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Jeff Bezos on the insight that started Amazon: In 1994, Bezos came across a statistic that changed his life: worldwide web usage was growing at roughly 2,300% a year. "That was sort of a wakeup call for me that there was something going on," he recalls. At the time,... most people hadn't even heard of the web. This was the era of 28 kilobit per second modems and dial-up access. A very different age. But the signal was clear. Something was coming. Jeff Bezos explains the realisation that followed: "I realized you could make a bookstore on the web that could hold more books than a physical bookstore could ever hold. It could truly have universal selection." His background was in computers, not books. He's quick to point out that books weren't chosen out of personal passion: "My real compass, my real passion was computers, and that's how I was involved in this world of the web back in 94. But books was a great first best product to sell online." So why books specifically? Bezos breaks down the logic: "Books were very unique and still are in one respect, and that is that there are more items in the book category than there are items in any other category. There are millions of books active and in print around the world, and the largest physical book superstores only carry about 100, 150,000 of those millions of different books." That gap between what existed and what was accessible was the opening. On the web, you could solve a real problem. People couldn't find the books they wanted, especially the narrow, niche titles with smaller audiences. "We basically built Amazon to make it possible for people to find those hard to find books."show more

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In 1997, Jeff Bezos explained why he picked books over 19 other product ideas - and called the entire internet "Day One. He was working at a quantitative hedge fund in New York when he found the number that changed his life: web usage was growing 2,300% a year. That single statistic sent him searching for a business model that made sense against that growth curve. He made a list of 20 possible products to sell online. Books won. The reason had nothing to do with reading habits and everything to do with catalog size. Music, the second-largest category, had roughly 200,000 active CDs at any given moment. Books had over 3,000,000 titles in print worldwide, across every language - more than 1,500,000 in English alone. That gap is the entire insight: when a category has that many items, you can build a store online that couldn't exist any other way. No physical bookstore on Earth could stock 3,000,000 titles under one roof. The inventory system he built reflected that scale directly. A few thousand bestsellers sat in Amazon's own warehouse. Another 400,000 titles ran on what Bezos called "almost just-in-time" inventory - ordered electronically from a network of over a dozen wholesalers the same day a customer bought, arriving on the loading dock the next morning. Another 1,100,000 titles came straight from 20,000 different publishers, taking a couple weeks. And 1,000,000 out-of-print books got tracked down individually, when findable at all. 2,500,000 books in the catalog. Almost none of it physically warehoused. Then the interviewer asked the harder question: how do you capture attention on the internet when everyone is trying? Bezos didn't credit marketing. He credited doing something genuinely new. "Attention is the scarce commodity of the late 20th century." His actual strategy: build something with real value for the customer first. If it's genuinely new, journalists write about it unprompted. Customers tell other customers. The fanout compounds on its own. Amazon ran zero paid advertising in its first year. Every bit of growth came from word of mouth and media coverage. The first ad Bezos ever ran was a tiny line at the bottom of the New York Times front page - a URL functioning almost like a compressed pitch: click here, this is a bookstore. He closes with the line that outlived the interview by decades. "This is Day One. This is the Kitty Hawk stage of electronic commerce." Not the peak. Not even early growth. The first flight, barely off the ground, with almost everything about the medium still unbuilt.

