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Palmer Luckey: “I read thousands of books before I was 13” Asked about his experience of being homeschooled as a child, Oculus and Anduril co-founder Palmer Luckey replies: “I was really lucky . . . there were [a lot] of things where I was interested for my own reasons and very good at self-directed learning. I read thousands of books before I was 13. Literally thousands of books.” What kinds of books? “Everything,” Palmer replies. “The classics, science fiction, The Art of the Deal — the entire gamut of everything that you would want. I was checking out lots of books from the library. Also lots of people gave me books. Everyone knew that Palmer liked to read so people would sometimes buy me new books but more often adult friends would just dump massive quantities of books.” Palmer’s mom was also on Barnes & Noble’s registry for teachers: “She had the educator’s discount for buying stuff from Barnes & Noble. I forget what the discount was but it was some extraordinary discount. Barnes & Noble did a lot for teachers — especially back then. And so I just read, and read, and read, and read . . . I loved science. I loved engineering. I loved chemistry. Math — like real math — I was never really a fan.” source: Shawn Ryan
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Palmer Luckey: “I read thousands of books before I was 13” Asked about his experience of being homeschooled as a child, Oculus and Anduril co-founder Palmer Luckey replies: “I was really lucky . . . there were [a lot] of things where I was interested for my own reasons and very good at self-directed learning. I read thousands of books before I was 13. Literally thousands of books.” What kinds of books? “Everything,” Palmer replies. “The classics, science fiction, The Art of the Deal — the entire gamut of everything that you would want. I was checking out lots of books from the library. Also lots of people gave me books. Everyone knew that Palmer liked to read so people would sometimes buy me new books but more often adult friends would just dump massive quantities of books.” Palmer’s mom was also on Barnes & Noble’s registry for teachers: “She had the educator’s discount for buying stuff from Barnes & Noble. I forget what the discount was but it was some extraordinary discount. Barnes & Noble did a lot for teachers — especially back then. And so I just read, and read, and read, and read . . . I loved science. I loved engineering. I loved chemistry. Math — like real math — I was never really a fan.” source: Shawn Ryan

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249,298 просмотров • 5 месяцев назад

“Hi Lexham fans, my name’s Jesse and I am the CEO of Baker Publishing Group, but before that job I was the publisher of Lexham Press. Late last year, Baker acquired Lexham from Logos Bible Software. So, Lexham’s books are now being integrated into the Baker system. Most of them will become either Baker Books or Baker Academic titles. There was also a large number of Lexham titles under contract, and those will eventually be published by Baker. We also welcomed some key staff over from Lexham. I know for some of you it may come as a surprise, but both for the books and for the authors, this is great news. Lexham’s books will live on within the larger Baker ecosystem, we maintain a close relationship with Logos, and those books are still a part of that platform. Lexham published books that loved the word, loved the faith, and loved the church. That spirit is very much alive at Baker. So please watch this space as we continue to talk about the great books that we are all bringing to the world.” --Jesse Myers, CEO of Baker Publishing Group
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“Hi Lexham fans, my name’s Jesse and I am the CEO of Baker Publishing Group, but before that job I was the publisher of Lexham Press. Late last year, Baker acquired Lexham from Logos Bible Software. So, Lexham’s books are now being integrated into the Baker system. Most of them will become either Baker Books or Baker Academic titles. There was also a large number of Lexham titles under contract, and those will eventually be published by Baker. We also welcomed some key staff over from Lexham. I know for some of you it may come as a surprise, but both for the books and for the authors, this is great news. Lexham’s books will live on within the larger Baker ecosystem, we maintain a close relationship with Logos, and those books are still a part of that platform. Lexham published books that loved the word, loved the faith, and loved the church. That spirit is very much alive at Baker. So please watch this space as we continue to talk about the great books that we are all bringing to the world.” --Jesse Myers, CEO of Baker Publishing Group

