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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
    Work With Common Sense
    Great at Work
    Great at Workby Morten T. Hansen Work With Common Sense

    Morten T. Hansen Ph.D. shares the results of his prodigious research into how to work smarter.

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    Own Your Data
    Living in Data
    Living in Databy Jer Thorp Own Your Data

    Data visionary Jef Thorp takes you on a tour of data visualization, conceptualization, ownership and inequality, and inspires you to take control of your data.

  • 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.

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    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.

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    American Empire (now defunct)
    Vanderbilt
    Vanderbiltby Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe American Empire (now defunct)

    CNN’s Anderson Cooper tells his forebears’ amazing tale: once America’s richest clan, they wasted it all.

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    Find Your Job
    Never Search Alone
    Never Search Aloneby Phyl Terry Find Your Job

    Phyl Terry offers a systematic approach to building job-hunting support, gaining crucial feedback and finding the job you really want.

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    Solve Client Problems
    P3 Selling
    P3 Sellingby Greg Nutter Solve Client Problems

    The P3 Selling approach overcomes many of the obstacles that make B2B selling such a challenge.