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#1 The world has changed a lot since the days of Tom's Start-Up Guide. Today, you can't succeed alone. You need to hire the right people in the right way, or your business will not succeed.
#2 The first question to ask yourself if you consider yourself an entrepreneur is: Is HR a core process that will make or break the company. If the answer is yes, you're probably not the entrepreneurial type.
#3 The third question is: do your employees value the culture of the company. If they do, they'll stick around even in the face of adversity.
#4 A new mindset is needed to succeed in today's world. The traditional Entrepreneur mindset of the past is no longer sufficient. -
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#1 The questions of influence, response, and impact are the core of climate science. They are similar to the questions parents try to guide their children's development through example and reward good behavior, and punish bad.
#2 The science we learn in school is a collection of certainties about the natural world. However, each of these facts was hard won through a succession of logical inferences based on many observations or experiments.
#3 The IPCC has established a second set of calibrated terms to indicate confidence in a given finding. Confidence is a qualitative judgment that depends on the number, quality, and agreement of different lines of evidence. The five levels of confidence are Very high, High, Medium, Low, and Very low.
#4 The most prominent series of assessment reports is produced under the auspices of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was established in 1988. The IPCC issued its first assessment in 1990, and the Sixth Assessment Report is expected in the summer of 2021. -
Summary of John E. Douglas & Mark Olshaker's When a Killer Calls
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- 6 Avril 2022
- 9781669381303
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#1 I received a call from Ron Walker, a member of my team, who told me that we had been assigned a kidnapping case from Columbia, South Carolina. The police had no leads or evidence, and they wanted our help.
#2 The family was eventually contacted by a phone caller who demanded a ransom, but the sheriff's office was convinced it was a hoax. There was only one call over the weekend demanding a ransom, but the sheriff's office was convinced it was a hoax.
#3 The FBI had never lost a ransom package. The outcome is usually much darker when dealing with a sexually motivated kidnapping. In those cases, the offender's sadistic drive for power and complete control over his victim is the reason for the crime.
#4 I had been the Bureau's first full-time profiler, and for several years I was the only one. The workload became overwhelming, and I pleaded with the assistant FBI director in charge of the Academy to provide me with more full-time help. -
Summary of Nicholas Mulder's The Economic Weapon
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- Everest Media LLC
- 6 Avril 2022
- 9781669381402
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#1 The blockade of Germany was a transnational economic enterprise that gathered intelligence, produced knowledge, and developed policy instruments to enforce the isolation of Germany.
#2 The Allied blockade was one of the most consequential experiments in global economic governance of the twentieth century. It launched the Allies on a voyage of discovery, which led to the control of raw materials and the development of financial blockade.
#3 Manganese is a chunky, silver-gray metal found in lumps and arteries in the earth's crust. It has long been known to have the capacity to harden iron objects. In nineteenth-century Central Europe, blacksmiths used small amounts of manganese when smelting pig iron in their furnaces to produce a tougher, shiny product called Spiegeleisen.
#4 The needs of German steel producers drove considerable manganese imports. The transport infrastructure was poor, and the Russian manganese mines at Chiatura were a hotbed of revolutionary agitation. -
Summary of David Benatar's The Human Predicament
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- 6 Avril 2022
- 9781669381501
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#1 The human condition is a tragic one. Life has no meaning from a cosmic perspective, and our lives have no broader point or purpose. Our quality of life is as poor as it is. Death does not help us overcome our cosmic meaninglessness, and it only makes things worse.
#2 Death is bad, and while some have tried to cope by denying it, there is no avoiding it. The human predicament is that we are mortal, and we must face this fact.
#3 There is a distinction between optimism and pessimism in the realm of the facts. An optimist believes that a terrible fate will not befall him, whereas a pessimist believes that he will fall victim to that fate. They both agree that the fate is terrible, but they have differing views about whether it will occur.
#4 Optimism and pessimism are both matters of degree rather than binary positions. If some feature of the human condition is negative, it can be more or less negative. If some other feature is positive, then, similarly, it can be more or less positive. -
Summary of John Keegan's The First World War
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- Everest Media LLC
- 6 Avril 2022
- 9781669381600
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#1 The first World War was a tragic and unnecessary conflict. It was unnecessary because the train of events that led to its outbreak might have been broken at any point during the five weeks of crisis that preceded the first clash of arms, had prudence or common goodwill found a voice.
