Laissez Faire, Laissez Passer
Let people act, let goods pass. No planner knows what the market knows, and freedom, not control, should be the default.
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philosophy 
43 posts
Philosophical ideas and their application to software and life.
Meditations
The private notebook Marcus Aurelius wrote for himself while running an empire. Stoicism with the theory stripped out.
The Eternal Return
Nietzsche used eternal return as a test. Life uses it as a mirror. Patterns rhyme not to predict the future, but to reveal who you become under pressure.
The Art of Being Happy
Schopenhauer's 50 rules for practical happiness, built on avoiding suffering rather than chasing pleasure.
Notes from Underground
A bitter, hyper-conscious man retreats from society to wrestle with free will, spite, and the stubborn irrationality of human nature.
Broken Money
Lyn Alden traces monetary history through a technological lens, from commodity money to fiat to Bitcoin, and why the system fails.
Bitcoin Fundamentals
21 million cap, no central authority, permissionless and censorship-resistant. Bitcoin is digital money you truly own. No bank required.
What Success Means to Me
Success is waking up knowing that what you do makes the people around you, and yourself, happier. Consistency over perfection.
Principles of Economics
Saifedean Ammous on why prices rise and money loses value, told through the lens of Austrian economics. What stood out to me.
The Road to Serfdom
A quick and plain-English summary of Hayek's classic take on freedom, planning, and why good intentions can still go very wrong.
Digital Minimalism
Cal Newport's philosophy is not about rejecting technology but using it with intention, to reclaim focus and reduce anxiety.
Criptoria
From Greece to Bitcoin: the milestones connecting mathematics, cryptography, computing and the struggle for individual sovereignty.
Understanding Taxes
Your paycheck, your coffee, the house you just bought: taxes are everywhere. Where your money actually goes after payday.
The Cypherpunks
In the early '90s the Cypherpunks set out to defend digital privacy. Their encryption and their ideals shaped the world we live in.
Man's Search for Meaning
Frankl shares his experience of the Holocaust and a philosophy about finding purpose even in the darkest of times.
Prisoner's Dilemma
The Prisoner's Dilemma, where cooperation and betrayal collide, and what it reveals about self-interest against collective benefit.
The Genesis Book
Bitcoin did not appear out of nowhere. The people and projects that spent decades trying to build money free of government control.
Invincible
Marcos Vazquez combines stoic philosophy with modern psychology to train your mind for clarity, determination, and discipline in the face of adversity.
The Alchemist
Santiago, a shepherd boy, journeys towards the pyramids chasing a dream and learns what actually matters in life.
The Book Of Satoshi
Satoshi Nakamoto's emails and forum posts from 2008 to 2010: Bitcoin's creation, its design decisions and the vision behind it.
Never Ending Loop
It is hard to get to bed with a blank mind when you are already on the next reading, talk or post. On the never ending loop.
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury's dystopia about a fireman whose job is burning books, until a chance encounter makes him question all of it.
Learned Helplessness
Learned helplessness sets in when someone accepts their powerlessness and stops trying to escape. What it is, and how it breaks.
Have You Always Been Like This?
Always reading, writing and speaking? The short answer is no. How I ended up here, and what changed along the way.
21 Lessons
Bitcoin as more than just money: a deep dive into economics, philosophy, and culture. Like Alice in Wonderland, exploring Bitcoin is full of surprises.
Adapt or die
Told through the story of People First IT, this book lays out The Algorithm of Success for changing every part of an organization.
The infinite game
From the bestselling author of Start With Why and Leaders Eat Last, a bold framework for leadership in today's ever-changing world.
Momo
Momo is a modern fairytale that shows the fight between good and evil in our contemporary society, focusing on the lack of time to care for other people.
The Essential Drucker
Twenty-six selections from Drucker on management in the organization, the individual and society. The principles that still hold.
The Starfish and the Spider
Cut off a spider's head and it dies. Cut off a starfish's leg and it grows back. How decentralized organizations change business.
Bitcoin: Blockchain y su investigación
How is a Bitcoin address created? How do private and public keys become a wallet? A technical walk through the fundamentals.
The Psychology of Money
There is no reason to risk what you have and need for what you don't have and don't need. Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness.
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
A fable in novella form about a seagull who is trying to learn about life and flight, and a homily about self-perfection.
Start with Why
Why are some organizations more innovative and profitable? Why do so few repeat their success? Sinek starts from the why.
The Bitcoin Standard
The historical context behind Bitcoin, the economic properties that let it grow fast, and its political and social implications.
The Catcher in the Rye
The novel is a deeper reflection of Salinger's own youth, his complicated relationship with growing up and the generational trauma affected by World War II.
Lord of the Flies
A group of British boys stranded on an uninhabited island try to govern themselves. It ends in disaster.
Embrace the Change
The tale is a beautiful metaphor of the different attitudes that people adopt as part of their identity in life when they have to confront any change.
Animal Farm
Orwell's political allegory about a farmyard rebellion that descends into tyranny, exposing how power corrupts even the most idealistic revolutions.
The Process Itself Is the Goal
No goal should be an achievement on its own, but the process itself that helps us to go in the direction of these goals.
The metamorphosis
Kafka's novella on alienation and identity. Gregor Samsa wakes as an insect and faces his family's revulsion.
1984
One of Britain's most popular novels, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is set in a society terrorised by a totalitarian ideology propagated by The Party.
The Art of War
Sun Tzu's ancient treatise on strategy, and how its lessons on conflict and positioning still read today.