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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 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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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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#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 Sean Ellis & Morgan Brown's ‘Hacking Growth’ in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: So how did these companies grow from these humble beginnings into the powerhouses they are today? Contrary to popular belief, they didn't explode to massive worldwide popularity simply by building a great product then crossing their fingers and hoping it would catch on. There was a...
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#1 The fat from a whitetail deer is waxier than beef fat and has a higher melting point. It can be pretty off-putting, and it doesn't always have a good flavor. I once threw away a pile of trimmed fat, but magpies and gray jays loved it so much that they learned to associate humans with food.
#2 The most important thing about the fat incident was a shift in the relationship...
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#1 Humans are the most intelligent beings on the planet, but we are also the most arrogant. Our intelligence falls short of reminding us of the truth that we may not know everything or be able to solve every problem.
#2 The definition of intelligence is subjective. It can be used to learn new things, deal with new situations, and apply knowledge to manipulate your environment....
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#1 Your life is made up of many lifetimes, lived consecutively. You experience cruelty and kindness from both sides. The modern era is rare, because it is the only time in your life when you experience such dramatic population growth.
#2 The idea of longtermism is that positively influencing the longterm future is a key moral priority of our time. It is about taking...
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Get the Summary of Mary L. Trump's The Reckoning in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Mary L. Trump is uniquely positioned to answer these difficult questions. She holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology specializing in trauma, has herself been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, and happens to be Donald J. Trump's only niece. In The Reckoning, she applies her unique expertise to...
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Get the Summary of Victor Davis Hanson's The Dying Citizen in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Human history is full of the stories of peasants, subjects, and tribes. Yet the concept of the "citizen" is historically rare-and was among America's most valued ideals for over two centuries. But without shock treatment, warns historian Victor Davis Hanson, American citizenship as we have known...
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Book Preview: #1 The last day, Elizabeth Packard woke up in a handsome maple bed, body covered by a snow-white counterpane. She was surrounded by her six children, who were the sun, moon, and stars of her life.
#2 Theophilus had always tried to control Elizabeth, and she had always resisted him. But he had never before gone through her things at night, and she was shocked by his behavior.
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Get the Summary of Barbara Demick's Nothing to Envy 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Barbara Demick's Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over 15 years - a chaotic period that saw the death of Kim Il-sung and the unchallenged rise to power of his son, Kim Jong-il, and the devastation of a far-ranging famine that killed one-fifth of the population.
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#1 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which is the largest Mormon church, is located in Salt Lake City. The choir that performs at the temple is representative of the Mormons as a people: chaste, optimistic, and outgoing. But Mormons and Mormon Fundamentalists believe in the same holy texts and the same sacred history.
#2 The LDS Church is extremely defensive...
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#1 George Halas, the founder of the NFL, was a former football player who got fired from his job as a safety expert for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad because he was unable to stop playing football. He met with the general manager of the A. E. Staley Manufacturing Company and proposed starting a professional football league.
#2 George Halas, the founder...
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#1 It's not the sight of a grizzly that causes fear, but the suspicion of one or two or ten. Behind every tree, beyond every turn, and inevitable. It's just a matter of time until the grizzly jumps out of the shadows and gobbles you up.
#2 Anxiety is a meteor shower of what-ifs. What if I don't close the sale. What if we don't get the bonus. What if we can't afford braces...
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Get the Summary of Cathy O'Neil's “Weapons of Math Destruction” in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly the decisions that affect our lives-where we go to school, whether we get a car loan, how much we pay for health insurance-are being made not by humans but by mathematical models. In theory this should lead to greater fairness: Everyone...
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Get the Summary of Carlo Rovelli's “The Order of Time” in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Why do we remember the past and not the future? What does it mean for time to "flow"? Do we exist in time or does time exist in us? In lyric, accessible prose, Carlo Rovelli invites us to consider questions about the nature of time that continue to puzzle physicists and philosophers alike.
For...
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Get the Summary of Herb Cohen's You Can Negotiate Anything in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Master negotiator Herb Cohen has been successfully negotiating everything from insurance claims to hostage releases to his own son's hair length and hundreds of other matters for over five decades. Ever since coining the term "win-win" in 1963, he has been teaching people the world over how to...
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Get the Summary of Darius Foroux's Do It Today in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Are you also tired of putting off your dreams until "tomorrow?" Guess what! Tomorrow never comes. Am I right?
I've procrastinated and put off my desire to write a book for a decade. I always came up with excuses like, "it's not the right time." Or, "I need to do more research."
But in 2015 I got tired...
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Get the Summary of Frank Figliuzzi's The FBI Way in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: All good codes of conduct have one common trait: they reflect the core values of an organization. Individuals, companies, schools, teams, or any group seeking to codify their rules to live by must first establish core values. Figliuzzi has condensed the Bureau's process of preserving and protecting its...