Literature that makes you as dense as a neutron star
Every 3 words out of 4 in sapiens apparently gives you wisdom
Now, I don’t wanna say I’m skeptical… But how the fuck is that possible?
i just gained 3/4ths of a widsom just reading the title. did you not?
Every single page is recycled wisdom. They took existing wisdom, put it in a mulcher with a lot of water. Ran that thing on high and used the paper as 3-ply ass cleaner.
Maybe it’s assuming you know literally nothing about history and anthropology alongside a beginner’s grasp of the English language?
Wisdom per page - new metric from freedom burger eagle institute
Basically freedomsl burgers per page
no jorjor well?
The number comes from the total number of books I have read in my lifetime multiplied by a figure I made up.
I show these numbers to venture capitalists at Davos.
They love it.
The numbers come paired with projection graphs.
The graphs all go up and to the right.
i actually adore this. way too many “smart” “learned” “PhD recipients” that i know have considered that sapiens schlock to be a serious work of nonfiction. this puts it in its correct place at the top of a shitheap
Someone gifted me these books and they belong in my “social fascist” book pile
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind is a 2011 book by the Israeli military historian Yuval Noah Harari, based on a series of lectures he gave at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. It was first published in Hebrew in Israel in 2011, and in English in 2014.
And this is now more than I previously knew about the book, as a person who at some point had one (thanks to some awful dork).
Could just never properly crack it open, instant boredom and eye rolls every time. You’ve given me a closure I didn’t realize I needed lol
Is this the If Books Could Kill podcast playlist?
This list is an insult. Where’s Rich Dad Poor Dad?
Where’s How to Make Friends and Influence People
Can somebody tell me what’s in that book, why does everybody when talking about books about economics start gloating they’ve read that?
Can somebody tell me what’s in that book, why does everybody when talking about books about economics start gloating they’ve read that?
It’s a bunch of made up stories about the author’s rich mentor who is also made up. It sounds like something a stupid person would think a smart person would write, so it makes sense that every stupid person or economist (but I repeat myself) you know thinks it’s a super insightful text. The author himself is a serial scam artist who’s embezzled and cheated his way through dozens of businesses he founded, and currently is a billion dollars in debt. No, seriously—billion with a B.
hehehehehheheeh
I will go to bat for Zero to One (thank you Thiel for not just admitting but exhorting that the primary motivation of capitalists is to establish a monopoly because competition is expensive) and also Antifragile (I like Taleb’s stuff)
Theil’s book is on my reading list because it’s nice to read a ghoul telling on themselves every one in a while
It is also mercifully short!
Taleb to me feels like a decently more hinged Peterson with a different set of interesting little ideas that have been extrapolated into a disproportionate reverence.
Discussing pop philosophy on here feels weird enough, but what do you like about the guy? He feels like Ayn Rand if she was made in a lab to appeal to my 19 year old shithead self. I feel like the fact that he feels the need to be a quippy Twitter person is a pretty big indicator that he doesn’t actually believe in any of the big picture thinking that first made me want to go read his work.
I don’t think he’s as insidious, but I don’t trust this guy.
I don’t even read books. I just go through them and mark the smart-to-word ratio, then tally it up at the end to see how smart I won. Sapiens for example, 0.4:1. You won’t win any smart from that one.
Oh they’re dense alright.
I’m gonna
Eat my own face
Simpsons, then Futurama, now Gravity Falls? Is there any cartoon you can’t reference?
“History’s” is this like, somebody’s name? this list clearly has no realtionship to history as a discipline
If it’s densest first, why isn’t musky boy #1?
