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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 A Hook Point is a piece of copy, an insight from statistics or a professional's point of view, a philosophy, or a person's thought that can help you get people interested in your content or business. It helps you generate new leads, launch products successfully, generate social followers at scale, and drive massive revenue growth. #2 Hooks are an important...

Get the Summary of Andy Borowitz's Profiles in Ignorance in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Andy Borowitz has been called a "Swiftian satirist" (The Wall Street Journal) and "one of the country's finest satirists" (The New York Times). Millions of fans and New Yorker readers enjoy his satirical news column "The Borowitz Report." Now, in Profiles in Ignorance, he delivers "a wittily alarming...

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 Wang Zhao was a Chinese monk who, in the first spring of the twentieth century, delivered a document that would change the Chinese-speaking world forever. He had been hiding out in Japan for the past two years, carrying a hefty bounty on his head. His desire to go home eclipsed his fear of capture. #2 The Chinese language seemed to be a major impediment to China's...

Get the Summary of Nick Maggiulli's Just Keep Buying in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Everyone faces big questions when it comes to money: questions about saving, investing, and whether you're getting it right with your finances. Unfortunately, many of the answers provided by the financial industry have been based on belief and conjecture rather than data and evidence—until now. In...

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 iSight Partners, a private intelligence firm, had a team that specialized in software vulnerability research. In 2014, they discovered a secret security flaw in Microsoft Office that allowed hackers to break out of the confines of the software application and begin to execute their own code on a target computer. #2 iSight's Ukrainian staff found the email, and Hultquist,...

Get the Summary of Gary Zukav's The Seat of the Soul in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In The Seat of The Soul, Gary Zukav shares a powerful discovery he made after studying historical figures like Albert Einstein, William James, and the psychologist Carl Jung. Zukav believes that these thought-leaders (along with many others) developed their ground-breaking theories and game-changing...

Get the Summary of Joel Kotkin's The Coming of Neo-Feudalism in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by greater concentration of wealth and property, reduced upward mobility, demographic stagnation, and increased dogmatism. If the last seventy years saw...

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 The tech and investment world was different in the 1990s. It was a great time to be starting out in the tech industry, as there seemed to be no end to the promise of technology and the amount of wealth creation available to everyone involved. #2 I was completely oblivious to the tech boom around me, as I had spent my time after graduating from Stanford University...

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 Günther Quandt, the son of a prominent German textile family, profited from the war and moved to Berlin, where he became a leading figure in the German war economy. He loved the city. #2 Günther Quandt, the son of a prominent German textile family, profited from the war and moved to Berlin. He became a leading figure in the German war economy. He loved the...