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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 (推し) 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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Jay · 2w
Kinda hard to pin down any set of books. For her, it sounds like the personal journey of exploration will be more valuable than any specific resource. The Creature from Jekyll Island Check Your Financial Privilege Confessions of an Economic Hitman The Fiat Standard Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
Bitcoin Beans · 2w
I don’t have much to offer on the book side but we’d love to get her a block of cacao to celebrate her conversion!
Bill Cypher · 2w
I know it is a "basic" answer but The Bitcoin Standard is great coverage of how the quality of money alters the incentives of an economy.
YODL · 2w
21 lessons, always. It's 2 hours free audio and captures a lil of the magic imo
Oshi (推し) · 2w
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
JD · 2w
Excellent. I've literally had this overwhelming feeling lately where I'm wonering about the vibe, energy, waveforms that are created when a product is made and of the products somehow contain those. It's philosophical but also scientific. Is a product that is made consciously and with love and hap...
ARVIN · 2w
Perhaps the book Fiat Food, alongside all the other great recommendations, would resonate with her.
Tyler Kosh · 2w
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 ac...
liminal 🦠 · 2w
#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 K...