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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 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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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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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...
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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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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 You should start downsizing because it will help you get rid of the excess stuff in your life that you don't need. Instead of buying new stuff you don't need, you'll let go of existing stuff you don't need.
#2 The typical American household contains objects that had their moment long ago, but don't fit in today. For example, fragile china sets and heavy, ornate picture...
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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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#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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#1 After death, our soul rises up out of its host body. If the soul is older and has experience from many past lives, it knows immediately that it has been set free and is going home. The energy of the soul is able to divide into identical parts, similar to a hologram.
#2 Orientation periods with our guides, which take place before joining our cluster group, vary between souls and...
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Get the Summary of Jon Gordon's The Power of a Positive Team in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The Power of a Positive Team: Proven Principles and Practices that Make Great Teams Great by Jon Gordon: Conversation Starters Positivity coach Jon Gordon talks to many of the most outstanding teams in history and reveals how good teamwork happens and how this is related to the team's success....
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#1 I wanted to travel by train from London to Tokyo. I found passengers who were willing to travel with me. Duffill was one of them. He was old and his clothes were far too big for him, but he had many oddly shaped parcels wrapped in string and brown paper.
#2 The train was speeding through Clapham. I had left England behind. The sky was old. Schoolboys in dark blue...
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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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Get the Summary of Nick Trenton's Stop Overthinking in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Stop Overthinking is a book that understands where you've been through,the exhausting situation you've put yourself into, and how you lose your mind in the trap of anxiety and stress. Acclaimed author Nick Trenton will walk you through the obstacles with detailed and proven techniques to help you rewire...
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Get the Summary of Katherine Eban's Bottle of Lies in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
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Katherine Eban's Bottle of Lies exposes the deceit behind generic-drug manufacturing- and the attendant risks for global health. Drawing on exclusive accounts from whistleblowers and regulators, as well as thousands of pages of confidential FDA documents, Eban reveals an industry where fraud is rampant,...
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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 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...