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David Meyer

David N Meyer is a content editor at getAbstract and author of The 100 Best Films To Rent You've Never Heard Of, Twenty Thousand Roads: The Ballad of Gram Parsons and His Cosmic American Music, The Bee Gees: The Biography, and other books. You can find his essays on film and music at davidnmeyer.com

  • Review
    What You Don’t Know
    Project Censored's State of the Free Press 2022
    Project Censored's State of the Free Press 2022by Andy Lee Roth and Mickey Huff What You Don’t Know

    Project Censored details stories that corporate interests and mainstream media suppress or ignore.

  • Review
    Pay To Pay Attention
    The Sirens’ Call
    The Sirens’ Callby Chris Hayes Pay To Pay Attention

    News host Chris Hayes details how the attention economy steals your focus, time, money, and connection with others.

  • Review
    Lead Like an Animal
    Wisdom from the Wild
    Wisdom from the Wildby Julie C Henry Lead Like an Animal

    Explorer Julie C. Henry details various animals’ habits to help you find your personal leadership style.

  • Review
    Butterfly Wings
    Fluke
    Flukeby Brian Klaas Butterfly Wings

    In an increasingly complex, connected world, small events can trigger domino effects.

  • Review
    Rigor Brings Truth
    May Contain Lies
    May Contain Liesby Alex Edmans Rigor Brings Truth

    Alex Edmans, a finance professor at the London Business School, defines the psychological tendencies that undercut rational analysis to help you avoid drawing mistaken conclusions.

  • Review
    Superintelligent AI
    Life 3.0
    Life 3.0by Max Tegmark Superintelligent AI

    Max Tegmark provides a detailed, discursive overview of AI, its history, and its likely development and delves into AI’s ramifications for humanity’s future.

  • Review
    Building Communities of Practice
    Cultivating Communities of Practice
    Cultivating Communities of Practiceby Etienne Wenger, Richard McDermott and William Snyder Building Communities of Practice

    Communities of practice experts provide a detail, knowledgeable overview of these groups and their operations.

  • Review
    The Nvidia Saga
    The Nvidia Way
    The Nvidia Wayby Tae Kim The Nvidia Saga

    Tae Kim, a senior writer for Barron’s, details Nvidia’s history, from its three-person startup to its dominance of the global chip market.

  • Review
    The Future of AI
    AI 2041
    AI 2041by Kai-Fu Lee The Future of AI

    Best-selling AI expert Kai-Fu Lee and speculative fiction author Chen Qiufan consider the AI of 2041 through hard-nosed analysis and illuminating tales.

  • Review
    The Mystery of Creativity
    Inspired: Understanding Creativity
    Inspired: Understanding Creativityby Matt Richtel The Mystery of Creativity

    Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times journalist Matt Richtel probes the mysteries of human inspiration.