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Do talks. Speaking forces you to have skin in the game. Any embarrassment that results is only temporary - in fact it will drive you to be better. Worried that your talk will suck? Don’t worry - it will! Everyone has some amount of bad talks in them. Better to get them out earlier (when it doesn’t matter) than later (when you don’t have a choice).
The Coding Career Handbook
Shawn Wang
The richness of Islamic culture was to a large part the result of a wealthy and peaceful society. The Abbasid caliphs were less interested than their predecessors in conquest, and instead concentrated on establishing an organized and affluent society. Lower taxes encouraged businesses to grow and gave rise to greater commerce and industry, while strict laws reduced corruption and protected the citizens.
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy From Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
Simon Singh
Massive breakthroughs, outlier results, and overnight successes are always the result of years of compounding.
Nothing happens until everything happens all at once.
The compound effect is truly the most powerful force in the universe.
Unf*ck Your Sales
Jakob Greenfeld
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