January 2, 2024: Book Revue 2023 📖📚📕
Book reports from last year's readings
To my blessedly eternal surprise, one of the posts you all most appreciated last year was my annotated reading list from the year.
February 10, 2023: Book Revue 2022 📖📚📕
They can take our net worth, but they can’t [yet] take away our library cards! If you need entertainment during bad markets, try picking up a book. Among the many great things of 2022 was the opportunities for reading some really good books (along with plenty of forgettable ones). This review of the books I read in 2022 was intended to be released around the New Year, but kept getting delayed as it kept expanding. Hopefully it still provides some enjoyment and pointers for the readers.
Here’s my annotated list for the prior year, in no particular order. No links are affiliate links
Non-Fiction
Peter Wohlleben: Hidden Life of Trees
Peter Attia: Outlive
Seneca: How to Die
John Kelly: The Great Mortality
Howard Zinn: People’s History of the United States
David Graeber: The Dawn of Everything
Sasha LaPointe: Red Paint 👎
Chantel Prat: Neuroscience of You 👎
Mehdi Hasan: Win Every Argument
Doris Kearns Goodwin: Team of Rivals
Ray Dalio: Principles For Dealing With the Changing World Order
Ian Mortimer: Edward III: The Perfect King
Robert Greene: 48 Laws of Power
Max Fisher: The Chaos Machine 👎
Humor
Douglas Adams: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy & The Restaurant at the End of the Universe 👎
Tina Fey: Bossypants
Fiction
Tom Wolfe: Bonfire of the Vanities
Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace
Cixin Liu: Remembrance of Earth Past
Wait… isn’t this a crypto blog? Why write book reviews for your first post back of 2024?
A few reasons. Firstly, some of the books offer important lessons we can take with us to the realm of cryptocurrency, detailed below.
But more importantly, we just suffered through a grueling bear market. We’ll suffer more in the future. The most important skill for persisting through bear markets is simply enduring the tedium with a plan to emerge stronger.
Diving into books is inarguably our number one survival hack. During boring periods, you can easily hit the end of your social media timeline. It’s your cue to log off and touch grass, preferably with a long work [of non-fiction] in tow.
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