Problems With Recommending Books

[Sweep_the_Leg]

@Greenman72

Fiction blows.

Last fiction book I read was Lord of the Rings. I hated it. And it’s supposed to be best of the best of the best.

Sorry Sweep. It’s true.

(Edit - now have Milli Vanilli stuck in my head. “Girl you know it’s true…ooh ooh ooh…I love you”

Fantasy isn’t for everyone. I’d echo what JBT said and go with ASOIAF.

You could always pickup a copy of American Psycho. I heard it’s pretty good.

[Robotech]

Greenman, I got one for you. I recommend this series: The adventures of Hap Collins and Leonard Pine, two good ol’ boys from east Texas who have a way of getting into some bad fixes, as written by Joe R. Lansdale.

http://hapandleonard.net/

Savage Season is the first book. I actually listen to them on Audible. The narrator really brings it to life.

[Sweep_the_Leg]

Or, Greenie could become the third person on this forum to have read the tales of Logen Ninefingers in The First Law Trilogy.

Probably my third favorite series of books of all time.

[Viceroy]

@Marathon\_runner

@Viceroy

I import wine.

Interesting. How do you resell?

I had an idea of flipping art – but I’m still exploring whether this would actually be feasible.

I previously had a side-hustle of betting NBA player props (I built a model to forecast player performance for each game). I made good money ($25k) on this two seasons ago… but this last season I lost $10k – and due to some changed marketplace dynamics I felt like I no longer had an edge so I pulled the plug.

The old fashioned way. I.e. door to door.

Well wine stores and restaurants.

Do you think you could consistently generate earnings with that NBA gig ?

[Marathon_runner]

@Viceroy

Do you think you could consistently generate earnings with that NBA gig ?

Not any more. Two years ago I thought I was sitting on a potential gold mine side hustle… but after getting booted from one website (5Dimes) and limited at another website (Sportsbetting.ag), I just don’t think it’s very viable as a continuing gig. There used to be some low hanging fruit dangling around out there – but now I think that the oddsmakers and lines managers have gotten a lot more sharp and savvy.

[anon47629474]

@Neryblop

so i just read the summary from the everything store. its basically about amazon and jeff bezos. some gems

your margin is my opportunity: bezos has a team dedicated to finding high margin businesses and then setting up shop to compete and drive their margins down and prep them for acquisition. for example: there was an online store called zappos that sold bags, apparel, and other useless crap. it was a high margin business. bezos created endless which basically competed with zappos but offered cheaper prices, free shipping, and overnight shipping to basically drive zappos down. zappos did begin to slow down, and once they did bezos acquired them for $900m, which is crazy cuz at the time their revenue was $1.1b. he did the same shit with quidzi, a diaper co. and if you read the news, he is doing it to other product categories.

we are a tech focused company that just happens to sell retail. : this guy really doesnt care about retail. he is using tech profits aws to essentially subsidize his retail conquests to kill of competitors. it sounds like this is a monopoly in the making. in any case, in recent news(this isnt from the book->) , wmt has decided to fuck with amazon saying if u do business with amazon’s tech side, you aint doing business with us. so wmt is hitting hard where it matters.

we focus on customers first: amazon is essentially golden cuz he focuses on the customer experience via reviews, cheaper prices, free shipping, and excellent return policies. by doing this he has shitty margins, but he is also destroying competition, gaining market share, then destroying his supplier via further price concessions. the main point he doesnt like marketing, he wants low prices to do the marketing. he even knowingly sold harry potter books at a lost to attract peepz. IMO, if this guy ever raises prices on customers, the co needs to be broken up and liable for monopoly charges.

some fun facts:

he worked at a DE Shaw at 29 (das a quant shop), and he never really had a father (seperated at 3). he is relentless, ruthless, uncompassionate, and he makes sure this trickles down the culture. he has a need to prove himself by being successful.

bezos is the antichrist.

[Greenman72]

@Sweep_the_Leg

Or, Greenie could become the third person on this forum to have read the tales of Logen Ninefingers in The First Law Trilogy.

Probably my third favorite series of books of all time.

What are the first two? (LOTR and ASOIAF, I’m guessing.)

[Griingo]

@rawraw

@gringo\_bob

^ +1

Although I do have respect for you guys that can get through books related to our industry.

I don’t quite understand your sentiment. Unless I hated my job, I’d always want to learn as much about it as possible. Do you not like finance?

As a side note, I bought the Bicameral mind book after watching Westworld. I have zero idea how it will impact thinking about finance (was surprised to see it listed). Maybe you could try reading that one?

i don’t hate my job, I also don’t love it but I do like finance I just spend all day reading about it and talking about it so when I read outside of work I want it to be something totally different.