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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: miko2d on March 19, 2003, 09:53:32 AM
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The rifle is taken care off... (http://www.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=82067), now is the time to get back to the matters of mind and soul.
Here is my latest aquisition (being delivered as of this moment) - some of it based on your advice.
Your Order with Amazon.com:
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Subtotal of items: $ 310.54
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Total for this Order: $ 325.42
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1 "Free to Choose: A Personal Statement"
Milton Friedman (Author), Rose Friedman (Author); Paperback; @ $10.50 each
1 "Homage to Catalonia"
George Orwell (Author); Paperback; @ $10.40 each
1 "Eugenics: A Reassessment (Human Evolution, Behavior, and Intelligence)"
Richard Lynn (Author); Hardcover; @ $89.95 each
1 "IQ and the Wealth of Nations"
Richard Lynn (Author), Tatu Vanhanen (Author); Hardcover; @ $67.95 each
1 "Conquests and Cultures: An International History"
Thomas Sowell; Paperback; @ $12.95 each
1 "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid"
Douglas R. Hofstadter; Paperback; @ $14.70 each
1 "Knowledge and Decisions"
Thomas Sowell; Paperback; @ $25.00 each
1 "Migrations and Cultures: A World View"
Thomas Sowell; Paperback; @ $16.10 each
1 "Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy"
Thomas Sowell; Hardcover; @ $22.75 each
1 "Economics in One Lesson"
Henry Hazlitt; Paperback; @ $8.80 each
1 "The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature"
Steven Pinker; Hardcover; @ $19.57 each
1 "The Way the World Works"
Jude Wanniski, Robert Novak; Paperback; @ $11.87 each
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your probably going to have to cancel that trip to Disneyland to make time to read all of those.
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woow...looks like you are researching world economics or something......
what about creative writing....Fiction...Fantasy.
all that REAL world stuff is BORING:D ......unless for research
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add "When Genuis Failed"
I think you will find it a interesting read.
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ygsmilo: add "When Genuis Failed"
I think you will find it a interesting read.
I am sure it is, but working in the related industry, I could probably write this book... Anyway, it is mostly related to the particular case while I am now concentrating on basic principles and underlying structures/processes that determine how the world got this way and what it would look like in a generation or two.
There is a lowest level of detail I can afford to concentrate on for now - just not enough time to dedicate reading a whole book on most particular events. Never fear, I am sure there is chapter dedicated to analysis of LTCM failure as a relavent exampe in one of those books.
SLO: what about creative writing....Fiction...Fantasy.
At about 60-100 pages an hour (the more enjoyable the author's style, the slower) and 5-8 hours reading a day (before my son was born, much less now), there is just not much readable fiction stuff out there (that you can honor with a term "creative") I haven't read yet - or have not read in some previous book. I've accumulated tonns of SF. I still buy those once something new comes out, but it's just a day worth of reading.
Serious stuff, on the other hand, is much slower going, you can't read it in small pieces, need clear head and often even need to take notes, etc.
all that REAL world stuff is BORING
What are you taking about! Very few of fiction writers have any understanding of how facinating and complex the real world really is. :)
miko
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Originally posted by miko2d
ygsmilo: add "When Genuis Failed"
I think you will find it a interesting read.
I am sure it is, but working in the related industry, I could probably write this book... Anyway, it is mostly related to the particular case while I am now concentrating on basic principles and underlying structures/processes that determine how the world got this way and what it would look like in a generation or two.
There is a lowest level of detail I can afford to concentrate on for now - just not enough time to dedicate reading a whole book on most particular events. Never fear, I am sure there is chapter dedicated to analysis of LTCM failure as a relavent exampe in one of those books.
miko
Understand that time is always an issue, I am trying to reread some of my early books on the technical side of trading, but the reason I recommend this book is because of what drove LTCM into failure - the human element.
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Are those the books you're gonna shoot with your new rifle?
ra
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ygsmilo: ...but the reason I recommend this book is because of what drove LTCM into failure - the human element.
Isn't it always? :)
ra: Are those the books you're gonna shoot with your new rifle?
They are property worth having a rifle to defend.
But mostly a guide to a circumstances where one does not have to use a rifle. And justification to use it at the same time. Very versatile and dangerous thing - knowlege and understanding.
miko
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Originally posted by miko2d
ygsmilo: ...but the reason I recommend this book is because of what drove LTCM into failure - the human element.
Isn't it always? :)
miko
Yep
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Originally posted by ra
Are those the books you're gonna shoot with your new rifle?
ra
Now THAT is funny. :)