I have an #askNostr for #bookstr recommendations. bit of a preamble necessary because the recommedee is idiosyncratic.
I was talking to a bitcoin-naive friend about the high-quality handmade goods and healthy food in the circular economy and bitcoiners' commitment to craftsmanship and low-time-preference products. I pointed to my @Leathermint belt and @SoapMiner 's results on my skin. i mentioned @Great Ghee , the (non-nostr) guys i get my beef and chicken from, and @oshi and @Bitcoin Beans .
She's an apparel designer and a horticulturalist/farmer with an academic background in philosophy and her whole business (and life) stance is about slow, deliberate quality.
when she heard there's a population of people who value something so highly that they are unwilling to trade it **except** for truly quality goods and healthy foods, the whole thing snapped into place for her.
her request to me, and the thing i'm asking you to help with: she asked me to give her a stack of books on this topic, and i know she'll read them. i don't want to give her the standard "how bitcoin works" or economics books. i'm trying to find books or writing that will appeal to her directly and hit on the point that a lowering of time preference and deflationary money in the bitcoin economy naturally incentivizes skilled craftspeople, artists and farmers and discerning consumers.
i'm starting with https://brandonquittem.com/bitcoin-is-the-mycelium-of-money/ because it's perfectly in her biology/philosophy wheelhouse.
so, nostr and #bookstr , what books or articles would you recommend to her? best case scenario: we orange pill her and the circular economy adds another extremely talented artisan.
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It’s not directly a bitcoin book, but it is something that helps explain perhaps why bitcoin works the way it does. The book is “scale” by Geoffrey West. I have it myself, highly recommend. Discuss network effects, power laws, etc
RIGHT!
This is exactly the kind of recommendation i'm looking for. Square and the Tower comes to mind, too. Thanks!
Perhaps the book Fiat Food, alongside all the other great recommendations, would resonate with her.
It’s really challenging, borderline impossible, to understand this stuff without some base level knowledge of economics (Austrian vs Keynesian, what is money?, etc.). You have to learn algebra before you can learn calculus.
The Fiat Standard is what she needs to read but Saif’s writing comes across as arrogant and preachy to the uninitiated.
With that said, I find “The Price of Tomorrow” by Jeff Booth to be the most accessible book that isn’t shoving bitcoin down your throat. An underwhelming “basic” answer but I don’t see another way. Everyone has to go on their own journey
Oh duh, right - thanks! :D
V good points
You’re welcome!
#bookstr dump for you 🎊😂- just an assortment of "random" texts I've encountered 😊
Alex Gladstein's Check Your Financial Privilage
Alan Farrington's Bitcoin is Venice
Erik Cason's Cryptosoverignty
Some philosophy & economic texts really stamp home bitcoin's principles
Hayek - The Use of Knowledge in Society, The Constitution of Liberty, Good Money II
Adam Smith - Theory of Moral Sentiments & Wealth of Nations
+1 The Fiat Standard would be better for her