Antonio García Martínez is an American New York Times Best Selling author and tech entrepreneur. He is a former product manager for Facebook, the CEO-founder of AdGrok and a former quantitative analyst for Goldman Sachs.

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Jake Knapp is the inventor of the Design Sprint and a New York Times bestselling author. He’s written two books, Sprint and Make Time, and has coached teams at places like Slack, LEGO, IDEO, and NASA on design strategy and time management.

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Lena Dunham is an American actress, writer, director, and producer. She is known as the creator, writer, and star of the HBO television series Girls, for which she received several Emmy Award nominations and two Golden Globe Awards.

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Vera Mindy Chokalingam, known professionally as Mindy Kaling, is an American actress, comedian, and writer. She initially gained recognition for the NBC sitcom The Office, where she played the character Kelly Kapoor and served as a writer, executive producer, and director.

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James Clear is a personal development keynote speaker and New York Times bestselling author of Atomic Habits. His entertaining talks teach audiences about small habits, decision-making, and continuous improvement.

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Adam M. Grant is an American psychologist and author who is currently a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania specializing in organizational psychology. He received academic tenure aged 28, making him the youngest tenured professor at the Wharton School.

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Seth Godin is the author of 18 books. He's also the founder of the online workshops altMBA and The Marketing Seminar. Godin has founded several companies, including Yoyodyne and Squidoo. In 2018, he was inducted into the Marketing Hall of Fame.

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Peter Thiel is an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He is a co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies and Founders Fund. He was ranked No. 328 on the Forbes 400 in 2018, with a net worth of $2.5 billion.

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Tim Ferriss has been listed as one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People” and one of Fortune’s “40 under 40.” He is an early-stage technology investor/advisor and the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers. The Tim Ferriss Show podcast has now exceeded 400 million downloads.

Joshua Waitzkin is an American chess player, martial arts competitor, and author. As a child, he was recognized as a prodigy, and won the U.S. Junior Chess championship in 1993 and 1994. The film "Searching for Bobby Fischer" is based on his early life.

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Arianna Huffington is a Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman. She is the founder of The Huffington Post, the founder and CEO of Thrive Global, and the author of fifteen books.

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Dr. David Sinclair, a Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, is one of the most well-known researchers in the field of rejuvenation. David is Australian-born and released his bestselling book, 'Lifespan: Why We Age and Why We Don’t Have To', in 2019.

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&nbsp;Simon Oliver Sinek is a British-American author and motivational speaker. His first book, Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action , was published in 2009; his most recent book, <a href="https://bestbooks.to/book/the-infinite-game_simon-sinek" target="_self">The Infinite Gam</a>e: The Pursuit of Happiness in Its Own Terms , was published in 2017. He has been featured as a guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show, TEDx conferences, and at the United Nations Global Compact Leaders Summit.

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, statistician, and former option trader and risk analyst, whose work concerns problems of randomness, probability, and uncertainty.

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Jocko Willink is an American retired officer of the United States Navy, who served in the Navy SEAL teams. He is also a podcaster and author. His military service saw combat actions in the war in Iraq, where he eventually commanded the SEAL Team 3's Task Unit Bruiser that fought in the bloody battle

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For two hundred years the pessimists have dominated public discourse, insisting that things will soon be getting much worse.  But in fact, life is getting better; and at an accelerating rate.  Food availability, income, and life span are up; disease, child mortality, and violence are down all across the globe.  Africa is following Asia out of poverty; the Internet, the mobile phone, and container shipping are enriching peoples lives as never before. In his bold and bracing exploration into how human culture evolves positively through exchange and specialization, bestselling author Matt Ridley does more than describe how things are getting better.  He explains why.  An astute, refreshing, and revelatory work that covers the entire sweep of human history; from the Stone Age to the Internet. 

Mark Zuckerberg is an American internet entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is known for co-founding and leading Facebook, Inc. and its namesake social networking website as its chairman, chief executive officer, and controlling shareholder.

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Naval Ravikant (born in 1974) is an Indian born American Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Founder, and CEO from New York. He is best known as AngelList's Founder. In addition, he is presently serving as the Chief Executive Officer, Chairman, and owner of AngelList Company.

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Bill Gates is an American business magnate, software developer, investor, and philanthropist. He is best known as the co-founder of Microsoft Corporation.

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Marc Andreessen is an American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer. He is the co-author of Mosaic, the first widely used web browser; co-founder of Netscape; and co-founder and general partner of Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.

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Jordan Peterson is a Canadian clinical psychologist and a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. His main areas of study are in abnormal, social, and personality psychology, with a particular interest in the psychology of religious and ideological belief and the assessment and improve

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Alfred Lin is an American venture capitalist at Sequoia Capital. Lin was the COO, CFO, and Chairman of Zappos.com until 2010.

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Anthony Pompliano, who is best known as Pomp, is an American entrepreneur, investor, and host of The Pomp Podcast (formerly Off The Chain). He has built and sold numerous companies, ran Product & Growth teams at Facebook, and manages a portfolio valued at more than $500 million in early-stage tech companies.

