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I asked, "What's the best history book you've ever read?"

I received 300+ responses.

Here are 20 books that will help you understand the world and how we got here:

1/

Sapiens

by @harari_yuval

https://t.co/lUZQ84rpDX

2/

The Lessons of History

by Ariel Durant & Will Durant

https://t.co/yJs2qN3acr

3/

Guns, Germs, and Steel

by Jared Diamond

https://t.co/rKFBcptM8b

4/

A Brief History of Nearly Everything

by @billbrysonn

https://t.co/Ndl6r8sQfz

5/

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

by Jack Weatherford

https://t.co/jSUFMSWxjj

6/

1776

by David McCullough

https://t.co/zoQS8ovRrf

7/

A Little History of the World

by E. H. Gombrich

https://t.co/GDetb4Rg4w

8/

The Guns of August

by Barbara W. Tuchman

https://t.co/ONTm2A3TCh

9/

The Silk Roads

by @peterfrankopan

https://t.co/CABoaCsfn3

10/

The Invention of Nature

by @andrea_wulf

https://t.co/Fw4jccq244

11/

The Ascent of Money

by @nfergus

https://t.co/MMJZ15LCCO

12/

An Ancestor’s Tale

by @RichardDawkins

https://t.co/mKUnijhRnc

13/

Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee

by Dee Brown

https://t.co/D4rCfWZYQh

14/

The Dawn of Everything

by @davidgraeber & @davidwengrow

https://t.co/SrG8it8Jv0

15/

A People's History of the United States

by Howard Zinn

https://t.co/42OPvfgcF0

16/

How to Hide an Empire

by @dimmerwahr

https://t.co/hxQ4iYzJHy

17/

The Warmth of Other Suns

by @Isabelwilkerson

https://t.co/2HXurjb2pa

18/

The March of Folly

by Barbara W. Tuchman

https://t.co/yeZ8yV69y8

19/

SPQR

by @wmarybeard

https://t.co/IuPqyyBdOG

20/

Lies My Teacher Told Me

by @JamesWLoewen

https://t.co/6zFjSjvBnl

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I asked, "What's the best book about investing?"

I received 400+ responses.

Here are 25 brilliant books that will make you a better investor:
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You've heard of Moore's and Murphy's Law.

But did you know there are dozens of other laws that can help you better navigate life, business, relationships?

Here are 20+ powerful laws you should know:

Note:

Some of these laws are better known as principles, effects, or razors, but for the sake of simplicity, I call them all laws.

Now let's dive in!

Amara's Law:

• We overestimate technology in the short run and underestimate it in the long run.

Never forget how fast tech moves.

The first cellphone was a foot tall and could only make calls.

An iPhone today fits in your pocket and can do everything a laptop can do.

Alder's Law:

• If something cannot be settled by experiment then it is not worthy of debate.

Don't waste your time arguing if Jordan was better than LeBron or any other similar hypothetical situation that can't be tested.

There are a million better ways to spend your time.

Acton's Law:

• Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Be prepared for people to change once they get a new position.

When someone becomes powerful, you'll find out their true colors and discover if they're actually a good person or were just pretending.

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There’s been a big increase in books being banned in schools and libraries.

But reading such books gives us the chance to explore diverse ideas, perspectives, and cultures.

Here are 20 frequently banned books you should read:

1/

1984

by George

2/

Brave New World

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The Kite Runner

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Fahrenheit 451

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It got 2+ BILLION downloads last year alone.

Here are 20 @joerogan podcasts worth watching:

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Naval Ravikant (@naval)

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I asked, "What’s the BEST leadership book you’ve ever read?"

I received 200+ responses.

Here are 20 books that will make you a better boss:

1/

Extreme Ownership

by @jockowillink & @LeifBabin

2/

Leaders Eat Last

by @simonsinek

3/

The Coaching Habit

by

4/

Act Like A Leader, Think Like A Leader

by @HerminiaIbarra

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I’m often asked by college students for reading recommendations to help them learn more about investing. I feel like I change my answers, at least a bit, all the time depending on what I’m reading and what’s on my mind at any given time, but here’s my current list….

1. Warren Buffett’s Letters to Shareholders

2. “Poor Charlie’s Almanack”

3. Howard Marks’ “The Most Important Thing”

4. Nassim Taleb’s books, in this order…. “Fooled by Randomness” (twice, back-to-back), “The Black Swan” (once), “Antifragile” (twice, back-to-back), and then “Skin in the Game” (once).

I think after reading Buffett and Munger, things sometimes seem too easy. Taleb’s books helped me think about risk and randomness in a way other books haven’t. Howard Marks’ book (or letters) help a lot too, but Taleb’s books pound those lessons in.

