Tag: Reading
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“A whole new world is opening up to you.” That’s what my great grandma said when I learned how to read. I read 34 books in 2025, the most since college. Here are my favorites… Book of the Year: On Writing by Stephen King On Writing is King’s account of…
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Michael Jordan started elementary school in a racially segregated classroom. He went on to win 6 NBA championships and amass a net worth of $3.8 billion. How does a kid from such a difficult background become an icon? To find out, I picked up Michael Jordan: The Life. Loving to…
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All the greats in business studied the greats in business. Books are the best way to do that. Here are my favorites… Founder — Founder is the story of the founder of the Rothschild banking dynasty, Mayer Amschel Rothschild. Mayer faced bigotry that most of us could not imagine. Like…
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Taichi Ohno invented modern, just-in-time manufacturing at Toyota. Near the end of his career, Ohno gave up his entire playbook in one slim volume, The Toyota Production System. So when I found an antiquated looking copy in a Little Free Library near my home, I had to give it a…
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+ business-growth, Entrepreneur, Factory, Management, Manufacturing, Reading, Stock Market, Stocks, success-tips, teamwork, Tech, Toyota+
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“I’ve come to get what’s mine,” Hetty Green told the bank president. Her entire $25 million fortune was on the line as the bank neared insolvency. And Hetty wasn’t about to take a loss. Hetty prevailed, as she did in so many deals. When she died in 1916, she left…
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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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“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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“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 