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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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#1 Change causes fear, and fear causes panic. You can either resist change and do nothing, or you can make a rash decision and hope it solves everything. Neither option tends to work out well.
#2 If a panic happens, do something. Don't do nothing. Change causes fear, and fear causes panic. You can either resist change and do nothing, or you can make a rash decision and...
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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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#1 A Hook Point is a piece of copy, an insight from statistics or a professional's point of view, a philosophy, or a person's thought that can help you get people interested in your content or business. It helps you generate new leads, launch products successfully, generate social followers at scale, and drive massive revenue growth.
#2 Hooks are an important...
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Get the Summary of Jared Kushner's Breaking History in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Now, Kushner finally tells his story-a fast-paced and surprisingly candid account of how an earnest businessman with no political ambitions found himself pulled into a presidency that no one saw coming.
Breaking History takes readers inside debates in the Oval Office, double-crosses at the United...
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Book Preview: #1 I was hired to be the manager of the Facebook team in May of 2006. I had very little experience, but I was eager to make my mark on the world. I had no institutionalized doctrines or tragic failures to speak of.
#2 The answers to the question, What is the job of a manager. are an assortment of activities. If I asked you, What is the job of a soccer player. you would...
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Get the Summary of Stephen M.R. Covey's Trust & Inspire in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: We have a leadership crisis today, where even though our world has changed drastically, our leadership style has not. Most organizations, teams, schools, and families today still operate from a model of "command and control," focusing on hierarchies and compliance from people. But because of the...
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Get the Summary of Horst Schulze's Excellence Wins in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Horst Schulze knows how to win. In Excellence Wins, Schulze, in his absolute no-nonsense approach, shares the visionary and disruptive principles that have produced immense global successes over the course of his still-prolific 50-year career.
As the co-founder and former president of Ritz-Carlton Hotel...
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Book Preview: #1 The order to abandon ship was given at 5 P. M. For most of the men, however, no order was needed because by then everybody knew that the ship was done and that it was time to give up trying to save her. They accepted their defeat almost apathetically.
#2 The dog-team drivers had made a canvas chute down to the ice alongside the ship. They took the forty-nine huskies...
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Get the Summary of Richard Rumelt's Good Strategy Bad Strategy in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Good Strategy Bad Strategy" by Richard Rumelt dissects the essence of true strategic thinking versus the pitfalls of bad strategy. The book illustrates effective strategy through historical and corporate examples, emphasizing the importance of a unified approach that aligns actions with clear objectives. Apple's resurgence...
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Get the Summary of Charles T. Munger's Poor Charlies Almanack in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Poor Charlie's Almanack" is a comprehensive collection of Charles T. Munger's wisdom, encapsulating his investment philosophy, business acumen, and life lessons. Munger's journey from Omaha to becoming Warren Buffett's partner at Berkshire Hathaway is marked by his voracious reading habits, military service, and legal...
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#1 The IBM team that designed Deep Blue made the brilliant decision to design the machine to appear more uncertain than it was. During the six-game match, the machine would occasionally hold off from declaring its move for several minutes. From Kasparov's end of the table, the delays made it look as if the machine was struggling.
#2 The story of Deep Blue defeating the...
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#1 I had my left knee replaced when I was 62 years old. The surgeon said there was a 1 to 2 percent risk of infection, but I later learned that the pain from the surgery was beyond the reach of oxycodone. I became desperate for relief, and tried everything from acupuncture to electro-acupuncture to cold laser.
#2 The book Arthrofibrosis, which my wife found, explained...
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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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Get the Summary of Brian Christian's “The Alignment Problem” in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Today's "machine-learning" systems, trained by data, are so effective that we've invited them to see and hear for us-and to make decisions on our behalf. But alarm bells are ringing. Recent years have seen an eruption of concern as the field of machine learning advances. When the systems...
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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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Get the Summary of Matt Ridley's “The Rational Optimist” in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Life is getting better at an accelerating rate. Food availability, income, and life span are up; disease, child mortality, and violence are down all across the globe. Though the world is far from perfect, necessities and luxuries alike are getting cheaper; population growth is slowing; Africa...
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Get the Summary of Miranda Devine's “Laptop from Hell” in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: When a drug-addled Hunter Biden abandoned his waterlogged computer at a Mac repair shop in Delaware in the spring of 2019, just six days before his father announced his candidacy for the United States presidency, it became the ticking time bomb in the shadows of Joe Biden's campaign.
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#1 I was born in Japan between two worlds. I was Korean on my father's side and Japanese on my mother's side. I was raised in a poor Korean family in Mizonokuchi, a neighborhood south of Tokyo. I dreamed of becoming the prime minister of Japan.
#2 My mother, Miyoko, was a woman of strong character. She had an oval face that was beautiful in its way. My father, on the...
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Get the Summary of Timothy Ferriss's The 4-Hour Workweek in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.Original book introduction: Forget the old concept of retirement and the rest of the deferred-life plan - there is no need to wait and every reason not to, especially in unpredictable economic times. Whether your dream is escaping the rat race, experiencing high-end world travel, earning a monthly five-figure income with zero...