5. Peter Kaufman’s essay on “Culture”

6. William Green’s “Richer, Wiser, Happier.” And you don’t just learn from the investors profiled in the book (about investing and life), you also learn so much from @williamgreen72 as he synthesizes and simplifies the important things.

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36 Amazing short books (less than 200 pages):

1) Meditations
2) On The Shortness of Life
3) The Art of Living
4) Steal Like An Artist
5) The Last Lecture
6) The Miracle Morning
7) The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
8) Tribe
9) The Greatest Salesman In The World
10) Lying
11) Make Your Bed
12) Finite & Infinite Games

13) The Compound Effect
14) The Dip
15) Poke The Box
16) Tribes
17) Anything You Want
18) The Go-Giver
19) Ignore Everybody
20) The Four Agreements
21) The Strangest Secret
22) Man's Search For Meaning
23) Nobody Wants To Read Your Sh*t
24) The War of Art

25) Gifts of Imperfection
26) Tao Te Ching
27) Ikigai
28) How To Fight A Hydra
29) Checklist Manifesto
30) Eat The Frog
31) Poor Richard's Almanack
32) Effective Executive
33) Who Moved My Cheese
34) 7 Brief Lessons on Physics
35) Lessons of History
36) The Boy, Fox, Mole & Horse

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Here's a list of 50 books...

every one of them is a page-turner.

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1. A Night to Remember: The Classic Account of the Final Hours on the Titanic by Walter Lord

2. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe

3. On Wings of Eagles: The Inspiring True Story of One Man’s Patriotic Spirit — and His Heroic Mission to Save His Countrymen by Ken Follett

4. Annapurna: The First Conquest of an 8,000-Meter Peak by Maurice Herzog

5. A Thousand Hills: Rwanda’s Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It by Stephen Kinzer

6. The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea by Sebastian Junger

7. Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar

8. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain

9. Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World’s Greatest Outlaw by Mark Bowden

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Asura Andhaka hangs on to a trishula held by 6-armed Shiva.

Once Parvathi & Shiva were relaxing in the pleasant gardens of Mount Mandhara.

Bhagwan Shiva sat down there to enjoy the happiness.Parvati closed the eyes of Shiva playfully & darkness covered the whole universe.Parvati was perplexed & her palms were wet with perspiration.A few drops of her sweat mixed with sweat from Shiva’s body& fell to the ground.

From this sweat,a fierce creature was born,it started to roar.Child was born blind as Shiva's eyes were closed so was named as Andaka.Andha means darkness&also ignorance.Around the same time Asura Hiranyaksha was performing rigorous tapas Shiva for a boon of powerful son.

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@ChenHuailun here. I'm adding a supplementary thread before today's scheduled one to expand on the origins and early history of the Church of the East (aka the Nestorian Church) ~ahc #jingjiao 1/

The Church of the East traces its origins to the christological position of the School of Antioch, which held that the human and divine and human essences (ουσία) of Christ were united in a single prosopon (πρόσωπον). ~ahc #jingjiao 2/

This ran against the position of the School of Alexandria, which held that the two essences of Christ were united in a single hypostasis (ὑπόστασις). In general terms, hypostasis is more inherent than prosopon. ~ahc #jingjiao 3/

One implication of the Antiochene rejection of the hypostatic union is that Mary could not accurately be called the Theotokos, or God-bearer. Instead, she is the Christotokos, the Christ-bearer. ~ahc #jingjiao 4/

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Margatha Natarajar murthi - Uthirakosamangai temple near Ramanathapuram,TN
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Unique Natarajar made of emerlad is abt 6 feet tall.
It is always covered with sandal paste.Only on Thriuvadhirai Star in month Margazhi-Nataraja can be worshipped without sandal paste.

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as Emerald has scientific property of its molecules getting disturbed when exposed to light/water/sound.This is an ancient Shiva temple considered to be 3000 years old -believed to be where Bhagwan Shiva gave Veda gyaana to Parvati Devi.This temple has some stunning sculptures.

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Skinner's Law:

• If procrastinating on an item, you only have 2 options:

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2. Make the pleasure of doing it greater than the pleasure of not doing it.

Luck Razor:

• If stuck with 2 equal options, pick the one that feels like it will produce the most luck later down the line.

I used this razor to go for drinks with a stranger rather than watch Netflix.

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Bragging Razor:

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• If someone downplays their success or happiness, assume it’s double what they claim.

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Return on Equity (#ROE) and Return on Capital Employed (#ROCE) are two important Financial Ratios used in #FundamentalAnalysis of Stocks.

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#StockMarket #Investing #FundamentalAnalysis

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4⃣

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