#2 There are many ceremonial monuments in French and British communities that commemorate the dead of the Second World War. The cross that stands at the crossroads in my West Country village was raised to commemorate the men who did not return from the First World War, but their number is twice that of those killed in the Second.
#3 The Germans, who could not decently mourn their four million dead of the Second World War, found a materially equivalent difficulty in arranging an appropriately symbolic expression of grief for their fallen of the First World War, as many lay on foreign soil.
#4 The war's effects were felt by the entire world, not just the warring countries. The German war generation was comparable to the French, suffering from the same casualties and losses. -
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#1 Roman Polanski knew that his attraction to Sharon Tate, or any woman, stirred in him feelings of terrible sorrow as ancient as long-lost wars. He knew the reasons behind it, and he didn't like it, but it made sense.
#2 Sharon was a dutiful daughter who loved to cook and help her parents. She was twenty-three when she signed with Ransohoff. She had been seeing someone, Jay Sebring, a hairstylist to the stars, for about three years.
#3 Roman had done acid once or twice. He had a date named Sharon, who was an angel. She was fantastic, and he was in love with her. But he was doomed by the possibility of recurrence, because he knew that could happen again.
#4 Roman's father, Ryszard, moved the family to Kraków in 1936. In 1939, the Germans occupied Warsaw. Roman and his sister clung to their mother, while their father did nothing. -
Summary of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood (Vintage International)
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- Everest Media LLC
- 6 Avril 2022
- 9781669381112
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#1 The town of Holcomb is located on the high wheat plains of western Kansas. It is a lonesome area that other Kansans call out there. The local accent is barbed with a prairie twang, and the men wear narrow frontier trousers, Stetsons, and high-heeled boots with pointed toes.
#2 Until November 1959, no Americans had ever heard of Holcomb. But when four foreign sounds impinged on the town's normal noises that morning, none of the people there had ever heard them before.
#3 Herbert William Clutter was the master of River Valley Farm. He was 48 years old, and he had a strong and healthy appearance. He was not as rich as the richest man in Holcomb, Mr. Taylor Jones, a neighboring rancher, but he was still widely known and respected among Midwestern agriculturists.
#4 Mr. Clutter's wife, Bonnie, had been an on-and-off psychiatric patient the last half-dozen years. She had recently been diagnosed with a physical condition that was causing her pain. Clutter was worried about how his family would react to this news. -
Summary of Kyle Gray & Tom Morkes's The Story Engine
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- Everest Media LLC
- 6 Avril 2022
- 9781669381716
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#1 Content marketing is a demanding craft that requires constant attention to detail. It was difficult for Dan to balance it with the demands of managing a growing business and personal brand. That's where I came in.
#2 I had to learn how to write for an audience of thousands of entrepreneurs, marketers, startup founders, and other ridiculously talented people. I had never worked remotely before, and found it difficult to communicate with my team using tools like Slack and Trello.
#3 I had produced a few good articles, but I was nowhere near hitting the publishing goals. I was frustrated, exhausted, and terrified to open my computer each morning. I had begun to doubt if content marketing was something I would ever be good at.
#4 I began working on the blog's standard operating procedures and documents, and then tailored them to meet my needs and reflect my understanding of the expectations for the blog. Before I began working on them, these documents were incomplete and vague. -
Summary of Peter Zeihan's The Accidental Superpower
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- Everest Media LLC
- 6 Avril 2022
- 9781669381327
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#1 The Bretton Woods conference was held in 1944 and was responsible for creating the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. The Americans were in charge of the Allied side of the war, and they were the only ones who wanted these institutions.
#2 The Americans had a navy that was the most powerful in the world after the Nazis and the Japanese were defeated, and the British had no navy at all. The British could still claim to have a potent navy, but it was a subsidiary force compared to the American fleet.
#3 The American team presented their two-part plan to the French and European delegates, which was completely different from what the Soviets expected them to do. They would open their markets, but only one-way.
