Mindgap Intro

[mindtheplatonicgap]

Salutations... I'll just introduce myself with a handful of books I've read over the last few years that have contributed ingredients to my worldview stew (the at times nebulous, at times lucid brew in my head I like to soak in from time to time) ok all the time...:

1984 (George Orwell)
Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
The Intelligent Investor (Benjamin Graham)
The Emotionally Intelligent Investor (Ravee Mehta)
The Big Short (Michael Lewis)
The Mind and The Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force (Jeffery M Schwartz, M.D. and Sharon Begley)
The Elegant Universe (Brian Greene)
The Power of Now (Eckhart Tolle)
Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
The Road to Serfdom (Hayek)
Human Action (Ludwig Von Mises)
For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto (Murray Rothbard)
This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly (Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff)
The Black Swan (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
The Tipping Point (Malcolm Gladwell)
Blink (Malcolm Gladwell)
Outliers (Malcolm Gladwell)
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller Sr. (Ron Chernow)
Steve Jobs (Walter Isaacson)
My Life and Work (Henry Ford)
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life (Alice Schroeder)
Inside Apple: How America's Most Admired-and Secretive-Company Really Works (Adam Lashinsky)
Rich Dad Poor Dad (Kiyosaki)
How to Think and Grow Rich (Napolean Hill)
The Lean Startup (Eric Ries)
The 48 Laws of Power (Robert Greene)

 

[Ex-User (5841)]

Salutations... I'll just introduce myself with a handful of books I've read over the last few years that have contributed ingredients to my worldview stew (the at times nebulous, at times lucid brew in my head I like to soak in from time to time) ok all the time...:

What else are you?

I haven't read a single one of those, making us opposing weirdos if we're using books read as a standard

Nebulous...

 

[Vrecknidj]

Hello.

 

[mindtheplatonicgap]

thehabitatdoctor-

Solidly INT. Mostly INTP on the tests I've taken, leaning toward INTJ. Perhaps that's why I'm drawn to business, particularly the creation of information infrastructure and process in the start-up environment. Looking for and finding the underlying common denominators in chaos, both in life and theory. Bliss is to see the two meet. And Nirvana is to get something out of it.

Also 5'9" male caucasion humanoid.

Hello Vrecknidj

 

[The Introvert]

Welcome. Seems like we have yet another economist (I'm not one, [although attempting to get into it] if you're wondering)

Doc, I think you might enjoy 1984... I found it interesting/ worthwhile

 

[Ex-User (5841)]

Solidly INT. Mostly INTP on the tests I've taken, leaning toward INTJ.

For what it's worth, of the 6 people I know who've willingly read Rothbard (1 here, the rest IRL), 4 are INTJ, 1 INFJ, and 1 ENTP (<-who's slowly abandoning it).

Looking for and finding the underlying common denominators in chaos, both in life and theory. Bliss is to see the two meet. And Nirvana is to get something out of it.

*shivers*

Also 5'9" male caucasion humanoid.

6'3" male sasquatch impersonator.

Doc, I think you might enjoy 1984... I found it interesting/ worthwhile

I'll add it to the list...

 

[MichiganJFrog]

Hiyas

 

[Da Blob]

Welcome!

With that mix of books, it appears you have ideas to share...

 

[mindtheplatonicgap]

Hello Michigan and Da Blob.

Welcome!

With that mix of books, it appears you have ideas to share...

I'm happy to find a place with other thinkers, readers and question askers. And a brief browsing of the forum leads me to the conclusion that some others have read a few of these books, then some. In my mind, this stuff makes the best conversation fodder. It's the kind of stuff I get exciting talking about, everyone around me notices my enthusiasm, they appreciate that much, but few are those that join in on the give and take. Nice to find a place that "gets it." I look forward to exploring opposing, parallel, tangential, forward and backward views.

I took the my personality test, here it is (I'm still in denial on the "P." probably because I like to think of myself as a "doer.") This may be wishful thinking as per the mbti. Although I'm convinced the the J/P axis is the most susceptible to mood at the time of taking the test. This may be just me projecting. I know I'm intuitive, thinker, and introverted. I have no problem with these things.