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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

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    Ask Fearlessly
    The Book of Beautiful Questions
    The Book of Beautiful Questionsby Warren Berger Ask Fearlessly

    “Questionologist” Warren Berger teaches you to ask the right questions at the right time to facilitate your relationships, your career and your self-growth.

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    Bending, Breaking and Blending
    The Runaway Species
    The Runaway Speciesby David Eagleman and Anthony Brandt Bending, Breaking and Blending

    Neuroscientist David Eagleman and composer Anthony Brandt offer a primer on the intersection of culture and creation and of novelty and predictability in pursuit of…

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    The Wonder of Algae
    Slime
    Slimeby Ruth Kassinger The Wonder of Algae

    Botany expert Ruth Kassinger explores the almost infinite universe of algae, its history, its role in Earth’s development, its influence on the development of the…

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    Equitable AI
    Ethical Machines
    Ethical Machinesby Reid Blackman Equitable AI

    CEO and former philosophy professor Reid Blackman provides a detailed, thoughtful and thoroughly applicable ethical guide for companies vested in machine learning (ML) and artificial…

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    How To Restructure Your Company
    A Brief Company Restructuring Manual
    A Brief Company Restructuring Manualby Arturo Demalde How To Restructure Your Company

    Businessman Arturo Alvarez Demalde offers a concise and practical guide to restructuring your organization.

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    Take Five Purposeful Steps
    Fix This Next
    Fix This Nextby Mike Michalowicz Take Five Purposeful Steps

    Prolific author Mike Michalowicz offers familiar sales advice in a new package: repurposing Maslow's hierarchy of human needs for businesses.

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    Avoiding War
    Why We Fight
    Why We Fightby Christopher Blattman Avoiding War

    Professor Christopher Blattman argues that thinking people prefer peace but that irrational concerns can spur war.

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    Explaining Yourself Is Good Business
    The Business Playbook
    The Business Playbookby Chris Ronzio Explaining Yourself Is Good Business

    Podcast host Chris Ronzio details how to construct, maintain, and update a company playbook for consistent, efficient operations.

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    For the Culture
    For the Culture
    For the Cultureby Marcus Collins For the Culture

    Professor Dr. Marcus Collins discusses marketing as cultural anthropology, basing much 0f his conversation on Christian teachings.

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    Staying Great
    Good to Great
    Good to Greatby Jim Collins Staying Great

    Jim Collins’s 2001 classic still has ample relevant wisdom to offer if greatness is your goal, even if some companies he tagged as examples didn’t have…