#4 The Americans at the conference proposed a global trading system in which they would provide full security for all maritime trade at their own cost, full access to the largest consumer market in human history, and at most a limited expectation that participants might open their markets to American goods. -
Summary of Conor Grennan's Little Princes
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- Everest Media LLC
- 6 Avril 2022
- 9781669381525
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#1 I was excited to go to Nepal and help the children, but I was also excited to travel around the world for a year. I had spent the previous eight years working for the EastWest Institute, an international public policy think tank, out of their Prague office, and was bored.
#2 I had decided to travel to Nepal, and I was excited about it. But I was also nervous. I had heard from my friends that it was a self-indulgent decision, and that I would catch flak for it. But I had a response ready if anyone disapproved: I would say that I didn't expect them to hate orphans.
#3 The volunteer program began with an orientation held at the office of the nonprofit organization CERV Nepal. The presenter spoke in detail about Nepalese culture and history, but the entire group was transfixed when he mentioned the word toilet.
#4 I was assigned to a concrete yellow house in Bistachhap, which looked pretty snazzy next to the mud ones. I had my own bedroom, a simple affair with a single bed on a mattress of straw and a swatch of handmade carpet spread out on the floor. -
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#1 On Memorial Day weekend in 2014, Elliot Rodger went to the Alpha Phi sorority house at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and began shooting students. He killed two and wounded one. He went on to kill one man and injure fourteen others, in a subsequent drive-by shooting spree.
#2 Incels, or involuntary celibates, are a group of mostly young, heterosexual men who believe they are entitled to and have been deprived of sex with hot young women. They typically post online about their desire for sex and love not just for their own sake, but also for instrumental reasons: to buy status in masculine hierarchies.
#3 It is important to understand that incels are just a symptom of a much broader and deeper cultural phenomenon. They crystallize some men's toxic sense of entitlement to have people look up to them steadfastly, with a loving gaze, admiringly.
#4 Incels differ in the degree to which they are proactive versus reactive. Elliot Rodger was largely the latter, never making a serious effort to go on dates. He was prone to petty vengeance against happy couples he saw out and about, who aroused his envy and rage. -
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#1 I was raised in Berkeley, California, by a pair of pot-smoking hippies. My parents rebellion was buying Coca-Cola by the case and going to Disney on Ice. They wanted to have an emphatically equal partnership.
#2 I had a father who was stereotypically masculine, but he was also very sensitive and liberal. He always treated me like a princess, but he also made sure that I was a roller-skating, creek-jumping princess who kissed banana slugs.
#3 My mother was what many men called a strong woman. She was not a tyrant with her son, but she also did not care much about feminine appearance or presentation. She did not work out or diet, and she thought it was silly for women to punish themselves for aesthetics.
#4 My father was always trying to teach me lessons about the world beyond my own childhood. He would criticize the Victoria's Secret catalogs and emaciated Calvin Klein models, hoping that the boys at school would see past my not-so-secret pimples and tomboy style. -
Summary of Susan Jonusas's Hell's Half-Acre
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- Everest Media LLC
- 6 Avril 2022
- 9781669381136
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#1 The Kansas Territory was formed in 1854, and in 1855, the settlers there voted to allow slavery. This became known as Bleeding Kansas, as the territory was constantly being threatened by pro-slavery settlers from Missouri.
#2 The violence between the Jayhawkers and the Bushwhackers continued to escalate, and it was not uncommon for towns like Fort Scott to be raided and terrorized by either side.
#3 When Kansas declared itself a free state in 1861, the country descended into civil war. The experience left communities with a strong sense of localized justice and a tendency to take matters into their own hands.
#4 When white settlers arrived in Kansas from the East Coast and parts of Europe, they did so at a devastating cost to its Indigenous peoples. The tribes were forced to cede more and more land to white settlers, who used the land to hunt and farm. -
Summary of Jessamyn Conrad & Martin Garbus's What You Should Know About Politics . . . But Don't, Fourth Edition
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- Everest Media LLC
- 6 Avril 2022
- 9781669381532
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#1 The American voting system is made up of both national and state elections, and there is a lot of variability between them. The voter registration process is thought to disproportionately affect minority, disadvantaged, and younger voters.
