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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
    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.

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    “Zennials” Explained
    The 100 Trillion Dollar Wealth Transfer
    The 100 Trillion Dollar Wealth Transferby Ken Costa “Zennials” Explained

    Banker Ken Costa highlights some fundamental differences in the “Zennial” and baby boomer financial mind-sets.

  • Review
    Laissez-faire Origins
    The Big Myth
    The Big Mythby Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway Laissez-faire Origins

    Professors Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway trace the origins of the talking points that have come to characterize laissez-faire economics.

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    An Enduring Dilemma
    The Innovator’s Dilemma
    The Innovator’s Dilemmaby Clayton M. Christensen An Enduring Dilemma

    Everything will eventually be disrupted, says business guru Clayton Christensen. Why does his seminal book show no signs of aging?

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    The Power of Self-Compassion
    Mirror Mirror
    Mirror Mirrorby Julie Nee The Power of Self-Compassion

    This actionable framework helps boost your self-love, self-affirmation and kindness to the person in the mirror.

  • Review
    Tools for Mental Peace
    Mental Immunity
    Mental Immunityby Richard Norman Tools for Mental Peace

    Richard Norman provides helpful, if familiar, ways to stay strong amid stress and boost your self-regard.

  • Review
    A One-Man Whirlwind
    The Thank You Economy
    The Thank You Economyby Gary Vaynerchuk A One-Man Whirlwind

    Marketing guru and speaker Gary Vaynerchuk believes if your firm isn’t already using social media, it doesn’t care about its customers. To change that, he suggests…

  • Review
    Unimaginable Destruction
    The Great Influenza
    The Great Influenzaby John Barry Unimaginable Destruction

    John Barry details how a world war, a mutating virus and mismanaged government responses made the 1918 influenza pandemic so deadly.

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    The Death of Discourse
    Antisocial
    Antisocialby Andrew Marantz The Death of Discourse

    New Yorker staff writer Andrew Marantz explores the impact that an untruthful, unfettered, hate-filled online world has on American democracy and discourse.

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    A Guaranteed Income
    Fair Shot
    Fair Shotby Chris Hughes A Guaranteed Income

    Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes proposes a practical solution to widespread inequality: a guaranteed income for all Americans who earn less than $50,0000 annually.