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Tobias van Schneider (also known as House of van Schneider) is an award-winning designer born in Germany, raised in Austria and currently living in Stockholm New York.
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Titan
The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
Ron Chernow - 2004-03-30 (first published in 1998)
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John D. Rockefeller, Sr.--history's first billionaire and the patriarch of America's most famous dynasty--is an icon whose true nature has eluded three generations of historians. Now Ron Chernow, the National Book Award-winning biographer of the Morgan and Warburg banking families, gives us a history of the mogul "etched with uncommon objectivity a...
Tobias Van Schneider
2021-01-22T15:45:16.000Z
This was a good book. Finished it the other week. Titan.      source
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Greenlights
Matthew McConaughey - 2020-10-20
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From the Academy Award®–winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction I’ve been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes...
Tobias Van Schneider
2020-11-24T16:21:42.000Z
Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey is one of those books you just can’t put down.      source
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How to Create a Mind
The Secret of Human Thought Revealed
Ray Kurzweil - 2013-08-26
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The bold futurist and bestselling author explores the limitless potential of reverse-engineering the human brainRay Kurzweil is arguably today’s most influential—and often controversial—futurist. In How to Create a Mind, Kurzweil presents a provocative exploration of the most important project in human-machine civilization—reverse engineering the b...
Tobias Van Schneider
2020-07-18T20:49:14.000Z
While working on @mymind I’ve been eating up a couple books on neuroscience including one of my favorites “How to create a mind” by Ray Kurzweil. Any books on neuroscience (and potential artificial enhancements) that I should add to my reading list?      source
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Fortune's Children
The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt
Arthur T Vanderbilt II - 2001-01-01 (first published in 1989)
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For fans of Downton Abbey, a real-life American version of the Crawley family--Fortune's Children is an enthralling true story that recreates the drama, splendor, and wealth of the legendary Vanderbilts.Vanderbilt: The very name is synonymous with the Gilded Age. The family patriarch, "the Commodore," built a fortune that made him the world's riche...
Tobias Van Schneider
2020-07-11T01:53:29.000Z
@marshal Never give your kids the money you earned. They’ll blow it. Read the book “The children of Vanderbilt” who somehow managed to go from one of the richest families to zero. Great book.      source
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Mastery
Robert Greene - 2013-10-29 (first published in 2012)
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The #1 New York Timesbestselling sequel to The 48 Laws of PowerMastery synthesizes the years of research Robert Greene conducted while writing the international bestsellers The 48 Laws of Power, The 33 Strategies of War, and The Art of Seduction and demonstrates that the ultimate form of power is mastery itself. By analyzing the lives of such past ...
Tobias Van Schneider
2019-09-05T22:39:09.000Z
@Oliver_Rankin @Ashthorp Great book, read it twice!      source
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The Circle
Dave Eggers - 2013-10-08
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The Circle is the exhilarating new novel from Dave Eggers, best-selling author of A Hologram for the King, a finalist for the National Book Award. When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campu...
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Propaganda
Edward Bernays - 2004-09-01 (first published in 1928)
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“Bernays’ honest and practical manual provides much insight into some of the most powerful and influential institutions of contemporary industrial state capitalist democracies.”—Noam Chomsky“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipula...
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