/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>25853142
The Iliad

>>25853142
Mediations
The Fourth Industrial Revolution
vom kriege

Adam Smith

1984
Neuromancer

prometheus rising

Dostoevksy
Nabokov
Tolstoy
Strugatsky

Can't go wrong with the Russian greats

The Scapegoat by René Girard.

The only book that will change the way you think about humanity.

>>25853177
This and Thus spake Zarathustra

>>25853142
The Bitcoin Standard

Justine by de Sade

>>25853142
The Art of Sucking Dick by Dr. Jordan Peterson

>>25853142
basic economics by Tommy boy

>>25853142
Check out /lit/ anon

>>25854868
I think OP was asking for something /biz/ related.

The Protocols of the Meetings of the Learned Elders of Zion.

>>25854922
I would like you to delete this post.

>>25853142
The Richest Man in Babylon

>>25853142
1. Buy a Kindle Oasis
2. Get an Amazon Prime subscription
3. Start checking out eBooks from your local library
4. Go on a one-week digital detox. No internet, no 4chan, especially no news, no porn. Nothing. Only thing you'll do during this week is reading books and working out. Work or study the bare minimum, the rest of your time is reading books or getting /fit/. https://yuki.la/fit/44873326

Never pirate books, either buy them or borrow them. This limited mentality will coerce you to take books seriously and to read them. You can also get the Kindle app on your phone and read books while you take a dump in the toilet for example. Stop wasting all your time on 4chins and news. You'll quickly realize how meaningless fluff the content on these websites really are.

You don't have to give up 4chan, you see me posting here don't you. But I get 80% of the "entertainment" I get from 4chan by only having to spend 20% of what I previously spent here. You can do the same.

Invest in yourself. Start reading.

If you're into psychology or just curious, this one is great.

Br0nze Age Mindset

>>25855530
That's cute and all but a lot of us are making a living through spending a lot of hours on the internet, such things are not realistic in today's age unless you already made it and have lots of free time.
>Only thing you'll do during the week is reading books and working out
That's some boring ass and meaningless life.

>>25853142
The Holy Bible
The Book of Enoch
The Urantia Book
The Bell Curve by Richard J.
1776
48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene

>>25855530
I also recommend getting a Kindle Oasis for many reasons all around. You spend a hefty amount so you're again coerced to use it. Also many library ebooks allows you to download straight to your Kindle, very nice feature without having to fumble around with different eBook formats and the like.

>>25855530
Do you have any book recommendations for the first week?

>>25855837
Anything that interests you and is relatively easy to read since your brain is most likely fried from dopamine overdose, I recommend getting an Amazon Prime subscription since there are many books you can check out for free. I read a variety of nonfiction and fiction books. Some examples are "Robber Barons," "University of Berkshire Hathaway," and "The Kremlin Conspiracy." All three books should still be free on Amazon Prime. Another good one to read (although a bit dense) is 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Currently, I'm reading up on real estate and an autobiography of Da Vinci by Walter Issacson.

Ride The Tiger - Julius Evola

>>25856062
Here's a good one that might be of interest to /biz/
>Robber Barons: The Lives and Careers of John D. Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, and Cornelius Vanderbilt

>>25853142
Lit and phil major here. Download a copy of The Presocratics by Wheelwright, read a handful of Platonic dialogues and some Aristotle, and then you are free to jump around a good deal. Reading Plotinus would be intelligent if you cared to read medieval philosophy, though. As far as literature goes, read literally any collection of classics (Aeschylus, Homer, Dante, Shakespeare) and then a book of criticism by Burke or Frye, and you are now more educated than all the braindead fucks I have to share my major with.

Communist manifesto-karl marx
Wage labour and capital-karl marx
State and Revolution-Lenin

Reading self help books is a meme. Only Marcus Aurelius' meditations will help you along with Oswald Mosley.

>>25856479
>stoicism
Men will read every ounce of stoicist bullshit thrown their way before admitting they have mommy problems, I swear to christ.

>>25856513
The whole stoicics/monk/self-improvement scam is just to take every NEET's last cent. It's quite pathetic that people are promoting all this nonsense.

>>25856719
>A 2500 year old anti consumerist philosophy with books written privately for personal use, is trying to scam you out of your money.

You have to go back.

Penguin classics. Like 2 quid a pop

>>25854120
This

>>25853142
the christian orthodox bible and the spiritual life and how to live it by theophan the recluse

>>25856914
None of those work in today's age. It's time for you to catch up with the times, otherwise you'll stay a poorfag forever who puts himself on a pedestal because he's reading muh roman emperors, instead of actually enjoying life and making money.

>>25854222
Please do not read Zarathustra for your first philosophy/Nietzsche book just read Twilight of the Idols/The Antichrist.

>>25855530
I second this, the one week detox works

>>25853142

>>25857470
You sound like a normie

art of the deal (Donald trump)

American Buffalo by Steven Rinnella

Stories of an economic hitman
Stiff
Any antiquity
Literally find a chart

>He didn't bought only H E D G E D coin
>only few knows

>>25854868
fellow il/lit/erate here
I'm about halfway through East of Eden, Steinbeck was a fantastic writer

>>25857823
Any advice you can give on reading some of the classics like the Iliad? I tried once but couldn't understand a bit of it, any recommendations on how to ease into them?

https://youtu.be/iEq0dMu9vpk

The single most important book that helped me get to where I am today. All the books in the world are useless if you don't have control over your thoughts.

