James Altucher
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James Altucher is an American hedge fund manager, entrepreneur, author, venture capitalist and podcaster. He has founded or cofounded more than 20 companies. He has published 20 books, and he is a contributor to publications including The Financial Times and The Huffington Post
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How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big
Kind of the Story of My Life
Scott Adams has likely failed at more things than anyone you’ve ever met or anyone you’ve even heard of. So how did he go from hapless office worker and serial failure to the creator of Dilbert, one of the world’s most famous syndicated comic strips, in just a few years? In How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big, Adams shares the strate...
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Oct 07, 2020A Common-Sense Guide to Living Rich….Instead of Dying Rich Imagine if by the time you died, you did everything you were told to. You worked hard, saved your money, and looked forward to financial freedom when you retired. The only thing you wasted along the way was…your life. Die with Zero presents a startling new and provocative philosophy as w...
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Oct 06, 2020
How I Built This
The Unexpected Paths to Success from the World’s Most Inspiring Entrepreneurs
Based on the highly acclaimed NPR podcast, How I Built This with Guy Raz, this book offers priceless insights and inspiration from the world’s top entrepreneurs on how to start, launch, and build a successful venture. Great ideas often come from a simple spark: A soccer player on the New Zealand national team notices all the unused wool his country...
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Sep 10, 2020The fascinating story of brothers Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss's big bet on crypto-currency and its dazzling pay-off.Planning to start careers as venture capitalists, the brothers quickly discover that no one will take their money after their fight with Zuckerberg. While nursing their wounds in Ibiza, they accidentally run into an eccentric charact...
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Bill LeeInnovation 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 itself that explains them and that will itself shape the 21st century for good and ill. Yet innovation remains a ...
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May 23, 2020The art and craft of writing by one of the few grandmasters of American literature, a bonanza for writers and listeners written by Kurt Vonnegut's former student.Here is an entirely new side of Kurt Vonnegut, Vonnegut as a teacher of writing. Of course, he has given us glimpses in his aphorisms, short essays, articles, and speeches. But, never befo...
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Mar 30, 2020Slaughterhouse-Five is a satirical novel by Kurt Vonnegut about World War II experiences and journeys through time of a chaplain's assistant named Billy Pilgrim. It is generally recognized as Vonnegut's most influential and popular work. Vonnegut's use of the firebombing of Dresden as a central event makes the novel semi-autobiographical, because h...
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Alexis OhanianWool introduced the world of the silo. Shift told the story of its creation. Dust will describe its downfall. Juliette, now mayor of Silo 18, doesnt trust Silo 1, especially its leader, Donald. But in the world of the Silos, there is no black and white everything is shades of gray. Donald may not be the monster Juliette thinks he is, and may i...
In 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the hardware and software platforms that would one day allow robots smaller than human cells to make medical diagnoses, conduct repairs, and even self-propagate. In the same year, the CBS network re-aired a program about the effects of propranolol on sufferers of extreme trauma. A sim...
For suspense-filled, post-apocalyptic thrillers, Wool is more than a self-published ebook phenomenon―it’s the new standard in classic science fiction.In a ruined and toxic future, a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of stories deep. There, men and women live in a society full of regulations they believe are meant to protect the...
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Ev WilliamsThe searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son's fight to survive.A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, ...
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Mar 29, 2020Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed
Powershift by Daymond John
Born Standing Up by Steve Martin
Atomic Habits by James Clear
Win Bigly by Scott Adams
Influence by Robert B. Cialdini
The Laws of Human Nature by Robert Greene
The War on Normal People by Andrew Yang
Clean Meat by Paul Shapiro
Tools of Titans by Timothy Ferriss
The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer
The Dip by Seth Godin
Illusions by Richard Bach
The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
Bold by Peter H. Diamandis
Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Mastery by Robert Greene
Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Mindset by Carol S. Dweck
Backgammon for Winners by Bill Robertie
Zero to One by Peter Thiel
Chess by László Polgár
Play Like a Girl! by Jennifer Shahade
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
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The Obstacle Is the Way by Ryan Holiday
Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Brain Rules by John Medina