@nixCraft Chronicles of Amber, Lord of Light, Dune, Stranger in a Strange Land, Moon is a Harsh Mistress, The Diamond Age, Jonathan Livingstone Seagull. (Hey, I was in 3rd grade when I read that one, cut me some slack.) Friday. (You'll never feel the same about drinking soda!)
@nixCraft Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Matter, by E. F. Schumacher, in which he informs us that we cannot pretend that foul is fair and fair is foul any longer. If he were around today, he'd decry (and I'd agree) that AI and 5G are inappropriate technologies because of their over-consumption of resources for dubious (in terms of augmenting the individual and collective experiences of being human) outcomes.
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Reinhard Meissner - Solo Nanga Parbat
Fred Beckey - "The Beckey" books - all of the Beckey Cascade guidebooks
Dee Smith - Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Robert Anton Wislon - Prometheus Rising
Dashiell Hammett - Everything he has written
— Siddhartha
— The Glass Bead Game
— Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
— The Dawn of Eveything
— The Baron in the Trees
— One Year on the High Plateau
— The Old Man and the Sea
@nixCraft currently reading through Progress and Poverty by Henry George. Idk about changed my life but it has valuable insight and is surprisingly relevant to modern society IMO.
Basically #Georgism advocates for an #LVT or a tax on the unimproved value of land to discourage people from holding onto valuable land (e.g. in the city center) without using it to do anything of value.
Obviously this is a complicated topic and there is no one solution. Much more I am not qualified to explain here.
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