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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
    Design Thinking
    Change by Design
    Change by Designby Tim Brown Design Thinking

    Design icon and founder of the influential IDEO design firm, Tim Brown offers a practical workbook for new, inspiring methods of problem-solving and product implementation.

  • Review
    Avoid Stupidity
    The Ministry of Common Sense
    The Ministry of Common Senseby Martin Lindstrom Avoid Stupidity

    Best-selling author and common sense consultant Martin Lindstrom explains how to rid your company of inane rules and managerial stupidity.

  • Review
    Better Habits Now
    Better Than Before
    Better Than Beforeby Gretchen Rubin Better Habits Now

    Gretchen Rubin provides unusually intelligent, workable, commonsense advice for anyone seeking to develop healthier habits – and she includes herself in that cohort.

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    Who Is Baba Ramdev?
    The Baba Ramdev Phenomenon
    The Baba Ramdev Phenomenonby Kaushik Deka Who Is Baba Ramdev?

    Indian journalist Kaushik Deka offers a sometimes detailed and always positive biography of Indian yoga and business star Baba Ramdev.

  • Review
    Building Nike
    Shoe Dog
    Shoe Dogby Phil Knight Building Nike

    As few entrepreneurs could, Nike founder Phil Knight proves himself worthy of his own story.

  • Review
    Enslavement and Emancipation
    On Juneteenth
    On Juneteenthby Annette Gordon-Reed Enslavement and Emancipation

    Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Harvard professor Annette Gordon-Reed combines personal memoir and history to present a moving portrait of enslavement and emancipation…

  • Review
    War Endures
    War
    Warby Margaret MacMillan War Endures

    Prolific historian Margaret MacMillan provides a stark, harrowing assessment of war’s past and its inevitable future.

  • Review
    Mutual Misunderstanding
    Talking From 9 to 5
    Talking From 9 to 5by Deborah Tannen Mutual Misunderstanding

    Linguist Deborah Tannen explores the complexity of gender-based office communication and how it affects women.

  • Review
    An Exponential Tomorrow
    The Exponential Age
    The Exponential Ageby Azeem Azhar An Exponential Tomorrow

    Host of the Exponential View podcast Azeem Azhar paints a detailed, grim portrait of a future in which tech giants immune to the will of governments…

  • Review
    Looking at Musk
    Elon Musk
    Elon Muskby Ashlee Vance Looking at Musk

    Ashlee Vance takes a long, perhaps too admiring look at Elon Musk, Paypal, Tesla and SpaceX.