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21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
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Politics, Social Science
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If 2018 has left you overwhelmed by the state of the world, 21 Lessons offers a helpful framework for processing the news and thinking about the challenges we face.
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A Full Life
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A Gentleman in Moscow
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A Nation of Wusses
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Academically Adrift
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Army of None by Paul Scharre
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Artificial Intelligence, Engineering, Technology
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...his fluency with the subject should come as no surprise: heβs a veteran who helped draft the U.S. governmentβs policy on autonomous weapons.
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Awakening Joy
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Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
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Business, Crime
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Bad Blood
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This book has everything: elaborate scams, corporate intrigue, magazine cover stories, ruined family relationships, and the demise of a company once valued at nearly $10 billion.
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers
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Being Nixon
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Believe Me
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Blitzscaling by Reid Hoffman, Chris Yeh
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Born A Crime
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Breath from Salt
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Buffett
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Business Adventures
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century
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Collapse
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Direct from Dell by Michael Dell, Catherine Fredman
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Direct from Dell
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Educated
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I never thought Iβd relate to a story about growing up in a Mormon survivalist household, but sheβs such a good writer that she got me to reflect on my own life while reading about her extreme childhood.
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Energy and Civilization
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Energy Myths and Realities
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Enlightenment Now
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Eradication
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Everything Happens for a Reason
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Everything Happens belongs on the shelf alongside other terrific books about this difficult subject, like Paul Kalanithiβs When Breath Becomes Air and Atul Gawandeβs Being Mortal.
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Evicted
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Factfulness by Hans Rosling
Legendary statistician Hans Rosling explains why the world isn't as bad as you think.
This was our 9 Apr to 22 Apr 2019 assignment.
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Economics
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This was a breakthrough to me. The framework Hans enunciates is one that took me decades of working in global development to create for myself, and I could have never expressed it in such a clear way.
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Fever
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From the Ground Up by Howard Schultz
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From the Ground Up
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Getting Better
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Harvesting the Biosphere
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Hillbilly Elegy
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Hit Refresh by Satya Nadella, Greg Shaw, Jill Tracie Nichols
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Hit Refresh
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Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
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This was our 20 May to 2 Jun 2020 assignment.
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including Bill Gates , Derek Sivers and Richard Branson
Technology,Science
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Homo Deus
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House on Fire
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How Asia Works
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How Not to Be Wrong
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How To
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How to Lie with Statistics
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Hyperbole and a Half
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I Contain Multitudes
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Infections and Inequalities
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Interventions
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Leonardo Da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
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History, Biography
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Leonardo Da Vinci
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Although today heβs best known as a painter, Leonardo had an absurdly wide range of interests, from human anatomy to the theater. Isaacson does the best job Iβve seen of pulling together the different strands of Leonardoβs life and explaining what made him so exceptional
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Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark
3 Recommendations
including Bill Gates , Derek Sivers and Elon Musk
Artificial Intelligence
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Life 3.0
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Lincoln in the Bardo
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Making the Modern World - Materials and Dematerialization
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Measure What Matters by John Doerr
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Measure What Matters
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Mindset by Carol S. Dweck
This was our 7 Oct to 20 Oct 2020 assignment.
11 Recommendations
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Business,Psychology
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Mindset
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Moonwalking With Einstein
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Nine Pints
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On Immunity by Eula Biss
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Medicine, Sociology, Social Science
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On Immunity
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What makes this book so good and unusual is how effortlessly Biss moves around different topics. Her father is an oncologist and her mother a poet, which probably helps to explain how Biss so easily navigates the worlds of science and literature.
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Origin Story
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Poor Numbers
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Presidents of War
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Principles by Ray Dalio
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Principles
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Range
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Reinventing American Health Care
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Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
A brief history of humankind
This was our 12 Mar to 25 Mar 2019 assignment.
11 Recommendations
including Bill Gates , Chris Goward and Derek Sivers
Science
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Sapiens
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I would recommend this book to anyone interested in a fun, engaging look at early human history. Like Big History, it left me with an overarching historical structure which I can build on as I learn more. At the same time, Harari tells our history in such an approachable way that youβll have a hard time putting it down.
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Seveneves
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Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
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This was our 29 Jan to 11 Feb 2020 assignment.
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Biography,Businesss
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Shoe Dog
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Should We Eat Meat?
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Stress Test
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Stuff Matters
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Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom
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Artificial Intelligence
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Superintelligence
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard Feynman
The semi-autobiographical memoirs of Nobel Prize winning physicist and bongo player Richard Feynman.
This was our 15 Jan to 28 Jan 2019 assignment.
10 Recommendations
including Bill Gates , Derek Sivers and Heather Wilde
Science, Biography, Physics
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
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Sustainable Materials Without the Hot Air by Julian M. Allwood, Jonathan M. Cullen
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Sustainable Materials Without the Hot Air
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Tap Dancing to Work
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Team of Rivals
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The Art of Being Unreasonable
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The Best We Could Do
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The Bet
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The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker
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Social Science, Psychology, Science
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The Better Angels of Our Nature
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The Box
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The Bully Pulpit
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The Future of Capitalism
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The Gene
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The Grid
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The Headspace Guide to Meditation and Mindfulness by Andy Puddicombe
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Wellness
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The Headspace Guide to Meditation and Mindfulness
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The Magic of Reality
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The Man Who Fed the World
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The Moment of Lift by Melinda Gates
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The Moment of Lift
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The Most Powerful Idea in the World
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The Myth of the Strong Leader
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The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
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Politics, Social Science
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The New Jim Crow
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The Power to Compete
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The Price of Inequality
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The Quest
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The Road to Character
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The Rosie Effect
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The Rosie Project
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The Signal and the Noise
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The Singularity Is Near by Ray Kurzweil
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The Singularity Is Near
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The Sixth Extinction
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The Splendid and the Vile
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The Spy and the Traitor
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The Sympathizer
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The Ten Commandments for Business Failure by Donald R. Keough
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The Ten Commandments for Business Failure
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The Vital Question
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The World Until Yesterday
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Thing Explainer
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Tools and Weapons
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Upheaval
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What If?
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When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi, Abraham Verghese
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When Breath Becomes Air
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Why Does College Cost So Much?
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Why Nations Fail by Daron AcemoΔlu & James A. Robinson
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Economics, Politics, Social Science
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Why Nations Fail
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Winners Take All
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Winning by Suzy Welch, Jack Welch
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Winning
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