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Information Rules

by Carl Shapiro

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Mean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food Taming Our Primal Instincts

by Terry Burnham

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Ted said: " The structure is highly formulaic and predictable. The simplest gateway read to explain evolution. Have little use other than offering some sensationalist dinner trivia. Takes about 10 hours. "

Aug 09, 2021 02:07AM · see review

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The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century

by Steven Pinker (Goodreads Author)

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Ted said: " Pinker did a fantastic job offering critiques to the writing guide genre - or, in his words, "to discriminate between the principles that improve the quality of prose and the superstitions, fetishes, shibboleths, and initiation ordeals that have been ...more "

Apr 16, 2021 05:41AM · see review

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“All Rhodes Scholars had a great future in their past.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

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“The most valuable businesses of coming decades will be built by entrepreneurs who seek to empower people rather than try to make them obsolete.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

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“moving first is a tactic, not a goal.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

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“Philosophy is like science and unlike history in that it seeks general truths rather than an account of particular events, either in the near or distant past.”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book

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“Tolstoy opens Anna Karenina by observing: “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Business is the opposite. All happy companies are different: each one earns a monopoly by solving a unique problem. All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

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