>>25854169
>Goytoevsky
>Goybokov
>Tolsgoy
>Strugatsgoy

HowAboutNo.jpeg

>>25857684
If being a "normie" means being happy, having money, security and ambitions then sure. While you are doing detox for 7 days as a coping mechanism to forget about how shitty your other 358 days are, some of us are actually achieving real goals.

>>25857857
I would say don't force yourself, and take your time with it

>>25854120

>>25856513
>>25856719
Stoicism is a good philosophy if you realize it's not the only fucking philosophy to live by.

>>25853142
Hello, young anon. Excellent question.

I suggest you read "Ham on Rye" by Charles Bukowski. The man was a miserable degenerate, but you can learn something from his drunken musings.

Also, "Hear of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad. Brilliant novella (<200 pages) that was the basis for "Apocalypse Now". Essentially a tale about man's hubris, breaking down of distinctions between upper and lower class in an anarchic setting, etc. Incredible writing, you'll love it.

Good luck, young man. Keep studying and thinking like this, and you'll make it.

>>25858263
Heart*

>>25857993
Cool man, I'm proud of you! Some of us aren't as fortunate as you I suppose so we all gotta start somewhere.

>>25853142
roll

Nearly every book in this thread is a good pick, I’m impressed lads. Too add:
Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky
The New Dark Age - James Bridle
The Intelligent Investor - Benjamin Graham
Finnegans Wake - James Joyce
The Thebian plays
Faust

>>25853142
Just read the Glitch whitepaper

>>25853142
King James Bible

The Noble Quran

>>25854120
That

>>25856370
lol

>>25857647
I wonder what phil majors think about this.

>>25853142
Brothers Karamazov. Any Dostoevsky is good though. Jack Vance if you want great fantasy

1984

>>25857857
Consistency is key. Read small chunks consistently and it will start to click

>>25853142
>Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs
>American Psycho
>The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories

These three books got me back into reading for fun when I was in college.

Hell's Angels is great if you're interested in the subject matter or drugs (there is a section that takes place at a Ken Kesey acid test party)

American Psycho is extremely funny. This was the first time I ever laughed out loud while reading

The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories. /lit/ shits on Bukowski a lot, but they can be pseudos on occasion. I imagine you like fucked up stuff (you are on 4chan) so you should enjoy this. Some beautiful short stories, some really funny short stories, and some really fucked up ones. The way Bukowski writes makes you want to read line after line after line. And since they are short stories, it makes the book easier to read in pieces.

Bhagavad-gita
The Upanishads
Tao Te Ching
I Ching

>>25853142
See you at the top

>>25853142
Bc you are here: Bukowski. Fuck /lit/, they know nothing.

This was so good i read it in one go. Took 6 hours

I'm reading The idiot by dostoevsky rn which is pr good. If you like fiction I recommend the name of the wind and the wise man's fear.

>>25855741
It's only for a week, bro. Lots of people pay for expensive "retreats" to do similar things for the same period of time.

>>25853142
Go to the fucking college library you retard that's like half the reason to even go to fucking college anymore.

I should have probably made it more clear, but yeah I'm looking for /biz/ content or some self-improvement ones perhaps. But it seems like some of these fit this category. I would've posted on /lit/ otherwise lol. Thanks for the input you filthy faggots.

Are the "self-improvement" ones a scam? Does it simply come down to being able to control your emotions/impulses?

Nineteen eighty-four - George Orwell
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021.txt

>>25856479
>hasn't read walker percey's lost in the cosmos: the last self-help book

>>25853142
Books are mostly a waste of time, a way to virtue signal that you re smarter than your fellow man.

>>25858263
Haven't read Ham on Rye yet but I just recently read Post Office by Bukowski and loved it.

It's hard to explain what was captivating about the book. The language is so plain but distills depression/detachment to its pure form without ever being obvious in its intent. I don't know how he pulled that off.

If you've read both, how does Ham on Rye compare to Post Office?

One up on Wall Street

>>25854868
Is it better to read Don Quixote in Spanish or English translation?

>>25865808
If you're fluent in both read it in Spanish

>>25865652
Honest take right here, this guy gets it. Books are lengthy uninterrupted opinion articles by one man.

>>25865961
Some opinions are worth listening to

>complete anxious wreck, constantly stressing about not being in a relationship, rush into everything without thinking it through, incapable of slowing down to focus on or enjoy anything because I feel detached from everything
>also exhausted all the time no matter how much sleep I get
What are some books to reverse this?

>>25865840
Any good nonfiction recs? Have you heard of how to change your mind by michael pollan?

>>25865840
any good nonfic recommendations?
>>25865984
how to change your mind - michael pollan

>>25865505
B-based. I've never heard someone even mention Walker Percy other than me.

>>25865984
Bronze Age Mindset

>>25857922
Leave it to Jews to seethe and cope

>>25857823
East of Eden is an absolute gem, enjoy it

>>25865984
>complete anxious wreck
>exhausted all the time no matter how much sleep I get
You're very likely have undiagnosed heart problems, forget about self-help books and go get an EKG reading done.

>>25857823
East of Eden is an absolute gem, enjoy it

Flashman by George MacDonald Fraser is the first in the wonderful series of Flashman books and these are my favourite books ever. You learn a lot about history in an wonderfully written and exciting way.

>>25854216
Thiel pilled

>>25859999
Checked. -Phil Majors