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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
    An Epidemic of Profits
    Empire of Pain
    Empire of Painby Patrick Radden Keefe An Epidemic of Profits

    Award-winning journalist Patrick Radden Keefe details the Sackler family’s incredible success fomenting and sustaining America’s opioid addiction.

  • Review
    How Amazon Does It
    Working Backwards
    Working Backwardsby Colin Bryar and Bill Carr How Amazon Does It

    Amazon insiders Colin Bryar and Bill Carr detail Amazon’s processes for hiring, compensation and expansion as well as using metrics, generating new ideas and nurturing its corporate culture.

  • Review
    Shape Your Brand
    On Brand
    On Brandby Aliza Licht Shape Your Brand

    Branding coach Aliza Licht – who also wrote Leave Your Mark – offers detailed guidance – for beginners – for building and maintaining your personal…

  • Review
    After the Factory Closes
    American Made
    American Madeby Farah Stockman After the Factory Closes

    Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Farah Stockman chronicles the monetary, emotional, and political impact of the loss of American skilled blue-collar jobs.

  • Review
    Friction or Not
    The Friction Project
    The Friction Projectby Robert I. Sutton and Huggy Rao Friction or Not

    Robert I. Sutton and Huggy Rao explain how organizational friction works, for good or ill, and how to use it productively.

  • Review
    Stolen Cells
    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacksby Rebecca Skloot Stolen Cells

    Scientists took Henrietta Lacks’s cells without asking – cells that brought others profit and success.

  • Review
    Difficult Topics Well Raised
    Hood Feminism
    Hood Feminismby Mikki Kendall Difficult Topics Well Raised

    Activist Mikki Kendall boldly goes where few Black women writers have gone – she exposes and then suggests how to heal the racial fault lines in…

  • Review
    Quick Praise Gets Results
    The One Minute Manager
    The One Minute Managerby Spencer Johnson and Kenneth Blanchard Quick Praise Gets Results

    To motivate your staff members – and to get the results you want – catch people doing something right and praise them immediately and in…

  • Review
    Passionate, Poetic Science
    Cosmos
    Cosmosby Carl Sagan Passionate, Poetic Science

    Writer, professor, astronomer and NASA adviser Carl Sagan explains the universe and humanity’s place in it.

  • Review
    Empathy and Warmth
    The Excellence Dividend
    The Excellence Dividendby Tom Peters Empathy and Warmth

    Business advice titan Tom Peters explains that the human element drives excellence, and it is the only thing that can temper an avalanche of tech.