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#1 The birthplace of coffee, the ancient land of Abyssinia, is also the birthplace of Ethiopian culture. It is likely that, as in the legend, the beans and leaves of bunn were simply chewed, but the inventive Ethiopians quickly graduated to more palatable ways of getting their caffeine fix.
#2 The history of coffee is long and complex, but it all started in the fifteenth...
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#1 Money is a tool that allowed humans to progress away from reciprocal altruism, where animals exchange favors. Humans have used seashells, animal teeth, jewelry, livestock, and iron tools as tokens of barter for tens of thousands of years, but eventually settled on gold and silver as globally accepted forms of currency.
#2 The first coins were made by the Lydians...
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#1 The Hierarchy of Powers is a framework of frameworks that ranks all economic competitions in terms of five types of economic power, from most general to most specific. The first decision investors make is what categories to invest in.
#2 Category power is a function of the demand for a given class of products or services relative to all other classes. The more demand there is for...
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#1 The 1920s were a good time in America. Production and employment were high and rising, wages were not going up much, but prices were stable. Many people were still very poor, but more people were comfortably well-off or rich than ever before.
#2 The American people of the 1920s were displaying an inordinate desire to get rich quickly with a minimum of physical effort....
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#1 George Amory, the man I preferred to call, was heir to a large Long Island fortune. He was a tennis player and a blond and handsome insouciant elegance embodied in a tailor's window. He had three children, but his wife was without substantial means of her own, and they couldn't afford to live comfortably.
#2 Amory's story is a prime example of the pathologies of wealth....
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#1 The world is living a tale of two realities. On the one hand, we have never been as well off as we are today. We live in a time of relative peace and absolute wealth. On the other hand, our world and civil society are plagued by maddening inequality and dangerous unsustainability.
#2 After World War II, Germany was in shambles, and the country needed to start over....
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#1 The human brain evolved as a key driver of these cultural and technological advancements, which came to define humankind and set us apart from other species.
#2 The human brain is extraordinary. It has tripled in size over the last six million years, and most of this transformation occurred 200,000 to 800,000 years ago, before the emergence of Homo sapiens.
#3 The...
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#1 The Pacific island of Yap was one of the most remote and inaccessible inhabited places on earth in the beginning of the twentieth century. It was not until 1869 that the first European trading post was established in the Yap archipelago.
#2 The economy of Yap was extremely undeveloped. There were only three products available for trade: fish, coconuts, and sea cucumbers....
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#1 We are uncertain about how climate change will affect our future quality of life. Few of us are good at predicting the future. Future events such as which team will win the Super Bowl in the year 2030 are random variables today.
#2 As computer power and climate science continue to improve, short-term weather forecasts are becoming more accurate. As these climate risk...
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Get the Summary of Tom Kelley & David Kelley's ‘Creative Confidence’ in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: Too often, companies and individuals assume that creativity and innovation are the domain of the "creative types." But, two of the leading experts in innovation, design, and creativity on the planet show us that each and every one of us is creative. In an incredibly entertaining...
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Get the Summary of Daniel H. Pink's When in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Drawing on a rich trove of research from psychology, biology, and economics, Pink reveals how best to live, work, and succeed. How can we use the hidden patterns of the day to build the ideal schedule? Why do certain breaks dramatically improve student test scores? How can we turn a stumbling beginning into a...
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Get the Summary of Joel Kotkin's The Coming of Neo-Feudalism in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by greater concentration of wealth and property, reduced upward mobility, demographic stagnation, and increased dogmatism. If the last seventy years saw...
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Get the Summary of Chris Miller's Chip War in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: You may be surprised to learn that microchips are the new oil-the scarce resource on which the modern world depends. Today, military, economic, and geopolitical power are built on a foundation of computer chips. Virtually everything-from missiles to microwaves, smartphones to the stock market-runs on chips....
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Get the Summary of Javier Blas and Jack Farchy's The World for Sale in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The World for Sale lifts the lid on one of the least scrutinized corners of the world economy: the billionaire commodity traders who buy, hoard, and sell the earth's resources. It is the story of how a handful of swashbuckling businessmen became indispensable cogs in global markets,...
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Get the Summary of Patrick M. Lencioni's The Motive in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In what may be his edgiest page-turner to date, Lencioni thrusts his readers into a day-long conversation between rival CEOs. Shay Davis is the CEO of Golden Gate Alarm, who, after just a year in his role, is beginning to worry about his job and is desperate to figure out how to turn things around....
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Get the Summary of Sabri Suby's Sell Like Crazy in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: How do I know? Well, five short years ago I was dead broke. I'd just started my business from a rented bedroom. With no more than $50 and an old computer that my girlfriend bought me. I was desperately searching for clients and practically "begging" people just to speak with me.
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#1 By removing distractions and getting to the point, the LFC process is more efficient and effective than traditional therapy. It also allows clients to focus on what's important and get to satisfaction quickly.
#2 Laser-Focused Coaching is similar to traditional therapy in that it removes distractions and gets to the point. However, it differs in that it focuses on...
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Get the Summary of Jenara Nerenberg's Divergent Mind in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: As a successful Harvard and Berkeley-educated writer, entrepreneur, and devoted mother, Jenara Nerenberg was shocked to discover that her "symptoms"-only ever labeled as anxiety-were considered autistic and ADHD. Being a journalist, she dove into the research and uncovered neurodiversity-a framework...
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Get the Summary of Bjorn Lomborg's False Alarm in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Hurricanes batter our coasts. Wildfires rage across the American West. Glaciers collapse in the Arctic. Politicians, activists, and the media espouse a common message: climate change is destroying the planet, and we must take drastic action immediately to stop it. Children panic about their future, and adults...
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