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Leadership The fourth-largest revenue category is Leadership, making up 13% of titles, 11% of Amazon reviews, 14% of unit volume, and 15% of revenue. This tells us Leadership books are reasonably more productive (15%) and have slightly higher unit economics (7%). Leadership books also have moderate staying power with positive 3 and 10-year CAGR, before going negative around 11 to 15-year CAGR.
Snow Leopard
Category Pirates, Nicolas Cole, Christopher Lochhead, and Eddie Yoon
Therefore, focus less on specific individuals and case studies and more on broad patterns.
The Psychology of Money
Morgan Housel
Graeber observes that behind the man with the ledger is always a man with a gun. Debt relations have always been power relations, and money has always been, and remains today, entwined with debt and therefore with violence.