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Some incredible negotiation tactics that if taken and applied properly could really change your life. Really entertaining anecdotes from real world high stakes negotiation scenarios as well.

Lots of interesting insights and offers a great model on how to build a product that people can get hooked on. Also offers insights on the morality of building a product that hooks users and good case studies.

This book, written by a doctor, has an important message to give to us about checklists and teaches the usefulness, effectiveness, and methodology to write the most optimal checklist. However some parts of the book feel too technical when it comes to medicine and other parts drag on. Still worth the read.

There are so many pieces of really valuable startup building knowledge and experience within this book, highly recommended

As a high schooler, I remember seeing Arne's goofy face printed on testing booklets. That's my main recollection of him at the time he was in office. Reading this book, I learned of his background and what drives his passion for improving public education. He shows that it is possible for both sides of the aisle to come together on something that should be bipartisan from the get-go, and also explains some of the roadblocks we face. He even touches on the importance of gun control, which we know all too well from last month's Uvalde shooting. Duncan outlines what needs to be done to improve the system but with the state of current affairs, it leaves me skeptical that we are headed in the right direction

If you are an F1 fan, you will love this book. Surprisingly a page turner, I learned so much history about F1 through Newey's perspective and experience.

Short and sweet book on important ideas of physics

Unfortunately several sections of this book are quite outdated, but this book generally offers good advice when it comes to more timeless things like real estate, stock market, and health. I would recommend it for just those parts, and would love to see an updated version

I think this is actually an excellent book on climate change and provides actionable items from the average citizen to world leaders. Bill isn't a particularly engaging writer but the substance and information is there

Invaluable lessons for those who deal with people, which is most everyone.

Must read for entrepreneurs. A great framework to get your startup off the ground and teaches you how to evaluate what to work on. A little dense but worth it

This book provides a lot of great ideas and has a solid plan on how to help you create and follow through on good habits and stop bad habits. However, there's a lot of long winded anecdotes that I wish were shortened, would much rather prefer the author cut to the chase.

I gave this book an honest try and unfortunately, this book has a clear target audience in mind and it is definitely not men. That doesn't necessarily mean that it is giving bad advice but from just the first few chapters, it's clear this is a women-centric book from the problems and solutions it presents.

For some people, small talk comes naturally. For others, it takes a bit of effort to learn. This book is quite comprehensive and gives a lot of good ideas and is a good refresher even if you think you think you are a small talk expert

So much of what he wrote simply spoke to me. It may be because we have the same interests and in the same space. There were times I had to stop and appreciate how true some of his axioms were. Very likely I would often re-read and reference.

What makes a company go from zero to one? Thiel has shown the most important aspects of how to create successful startups and how to evaluate ideas and ways to implement them through his own anecdotes of his experience at PayPal and Palantir

Who wrote this garbage? Genuinely curious. Couldn't find any authors listed on goodreads or their website

As someone who loves motorcycles and am mildly interested in philosophy, I gave this book an honest shot since I didn't have to read this for a class or anything. There are some incredible analogies that he draws with motorcycles and philosophy, but there's also a lot of drawn out philosophy concepts which others have described as tedious to read, that I couldn't quite make it through. Gave up halfway through the book

Right book wrong time for me, will come back in a few years. May be outdated by then

Zakaria points out some interesting findings for the origin of the pandemic that I had not thought of myself and shows some of the underlying weaknesses in government that have been overlooked.

for full transparency, I received a copy from the publisher for review. As someone who has graduated and made it into the private sector, this book does go over good pointers that would be useful for current grad students. However, it is not particularly insightful especially for those who are in a similar situation to mine. Odds are, you have already managed to figure out these insights by yourself!

Really felt more like a pamphlet, really information dense. The author talks about being an investment banker in the 30s so I thought the wisdom would be dated but a lot of it is still relevant today!

Anecdotes done right makes this book with sound financial advice an easy and informative read. Highly recommend picking this book up

I'm gonna go buy a duplex now

Depending on your perspective/work ethic, you might really like this book or dislike it. I really wanted to like this book and I think there are decent ideas in there, but Burkeman comes from the perspective of a workaholic and provides an overarching theme along the lines of that there will be never ending work. I come from the opposite perspective in that I was hoping to find motivation from the finiteness of our life, rather than being told that we should not work as hard as the work will always be present