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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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Get the Summary of Ron Lieber's The Price You Pay for College in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Sending a teenager to a flagship state university for four years of on-campus living costs more than $100,000 in many parts of the United States. Meanwhile, many families of freshmen attending selective private colleges will spend triple - over $300,000. With the same passion, smarts, and...
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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 Cal Newport's A World Without Email in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: We have become so used to an inbox-driven workday that it's hard to imagine alternatives. But they do exist. Drawing on years of investigative reporting, author and computer science professor Cal Newport makes the case that our current approach to work is broken, then lays out a series of principles...
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Get the Summary of David Enrich's Servants of the Damned in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Since 2016, Jones Day has been in the spotlight for representing Donald Trump and his campaigns (and now his PACs)-and for the fleet of Jones Day attorneys who joined his administration, including White House Counsel Don McGahn. Jones Day helped Trump fend off the Mueller investigation and challenged...
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Get the Summary of John E. Sarno's The Mindbody Prescription in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: Musculoskeletal pain disorders have reached epidemic proportions in the United States, with most doctors failing to recognize their underlying cause. In this acclaimed volume, Dr. Sarno reveals how many painful conditions- including most neck and back pain, migraine, repetitive stress injuries,...
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Book Preview: #1 I had to deliver the calf by embryotomy, passing a wire over the neck and sawing off the head. So many of these occasions ended with the floor strewn with heads, legs, heaps of intestines.
#2 I had been trying to save the little calf's life for nearly two hours, and I was still unable to save it. The farmer's brother, who had never met my colleague, had heard great...
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#1 The buck stops with the CEO of any organization, and they are responsible for the work done by that organization. However, this does not mean that the CEO should be doing work that no one else is doing.
#2 The three focuses of a CEO are Culture, People, and Numbers. Focusing on them exclusively will clarify and inform your work at a level you've never reached before....
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Get the Summary of Prem Rawat's Hear Yourself in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The cacophony of modern life can be deafening, leaving us feeling frazzled and uneasy. In this warm, wise book, Prem Rawat teaches us how to turn down the noise to "hear ourselves"-to listen to the subtle song of peace that sings inside each of us. Once we learn to truly "hear ourselves" and the voice of...
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Get the Summary of Mike Michalowicz's ‘The Pumpkin Plan’ in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: This is the exact situation Mike Michalowicz found himself in when he was trying to grow his first company. Although it was making steady money, there was never very much left over and he was chasing customers left and right, putting in twenty-eight-hour days, eight days a week. The punishing...
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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 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 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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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 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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#1 The concept of intelligence is based on the traditional IQ test, which was invented by Alfred Binet to measure, objectively, comprehension, reasoning, and judgment. However, contemporary research shows that intelligence is not fixed at birth and can be developed throughout life.
#2 The brain is much more flexible and multidimensional than any supercomputer. It can...
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#1 The Chinese have a paradox of their origins. They believe that they are eternal, and that their civilization has no beginning. They believe that they have always been living in the same stage of advancement as in the present day.
#2 Chinese history is filled with periods of civil war, interregnum, and chaos. But each period of disunity was viewed as an aberration,...
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Get the Summary of Tripp Mickle's After Steve in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Steve Jobs called Jony Ive his "spiritual partner at Apple." The London-born genius was the second-most powerful person at Apple and the creative force who most embodies Jobs's spirit, the man who designed the products adopted by hundreds of millions the world over: the iPod, iPad, MacBook Air, the iMac G3,...
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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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Get the Summary of L. David Marquet's Turn the Ship Around! in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: Marquet acted like any other captain until, one day, he unknowingly gave an impossible order, and his crew tried to follow it anyway. When he asked why the order wasn't challenged, the answer was "Because you told me to." Marquet realized he was leading in a culture of followers, and they...