#2 Every election is influenced by the 2000 presidential race between Republican Texas governor George W. Bush and Democratic vice president Albert Al Gore. The Electoral College, which elects the president and vice president, is one of America's least-loved and least understood institutions.
#3 The Electoral College was created by the founding fathers as a last-ditch compromise on how to choose the president, one of the most hotly debated questions faced by the Constitutional Congress in 1787. Some wanted Congress to choose the president, thinking that they would be best informed and would choose the most qualified candidate, while others argued for direct election by the citizens as a more democratic and egalitarian method.
#4 The Supreme Court's decision in Bush v. Gore halted the recount, deeming it unconstitutional. The Court stated that there was not enough time to come up with a new result. The real nail in the coffin was the Court's conclusion that there wasn't enough time to determine whether or not votes were valid. -
Summary of Graham Allison, Robert D. Blackwill, Ali Wyne & Henry A. Kissinger's Lee Kuan Yew
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- Everest Media LLC
- 6 Avril 2022
- 9781669381631
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#1 The question of how China will behave as the dominant Asian power is central to the likely course of Asian and world history. China's leaders are serious about replacing the United States as the number 1 power in Asia, and they have a strategy for doing so.
#2 China's leaders believe that becoming the dominant Asian power will allow them to share the century with America. They believe that their culture is 4,000 years old, and that they have a huge and talented pool to draw from.
#3 The Chinese have concluded that their best strategy is to build a strong and prosperous future, and use their large and increasingly skilled workers to outsell and outbuild all others. They will avoid any action that might sour relations with the United States.
#4 China's strategy in Southeast Asia is to lure the region into its economic system, and Japan and South Korea will inevitably be sucked in as well. -
Summary of Robin Stern's The Gaslight Effect
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- Everest Media LLC
- 6 Avril 2022
- 9781669381730
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#1 Liz is a top-level executive in a major advertising firm. She's worked hard to get where she is, and she seems to be on the verge of reaching her goal of taking over the company's New York office. But then someone else is brought in to take the job.
#2 When Mitchell went shopping with his girlfriend, she pointed out that he still dressed like a little boy. He went to a department store and asked the personal shopper to help him choose an entire wardrobe. He felt like a new man, but his mother burst out laughing when she saw him.
#3 The Gaslight Effect is when a person who is being Gaslighted starts to believe the things that their Gaslighting partner says, and they begin to believe that they are not good or capable people.
#4 Gaslighting is when someone you trust, respect, or love speaks with great certainty, and you begin to doubt your own perception of the situation. It is difficult to not believe them, and when you do, you are more susceptible to being gaslit. -
Summary of Sylvia Ann Hewlett's Executive Presence
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- 6 Avril 2022
- 9781669381839
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#1 Executive presence is not a measure of performance, but rather of image. It is a combination of qualities that telegraphs that you have what it takes to be in charge or deserve to be.
#2 The importance of nonmusical factors is often overlooked by musicians. The way a musician presents themselves onstage is as important as their musical skills.
#3 The world of music illustrates the importance of image in the workplace. The best predictor of success on the competition circuit was whether a pianist could communicate passion through body language and facial expression.
#4 The three pillars of EP are how you act, how you speak, and how you look. They are not equally important, but they are all important. Gravitas is the core characteristic. Signaling that you know your stuff cold is more important than either communication or appearance. -
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#1 I am six when I see sex for the first time. I am taken to my father's house by his housekeeper, Carmela, who drives me to the mansion. I ask her to take me home, but she says that it would not be right.
#2 My father, a bookworm from Ohio, graduated at the top of his Dartmouth class Phi Beta Kappa, and from Harvard Medical School. He then moved to Los Angeles and opened a private medical practice in Beverly Hills. He became a renowned Hollywood fitness internist during a time when various weight-loss regimens were beginning to peak in popularity.
#3 I was shown the pool by a butler. It was huge, with a mountain in the center of it that created a U shape. I followed it around the bend, past the waterfall, and into a strange black hole.
#4 I was playing hide-and-seek and got lost in a cave. I was terrified, so I swam out of the Jacuzzi and into a birdhouse. I was terrified that the couple from the cave would find me, so I ran away. -
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#1 The year is 1979, and I announce that I have in my possession an electronic device that can communicate with another person on the other side of the world. I call it a cell phone! you would probably think I was crazy.
