{"id":104157,"date":"2025-02-22T22:55:34","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T22:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/business\/investing\/heres-whats-in-my-santa-sack-this-year-the-barefoot-investor\/"},"modified":"2025-02-22T22:55:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T22:55:34","slug":"heres-whats-in-my-santa-sack-this-year-the-barefoot-investor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=104157","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s what\u2019s in my Santa sack this year \u2014 The Barefoot Investor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Many years ago, I solved the Christmas gift-giving game: I buy people books.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>A book says, \u201cI think you\u2019re the sort of person who has an attention span longer than 30 seconds and enjoys learning about something. In other words, I think you\u2019re smart.\u201d<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>Here are the books I\u2019ll be putting in my Santa sack this year:<br \/>\u00a0<strong><br \/>Crypto Confidential: Winning and Losing Millions in the New Frontier of Finance<br \/><\/strong>By Nathaniel Eliason<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>This was hands down my favourite book of the year. Nat Eliason was in a jam: he was unemployed, and his wife was pregnant. He had just six months to turn things around, so he decided to roll the dice and attempt to get as rich as quickly as he could in crypto.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>And \u2026 it worked! \u00a0At one point his crypto holdings were valued at over $US10 million.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>However, the trouble was always just around the corner, where Nat came up against scammers and sleazebags of the highest order. This isn\u2019t just a cautionary tale \u2013 it\u2019s totally \u2018bonkerballs\u2019, as my eight-year-old would say.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Given Bitcoin is booming on the back of the incoming \u2018Crypto-Prez\u2019, I\u2019d strongly advise reading this book <em>before<\/em> you dabble. You\u2019ll learn a lot about coins, monkey pics and blockchain. You\u2019ll also laugh out loud a lot. \u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>It\u2019s the perfect beach read \u2026 or a great gift for your idiot brother-in-law.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/><strong>The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness<br \/><\/strong>By Jonathan Haidt<strong><br \/>\u00a0<br \/><\/strong>This is the book that helped kick off a revolution.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Not only are today\u2019s kids more anxious, depressed and suicidal than in previous generations, they\u2019re also dumber (Aussie students are among the world\u2019s biggest users of digital devices at school, yet their academic results have fallen a full academic year behind those who went to school in the 2000s).<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Haidt lays the blame squarely at the feet of the always-on dopamine syringes in everyone\u2019s pockets, and calls for an end to the great experiment of \u2018phone-based childhood\u2019. <em>The Anxious Generation\u00a0<\/em>will give you an understanding of what drove our government to create the world-first social media ban for teens.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>A perfect gift for every parent.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/><strong>Storyworth: give them the gift of telling their story<br \/>\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>This isn\u2019t a book \u2026 it\u2019s a sneaky way to get your parents to write their own book.<br \/>Here\u2019s the deal: once a week, Storyworth zaps them an email with a question like:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s the funniest thing you\u2019ve ever done?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat was your most embarrassing fashion choice?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere were you when Neil Armstrong made his giant leap?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They simply reply to each email and, by year\u2019s end, voila \u2013 a printed book of their life stories to keep forever (or so the sales pitch goes).<\/p>\n<p>I bought this for Christmas for my mum a few years ago. She loved it. In fact her Storyworth ended up rivalling <em>The Lord of the Rings<\/em> in length.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Let\u2019s face it \u2013 Storyworth is just a clever way to help the older people in your life crank out their memoirs, one email nudge at a time. Genius, really.<br \/>\u00a0<strong><br \/><\/strong><em>Tread Your Own Path!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many years ago, I solved the Christmas gift-giving game: I buy people books.\u00a0A book says, \u201cI think you\u2019re the sort of person who has an attention span longer than 30 seconds and enjoys learning about something. 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