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These are my thoughts on the Obama library. First of all, I thought it was going to be a library. I didn’t realize that it was just a propaganda community space. There was a sign outside, saying that the building was on stolen land. A large percentage of the books were about racial issues in America. The actual library was small and unorganized.
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Meet 100-year-old Grace Linn. Grace is a widow of a WWII soldier who died fighting the Nazis. She calls herself “a mother of liberty”. At a recent Martin County School Board meeting in Florida, she gave a passionate speech against the banning of books. “My husband, Robert Nicoll, was killed in action in World War II at a very young age. He was only 26, defending our democracy, constitution and freedoms. One of the freedoms that the Nazis crushed was the freedom to read the books that they banned... Banning books and burning books are the same. Both are done for the same reason – fear of knowledge. Fear is not freedom. Fear is not liberty. Fear is control. My husband died as a father of freedom,” she said. Thank you Grace!
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Meet 100-year-old Grace Linn. Grace is a widow of a WWII soldier who died fighting the Nazis. She calls herself “a mother of liberty”. At a recent Martin County School Board meeting in Florida, she gave a passionate speech against the banning of books. “My husband, Robert Nicoll, was killed in action in World War II at a very young age. He was only 26, defending our democracy, constitution and freedoms. One of the freedoms that the Nazis crushed was the freedom to read the books that they banned... Banning books and burning books are the same. Both are done for the same reason – fear of knowledge. Fear is not freedom. Fear is not liberty. Fear is control. My husband died as a father of freedom,” she said. Thank you Grace!

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Bob Lazar on why his MIT record doesn't exist: "I was sent there..." "If you're sent there for a specific reason, maybe to do some classified research or work" "It's going to be off the books." "Assuming I was working on a weapons system, that's always still covered under the security agreement. And at this point in my life, I just don't want to make any waves." "If you wanted to hire a guy who could think clearly, out of the box, and help solve problems, but who could be discredited if you needed to do that… Bob was probably the best person in the country at the time."
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Jeff Bezos explains the “releasing the work” framework he used to build Amazon In the early days of Amazon, Jeff Bezos had too many ideas. Then Jeff Wilke, a new Amazon executive at the time, told his boss, “Jeff, you have enough ideas to destroy Amazon.” “This was just a shocking idea for me,” Bezos recalls. “As a founder, I had the great luxury of always being able to hire my tutors. I would hire these experienced, senior executives . . . And I would listen to them and they would teach me.” When Bezos asked Wilke what he meant by this, Wilke responded, “You have to release the work at the right rate so that the organization can accept it.” Bezos reflects on this point: “Every time I released an idea, I was creating a backlog of work in process. And because it was just stacking up, it was adding no value. In fact, it was creating distraction . . . This sounds so obvious, but it was not obvious to me at the time. And this was a profound insight for me. So I started prioritizing the ideas better, keeping lists of them, and keeping ideas to myself until the organization was ready for the ideas.” He continues: “I also started figuring out how to build an organization that can be ready for more ideas. That’s about having the right senior team and leadership and giving those people the executive bandwidth so they could do more ideas per unit of time. And that is what we built. We built a company that’s very good at inventing and doing more than one thing at a time. And as the company gets bigger, you do want to be able to do more than one thing at a time. But that idea of ‘releasing the work’ was very profound for me. It made us operationally more effective while still being inventive.” Video source: Reuters (2025)
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It was really interesting to learn that The Prince was not unique for its time for being a book written for only a single person to ever read. Before the printing press, books were expensive and cumbersome to copy. And even after printing was established, elites often wanted proprietary insights. So they’d pay someone to write a book just for them, or just for their kids. Some of these books have survived, like The Prince. But maybe most of them are lost. The funny thing is that maybe the era when books were mostly written to be published widely was the exception, and we’re returning to the Renaissance standard. Already most of the words I read in a given day are written just for me by AI. As AIs get to human level and beyond, we might be back with masterpieces that are only ever read by one or two people.
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Tobi: If you don't read books, you live a lifetime. If you read books, you live a thousand, right? David: I'm going to interrupt you real quick because I took notes on this podcast six years ago. This is the first time I came across you and you said something that I absolutely love, and I had in my notebook, and I went to find when I took it. It was 2020, and you said, "Books are the closest thing you ever come to finding cheat codes for real life. You can access the entire learnings of someone else's career in a few hours." Tobi: It tracks, doesn't it? David: I dedicate my life to this, so of course, I'm going to agree with that. Tobi: Absolutely. I really think we need to shout this more from the rooftops, right? The one weird trick seems to be just read books.
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Tobi: If you don't read books, you live a lifetime. If you read books, you live a thousand, right? David: I'm going to interrupt you real quick because I took notes on this podcast six years ago. This is the first time I came across you and you said something that I absolutely love, and I had in my notebook, and I went to find when I took it. It was 2020, and you said, "Books are the closest thing you ever come to finding cheat codes for real life. You can access the entire learnings of someone else's career in a few hours." Tobi: It tracks, doesn't it? David: I dedicate my life to this, so of course, I'm going to agree with that. Tobi: Absolutely. I really think we need to shout this more from the rooftops, right? The one weird trick seems to be just read books.

