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Added to my list. Thanks SwayeDoog_de_Jour said:
I’ve been meaning to read “The Path Between Seas” for awhile now. I’ll move it up in the queue.Swaye said:
I love books about man vs. nature and building incredible shit against long odds. Great read and a good chunk of it is in the PNW. Plus I'm a complete John Stevens fanboy. To think the guy who conquered the northern passage and got a railroad through where nobody else could followed that up with building the Panama Canal. Civil engineering genius. 'Murica! Back when we built shit that the world envied. Now we sell burgers. FML.
If you are a John Stevens fan like me, and a fan of the genre of Americans doing great things, check this one out as well:
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Historical picture books of logging, rail, etc are almost good as porn for me.Swaye said:
I love books about man vs. nature and building incredible shit against long odds. Great read and a good chunk of it is in the PNW. Plus I'm a complete John Stevens fanboy. To think the guy who conquered the northern passage and got a railroad through where nobody else could followed that up with building the Panama Canal. Civil engineering genius. 'Murica! Back when we built shit that the world envied. Now we sell burgers. FML.
If you are a John Stevens fan like me, and a fan of the genre of Americans doing great things, check this one out as well: -
Take Highway 2 instead of the 90 sometime and get a feel for what it took to get that rail in there. Coming from tuff logger stock the family would do a lot of Sunday drives through the old logging haunts
Lot of good stuff down by Tenino too. The old coal mines and a couple of ghost towns. And a power plant -
Because I am a nerd, I’ve spent full days in the library reading about this shit, in those books they won’t let you checkout. Fascinating stuff about the rail line that ran from Monte Cristo to Everett, the lodge at Big Four. Maybe it is better than porn.RaceBannon said:Take Highway 2 instead of the 90 sometime and get a feel for what it took to get that rail in there. Coming from tuff logger stock the family would do a lot of Sunday drives through the old logging haunts
Lot of good stuff down by Tenino too. The old coal mines and a couple of ghost towns. And a power plant -
The Throbber has ridden the rails from Seattle all the way to Grand Forks, ND. Some pretty crazy engineering to get that shit done- especially going up and over the Rockies.RaceBannon said:Take Highway 2 instead of the 90 sometime and get a feel for what it took to get that rail in there. Coming from tuff logger stock the family would do a lot of Sunday drives through the old logging haunts
Lot of good stuff down by Tenino too. The old coal mines and a couple of ghost towns. And a power plant
Another interesting stretch of old railroad is The Route of the Hiawathas (blatant cultural appropriation, @swaye) which runs from the Idaho/Montana state line down almost to Avery, ID. The rails have been converted to a gently sloping downward bike path that runs 15 miles including a 1.5 mile long tunnel. The route is also smack dab in the middle of The Big Burn turf for you Timothy Egan fanbois.
https://www.ridethehiawatha.com/the-trail#:~:text= the Trail 1 THE "CROWN JEWEL",to the public for hikers and... More -
Damn! I thought I was the only loser that did that sorta thing. Respect!!!GrundleStiltzkin said:
Because I am a nerd, I’ve spent full days in the library reading about this shit, in those books they won’t let you checkout. Fascinating stuff about the rail line that ran from Monte Cristo to Everett, the lodge at Big Four. Maybe it is better than porn.RaceBannon said:Take Highway 2 instead of the 90 sometime and get a feel for what it took to get that rail in there. Coming from tuff logger stock the family would do a lot of Sunday drives through the old logging haunts
Lot of good stuff down by Tenino too. The old coal mines and a couple of ghost towns. And a power plant
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Fun, breezy book. I’m a sucker for these. -
About halfway through it now. Almost turned it off at first, but enjoying quite a bit now. Thanks.UW_Doog_Bot said:
but irregardless, A Random Walk Down Wall Street will make you both hate finance but also make you marvel at the efficiency of a decentralized system.UW_Doog_Bot said:
Autisticpotd.GrundleStiltzkin said:
Wall Street stuff, I guess, not from a picking stalks standpoont, but systems & such.UW_Doog_Bot said:
Everything by Thomas Sowell pretty much. Did you know he was once a marxist?GrundleStiltzkin said:@UW_Doog_Bot any suggestions for books that explain complicated business/finance shit in accessible form (e.g., Michael Lewis)?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8lzi3t-GTE
At least "I" find his books accessible anyways. YMMV
I guess, I would ask you what or where you are trying to get to since it's a yugely broad category. Personal finance, market finance, market economics, etc.
Do you want to make money personally? Do you want to understand Wall Street? Do you want to understand economics? etc.
Old interviews with great economists are also amazing as a resource in the digital age since often those interviews are aimed at laymen and not stuffy academic works.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnMd40dqBlQ&t=112s
Ps, hasn’t done much yet to change my mind that much of stock trading is little different than baseball cards. -
Individually it's not. In aggregate it is.GrundleStiltzkin said:
About halfway through it now. Almost turned it off at first, but enjoying quite a bit now. Thanks.UW_Doog_Bot said:
but irregardless, A Random Walk Down Wall Street will make you both hate finance but also make you marvel at the efficiency of a decentralized system.UW_Doog_Bot said:
Autisticpotd.GrundleStiltzkin said:
Wall Street stuff, I guess, not from a picking stalks standpoont, but systems & such.UW_Doog_Bot said:
Everything by Thomas Sowell pretty much. Did you know he was once a marxist?GrundleStiltzkin said:@UW_Doog_Bot any suggestions for books that explain complicated business/finance shit in accessible form (e.g., Michael Lewis)?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8lzi3t-GTE
At least "I" find his books accessible anyways. YMMV
I guess, I would ask you what or where you are trying to get to since it's a yugely broad category. Personal finance, market finance, market economics, etc.
Do you want to make money personally? Do you want to understand Wall Street? Do you want to understand economics? etc.
Old interviews with great economists are also amazing as a resource in the digital age since often those interviews are aimed at laymen and not stuffy academic works.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnMd40dqBlQ&t=112s
Ps, hasn’t done much yet to change my mind that much of stock trading is little different than baseball cards.
That's why I don't pick stocks. -
In my simple way of thinking, owning a stock that doesn’t pay a dividend is an abstract.UW_Doog_Bot said:
Individually it's not. In aggregate it is.GrundleStiltzkin said:
About halfway through it now. Almost turned it off at first, but enjoying quite a bit now. Thanks.UW_Doog_Bot said:
but irregardless, A Random Walk Down Wall Street will make you both hate finance but also make you marvel at the efficiency of a decentralized system.UW_Doog_Bot said:
Autisticpotd.GrundleStiltzkin said:
Wall Street stuff, I guess, not from a picking stalks standpoont, but systems & such.UW_Doog_Bot said:
Everything by Thomas Sowell pretty much. Did you know he was once a marxist?GrundleStiltzkin said:@UW_Doog_Bot any suggestions for books that explain complicated business/finance shit in accessible form (e.g., Michael Lewis)?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8lzi3t-GTE
At least "I" find his books accessible anyways. YMMV
I guess, I would ask you what or where you are trying to get to since it's a yugely broad category. Personal finance, market finance, market economics, etc.
Do you want to make money personally? Do you want to understand Wall Street? Do you want to understand economics? etc.
Old interviews with great economists are also amazing as a resource in the digital age since often those interviews are aimed at laymen and not stuffy academic works.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnMd40dqBlQ&t=112s
Ps, hasn’t done much yet to change my mind that much of stock trading is little different than baseball cards.
That's why I don't pick stocks.
