Category: Books
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I finished this book in 72 hours. It was terrifying. Nuclear War: A Scenario describes how a nuclear war could kill 5 billion people. It begins out of the blue on a spring afternoon. How Nuclear War Could Happen In this scenario, North Korea launches a single ICBM at Washington,…
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On September 1st 1939, Hitler attacked Poland. At the time, the US military was only about the size of Holland’s. Some of its weapons dated back to the Civil War. In less than 6 years, America went from having almost no military to winning WWII. This is the story of…
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Antonio Garcia Martinez sold his startup for $10 million to Twitter just a year after founding. Then at Facebook, he was part of the rise of the most successful startup in the last 20 years. This week, I dug into Chaos Monkeys, his inside story of how startupland really works.…
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At age 29, Charlie Munger’s marriage was falling apart and his son was dying of leukemia. “A friend remembers that Charlie would visit his dying son in the hospital and then walk the streets of Pasadena crying.” I cannot imagine anything worse. And yet, Munger came back from it. He…
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“A whole new world is opening up to you.” That was what my grandmother told me when I learned how to read. This year, I explored worlds including Weimar Germany, Sand Hill Road, and small town Japan. Here are my favorite books of the year, along with summaries of the…
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Many average people lost their life savings in bad crypto investments. But the real victims of the crypto craze lost much more. Journalist Zeke Faux travelled 9,000 miles to meet some of them. He tells their stories in his excellent new book Number Go Up. A Mysterious Text Message The…
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+ Bitcoin, Blockchain, Cambodia, Crypto, Cryptocurrency, Finance, Human Rights, Human Trafficking, Investing, Money, Tech, Tether+
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“It’s like the narrative would be way sexier if it was like, ‘Holy s—, this is the world’s biggest Ponzi scheme.’” Sam Bankman-Fried As markets ripped in late 2021, the total value of all cryptocurrency approached $3 trillion. Just 12 years prior, crypto didn’t exist. The boom created a wave…
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+ Bitcoin, Blockchain, Crypto, Cryptocurrency, Finance, FTX, Investing, Money, SBF, Startups, Tech, Venture Capital+
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“A maniacal sense of urgency is our operating principle.” Elon Musk Elon Musk is not your typical CEO. He doesn’t have a corner office. There’s no executive dining room. In fact, shortly after taking over Twitter, Elon slept on a couch in the company library. A typical meal: cereal out…
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“As the situation got more desperate in the fall of 2008, Musk pleaded for money from friends and family to meet Tesla’s payroll.” Elon Musk, by Walter Isaacson In 2008, Tesla was in the depths of production hell. And with the world on the verge of another Great Depression, a…
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“We have reason to believe Elon is retarded.” That was Elon Musk’s elementary school principal. Young Elon stared out the window and ignored his teachers, leading them to assume he could not learn. Perhaps Elon found their lessons irrelevant. Or maybe he was tormented by what was going on at…
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+ Biography, Elon, Elon Musk, Reading, Silicon Valley, SpaceX, Startups, Tech, Tesla, Venture Capital+
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Tremendous 