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348,446 просмотров • 5 месяцев назад

"I remember I was doing an impersonation of what I was going to do— both in the books and the scripts, he's not that juvenile. and Jacob [Tierney] asked me if that was really what I was going to do. And I was like, yep! This was the only way I wanted to do this hospital scene."
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"I remember I was doing an impersonation of what I was going to do— both in the books and the scripts, he's not that juvenile. and Jacob [Tierney] asked me if that was really what I was going to do. And I was like, yep! This was the only way I wanted to do this hospital scene."

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🇲🇦 72-year-old Mohamed Aziz is the most photographed bookseller in the world, living in Rabat, Morocco. Aziz, who became an orphan at the age of six, had a difficult life; he could not even finish high school because textbooks were too expensive. In 1963, at the age of 15, he started his career as a bookseller with a pile of 9 books under a tree. Now, his bookstore sells thousands of books, and he spends his days surrounded by books, devouring the stories that emerge from them. He spends 6 to 8 hours a day reading, stopping only to eat, pray, smoke, and help his customers. All his remaining time is spent walking around neighborhoods in search of books to later display and sell in his shop. He says this is his revenge on childhood and poverty: “I have read more than 4,000 books in Arabic, French, English, or Spanish, which means I have lived more than 4,000 lives. Everyone should have such a chance! All I need to enjoy my day are two pillows and a book.”
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📚🇲🇦 72-year-old Mohamed Aziz is the most photographed bookseller in the world, living in Rabat, Morocco. Aziz, who became an orphan at the age of six, had a difficult life; he could not even finish high school because textbooks were too expensive. In 1963, at the age of 15, he started his career as a bookseller with a pile of 9 books under a tree. Now, his bookstore sells thousands of books, and he spends his days surrounded by books, devouring the stories that emerge from them. He spends 6 to 8 hours a day reading, stopping only to eat, pray, smoke, and help his customers. All his remaining time is spent walking around neighborhoods in search of books to later display and sell in his shop. He says this is his revenge on childhood and poverty: “I have read more than 4,000 books in Arabic, French, English, or Spanish, which means I have lived more than 4,000 lives. Everyone should have such a chance! All I need to enjoy my day are two pillows and a book.”

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40,682 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад

In 1968, Sidney Poitier was at a press conference at the height of his career. He made it very clear how he felt about the press. Funny that I had to find this on a discarded film reel with 1000s of books, Microfiche and films. Now you can see it.
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In 1968, Sidney Poitier was at a press conference at the height of his career. He made it very clear how he felt about the press. Funny that I had to find this on a discarded film reel with 1000s of books, Microfiche and films. Now you can see it.

