society.
Side note: This book has aged really well. It was written in 1997, and many of Davidson and Rees-Mogg’s predictions have come to be.
I’ve seen that having a car accident abroad, or breaking down in a place where you don’t speak the language, can be very very difficult.
I’ve first-hand knowledge of people getting stuck on the side of the highway for hours. I’ve seen cars stuck in foreign countries for months. And I’ve seen parking fees mount up to 1000€ (to be paid by the car owner, naturally.)
Here’s how you can prepare yourself.
As a person, Emma Goldman has my respect for the difficulties she lived through and her unwavering pursuit of justice. During her life, she was a leading light for liberty and conscience. Nowadays, I think her ideas are less shocking and more mainstream. Her essay on prison reform and her criticism of prisons would hardly be out of place in a moderately left-wing newspaper today; similarly, her thoughts on love, marriage, birth control, and patriotism.