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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Nir Eyal is an Israeli-born American author, lecturer and investor known for his bestselling book, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products.

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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Paul Graham is an English-born American computer scientist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, author, and essayist. He is best known for his work on Lisp, his former startup Viaweb, co-founding the influential startup accelerator and seed capital firm Y Combinator, his blog, and Hacker News.

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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.

Broderick Stephen Harvey is an American comedian, businessman and entertainer. He hosts The Steve Harvey Morning Show, Family Feud, Celebrity Family Feud, the Miss Universe competition and Fox's New Year's Eve. Harvey began his career as a comedian.

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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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<p>&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.</p>


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John D. Saunders is a Digital Marketing Strategist, entrepreneur and web designer helping startups build profitable websites & digital products. John has worked with global brands including Land Rover, Audi, the NAACP and Google. He is the founder of digital marketing agency, 5Four Digital, as well as blackwallet.org, blackillustrations.com and illustratorhub.com.

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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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Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nassim Nicholas Taleb has a lot to say about volatility and the unexpected.  In The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, he outlines a problem; in Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, he offers a solution to that problem.  His solution is simple: to be antifragile, things must benefit from disorder.  These are things that gain from uncertainty and disrepair--something many people would say is impossible.  How can one benefit from volatility? Taleb's answer will surprise you. 

Ev Williams is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur who has founded several Internet companies. Williams was previously chairman and CEO of Twitter. He also founded Blogger and Medium, two of the largest and most notable blog distribution websites.

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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Nat Eliason is the CEO and founder of Growth Machine, an SEO-focused growth agency, and co-founder of Cup & Leaf Tea. He is also the author of “Come Again?” and writes about psychology, sex, money, travel, entrepreneurship, drugs, and everything else you’d find interesting at nateliason.com.

Sahil Lavingia is the founder and CEO of Gumroad, and an early-stage venture capitalist. Prior to founding Gumroad, Lavingia worked as a designer and engineer at virtual DJ website Turntable.fm and was an early employee at personal curation site Pinterest. He attended the University of Southern California’s Viterbi School of Engineering.

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Terrance is the founder of McArthur Capital, a investment management company comprised of securities, real estate, small businesses and venture investments. He runs the site Good Books in his free time. 

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Ana Lorena Fabrega retired from teaching in the summer of 2019 to pursue her dream of being an EDUpreneur—a passionate educator who works outside the classroom to provide innovative learning opportunities.She co-founded Write of Passage Summer Camp in early 2020 with David Perrell, a virtual learning experience where youngsters from all around the world come together to work on causes they care about.She is presently the Chief Evangelist at Synthesis, an unique online learning experience for curious and ambitious youth interested in learning how to build the future. They're employing a game-based approach to learning to scale up the most inventive concepts from Ad Astra, the school Synthesis cofounder founded with Elon Musk.

Albert Wenger is a German-American businessman and venture capitalist. Wenger is a managing partner at Union Square Ventures, a New York City-based venture capital firm with investments in companies such as Twilio, Etsy, Firebase, Behance, and MongoDB.

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Vinod Khosla is an Indian American billionaire businessman and venture capitalist. He is a co-founder of Sun Microsystems, LS9, Inc and the founder of Khosla Ventures. In 2014, Forbes named him amongst the 400 richest people in the United States.

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Matt Mullenweg is an American entrepreneur and web developer living in Houston. He is known for developing the free and open-source web software WordPress, now managed by The WordPress Foundation.

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Changpeng Zhao, commonly known as "CZ", is the founder and CEO of Binance.

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Patrick O’Shaughnessy is the Chief Executive Officer at O’Shaughnessy Asset Management (OSAM). He is the author of Millennial Money: How Young Investors can Build a Fortune, published by Palgrave Macmillan, and a contributing author to the Fourth Edition of What Works on Wall Street. Patrick’s podcast “Invest Like the Best,” which is a series of conversations with leading investors across asset classes, recently passed 7 million listeners.

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Vladimir Tenev is a Bulgarian American billionaire entrepreneur, and the co-founder of Robinhood, a US-based financial services company.

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Andrew Chen is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, investing in early stage consumer startups — focused on the themes of marketplaces, micro-entrepreneurship, games/entertainment, and next-gen social products. Previously, he led the Rider Growth teams at Uber.

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Tom Bilyeu is the co-founder of billion-dollar brand Quest Nutrition and the co-founder and host of Impact Theory.

James Altucher is an American hedge fund manager, entrepreneur, author, venture capitalist and podcaster. He has founded or cofounded more than 20 companies. He has published 20 books, and he is a contributor to publications including The Financial Times and The Huffington Post.

Mohnish Pabrai is the founder and Managing Partner of the Pabrai Investments Funds, the founder and CEO of Dhandho Funds, and the author of The Dhandho Investor and Mosaic: Perspectives on Investing​.

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David Kadavy is bestselling author of The Heart to Start & Design for Hackers, & host of Love Your Work.

Shane Parrish is the founder of Farnam Street Media and the CEO of Syrus Partners, a private investment company. Shane is on the Board of Directors for WeCommerce.

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Antifragile

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.

A black swan is an extremely unlikely, difficult-to-predict, and yet inevitable event that carries huge consequence.  Google's success was a black swan; so was 9/11.  According to Nassim Nicholas Taleb, black swans are at the root of almost every aspect of life.  We don't acknowledge their existence until it's too late.  Humans are hardwired to learn specifics when they should be focused on generalities. 

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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The Black Swan

<p>These short and often contrarian meditations take readers on a journey through both the unseen and complex worlds of risk, randomness, uncertainty, and knowledge.  The Bed of Procrustes takes its title from Greek mythology: the story of a man who made his visitors fit his bed to perfection by either stretching them or cutting their limbs.  It represents Taleb’s view of modern civilization’s hubristic side effects—modifying humans to satisfy technology, blaming reality for not fitting economic models, inventing diseases to sell drugs, defining intelligence as what can be tested in a classroom, and convincing people that employment is not slavery.  In aphoristic prose that cuts like a knife and with trademark dark humor, Taleb has co-written an antidote for our modern condition—one where we face unnecessary suffering due to the harmful illusion of control. </p>


The Bed of Procrustes

Fooled by Randomness is a word-of-mouth sensation that will change the way you think about business and the world.  It is an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand.  The other books in the series are The Black Swan, Antifragile, Skin in the Game, and The Bed of Procrustes. 

Fooled by Randomness

In his most provocative and practical book yet, one of the foremost thinkers of our time redefines what it means to understand the world, succeed in a profession, contribute to a fair and just society, detect nonsense, and influence others.  In examples ranging from Hammurabi to Seneca, Antaeus the Giant to Donald Trump, Nassim Nicholas Taleb shows how the willingness to accept one’s own risks is an essential attribute of heroes, saints, and flourishing people in all walks of life. 

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