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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
    Mansplaining
    Men Explain Things to Me
    Men Explain Things to Meby Rebecca Solnit Mansplaining

    Brilliant essayist and prolific author Rebecca Solnit explores the multiple ways men and society seek to silence, suppress and intimidate women and how women can…

  • Review
    Productive Workflow
    Making Work Visible
    Making Work Visibleby Dominica DeGrandis Productive Workflow

    Dominica DeGrandis, the Principal Flow Adviser at Tasktop, offers a condensed guide to the fundamentals of Lean, kanban and flow to help you prioritize work…

  • Review
    Simplicity Is Better
    Simply Effective
    Simply Effectiveby Ron Ashkenas Simplicity Is Better

    Ron Ashkenas believes simplicity improves results and leads to competitive advantages – and he shows you how to achieve it.

  • Review
    Purpose Is Power (and Profit)
    Deep Purpose
    Deep Purposeby Ranjay Gulati Purpose Is Power (and Profit)

    Renowned business author Ranjay Gulati takes a deep dive into the power of purpose, its profitability and its pitfalls.

  • Review
    Powerful Public Speaking
    TED Talks
    TED Talksby Chris Anderson Powerful Public Speaking

    TED curator Chris Anderson offers a superb, knowledgeable guide for beginner public speakers.

  • Review
    It Ain’t Easy
    Beyond Order
    Beyond Orderby Jordan B. Peterson It Ain’t Easy

    Best-selling cosmic advice-giver and moralist Jordan B. Peterson offers 12 more insightful, applicable, hard-nosed rules for living a fulfilled life. The only kind, he contends,…

  • Review
    How It All Works
    The Theory of Economic Development
    The Theory of Economic Developmentby Joseph A. Schumpeter How It All Works

    Economist Joseph A. Schumpeter’s classic text describes economic processes in illuminating detail.

  • Review
    History, Behind the Scenes
    Lady Bird Johnson
    Lady Bird Johnsonby Julia Sweig History, Behind the Scenes

    Award-winning author Julia Sweig chronicles the life, politics and activism of first lady Lady Bird Johnson.

  • Review
    Ask Fearlessly
    The Book of Beautiful Questions
    The Book of Beautiful Questionsby Warren Berger Ask Fearlessly

    “Questionologist” Warren Berger teaches you to ask the right questions at the right time to facilitate your relationships, your career and your self-growth.

  • Review
    Bending, Breaking and Blending
    The Runaway Species
    The Runaway Speciesby David Eagleman and Anthony Brandt Bending, Breaking and Blending

    Neuroscientist David Eagleman and composer Anthony Brandt offer a primer on the intersection of culture and creation and of novelty and predictability in pursuit of…