In 1997, Jeff Bezos explained why he picked books over 19 other product ideas - and called the entire internet "Day One. He was working at a quantitative hedge fund in New York when he found the number that changed his life: web usage was growing 2,300% a year. That single statistic sent him searching for a business model that made sense against that growth curve. He made a list of 20 possible products to sell online. Books won. The reason had nothing to do with reading habits and everything to do with catalog size. Music, the second-largest category, had roughly 200,000 active CDs at any given moment. Books had over 3,000,000 titles in print worldwide, across every language - more than 1,500,000 in English alone. That gap is the entire insight: when a category has that many items, you can build a store online that couldn't exist any other way. No physical bookstore on Earth could stock 3,000,000 titles under one roof. The inventory system he built reflected that scale directly. A few thousand bestsellers sat in Amazon's own warehouse. Another 400,000 titles ran on what Bezos called "almost just-in-time" inventory - ordered electronically from a network of over a dozen wholesalers the same day a customer bought, arriving on the loading dock the next morning. Another 1,100,000 titles came straight from 20,000 different publishers, taking a couple weeks. And 1,000,000 out-of-print books got tracked down individually, when findable at all. 2,500,000 books in the catalog. Almost none of it physically warehoused. Then the interviewer asked the harder question: how do you capture attention on the internet when everyone is trying? Bezos didn't credit marketing. He credited doing something genuinely new. "Attention is the scarce commodity of the late 20th century." His actual strategy: build something with real value for the customer first. If it's genuinely new, journalists write about it unprompted. Customers tell other customers. The fanout compounds on its own. Amazon ran zero paid advertising in its first year. Every bit of growth came from word of mouth and media coverage. The first ad Bezos ever ran was a tiny line at the bottom of the New York Times front page - a URL functioning almost like a compressed pitch: click here, this is a bookstore. He closes with the line that outlived the interview by decades. "This is Day One. This is the Kitty Hawk stage of electronic commerce." Not the peak. Not even early growth. The first flight, barely off the ground, with almost everything about the medium still unbuilt.

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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

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

Perch

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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.

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.

Angela Rose

60,717 views • 2 months ago

This woman was in the kindergarten section of the public library and guess what she found? Yes, books about LGBTQ😡 She’s got this on live stream on her cell phone. One of the employees there tells her the library is not segregated by age, but she picked the books up specifically from the kindergarten section. And of course, she was asked to leave once they found out that it was on a live stream. But she made her point. Your children are not safe anywhere!

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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!

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!

Brian Krassenstein

1,064,272 views • 3 years ago

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."

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."

American Alchemy

149,069 views • 4 months ago

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)

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)

Startup Archive

675,310 views • 10 months ago

Zack Snyder on his dyslexia: "It was a challenge for me when I was, you know, young in school, and all I wanted to do was make movies because that was the thing that I got great pleasure from and reward from. I love books, and I'm an avid reader, but I just have a hard time because of the way that I perceive. "I've had a great sort of - one side of me anyways - was really satisfied by art and drawing and sculpture and sort of visual expression. And I think that that started to, you know, was the thing that kind of made me feel un-frustrated. And also the way the system was designed, sort of not to support me when I was in high school at that time. "It was very difficult, you know, there was a lot of, you know, just, difficulty. My English teacher in high school was worried about what my career would be, and I'm like. He would be happy to know that I'm in the Writers Guild of America now. "But, I think that that all those things are, they're all... you can transcend all those things with perseverance and with interest and with with help. And I think that that's an important part of it. "And I just think I've had to adapt, and sort of... I have my own style of the way I write, I write all, you know, but I'm pretty prolific. And I love- I listen to tons of audio books on tape, unabridged hours and hours and hours. That's all I do when I'm driving in the car or wherever I'm doing. And it's helped me a lot. "And yeah, I mean, I just hope that anyone who is- feels trapped or frustrated by the world in general. You know, they need to just, I think that we all have like a magic spark, and you need to just find the thing that makes you, you know, inspires you and, and gets you excited and pursue it as hard as you can find your passion in the world. That's a, that's a great motivator."

Zack Snyder on his dyslexia: "It was a challenge for me when I was, you know, young in school, and all I wanted to do was make movies because that was the thing that I got great pleasure from and reward from. I love books, and I'm an avid reader, but I just have a hard time because of the way that I perceive. "I've had a great sort of - one side of me anyways - was really satisfied by art and drawing and sculpture and sort of visual expression. And I think that that started to, you know, was the thing that kind of made me feel un-frustrated. And also the way the system was designed, sort of not to support me when I was in high school at that time. "It was very difficult, you know, there was a lot of, you know, just, difficulty. My English teacher in high school was worried about what my career would be, and I'm like. He would be happy to know that I'm in the Writers Guild of America now. "But, I think that that all those things are, they're all... you can transcend all those things with perseverance and with interest and with with help. And I think that that's an important part of it. "And I just think I've had to adapt, and sort of... I have my own style of the way I write, I write all, you know, but I'm pretty prolific. And I love- I listen to tons of audio books on tape, unabridged hours and hours and hours. That's all I do when I'm driving in the car or wherever I'm doing. And it's helped me a lot. "And yeah, I mean, I just hope that anyone who is- feels trapped or frustrated by the world in general. You know, they need to just, I think that we all have like a magic spark, and you need to just find the thing that makes you, you know, inspires you and, and gets you excited and pursue it as hard as you can find your passion in the world. That's a, that's a great motivator."

