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News Of The Week
Welcome to this week’s issue of the Books And Articles newsletter. Once again, thanks for all of the quality posts.
Sorry for the delay getting this newsletter out. I will get back on schedule next week.
I encourage everyone to check out this post by Shane/Rayo2. He owns Liberty Under Attack Publications, a freedom focused publishing house. You can also learn more at libertyunderattack.com. @TheWildHustle introduced him to Stacker News and to this territory.
That’s it for now.
I hope everyone has a good week.
Top Five Posts Of The Week
The top post of the week will be forwarded 50% of the zaps earned on this week’s newsletter post. Rankings will be determined using the SN zaprank.
Here are this week’s top posts:
- Writing To Think by @elvismercury
- Recent TV Adaptions: Ripley and Shogun by @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears
- 7 lessons I learned from reading "The Psychology of Money" by @RaulJunco
- The Final Product, Chapter 8 by @cleophas
- 3 ways to encourage your kids to read by @cryotosensei
Siggy’s Suggestions
I’m doing something different this week. I am only going to talk about @elvismercury’s Writing to Think post, which was the territory’s top post of the week. I was unaware of Henrik Karlsson, but the article was ridiculously timely and instructive for me. The news regarding the Samourai indictments really affected me mentally and emotionally. Although I’m a lawyer, I honestly have had no interest in law since my retirement from daily practice. This prosecution made me aware that I haven’t really given much thought to the ways bitcoin can be attacked legally in the U.S. That changed the minute I heard the news. As some of you here might have noticed, I made a bunch of scattershot posts thinking about the implications and possible defenses to this attack. I was literally thinking by writing. I quickly became aware of my limitations. I also knew I wanted to make for myself a comprehensive, organized guide to legal issues concerning bitcoin. I started from the beginning and tried to organize my thoughts. By complete happenstance, @elvismercury posted this article at the same time I began using Obsidian, a powerful note taking app, to organize caselaw, articles, and to capture my own half baked notions and thoughts. Obsidian has a daily note feature which I have also begun using. If I had been doing this all along, I think my Samourai posts would have been far better and more useful. It was as if Karlsson was describing my own confused thinking at times. This passage in particular hit home:
When I write, I get to observe the transition from this fluid mode of thinking to the rigid. As I type, I’m often in a fluid mode—writing at the speed of thought. I feel confident about what I’m saying. But as soon as I stop, the thoughts solidify, rigid on the page, and, as I read what I’ve written, I see cracks spreading through my ideas. What seemed right in my head fell to pieces on the page.
I hope I maintain the discipline to improve. I think all stackers who want to improve their posting would benefit from this article.
This week’s Golden Oldie:
Today’s Golden Oldie is from @Fabs. I can’t believe it’s been more than three months since it was posted. It is a challenging look at the act of reading, and the discussion it inspired provides a ton of valuable insight into the art of reading.
Writing Contests
Stackers’ Blogs
My Bitcoin Journey
Inspired by Writing Contest #1, this is where stacker’s bitcoin origin stories will be posted for easy reference.
- Grayruby’s Bitcoin story by @grayruby
- I Put ¼ Of A Bitcoin In A Landfill by @brandonsbytes
- From Selling Newspapers To Finding Bitcoin by @Coinsreporter
Book Clubs
Books
- The Universal Good Deal by @cleophas
- Who Brought The Steak Tartare?, Chapter 1 by @cleophas
- The Final Product by @cleophas
- Happy The Hippo, an absolutely wonderful children’s book written by @cryotosensei for his son.
- The Rogue Scholar by @jbschirtzinger
- Submersible by @johnbnevin
Book Reviews
- Some Thoughts On Re-Reading Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451” by @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears
- The Last Policeman, by Ben H. Winters by @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears
- Number Go Up Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
by @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears - The Bezzle, by Cory Doctorow by @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears
- Some thoughts on Moore and Lloyd's V for Vendetta by @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears
- Author Recommendation- Andrew Heaton by @Undisciplined
- The Things We Leave Unfinished, by Rebecca Yarros by @Tef
- The Achilles Trap, by Steve Coll by @Coinsreporter
- Software,by Rudy Rucker by @Scoresby
- Book Reviews Directory 11/23-3/24
Essays
- Nihilism Wants Empire:Camus On Nietzsche by @jurraca
- Cory Doctorow: Writing in the Age of Distraction by @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears
Poetry
- Poetry:unresolved between a thai lad and I by @cryotosensei
- plebpoet’s original poem + discussion by @plebpoet
- Churning Black Matter by @Nuttall
- If A Day Comes... by @Tef
Day 147 of snailposting everyday 'til BTC hits $100k.
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