#2 The steps of a good man or woman are directed by the Lord. I've missed some steps, but I've also learned a lot in the process. I wholeheartedly believe that life is more about progression than perfection, so let's be H. O. T. with each other and learn more about God's great plan for us as we walk by faith.
#3 We all have beliefs, standards, philosophies, and habits, and these are all based on some sort of foundation. We need to establish some things on a ground level before we can build anything else.
#4 A foundation is essential to hold a structure in place, but it does so much more than that. It is strong, deep, and dense enough to last the lifetime of the building sitting on top of it. -
Summary of Tom Brokaw's The Greatest Generation
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- 6 Avril 2022
- 9781669381747
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#1 I went to Normandy, France, to film an NBC documentary on the fortieth anniversary of D-Day, the Allied invasion of Europe that marked the beginning of the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. I was unprepared for how this experience would affect me emotionally.
#2 The American veterans who landed on the beaches of Normandy in 1944 were all around me as I was growing up. I had never appreciated what they had been through and what they had accomplished.
#3 The World War II generation was a group of men who were transformed by their experiences, but they did not volunteer their stories. I had to ask questions or stay back a step or two as they walked the beaches, quietly exchanging memories.
#4 The 1984 trip to Normandy was the first time Merli and Garton had met each other, and they shared memories of the chaos and death all around them. They were both extremely determined to survive. -
Summary of Jon Gordon & Damon West's The Coffee Bean
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- Everest Media LLC
- 6 Avril 2022
- 9781669381846
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#1 Abe was a student who was having a difficult time in school and in his life. He was having tests coming up and a big paper due, and his parents were fighting a lot. He spent a lot of time on social media and watching videos, but that didn't help.
#2 The most powerful lesson you will ever learn is that life is like a pot of very hot water. You will find yourself in environments and facing conditions that test who you truly are, and can change, weaken, or harden you if you let them.
#3 Abe's attitude changed, and his state of mind was elevated. He was no longer stressed about his paper or school, and he had transformed the culture of his school with his coffee bean club.
#4 The Academy created a curriculum and a schedule designed to cause the cadets to fail. The cadets couldn't humanly do all that they had to do, so they would fail at something. The Academy found that through failure, most cadets would become stronger, wiser, and better. -
Summary of Jonathan Reisman's The Unseen Body
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- Everest Media LLC
- 6 Avril 2022
- 9781669381150
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#1 The human throat is an example of a body part that is poorly designed. It is where food and drink separate into their respective tubes, the esophagus and windpipe, but they can also slip together, causing choking, suffocation, and death.
#2 The root of Suzanne's problem lay in the mechanics of her swallowing. She was aspirating food while eating, which led to her coughing. The five separate cranial nerves and more than twenty different muscles that are involved in swallowing are designed to compensate for the throat's inherently dangerous anatomy.
#3 The back of the human throat is home to the number one pneumonia-causing strain of bacteria. In Alzheimer's patients and those suffering from other neurodegenerative diseases, this infection is extremely common.
#4 Aspirations are a inevitable part of life, and everyone will aspirate at some point. Coughing is the body's attempt to cope with aspiration's inevitability. For healthy people, it works quite well, but Suzanne could not muster the strength. -
Summary of Maureen Callahan's American Predator
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- Everest Media LLC
- 6 Avril 2022
- 9781669381259
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#1 On February 2, 2012, Samantha Koenig, a popular high school senior, disappeared. She had been working a coffee kiosk alone the night before, and had sent some angry texts to her boyfriend.
#2 The first rule of any investigation is to keep an open mind. You don't try to fit a personal theory to a possible crime. Payne knew this, and he knew that the police never even taped off the kiosk when Samantha was reported missing.
#3 The video showed a man pushing his way through the kiosk's serving window and pouncing on Samantha. He was very tall and very composed, and he seemed to know what he was doing.
#4 The first working theory was that Samantha was not a victim. The department didn't want to tell the press that, but their response made that clear. They didn't plan to go public with Samantha's disappearance.