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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
    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
    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.

  • Review
    “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.

  • Review
    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.