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#1 In 2007, Kleiner Perkins was approached by engineers who had named their startup after Nikola Tesla, the legendary inventor. They had partnered with a wildly successful PayPal entrepreneur who was now chairman of the board. They wanted to pitch their idea.
#2 The world must replace all gasoline- and diesel-powered vehicles with a fleet of zero-emissions cars, trucks, and buses...
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Get the Summary of Cal Newport's A World Without Email in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: We have become so used to an inbox-driven workday that it's hard to imagine alternatives. But they do exist. Drawing on years of investigative reporting, author and computer science professor Cal Newport makes the case that our current approach to work is broken, then lays out a series of principles...
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Get the Summary of Tom Kelley & David Kelley's ‘Creative Confidence’ in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: Too often, companies and individuals assume that creativity and innovation are the domain of the "creative types." But, two of the leading experts in innovation, design, and creativity on the planet show us that each and every one of us is creative. In an incredibly entertaining...
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Book Preview: #1 iSight Partners, a private intelligence firm, had a team that specialized in software vulnerability research. In 2014, they discovered a secret security flaw in Microsoft Office that allowed hackers to break out of the confines of the software application and begin to execute their own code on a target computer.
#2 iSight's Ukrainian staff found the email, and Hultquist,...
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Get the Summary of Milton Friedman and Rose Friedman's Free to Choose in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Milton Friedman and his wife, Rose, teamed up to write this most convincing and readable guide, which illustrates the crucial link between Adam Smith's capitalism and the free society. They show how freedom has been eroded and prosperity undermined through the rapid growth of governmental...
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#1 When Adam Brown woke up on March 17, 2010, he didn't know he would die that night in the Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan, but he was ready. He had written in his journal to both Nathan and Savannah, his ten-year-old son, a letter they weren't meant to see unless the worst happened.
#2 In late 2009, intelligence agencies had been tracking a Taliban leader named...
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Get the Summary of Joel Kotkin's The Coming of Neo-Feudalism in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by greater concentration of wealth and property, reduced upward mobility, demographic stagnation, and increased dogmatism. If the last seventy years saw...
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#1 You may be addicted to anything that provides you temporary pleasure to cover up a void in yourself that you are too afraid or proud to face. The void can never be filled, only acknowledged and accepted. The shift comes when you stop throwing pleasure at the problem and start nourishing yourself with nonjudgmental and honest attention.
#2 Self-love is a commitment...
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Book Preview: #1 Everyone has a role model, someone who pointed the way at a critical moment in their lives. These children were my role models. They obviously knew something I didn't and I was determined to figure it out.
#2 The debate over whether intelligence is fixed or not has been going on for centuries. Today, most experts agree that it's not fixed, and that people can change...
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Get the Summary of Daniel H. Pink's When in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Drawing on a rich trove of research from psychology, biology, and economics, Pink reveals how best to live, work, and succeed. How can we use the hidden patterns of the day to build the ideal schedule? Why do certain breaks dramatically improve student test scores? How can we turn a stumbling beginning into a...
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Get the Summary of Jane McGonigal's Imaginable in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic, increasingly frequent climate disasters, a new war-events we might have called "unimaginable" or "unthinkable" in the past are now reality. Today it feels more challenging than ever to feel unafraid, hopeful, and equipped to face the future with optimism. How do we map out our lives...
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Get the Summary of Ron Lieber's The Price You Pay for College in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Sending a teenager to a flagship state university for four years of on-campus living costs more than $100,000 in many parts of the United States. Meanwhile, many families of freshmen attending selective private colleges will spend triple - over $300,000. With the same passion, smarts, and...
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Get the Summary of Mike Michalowicz's ‘The Pumpkin Plan’ in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: This is the exact situation Mike Michalowicz found himself in when he was trying to grow his first company. Although it was making steady money, there was never very much left over and he was chasing customers left and right, putting in twenty-eight-hour days, eight days a week. The punishing...
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#1 The buck stops with the CEO of any organization, and they are responsible for the work done by that organization. However, this does not mean that the CEO should be doing work that no one else is doing.
#2 The three focuses of a CEO are Culture, People, and Numbers. Focusing on them exclusively will clarify and inform your work at a level you've never reached before....
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Get the Summary of Prem Rawat's Hear Yourself in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The cacophony of modern life can be deafening, leaving us feeling frazzled and uneasy. In this warm, wise book, Prem Rawat teaches us how to turn down the noise to "hear ourselves"-to listen to the subtle song of peace that sings inside each of us. Once we learn to truly "hear ourselves" and the voice of...
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Get the Summary of Hayden Crabtree's Skip the Flip in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: This useful and informative guide will break down all the barriers you have to get started investing in real estate. Skip The Flip teaches you the fundamentals you have to know to be a successful investor.
The system is broken. What was once great advice of going to school, getting good grades, saving...
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#1 The 80/20 Rule is simple: plan and monitor your training according to it, and you will run better than you ever have. However, it can be difficult to run easy, which is why you must embrace the mostly-slow approach.
#2 The average person naturally transitions from walking to running at a pace of roughly thirteen minutes per mile. If you start off at a slow walk and gradually increase...
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Book Preview: #1 When you're pregnant, you think that life will be different once you have a child. But five months into the pregnancy, I realized that the feeling of being weighed down by adulthood wasn't going to get any better any time soon.
#2 When we moved to Paris, we had no idea where we would end up, but we were sure that we would be living outside of the United States. We...
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Get the Summary of Andrew Henderson's ‘Nomad Capitalist’ in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: What it will give you is a vision of what's possible, including second passport opportunities, offshore banking countries to use (and avoid), specific jurisdictions to consider for business and investment, and the basic framework you will need to legally lower your taxes and build the life...
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Get the Summary of Arnold Schwarzenegger's Be Useful in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The world's greatest bodybuilder. The world's highest-paid movie star. The leader of the world's sixth-largest economy. That these are the same person sounds like the setup to a joke, but this is no joke. This is Arnold Schwarzenegger. And this did not happen by accident.
Arnold's stratospheric success...