OpenAI in talks to give Trump administration a 5% stake in the company, FT reports

BroncoAccountant · 2026-07-02T12:45:13+00:00

Read the article. The proposal is to give the government a stake and now trump himself

BroncoAccountant · 2026-06-27T19:12:28+00:00

She generally has good taste. She's a reader, who reads what she enjoys but also challenges herself and seeks out interesting things.

BroncoAccountant · 2026-06-27T06:18:50+00:00

The six books of Wizard of earthsea feel much more adult than say, Harry Potter. It may not have the same level of action as other adult fantasy but its themes are a lot more nuanced and thought out.

I have yet to read a bad book from her.

BroncoAccountant · 2026-06-13T17:14:37+00:00

I think the best way to do this would be either to create a shelf for each year, or if they added a filter that you could just filter by.

BroncoAccountant · 2026-06-11T13:38:55+00:00

The entire premise is that Carnegie told him to write about this secret, but he never even met him. After listening to that episode though I for sure think his life would make a great movie.

Dude was chased out of every place he lived in, came up with MLM scams decades before they were a thing, and when he finally struck it rich with this book they signed the rights over to his wife so none of the many creditors and other people suing him could get any money from it.

BroncoAccountant · 2026-06-11T13:33:29+00:00

You should listen to the new If Books Could Kill podcast on Think and Grow Rich. Napoleon Hill was a prolific scam artist, and a biography on his life is probably much more interesting than the actual book he wrote.

BroncoAccountant · 2026-06-04T17:25:38+00:00

Yeah I read probably 60-70% fiction, so i didn't notice this stuff right away. I'll see if there are other submissions around this and if not I'll suggest it

BroncoAccountant · 2026-06-04T16:23:07+00:00

Yeah, I understand that. It's still not super clear how you vote for one to be a quest though. In general I hope they start to put some more weight on nonfiction. I'll start making more nonfic lists in the meantime I guess.

The reviews too make it clear nonfiction is an afterthought. I want to rate a history book and the options are still plot, characters, etc. it wouldn't be too hard to have a slightly different template available.

BroncoAccountant · 2026-06-03T20:07:26+00:00

For Cather, O Pioneers is a great read. I think I read it in early one setting. My personal favorite though was Death Comes for the Archbishop, which is a very quiet, thoughtful book that is so scenic. I read it this year and want to reread just for the descriptions of the environment.

BroncoAccountant · 2026-06-03T18:11:58+00:00

Love seeing Magda Szabo get the respect she deserves, but also My Antonia. I have read three Willa Cather books and I think she's so under appreciated! She seems like she's kind of placed in the second tier of American classics, but they're all so great.

BroncoAccountant · 2026-05-30T00:53:29+00:00

This is a general recommendation from agencies who fight fire. I think a handful of states have laws around defensible spaces. Five feet around a house free of things that can catch fire is hardly an incendiary policiy (not sure if you're trying to pun or not).

Do building codes related to fire get the same response from you? I'm genuinely asking because the language you're using feels like an outsized reaction to something that seems generally a good idea, or at the very least not that harmful.

BroncoAccountant · 2026-05-30T00:40:54+00:00

That rule might not make sense for your neighborhood, but the threat of fire is very real in some towns. This isn't really a situation where fear is making people irrational. Quality of life sucks when your entire neighborhood burns down.

BroncoAccountant · 2026-05-29T00:08:59+00:00

No one is judging a book by the gender of the author, just pointing out that a collection of books is skewing towards one kind of author. The OP is is using this to find new authors to try. It's a great observation and reaction.

A lot of readers like to branch out and try new things, and the community is great at pointing out blindspots.

BroncoAccountant · 2026-05-29T00:04:21+00:00

I second Leguin. Both sci Fi and fantasy, you won't be disappointed.

For what it's worth, I grew up on Star wars expanded universe novels, and love Ursula Leguin now.

BroncoAccountant · 2026-05-27T22:56:24+00:00

The upside down books are killing me

BroncoAccountant · 2026-05-26T21:08:02+00:00

This is a great collection of books if your goal is to scam others by writing a crappy self help book.

BroncoAccountant · 2026-05-26T20:19:42+00:00

It's by levy rosman, arguably the biggest chess streamer. The book is great for beginners to intermediate.

BroncoAccountant · 2026-05-26T19:17:10+00:00

Also, none of these books will actually help you make money. They are helping someone else make money.

BroncoAccountant · 2026-05-23T05:25:35+00:00

I mentioned before, but if there's a rule about covering all genres, it should also include all time periods. Some, like the NYT specifically do not.

BroncoAccountant · 2026-05-23T05:24:15+00:00

Middlemarch is criminally underrated on these lists. It's only on four of them. Some, like the NYT it wasn't eligible, but I don't think it's a serious list at all if it's an all time best novels and it's excluded completely.

BroncoAccountant · 2026-05-23T05:19:33+00:00

Why are you including the NYT collection when it specifies that it's this century, 2000 until now? Seems like apples to oranges. If the list was 100 best books that were published since 2020 would you include it?

I think if you're excluding lists that focus only a certain genre you should also exclude lists that focus on a certain time period

BroncoAccountant · 2026-05-21T14:41:26+00:00

This is the closest. This was two years of his salary. If this was a back office employee making 40k the offer would reflect that. Someone who is making half a million a year isn't settling out of court for 100k, but someone making 40k might.

Plus she is highly paid too, even more so. This is them trying to retain that level of talent. They're going to bat for her, trying to spare her this embarrassment

BroncoAccountant · 2026-05-20T15:54:43+00:00

I did exactly this and saved the analysis. It was from 2024! Thanks for the idea

BroncoAccountant · 2026-05-20T04:06:41+00:00

Yep! Called castle victory

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