you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

[–]Nemesis[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

archive.org has an entire library of pdf books that will teach you any skill you wish, how to farm, garden, lock pick, circuits, knife fighting, self defense, tradecraft, surveillance, tons of history books, an extremely interesting resource for anyone interested in self-cultivation. Includes many books you can no longer obtain in print easily.

[–]Aureus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Thanks for posting this here! I've heard a lot of good things about archive.org. Any other good books you've read that you recommend?

[–]Nemesis[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

depends on what your interest is, I think most of Napoleon hill's stuff is free on there for general self improvement. Go to folkscanomy, they have everything by category, from there you can some crazy stuff, British ww2 self defense manuals, guides to make a small town completely self-sufficient, the usual anarchist cookbook type pdf for making guns and ammos with scrap and pipes, involved guides on music, math, coding, fascinating stuff for cultivating rare skills.

For this sub, though, there are a lot of classics on there free, legal(?), and literally two clicks away, less involved and sketchy than the typical free .pdf online hunt, we should find something interesting on there and do a weekly or monthly bookclub on this sub. No better way to self improve than having routinized intellectual effort. E.G. a nice scan of Nietzesche's "Will to Power" is on there, love or hate the guy he has ideas everyone should tangle with, it would be fun to find 5 to 10 other users on here and start a discussion, the book is saturated with topics that have never been more relevant. But we could start with something lighter as well, some light sci-fi that's easy to read, then discuss the message or big idea at play

[–]Aureus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

A book club could be interesting. I feel like nonfiction would be more relevant, but short fiction could work if it would help get people onboard. Personally I think articles would be best though - I have a ton saved up I think are really important and useful, and articles are a lot easier for people to read than whole books.

guides to make a small town completely self-sufficient

Do you have a direct link to this? This would be awesome

[–]Nemesis[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

this is the main thing I was thinking of, probably supplemented by this and this, with further grounding in this for management and administrative restructuring. Last one's dry but I think you'd find interesting since I think you're also interested in the nature and application of power. Haven't read all of these yet, just word of mouth, so I can't vouch for quality, but interesting nevertheless.

[–]Aureus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

These look great, I'll have to check them out! Thanks again!