phildini, while reading wants to read Cultural Amnesia by Clive James

Cultural Amnesia by Clive James
"I can't remember when I've learned as much from something I've read―or laughed as much while doing it." ―Jacob Weisberg, …
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44% complete! phildini, while reading has read 46 of 104 books.

"I can't remember when I've learned as much from something I've read―or laughed as much while doing it." ―Jacob Weisberg, …

Winner of the 2009 James Beard Book Award for Best Book: Reference and Scholarship Great cooking goes beyond following a …

The author shows that before there was money, there was debt. For 5,000 years humans have lived in societies divided …

Drawn from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, This Explains Everything presents 150 of the most deep, surprising, and brilliant explanations …

Far too many of us have claimed productivity as the cornerstone of success. Brainwashed by capitalism, we subject our bodies …
Social media is robbing us of the archives and memory.
— Rest Is Resistance by Tricia Hersey (Page 34)
Cannot advocate enough for reading this back-to-back with "The Memory Librarian" by Janelle Monáe. So many overlapping themes and concepts.

Exits are the least understood part of investing and entrepreneurship. Very little has been written about exits - the emphasis …

Tea's gift for death magic means that she is a bone witch, a title that makes her feared and ostracized …
Look, the thing you have to understand about this book is that the guy who wrote it comes from a time where Silicon Valley venture capital was even more explicitly a boy's club. I'm not saying it's not today, I'm saying there are at least some signs of progress along equity and equality lines.
If you can get past the Hawaiian dude-bro attitude that is authentic to Guy Kawasaki, what you'll find is a pretty concise, easy-reading volume of intensely practical startup advice. It's written for a startup scene circa 2004, but it still feels shockingly relevant today.
If you have no desire to run a startup, don't read this book. If you want just the best advice from the book, here's my take on it: phildini.dev/key-insights-from-the-art-of-the-start
If you do want to start a startup, then, with a sigh, I encourage you to think about reading this book.