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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
    We’re All In Sales
    To Sell Is Human
    To Sell Is Humanby Daniel H. Pink We’re All In Sales

    Daniel Pink sets out to construct “a broad rethinking of sales as we know it.”

  • Review
    The Medium Is the Messenger
    Messengers
    Messengersby Stephen Martin and Joseph Marks The Medium Is the Messenger

    Behavioral scientist Stephen Martin and researcher Joseph Marks draw insightful conclusions from in-depth research into how messengers influence your responses and the attention you pay…

  • Review
    When You Speak
    Talk
    Talkby Elizabeth Stokoe When You Speak

    Social psychologist Elizabeth Stokoe provides a fascinating – and yet practical – exploration of the systems underlying conversational patterns and how you can apply them…

  • Review
    Thiel’s Law
    Zero to One
    Zero to Oneby Peter Thiel and Blake Masters Thiel’s Law

    Peter Thiel offers his eccentric, yet commonsense perspective on business, monopolies, start-ups and collaboration.

  • Review
    Own Your Brand
    Platform
    Platformby Cynthia Johnson Own Your Brand

    Digital branding expert Cynthia Johnson offers a basic primer for beginners who want to burnish their online personal brand.

  • Review
    Through Your Nose
    Breath
    Breathby James Nestor Through Your Nose

    James Nestor offers revelatory insights into the health and psychological benefits of breathing more slowly – and always through your nose.

  • Review
    Escaping Gender Stereotypes
    The Gendered Brain
    The Gendered Brainby Gina Rippon Escaping Gender Stereotypes

    Cognitive neuroscientist Gina Rippon, PhD presents a wealth of scientific data to demonstrate the minimal innate differences between men and women and the enduring power…

  • Review
    Information as Energy
    The Ascent of Information
    The Ascent of Informationby Caleb Scharf Information as Energy

    Caleb Scharf, director of the Columbia Astrobiology Center, offers a self-renewing, self-contradictory discussion of information as an evolutionary source of universal energy.

  • Review
    Passionate Selling
    It Ain’t Rocket Surgery
    It Ain’t Rocket Surgeryby Brian McKittrick Passionate Selling

    Sales ace Brian McKittrick offers straightforward, functional sales advice all salespeople can apply immediately.

  • Review
    Whither AI?
    Architects of Intelligence
    Architects of Intelligenceby Martin Ford Whither AI?

    Futurist author Martin Ford interviews myriad experts to determine the path of oncoming AI.