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Leo Melamed, Man of the Futures: The Story of Leo Melamed & the Birth of Modern Finance
J. Christopher Giancarlo, Cameron Winklevoss, • CryptoDad: The Fight for the Future of Money
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Ash Maurya • Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works (Lean (O'Reilly))
The temptation to overprint based on price breaks was recognized as a problem with a solution by an executive at Penguin in the early 1990s. Printing contracts were changed to charge a unit price based on the previous year’s “average” print runs, so there was no evident price break for larger reprint quantities. This saved the production department
... See moreMike Shatzkin • The Book Business: What Everyone Needs to Know®
As expected, only aquacultured herbivorous fish that grow well consuming plant-based feed—most notably, different species of Chinese carp (bighead, silver, black, and grass carp are the most common)—have a low energy cost, typically less than 300 mL/kg. But, traditional Christmas Eve dinners in Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, and Poland aside, ca
... See moreVaclav Smil • How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
Why are organizations, everywhere, political, commercial, and social, increasingly unable to manage their affairs?
Why are individuals, everywhere, increasingly in conflict with and alienated from the organizations of which they are part?
Why are society and the biosphere increasingly in disarray?
Dee Hock • One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organizati…