Zack Snyder Film

11,128 views • 7 months ago

Rep. Jasmine Crockett is now claiming that Charlie Kirk’s “rhetoric” was racist...and not only did she vote against the House resolution to honor him, she’s furious that MORE Democrats didn’t do the same. She’s now openly attacking the “Caucasians” in her own party who supported the resolution. What a sick and vile human being. “One of the things I do want to point out that’s not been laid out, that honestly hurts my heart, is when I saw the no votes, there were only two caucasians.” “For the most part, the only people that voted no were people of color.” “Because the rhetoric that Charlie Kirk continuously put out, there was rhetoric that specifically targeted people of color.” “And so it is unfortunate that even our colleagues could not see how harmful his rhetoric was specifically to us.” “And I can tell you that a month prior to him passing away, he had actually gotten out on his podcast, I wasn’t aware of this at the time, but he got out there and he was talking negatively about me directly.” “So if there was any way that I was going to honor somebody who decided that they were just going to negatively talk about me and proclaim that I was somehow involved in the great white replacement, yeah, I’m not honoring that kind of stuff.” “So to me, just like we wanted to make sure that those confederate relics were taken down, the idea of a new age relic being propped up was something that I just could not subscribe to, and it is unfortunate that more of my colleagues, even on my side of the aisle, could not see the the amount of harm that this man was attempting to inflict upon our communities.” Disgraceful.

Rep. Jasmine Crockett is now claiming that Charlie Kirk’s “rhetoric” was racist...and not only did she vote against the House resolution to honor him, she’s furious that MORE Democrats didn’t do the same. She’s now openly attacking the “Caucasians” in her own party who supported the resolution. What a sick and vile human being. “One of the things I do want to point out that’s not been laid out, that honestly hurts my heart, is when I saw the no votes, there were only two caucasians.” “For the most part, the only people that voted no were people of color.” “Because the rhetoric that Charlie Kirk continuously put out, there was rhetoric that specifically targeted people of color.” “And so it is unfortunate that even our colleagues could not see how harmful his rhetoric was specifically to us.” “And I can tell you that a month prior to him passing away, he had actually gotten out on his podcast, I wasn’t aware of this at the time, but he got out there and he was talking negatively about me directly.” “So if there was any way that I was going to honor somebody who decided that they were just going to negatively talk about me and proclaim that I was somehow involved in the great white replacement, yeah, I’m not honoring that kind of stuff.” “So to me, just like we wanted to make sure that those confederate relics were taken down, the idea of a new age relic being propped up was something that I just could not subscribe to, and it is unfortunate that more of my colleagues, even on my side of the aisle, could not see the the amount of harm that this man was attempting to inflict upon our communities.” Disgraceful.

The Vigilant Fox 🦊

576,482 views • 11 months ago

Was Ezekiel’s Story about a UFO Encounter? Banned Books of the Bible…. The Book of Enoch “I do not Believe you can be a Christian and not believe in Extraterrestrials”… I’m sure this is going to stir the pot… Do you believed there were books of the Bible that were banned? Extraterrestrials, are they demons? Where does the Book of Enoch fall? Have you read it? What do you think? Clip Full

Was Ezekiel’s Story about a UFO Encounter? Banned Books of the Bible…. The Book of Enoch “I do not Believe you can be a Christian and not believe in Extraterrestrials”… I’m sure this is going to stir the pot… Do you believed there were books of the Bible that were banned? Extraterrestrials, are they demons? Where does the Book of Enoch fall? Have you read it? What do you think? Clip Full

MJTruthUltra

1,367,668 views • 2 years ago

I just found a video from 17 years ago where Jeff Bezos explains the early successes and failures of Amazon- - The company began in his house - There was a glitch that allowed customers to order negative quantities of books (and get paid for it) But the company overcame it all due to Amazon's obsession with customer experience. Take 8 minutes to watch this today.

