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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 Bond King’s Rise and Fall
    The Bond King
    The Bond Kingby Mary Childs The Bond King’s Rise and Fall

    Mary Childs — cohost of NPR’s Planet Money podcast — details the vertiginous rise and precipitate fall of Bill Gross, the insightful bond trader who foretold…

  • Review
    Economic Overlords
    Technofeudalism
    Technofeudalismby Yanis Varoufakis Economic Overlords

    Economist, political leader, and author Yanis Varoufakis accurately depicts the end of individuality under “technofeudalism.”

  • Review
    Uncovering Generational Truths
    The Generation Myth
    The Generation Mythby Bobby Duffy Uncovering Generational Truths

    Public policy expert Bobby Duffy explains how the media and lazy thinking perpetuate untruths about generational differences.

  • Review
    Learn from the Worst
    Extreme Economies
    Extreme Economiesby Richard Davies Learn from the Worst

    Economist Richard Davies explores the lives of people in nine “extreme economies” around the globe, each tested by a radical situation or challenge. What’s to be learned from…

  • Review
    A “Superordinate” Elite
    The Meritocracy Trap
    The Meritocracy Trapby Daniel Markovits A “Superordinate” Elite

    Yale law professor Daniel Markovits explains – using telling statistics and hard-nosed analysis – how meritocracy in the United States is not as democratic as it appears…

  • Review
    Startling Candor and Grace
    A Promised Land
    A Promised Landby Barack Obama Startling Candor and Grace

    Barack Obama grabs and holds your attention with his openness, absence of cynicism and willingness to share the backstage drama of his first term’s successes…

  • Review
    Vest in Life
    Flow
    Flowby Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Vest in Life

    Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s now 30-year-old essay on achieving flow and awareness remains timeless and current.

  • Review
    A History of Epidemics
    Epidemics and Society
    Epidemics and Societyby Frank Snowden A History of Epidemics

    Yale University’s Frank M. Snowden brilliantly discusses centuries of epidemics and their societal effects.

  • Review
    Coping with Grief
    Option B
    Option Bby Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant Coping with Grief

    Sheryl Sandberg, the COO of Facebook and the best-selling author of Lean In, candidly describes her grief at her husband’s death and offers guidance for others coping with the…

  • Review
    Language and the Brain
    The Bilingual Brain
    The Bilingual Brainby Albert Costa Language and the Brain

    Professor Albert Costa explores how learning two languages affects cognitive function, multitasking and processing information.