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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 Matt Ridley's How Innovation Works in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we experience both dramatic improvements in our living standards and unsettling changes in our society. Forget short-term symptoms like Donald Trump and Brexit, it is innovation that will shape the twenty-first century. Yet innovation remains...
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Get the Summary of Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie's The Book of Why in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: "Correlation does not imply causation". This mantra has been invoked by scientists for decades and has led to a virtual prohibition on causal talk. But today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, sparked by Judea Pearl and his colleagues, has cut through a century of confusion...
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Get the Summary of David de Jong's Nazi Billionaires in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In 1946, Günther Quandt-patriarch of Germany's most iconic industrial empire, a dynasty that today controls BMW-was arrested for suspected Nazi collaboration. Quandt claimed that he had been forced to join the party by his archrival, propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, and the courts acquitted him....
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#1 Your identity is a powerful and influential driver that governs outcomes in all parts of your life. It defines the limits of your success, finances, and achievements. It controls the quality of your emotions, relationships, and self-worth.
#2 As a child, you were a blank canvas. You were impressionable, happy, and accepting. You had no reason to believe the external...
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Book Preview: #1 The tech and investment world was different in the 1990s. It was a great time to be starting out in the tech industry, as there seemed to be no end to the promise of technology and the amount of wealth creation available to everyone involved.
#2 I was completely oblivious to the tech boom around me, as I had spent my time after graduating from Stanford University...
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Get the Summary of Frances Mayes's A Place in the World in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "A Place in the World" by Frances Mayes is a rich tapestry of personal reflections on home, history, and the deep connections to place. Mayes recounts her experiences with Chatwood, a farmhouse in North Carolina, and its transformation over time. She delves into the history of the land, the surrounding community of Hillsborough,...
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Get the Summary of Jada Pinkett Smith's Worthy in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Jada Pinkett Smith was living what many would view as a fairy-tale of Hollywood success. But appearances can be deceiving, and as she felt more and more separated from her sense of self, emotional turmoil took hold. Sparing no detail, Worthy chronicles her life-from a rebellious youth running the Baltimore...
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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...
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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 David Thomas's The Pragmatic Programmer in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Pragmatic Programmer" by David Thomas and Andrew Hunt is a guide for software developers to become more efficient and adaptable in their craft. It outlines the characteristics of a Pragmatic Programmer, including a deep understanding of problems, accountability for their work, and the ability to manage change effectively....
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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 KC Davis's How to Keep House While Drowning in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. KC Davis's "How to Keep House While Drowning" reframes care tasks like cleaning, not as moral imperatives but as neutral activities that should not define personal worth. Davis critiques the self-help industry for its reliance on unsustainable willpower and ignorance of individual circumstances. She shares her own struggles...
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#1 I have bad dreams about not having my parents with me. I'm the only one in first grade who doesn't have both parents with him. I tell my friends that one day, I'm taking a trip like a real-real game of hide-and-seek.
#2 I miss my friends and family back in La USA. I love my grandparents, but I miss my mom and dad. I want to be with them on Mother's and Father's Day,...
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#1 The Mandela Effect is a collective delusion in which large swaths of the populace misremember a catalog of indiscriminate memories. The most unhinged explanation involves quantum mechanics and the possibility of alternative realities.
#2 The soft differences between life in the 2020s and life in the 1990s are difficult to explain to people who did not experience both...
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#1 On October 15, 1586, Queen Mary of Scots was on trial for treason. She had been accused of plotting to assassinate Queen Elizabeth in order to take the English crown for herself. Sir Francis Walsingham, Elizabeth's Principal Secretary, planned to prove that Mary was at the heart of the plot, and was therefore equally culpable and deserving of death.
#2 The plot to...
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#1 I began to experience a small pain in the back of my throat one spring day during my junior year of college. It gradually got worse over the next few months, and I began to visit other doctors. They all concluded there was nothing wrong with me. Yet my pain continued getting worse and worse, with no remedy in sight.
#2 I realized that I was at a crossroads. I could...
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#1 The key to quickly scaling your following is an agile approach of producing, testing, and measuring how people respond to your content in real time. It's a great strategy for those who don't have three or four years to invest in building their platform.
#2 The three steps to gaining one million followers are hypothesize, test, and pivot. You should test many different variations...
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Get the Summary of Jenna Kutcher's How Are You Really in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: When Jenna Kutcher was 22, she left her corporate job, bought a camera on Craigslist for $300, and started her own business as a wedding photographer. From that single investment in herself, she built a successful company, a thriving podcast, a brand. But her driving force is never about working harder/smarter/faster/better....
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Book Preview: #1 The importance of fathers is a love-hate relationship in our feminine-primary social order. On the one hand, many people lament the lack of fathers' involvement in their kids' lives, especially boys' lives. On the other hand, many people hate the buffoon, bumbling Dad who is always out of touch with the mainstream.
#2 When it comes to Father's Day, most men receive...