Brian Roemmele

3,283,999 просмотров • 1 год назад

We had a grand time this November, one that lapped last November. Not only that, but it actually lapped all the previous Novembers put together. The most telling metric would be all the giveaways. My little Mablog Shoppe is something of a little putt putt operation, but last year we were able to give away over 6,000 titles for free. That was not to be sniffed at, not at all, but I was kind of flummoxed when I looked up the numbers for this November. The Mablog Shoppe gave away approximately 31, 400 titles. I mean, jeepers. What about Canon Press? They gave away over $2.5 million worth of books. Last year the amount was about about half a million. This year outdid all the previous years added up together. That was a metric ton of the Moscow Mood shipped all over the world in a completely reckless manner. Let’s see what comes from it. There was a deal where you could buy five books and get 5 Canon+ family subscriptions free. This was our Loser Club deal. Canon gave away over $500K worth of subscriptions that way—which if you add to the book giveaways puts Canon’s generosity north of $3M. In the Trojan Horse video, I promised more traffic, which was something that actually happened also. Across all platforms, there were more than 4M views, up 40% over last year—and last year had been the biggest up to that point. So that was a cannonball splash that got the lifeguard wet. The word to describe all this is gaminerie.
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We had a grand time this November, one that lapped last November. Not only that, but it actually lapped all the previous Novembers put together. The most telling metric would be all the giveaways. My little Mablog Shoppe is something of a little putt putt operation, but last year we were able to give away over 6,000 titles for free. That was not to be sniffed at, not at all, but I was kind of flummoxed when I looked up the numbers for this November. The Mablog Shoppe gave away approximately 31, 400 titles. I mean, jeepers. What about Canon Press? They gave away over $2.5 million worth of books. Last year the amount was about about half a million. This year outdid all the previous years added up together. That was a metric ton of the Moscow Mood shipped all over the world in a completely reckless manner. Let’s see what comes from it. There was a deal where you could buy five books and get 5 Canon+ family subscriptions free. This was our Loser Club deal. Canon gave away over $500K worth of subscriptions that way—which if you add to the book giveaways puts Canon’s generosity north of $3M. In the Trojan Horse video, I promised more traffic, which was something that actually happened also. Across all platforms, there were more than 4M views, up 40% over last year—and last year had been the biggest up to that point. So that was a cannonball splash that got the lifeguard wet. The word to describe all this is gaminerie.

Douglas Wilson

16,636 просмотров • 7 месяцев назад

Jeff Bezos explains Amazon’s process for expanding into new products like Kindle and AWS “I would definitely advise a small startup company to be as narrow and as focused as is possible to be. If you look at the original Amazon business plan, there was no hint of anything other than books in it… I wanted to build an online bookstore, and that was it.” But the online bookstore worked better than they thought it would. So Amazon launched music, and that worked better than they thought. Then video, and that worked too. So Jeff sent an email to customers: “I picked about 1,000 customers and I said, besides the things we sell today - books, music, and video - what would you like to see us sell? And the list came back incredibly long-tailed… So it’s been kind of one foot in front of the other.” As Jeff explains, Amazon expands into new businesses in two ways: “One is from a customer need. We will work from a customer need to the skills that we need. And the other one is skills forward: from a skillset we have to a new set of customers.” Kindle is an example of a customer need - Amazon had no hardware team at the time, but to make sure they didn’t miss the transition to ebooks, they built one. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is an example of skills-forward: “We had probably more distributed computing expertise than anybody else in the world because of transactions. Transaction systems are so complicated and hard to build, and we had a service-oriented architecture of great complexity - probably before anybody else. Because we were doing that, we could see the future a little bit and decided to build AWS, which has turned into a huge business in its own right.” Jeff concludes: “Business is very situational. Rules of thumb are good, but they have to be applied to the right situation. Sometimes the old maxim that you should stick to the knitting is correct, but sometimes it’s wrong. And a senior leader’s job is to figure out: Which situation are you in?” Video source: Business Insider (2014)
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Jeff Bezos explains Amazon’s process for expanding into new products like Kindle and AWS “I would definitely advise a small startup company to be as narrow and as focused as is possible to be. If you look at the original Amazon business plan, there was no hint of anything other than books in it… I wanted to build an online bookstore, and that was it.” But the online bookstore worked better than they thought it would. So Amazon launched music, and that worked better than they thought. Then video, and that worked too. So Jeff sent an email to customers: “I picked about 1,000 customers and I said, besides the things we sell today - books, music, and video - what would you like to see us sell? And the list came back incredibly long-tailed… So it’s been kind of one foot in front of the other.” As Jeff explains, Amazon expands into new businesses in two ways: “One is from a customer need. We will work from a customer need to the skills that we need. And the other one is skills forward: from a skillset we have to a new set of customers.” Kindle is an example of a customer need - Amazon had no hardware team at the time, but to make sure they didn’t miss the transition to ebooks, they built one. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is an example of skills-forward: “We had probably more distributed computing expertise than anybody else in the world because of transactions. Transaction systems are so complicated and hard to build, and we had a service-oriented architecture of great complexity - probably before anybody else. Because we were doing that, we could see the future a little bit and decided to build AWS, which has turned into a huge business in its own right.” Jeff concludes: “Business is very situational. Rules of thumb are good, but they have to be applied to the right situation. Sometimes the old maxim that you should stick to the knitting is correct, but sometimes it’s wrong. And a senior leader’s job is to figure out: Which situation are you in?” Video source: Business Insider (2014)

