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Book: How to Turn Ideas Into Reality - https://t.co/RAwxwYE71V - https://t.co/UHcOFee4O7 Essays on René Girard, Philippine History, Power, etc. (next book):

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Book Cover for: Scaling Up (Revised 2022): How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't (Rockefeller Habits 2.0), Verne Harnish

Scaling Up (Revised 2022): How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't (Rockefeller Habits 2.0)

Verne Harnish
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The best playbooks I've seen for these: For 1: Who: The A Method For Hiring By Geoff Smart And Randy Street For 2: One Page Strategic Plan (OPSP) from the book Scaling Up by Verne Harnish For 3: Haven't found one yet. I'm testing "Scaling Up Compensation" also by Harnish ATM

Paperback, 2022

$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Rise of the Creative Class, Richard Florida

The Rise of the Creative Class

Richard Florida
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Please give a summary and provide examples of creative scenes from "The Rise of the Creative Class" by Richard Florida https://t.co/iFaf7z5peE

Paperback, 2019

$21.99$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Scapegoat, René Girard

The Scapegoat

René Girard
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What if we go to this primary source—Pigaffeta's "Account of the First Circumnavigation of the Earth"—and use lenses from René Girard, in particular, from his book, The Scapegoat? Can we uncover things hidden since the 16th century?

Paperback, 1989

$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life, David Foster Wallace

This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

David Foster Wallace
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"Fish in Water Bias" - The blindness to mundane things, the opposite of primacy/recency bias, a reference to David Foster-Wallace's speech, This is Water https://t.co/fC1LFBbjZP

Hardcover, 2009

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Electric Blue Cichlid: Types, Jason Roberts

Electric Blue Cichlid: Types

Jason Roberts
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Two frameworks I found helpful: - Luck surface area (Jason Roberts) - 4 types of luck (Dr. James H. Austin popularized by Marc Andreessen, slightly tweaked by Naval Ravikant)

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Book Cover for: Blindsight, Peter Watts

Blindsight

Peter Watts
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11/ a parallel with intelligence and consciousness (as depicted in peter watts's blindsight): buddhist meditators tend to have greater metacognition (more expanded consciousness?) than christians who pray, yet (christian) sanctity does not appear to need metacognition does this… https://t.co/dWp1zYqWEw

Paperback, 2020

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Evolution: The History of an Idea, 25th Anniversary Edition, with a New Preface, Peter J. Bowler

Evolution: The History of an Idea, 25th Anniversary Edition, with a New Preface

Peter J. Bowler
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Here's the article I wrote after reading the following books: - “Evolution: History of an Idea” by Peter Bowler - “Creation and Evolution: A Conference with Pope Benedict XVI" https://t.co/mJ6qn553IJ

Paperback, 2009

$34.95$17.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Hard Thing about Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers, Ben Horowitz

The Hard Thing about Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

Ben Horowitz
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In Ben Horowitz's "The Hard Thing about Hard Things," he talks about someone he hired who was a great enterprise salesman but a huge jerk. Horowitz's colleagues were against the hire. He convinced them with this argument: if this great salesguy wasn't a jerk, he'd be CEO.

Hardcover, 2014

$32.50$16.25 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir

Project Hail Mary

Andy Weir
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Was about to tweet a bit of a spoiler for Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary but I don't want to ruin it a single bit for you. It was almost impossible to put down.

Paperback, 2022

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life, Luke Burgis

Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life

Luke Burgis
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@louispereira it has circled back! the immanence/transcendence split was driven home by luke burgis's wanting, which i first heard from you the sensor could also be hacked: "happiness" without the actual value: drugs, porn, rent-seeking https://t.co/UaweGT5j4L

Hardcover, 2021

$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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