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John Douglas Arnold (born 1974) is an American billionaire, former hedge fund manager, and former natural gas trader. His firm, Centaurus Advisors, LLC, was a Houston-based hedge fund, composed of former Enron traders, that specialized in trading energy products. Arnold announced his retirement from running the hedge fund on May 2, 2012. Arnold now focuses on his political activism through Arnold Ventures LLC.

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The Rational Optimist

Matt Ridley is a British journalist and businessman. Ridley is best known for his writings on science, the environment, and economics. He publishes a blog, and has been a regular contributor to The Times newspaper.

&nbsp;Arguing that genetic predetermination and learned behavior are both at work in creating the human brain's structure, acclaimed science writer Matt Ridley sets out to describe how this paradoxical creature, the human being, can be simultaneously free-willed and motivated by instinct and culture. By decoding the human genome, we now know that genes not only predetermine the broad structure of the brain, they also absorb formative experiences and react to social cues. They are consequences as well as causes of the will.

The Agile Gene

The human genome has been mapped, but its meaning has yet to be determined.  Scientists have discovered the twenty-three pairs of chromosomes that make up the human genome, which raises many questions that will profoundly impact the way we think about disease.  Questions that will affect your life and the lives of your future children. - By picking one newly discovered gene from each pair of chromosomes and telling its story, this author recounts the history of our species and its ancestors from the dawn of life to the brink of future medicine.  From Huntington's disease to cancer, from the applications of gene therapy to the horrors of eugenics, this book probes the scientific, philosophical, and moral issues arising as a result of this tremendous breakthrough. 

Genome

The New York Times bestselling author of The Rational Optimist and Genome returns with a fascinating, brilliant argument for evolution that definitively dispels a dangerous, widespread myth: that we can command and control our world. The Evolution of Everything is about bottom-up order and its enemy, the top-down twitch—the endless fascination human beings have for design rather than evolution, for direction rather than emergence. Drawing on anecdotes from science, economics, history, politics and philosophy, Matt Ridley’s wide-ranging, highly opinionated opus demolishes conventional assumptions that major scientific and social imperatives are dictated by those on high, whether in government, business, academia or morality.

The Evolution of Everything

Why are people obliged to live in cooperative, complex communities if, as Darwin says, evolution relentlessly pushes the survival of the fittest? A biologist and former American editor of the Economist presents the results of recent research that demonstrate that self-interest and mutual help are not mutually exclusive in this intriguing investigation of the foundations of human trust and morality.  Indeed, our cooperative inclinations may have developed as a result of mankinds fundamental selfishness—by sharing favors, we may benefit ourselves as well as others, he claims. The Origins of Virtue re-examines the common assumptions on which we base our conduct toward others, whether in our positions as parents, siblings, or business partners, by brilliantly arranging the latest discoveries of geneticists, psychologists, and anthropologists.  Matt Ridley tells us how discoveries in computer programming, microbiology, and economics have given us a fresh perspective on how and why we bond to one other, with the humor and brilliance of his celebrated study of human and animal sexuality, The Red Queen. 

The Origins of Virtue

In Genome, bestselling author Matt Ridley brought genetics down to earth with a riveting account of the human genetic code.  Now he peers beneath the skin to explore with equal force and imagination how genes determine much of what we are: our physical selves, our emotional selves, and our social selves.  We inherit not just a genome, but a full complement of behavior and character from our parents and from the world around us.  In the same gene pool that gives us violence, jealousy, and depression also lurk resilience, empathy, and cooperation. 

Nature Via Nurture

Referring to Lewis Carrolls Red Queen from Through the Looking-Glass, a character who has to keep running to stay in the same place, Matt Ridley demonstrates why sex is humanitys best strategy for outwitting its constantly mutating internal predators.  The Red Queen answers dozens of other riddles of human nature and culture -- including why men propose marriage, the method behind our maddening notions of beauty, and the disquieting fact that a woman is more likely to conceive a child by an adulterous lover than by her husband.  Brilliantly written, The Red Queen offers an extraordinary new way of interpreting the human condition and how it has evolved. 

The Red Queen

Francis Crick, who died in 2004 at the age of 88, is considered by many to be one of the greatest scientists of all time, alongside Galileo, Darwin, and Einstein.  Between 1953 and 1966 he led a revolution in biology by uncovering the genetic code, the fundamental digital cipher of heredity.  His personal discoveries include not only the double helix but also protein synthesis, the nature of the code as consisting of three-letter units, and much of the code itself.  Ridley's biography follows him from his middle-class childhood in the English Midlands through a mediocre education and six years developing magnetic mines for the Royal Navy to Crick's decision to pursue biology at age thirty-one. 

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Innovation is the main event of the modern age.  It has caused dramatic improvements in our living standards and unsettling changes within our society.  Forget short-term symptoms like Donald Trump and Brexit: they are symptoms of a larger ill, namely innovation itself.  Innovation remains poorly understood by policymakers and businesspeople alike, yet irrevocable, inevitable, and inexorable when it does happen.  Matt Ridley argues in this book that we need to change the way we think about innovation, seeing it as an incremental process happening for no particular reason but rather as a direct result of the human habit of exchange. 

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