Startup Archive

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Aragorn vs. Sauron unreleased scene was not cut because it wasn’t in the books. The real reason it was removed is entirely related to the decision throughout the film trilogy to portray Sauron as disembodied, existing only as the Great Eye in Barad-dûr. In The Two Towers, Gollum, while being tortured in Mordor, describes Sauron with the words: ‘The Black Hand has four fingers on it, but they are enough.’ This suggests that the finger cut off by Isildur never regrew, implying that Sauron still possesses a physical hand and therefore a physical form of flesh and bone. Additionally, Tolkien describes Sauron’s form in the Third Age in his letters as: ‘Sauron’s shape was that of a man of more than human stature, but not gigantic. He was a visible incarnation of malice and hatred.’ Taking all of this into account, Sauron was a fallen Maia with a physical form, but he was too weakened and diminished in power to directly confront Aragorn.
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Aragorn vs. Sauron unreleased scene was not cut because it wasn’t in the books. The real reason it was removed is entirely related to the decision throughout the film trilogy to portray Sauron as disembodied, existing only as the Great Eye in Barad-dûr. In The Two Towers, Gollum, while being tortured in Mordor, describes Sauron with the words: ‘The Black Hand has four fingers on it, but they are enough.’ This suggests that the finger cut off by Isildur never regrew, implying that Sauron still possesses a physical hand and therefore a physical form of flesh and bone. Additionally, Tolkien describes Sauron’s form in the Third Age in his letters as: ‘Sauron’s shape was that of a man of more than human stature, but not gigantic. He was a visible incarnation of malice and hatred.’ Taking all of this into account, Sauron was a fallen Maia with a physical form, but he was too weakened and diminished in power to directly confront Aragorn.

LOTR Universe

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Interesting perspective on school vs. books by MrBeast: "I graduated from school thinking books suck, books are boring, and I'd never read a book. But in reality, they were just giving me sh*tty books that I hated." "I loved The Goal, and I loved Walter Isaacson's biography on Steve Jobs and Elon Musk...but the problem is just every book they gave me in school was terrible."
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Interesting perspective on school vs. books by MrBeast: "I graduated from school thinking books suck, books are boring, and I'd never read a book. But in reality, they were just giving me sh*tty books that I hated." "I loved The Goal, and I loved Walter Isaacson's biography on Steve Jobs and Elon Musk...but the problem is just every book they gave me in school was terrible."

Alex & Books 📚

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