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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 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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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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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 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 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 Gary Zukav's The Seat of the Soul in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In The Seat of The Soul, Gary Zukav shares a powerful discovery he made after studying historical figures like Albert Einstein, William James, and the psychologist Carl Jung. Zukav believes that these thought-leaders (along with many others) developed their ground-breaking theories and game-changing...
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Get the Summary of Sarah Frier's ‘No Filter’ in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: In 2010, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger released a photo-sharing app called Instagram, with one simple but irresistible feature: it would make anything you captured look more beautiful. The cofounders cultivated a community of photographers and artisans around the app, and it quickly went mainstream....
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#1 The dreams I want to hear about are the emotional fuel that helps people take control of their lives and be what they want to be. They are the goals and aspirations of golfers who are passionate about the game.
#2 I heard something similar from Byron Nelson recently. He had always dreamed of owning a ranch, and golf was the only way he was going to get it. He was all but done as...
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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 Reeves Wiedeman's Billion Dollar Loser in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Christened a potential savior of Silicon Valley's startup culture, Adam Neumann was set to take WeWork, his office share company disrupting the commercial real estate market, public, cash out on the company's forty-seven billion dollar valuation, and break the string of major startups unable to...
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Get the Summary of Ed Conway's Material World in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The fiber-optic cables that weave the World Wide Web, the copper veins of our electric grids, the silicon chips and lithium batteries that power our phones and cars: though it can feel like we now live in a weightless world of information-what Ed Conway calls "the ethereal world"-our twenty-first-century...
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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 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...
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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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#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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Book Preview: #1 Some people may be better at listening to their bodies and getting good judgments than others. The best financial traders are not necessarily the most intelligent, but rather those who are the most sensitive to interoceptive signals.
#2 Interoception is the awareness of the inner state of the body. It is generated in places all over the body, and then travels via...
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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...