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.

Jake

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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Jason Zweig first started writing a personal finance column for The Wall Street Journal in 2008. Zweig also edited Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor, which Warren Buffett said "by far the finest book about investing ever published." He's the author of Your Money and Your Brain, one of the first books to look at investing's biology, as well as The Devil's Financial Dictionary, a satirical lexicon of Wall Street jargon.

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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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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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Originally self-published in November 2012,The Obstacle is the Wayhas sold 100,000 copies to date.  Its many fans include a former governor and movie star (Arnold Schwarzenegger), a hip hop icon (LL Cool J), an Irish tennis pro (James McGee), an NBC sportscaster (Michele Tafoya), and the coaches and players of winning teams like the New England Patriots, Seattle Seahawks, Chicago Cubs, and University of Texas men’s basketball team.  After The Obstacle is the Waywas published by Random House in 2014, it became a Wall Street Journalbestseller.  In 2015 it was translated into six languages including French, Russian, Turkish and Chinese.  The book draws its inspiration from stoicism (an ancient Greek philosophy of enduring pain or adversity with perseverance and resilience).  As Marcus Aurelius put it nearly 2000 years ago: “The impediment to action advances action.  What stands in the way becomes the way. ”

Jordan Hughes is a multidisciplinary Product Designer from Melbourne, Australia, specialising in product design, design systems, and Webflow development. He is the founder of Untitled UI and Good Books, and co-founder of Himalayas.

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George Raveling is an American college basketball player and coach. Raveling has been Nike's global basketball sports marketing director since he retired from coaching in 1994. A former FOX Sports Net color commentator, he is a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

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Matt D’Avella is a filmmaker known for his hit Netflix documentary, Minimalism: A Documentary About The Important Things. He has amassed an enourmous following on YouTube where he shares videos on minimalism, psychology, fitness, personal finance and life. He also hosts a popular podcast called The Groud Up Show.

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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.

Steven Pressfield is an American author of historical fiction, non-fiction, and screenplays.

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Aubrey Marcus is an American Fitness Expert, Entrepreneur, CEO, Author, Podcast Host, and Social Media Star from Santa Monica, California. He is well-recognized as the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Onnit (Wellness Company).

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Christopher Sommer is a former US national team gymnastics coach. He is also the founder of GymnasticBodies and as a world-renowned Olympic coach, Sommer is known for building his students into some of the strongest, most powerful athletes in the world.

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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.

Rana el Kaliouby is an Egyptian-American computer scientist and entrepreneur in the field of expression recognition research and technology development, which is a subset of facial recognition designed to identify the emotions expressed by the face.

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The Obstacle Is the Way

Ryan Holiday is the bestselling author of Trust Me, I’m Lying; The Obstacle Is the Way; Ego Is the Enemy; Conspiracy and other books about marketing, culture, and the human condition. His work has been translated into over 30 languages and has appeared everywhere from the New York Times to Fast Company. His company, Brass Check, has advised companies such as Google, TASER, and Complex, as well as multiplatinum musicians and some of the biggest authors in the world. He lives in Austin, Texas.

Trust Me, I’m Lying was the first book to blow the lid off of the speed at which rumors travel online and get traded up the media ecosystem until they become real headlines and generate real responses in the real world.  The culprit? Marketers and professional media manipulators incentivized to spread rumors that serve their own interests or fit their own agendas are encouraged by the toxic economics of the news business. 

Chase Jarvis is an American photographer, director, artist, and entrepreneur. Since April 2014, Jarvis has been the chief executive officer of CreativeLive, an online education platform that he co-founded in 2010.

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Trust Me, I'm Lying

In his new book, bestselling author Ryan Holiday draws on timeless Stoic and Buddhist philosophy—including the teachings of Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus, and even Lao Tzu—to show why slowing down is the secret weapon for those charging ahead.  In Stillness Is the Key, Holiday outlines a path for achieving this ancient but urgently necessary way of living.  All great leaders, thinkers, artists, athletes, and visionaries share one indelible quality: It enables them to conquer their tempers.  To avoid distraction and to discover great insights.  To achieve happiness while doing the right thing.  Holiday calls it stillness—to be steady while the world spins around you. 

Stillness is the Key

In 2007, Gawker published an anonymous post outed PayPal founder and billionaire investor Peter Thiel as gay.  But Thiel didn't like how he was portrayed in the post, so he masterminded a plan that would end nearly a decade later with a $140 million dollar judgment against Gawker, its bankruptcy, and the firing of its CEO and founder Nick Denton.  Only later would the world learn that this demise was not incidental. 

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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Brian Koppelman is an American filmmaker, essayist, podcaster, TV series creator, former music business executive and record producer.

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Conspiracy

Gmail, Facebook, Airbnb, and Evernote are four multibillion-dollar brands that have been built without spending a dime on traditional marketing techniques.  No press releases, no PR firm, and no billboards in Times Square.  Their unlikely success has not been luck but rather the result of the new marketing strategy called Growth Hacking.  In this e-special, bestselling author Ryan Holiday explains how the marketing game has changed forever.  He provides a new set of rules—critical information whether you’re an aspiring marketer, an entrepreneur, or a Fortune 500 senior executive. 

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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Andy founded Clearleft with Richard Rutter and Jeremy Keith in 2005. He was MD for 13 years, before moving into a more advisory role.

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The instant Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and international bestseller“While the history books are filled with tales of obsessive visionary geniuses who remade the world in their image with sheer, almost irrational force, I’ve found that history is also made by individuals who fought their egos at every turn, who eschewed the spotlight, and who put their higher goals above their desire for recognition. ” —from the prologueEarly in our careers, ego impedes learning and the cultivation of talent.  With success, it can blind us to our faults and sow future problems.  In failure, it magnifies each blow and makes recovery more difficult. 

Jan Losert is a designer who loves to design products and websites, no-code/develop in Webflow & create/sell digital resources for the community.

Ego Is the Enemy

<p>From the team that brought you The Obstacle Is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy, a beautiful daily devotional of Stoic meditations—an instant Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestseller.  Why have history's greatest minds—from George Washington to Frederick the Great to Ralph Waldo Emerson, along with today's top performers from Super Bowl-winning football coaches to CEOs and celebrities—embraced the wisdom of the ancient Stoics? Because they realize that the most valuable wisdom is timeless, and that philosophy is for living a better life, not a classroom exercise. </p>


Nathaniel Drew is a writer and filmmaker exploring the full range of the human experience. His Youtube channel has over 1.5m subscribers.

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Alex Lieberman is the Co-Founder of Morning Brew and the current Executive Chairman. He is also the host of The Founder's Journal podcast.‍

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