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Karla Starr

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Buffalo, NY, The United States

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Born in Buffalo, NY, Karla Starr attended NYU and currently lives in Portland, Oregon. She wrote her first book, Can You Learn to Be Lucky? for love; it was a Fast Company best book of 2018. She wrote her second book Making Numbers Count , with Made to Stick author Chip Heath (for money, not love). She actually hates numbers.

Starr writes infrequently on her Substack, The Starr Report, works as a ghostwriter, and will eventually finish her third book. ...more

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The Curse of Clarity: Why Numbers Experts Need Translation Help

You know that moment when you’re explaining something you understand perfectly and the person across from you just stares blankly? Welcome to the curse of knowledge—where expertise becomes the enemy of communication. Here’s what nobody tells you about being really, really good with numbers: the better you get, the worse you become at explaining them […]

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	Making Numbers Count: The Art and Science of Communicating Numbers by Chip Heath, Karla Starr (Goodreads Author) 3.86 avg rating — 2,847 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Can You Learn to Be Lucky?: Why Some People Seem to Win More Often Than Others 3.63 avg rating — 210 ratings — published 2018 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hilton Effect by Chip Heath, Karla Starr (Goodreads Author) 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Karla’s Quotes

“To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.”
― George Bernard Shaw

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“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
― Robert Fulghum, True Love

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