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Get the Summary of Howard Marks' Mastering the Market Cycle in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: We all know markets rise and fall, but when should you pull out, and when should you stay in? The answer is never black or white, but is best reached through a keen understanding of the reasons behind the rhythm of cycles. Confidence about where we are in a cycle comes when you learn the patterns...
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Get the Summary of Stephanie Kelton's The Deficit Myth in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: Stephanie Kelton's brilliant exploration of modern monetary theory (MMT) dramatically changes our understanding of how we can best deal with crucial issues ranging from poverty and inequality to creating jobs, expanding health care coverage, climate change, and building resilient infrastructure....
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Get the Summary of Frank Slootman's Amp It Up in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman is one of the tech world's most accomplished executives in enterprise growth, having led Snowflake to the largest software IPO ever after leading ServiceNow and Data Domain to exponential growth and the public market before that. In Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising...
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Get the Summary of Rick Reilly's So Help Me Golf in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: This is the book Rick Reilly has been writing in the back of his head since he fell in love with the game of golf at eleven years old. He unpacks and explores all of the wonderful, maddening, heart-melting, heart-breaking, cool, and captivating things about golf that make the game so utterly addictive....
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Get the Summary of Christian Brose's The Kill Chain in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: As Christian Brose reveals in this urgent wake-up call, the future will be defined by artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, and other emerging technologies that are revolutionizing global industries and are now poised to overturn the model of American defense. This fascinating, if disturbing,...
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#1 The power of stories cannot be understated. They are uniquely powerful, and they can be used to connect with others and make a difference.
#2 We are constantly surrounded by stories. When someone says they're going to tell us a story, we expect it to follow a familiar pattern: setup, climax, and resolution. When it doesn't, we are left dissatisfied.
#3 The brain...
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Get the Summary of Cade Metz's Genius Makers in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
Original book introduction: Long dismissed as a technology of the distant future, artificial intelligence was a project consigned to the fringes of the scientific community. Then two researchers changed everything. One was a sixty-four-year-old computer science professor who didn't drive and didn't fly because he could no longer sit...
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#1 Financial education allows you to make more money with less risk, and it also allows you to pay less in taxes. However, you can't follow traditional financial advice or invest in traditional investments.
#2 In 2007, the world woke up to the word subprime. These were mortgages given to people with poor credit who could not afford to pay them back. In 2008, the Lehman...
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#1 The first transactions were for credit rather than barter. The Mesopotamians charged interest on loans before they discovered how to put wheels on carts. Interest is much older than coined money, which only originated in the eighth century BC.
#2 The Ancient Near East was home to many loan transactions, and interest was generally paid in the same commodity as the...
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Get the Summary of Ben Horowitz's What You Do Is Who You Are in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
Ben Horowitz has long been fascinated by history, and particularly by how people behave differently than you'd expect. The time and circumstances in which they were raised often shapes them- yet a few leaders have managed to shape their times. In What You Do Is Who You Are, he turns his attention to a question crucial...
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Get the Summary of Renee Engeln's “Beauty Sick” in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Today's young women face a bewildering set of contradictions when it comes to beauty. They don't want to be Barbie dolls but, like generations of women before them, are told they must look like them. They're angry about the media's treatment of women but hungrily consume the very outlets that belittle...
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Get the Summary of Rabbi Daniel Lapin's Thou Shall Prosper in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: A practical approach to creating wealth-based on the established principles of ancient Jewish wisdom-made accessible to people of all backgrounds
The ups and downs of the economy prove Rabbi Daniel Lapin's famous principle that the more things change, the more we need to depend upon the things...
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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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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...
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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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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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#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 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 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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#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....