Chris Schultz

Software Engineer. I like history and pretend to understand French. FCLC '22 | GSAS '23

[Chris Schultz @chrisschultz407]

Book Recommendations

In no particular order, here is an ever-expanding list of some interesting and important books that are (mainly) non-fiction, with an emphasis on history, economics, and philosophy.

[Chris K. @chriskh]

You could move to New York City.

Walk out your door at 2am for a bacon egg and cheese and not think twice about it. Get on a subway that takes you from a mosque to a synagogue to a cathedral to a noodle shop that's been slinging the same bowl since 1987, all in twelve blocks. Watch strangers from four different continents argue about a parking spot in a language that is somehow entirely made of hand gestures.

Sit in a park designed 170 years ago by geniuses who wanted you, specifically, to have somewhere green to sit. Catch a Tuesday night set from a musician who's about to be enormous, in a room that fits eighty people. Walk past a building where somebody invented something, or wrote something, or changed something, roughly every four minutes, whether you notice or not.

Realize your commute is also a people-watching seminar, a smell-based cultural exchange program, and free comedy.

Order the good pizza at 1am standing up, off a paper plate, next to a guy in a tux and a guy who clearly just got off a double shift, both getting the same slice with the same reverence.

Pay too much for too little space and get, in exchange, eleven million other people's worth of energy pointed directly at your life every single day.

Move to Iowa. Get the four bedrooms, the garage, the yard. Never again have a 3am conversation with a stranger that changes how you think about something. Never walk into a museum on a random Wednesday because it's just there. Never get that specific electric feeling of being one tiny gear in the greatest machine humans have ever built.

But hey. At least parking's easy.

[Chris Schultz @chrisschultz407]

@StopAntisemites Stop spreading misinformation it was a lone gunman according to the NYPD, per NBC, CNN, and others. And he was neither people here nor screaming anything about Palestine, that we know of. Get a grip on reality.

[Schlatt @jschlatt]

@andrewcuomo Good fucking riddance buddy. I'd give my grandmother a hug but you already killed her

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Congratulations to Zohran Mamdani and his thousands of grassroots supporters for their extraordinary campaign. You took on the political, economic and media Establishment- and you beat them. Now it’s on to victory in the general election.

[Chris Schultz @chrisschultz407]

@yenockohj

[Alan Fisher @alanthefisher]

The full Amtrak corridor ID and funding report has been released. I'll be working all of tomorrow to get a video together about it

[YIMBYLAND @YIMBYLAND]

All aboard the Amtrak Hype Train

[Alan Fisher @alanthefisher]

Update on Announced Amtrak Corridor ID Funding:

- Phoenix - Mesa - Tuscon
- A 2nd Daily Pennsylvanian
- Nashville - Atlanta via Chattanooga
- Memphis - Nashville
- Charlotte - Greenville - Atlanta
- Fort Collins - Denver - Pueblo
- Chicago - Milwaukee - Green Bay

cont...

[UrinatingTree @UrinatingTree]

AS I SAID, THE BULLSHIT OF THE EAGLES IS REAL!

[Chris Schultz @chrisschultz407]

@swabibbity yes

https://t.co/QN8pQi4rUf

[Chris Schultz @chrisschultz407]

Book Recommendations

In no particular order, here is an ever-expanding list of some interesting and important books that are (mainly) non-fiction, with an emphasis on history, economics, and philosophy.

[Chris Schultz @chrisschultz407]

Stolen by Grace Blakeley

The Great Recession showed the grave implications of modern-day financial systems and the "too big to fail" mentality. Using a thorough analysis, Blakeley structures an argument to prevent another 2008 in the future, and to better society in the process.

[Chris Schultz @chrisschultz407]

How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr

The history of the U.S. is not as clear-cut or benevolent as middle school would have taught. In this book, Immerwahr details the darker side of America history and the implications of the American Empire, from past to present.

[Chris Schultz @chrisschultz407]

@LeoBernabei Soon

[Chris Schultz @chrisschultz407]

@agames31 too controversial even for this list