I just found a video from 17 years ago where Jeff Bezos explains the early successes and failures of Amazon- - The company began in his house - There was a glitch that allowed customers to order negative quantities of books (and get paid for it) But the company overcame it all due to Amazon's obsession with customer experience. Take 8 minutes to watch this today.

Dividendology

16,206 views • 1 month ago

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.

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.

Dwarkesh Patel

27,270 views • 2 months ago

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.

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.

David Senra

349,138 views • 7 months ago

"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."

"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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189,894 views • 4 months ago

📚 RUSSIA HAS DEFEATED the book market of my childhood. Let me tell you about a place you’ve never heard of. Petrivka. A book market in Kyiv, now called Pochaina metro. Before the internet existed for us, it was simply where you went for books. Rows and rows of them, open air, all year, in the rain and in the snow. I first went there holding my grandmother’s hand. I was small. We bought school textbooks, extra maths problem books, an English dictionary that I still remember the weight of.

📚 RUSSIA HAS DEFEATED the book market of my childhood. Let me tell you about a place you’ve never heard of. Petrivka. A book market in Kyiv, now called Pochaina metro. Before the internet existed for us, it was simply where you went for books. Rows and rows of them, open air, all year, in the rain and in the snow. I first went there holding my grandmother’s hand. I was small. We bought school textbooks, extra maths problem books, an English dictionary that I still remember the weight of.

Maria Drutska 🇺🇦

39,415 views • 4 days ago

📚🇲🇦 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.”

📚🇲🇦 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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40,965 views • 6 months ago

🇲🇦 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.”

🇲🇦 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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296,478 views • 8 months ago

JD Vance tells Joe Rogan there "probably was" a broader Epstein conspiracy, and he'll go to his "deathbed" believing there's a bigger story. VANCE: "The problem is, if you go back to the original investigation, it was designed in a way that was way too narrow. If there was a broader conspiracy, and my view is that there probably was, the evidence that existed in 2007, that was the opportunity to get." ROGAN: "So when you say there probably was a broader conspiracy, what exactly are you saying?" VANCE: "I think there are a few different options. Look, man, you and I could literally do two episodes about this. I've gone down every rabbit hole." ROGAN: "It's clear that he was trying to get in contact with people that he felt were influential. It was clear that he was trying to get people to get together on the island and meet at parties. So there was something he was doing where he was trying to either influence people or compromise people." VANCE: "Correct." ROGAN: "So there's some sort of an operation that was going on." VANCE: "There is a story there. And I will go to my deathbed believing there's a story there, but I can't prove it. And I promise you, there's not some document that at least I'm hiding that allows us to prove exactly what was going on and how."

JD Vance tells Joe Rogan there "probably was" a broader Epstein conspiracy, and he'll go to his "deathbed" believing there's a bigger story. VANCE: "The problem is, if you go back to the original investigation, it was designed in a way that was way too narrow. If there was a broader conspiracy, and my view is that there probably was, the evidence that existed in 2007, that was the opportunity to get." ROGAN: "So when you say there probably was a broader conspiracy, what exactly are you saying?" VANCE: "I think there are a few different options. Look, man, you and I could literally do two episodes about this. I've gone down every rabbit hole." ROGAN: "It's clear that he was trying to get in contact with people that he felt were influential. It was clear that he was trying to get people to get together on the island and meet at parties. So there was something he was doing where he was trying to either influence people or compromise people." VANCE: "Correct." ROGAN: "So there's some sort of an operation that was going on." VANCE: "There is a story there. And I will go to my deathbed believing there's a story there, but I can't prove it. And I promise you, there's not some document that at least I'm hiding that allows us to prove exactly what was going on and how."

The Vigilant Fox 🦊

339,597 views • 1 month ago

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.

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

3,460,399 views • 1 year ago