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.

Antonio García Martínez

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

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.

Jason

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

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.

Arianna

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.

Lena

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.

David

&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.

Simon

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.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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.

Mindy

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.

James

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.

Adam

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

Jocko

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.

Seth

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.

Peter

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.

Michael

How a Nobel Prize–winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality. Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process.  Their papers showed the ways in which the human mind erred, systematically, when forced to make judgments in uncertain situations.  Their work created the field of behavioral economics, revolutionized Big Data studies, advanced evidence-based medicine, led to a new approach to government regulation, and made much of Michael Lewis’s own work possible.  Kahneman and Tversky are more responsible than anybody for the powerful trend to mistrust human intuition and defer to algorithms. The Undoing Project is about a compelling collaboration between two men who have the dimensions of great literary figures.  They became heroes in the university and on the battlefield―both had important careers in the Israeli military―and their research was deeply linked to their extraordinary life experiences.  Amos Tversky was a brilliant, self-confident warrior and extrovert, the center of rapt attention in any room; Kahneman, a fugitive from the Nazis in his childhood, was an introvert whose questing self-doubt was the seedbed of his ideas.  They became one of the greatest partnerships in the history of science, working together so closely that they couldn’t remember whose brain originated which ideas, or who should claim credit.  They flipped a coin to decide the lead authorship on the first paper they wrote, and simply alternated thereafter. This story about the workings of the human mind is explored through the personalities of two fascinating individuals so fundamentally different from each other that they seem unlikely friends or colleagues.  In the process they may well have changed, for good, mankind’s view of its own mind. 

David Heinemeier Hansson is a Danish programmer, racing driver and the creator of the popular Ruby on Rails web development framework and the Instiki wiki. He is also a partner at the web-based software development firm Basecamp.

David Heinemeier Hansson

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

Alfred

Mark Cuban is an American entrepreneur and investor. He is the owner of the National Basketball Association (NBA)'s Dallas Mavericks, co-owner of 2929 Entertainment, and chairman of AXS TV. He is also one of the main "shark" investors on the ABC reality television series, Shark Tank.

Mark

Raymond Dalio is an American billionaire investor, hedge fund manager, and philanthropist. Dalio is the founder, co-chairman and co-chief investment officer of investment firm Bridgewater Associates, one of the world's largest hedge funds. Bloomberg ranked him as the world's 79th-wealthiest person in February 2020.

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.

Anthony

Richard H. Thaler is an American economist and the Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. In 2015, Thaler was president of the American Economic Association.

Richard H. Thaler

Paul Bassat is an Australian attorney and co-founder of Square Peg Capital, an Australian venture capital fund. He co-founded online job search website Seek Limited in 1997 with his brother Andrew Bassat.‍

Paul

David Mayer de Rothschild is a British adventurer, ecologist, and environmentalist and head of Sculpt the Future Foundation, a charity that supports innovations and creativity in social and environmental impact efforts.

The Undoing Project

Michael Lewis, the best-selling author of Liar’s Poker, The Money Culture, The New New Thing, Moneyball, The Blind Side, Panic, Home Game, The Big Short, and Boomerang, among other works, lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife and three children.

In this brilliantly reported and Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative, Michael Lewis brings us to the heart of the pre-crash United States--the strange new world that led us to the edge. Beginning with a handful of rogue traders in Oklahoma and California who spotted a moneymaking opportunity in subprime mortgages, he moves on to describe how their scam unfolded and spread through the financial system. He offers vivid portraits of those involved, from victims such as Alyssa Moore, an Orange County housewife who followed all the rules but still lost her home, to survivors such as Bill Ackman, a young hedge fund manager who saw disaster looming and tried to warn everyone he could reach.

Malcolm Gladwell is a Canadian journalist, author, and public speaker. He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996. His first five books were on The New York Times Best Seller list.

Malcolm

The Big Short

Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane faced a problem: how to win in the Major Leagues while having a smaller budget than many other teams.  Conventional wisdom held that big name, highly athletic hitters and young pitchers with rocket arms were the ticket to success.  But Beane and his staff, buoyed by massive amounts of carefully interpreted statistical data, believed that wins could be had by more affordable methods such as hitters with high on-base percentage and pitchers who get lots of ground outs.  Given this information and a tight budget, Beane defied tradition and his own scouting department to build winning teams of young affordable players and inexpensive castoff veterans.  Author Michael Lewis was in the room with the As top management as they spent the summer of 2002 adding and subtracting players, and he provides outstanding play-by-play. 

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.

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.

Jordan

Moneyball

The morning after Trump was elected president, the people who ran the US Department of Energy waited to brief the administration’s transition team on the agency it would soon be running.  Nobody appeared.  Across all departments the stories were the same: Trump appointees were few and far between; those who did show up were shockingly uninformed about the functions of their new workplace. Michael Lewis’s brilliant narrative of the Trump administration’s botched presidential transition takes us into the engine rooms of a government under attack by its leaders through willful ignorance and greed.  The government manages a vast array of critical services that keep us safe and underpin our lives, from ensuring the safety of our food and medications and predicting extreme weather events to tracking and locating black- market uranium before the terrorists do.  The Fifth Risk masterfully and vividly unspools the consequences of what happens when the people given control over our government have no idea how it works. 

Nick Crocker is a Partner at Blackbird Ventures, an Australian venture capital fund. Blackbird has invested in some of Australia's most successful startups, including Autopilot, Canva, Coinjar, Dovetail, Redbubble and SafetyCulture. He also sit on the boards of Culture Amp, nura, XY Sense, Startmate, Applied, and Eucalyptus.

Nick

The Fifth Risk

Tempting credit was the tsunami of cheap money that swept through the globe between 2002 and 2008.  It seemed to push countries to indulge in behaviors they wouldn't normally want to pursue.  For example, Icelanders became more interested in banking than fishing, the Greeks approached their country like a piñata loaded with cash, the Germans remained true to their traditional German goals and ideals, and the Irish tried to disconnect from their roots.  Americans were lulled into a comfortable complacency by Michael Lewis's exploration of bubbles outside our country's borders, which was beautifully, cruelly amusing.  He turned a ruthless eye on California and Washington, DC, however, we realized that his story was a ruse disguised as comedy and we comprehended the fate that awaited our nation. 

Scott Pape is an author and radio commentator who lives in Melbourne, Australia. He is best known through his online persona, the Barefoot Investor, which is also the name of his hugely popular personal finance book and a business show he hosts.

Scott 

Boomerang

In Michael Lewis's game-changing bestseller, a small group of people discovers that the U. S.  stock market is rigged for the benefit of insiders.  They band together to investigate, expose, and reform the insidious new insider trading schemes that involve everything from your retirement account to your neighbor's health-care stocks. 

Flash Boys

In 2008, New York Times bestseller Michael Lewis became a father for the first time.  So he decided to keep a written record of what happened immediately after the birth of his three children.  And there was plenty of drama: an emergency C-section, an unexpected fever, and the arrival of more relatives than anyone expected.  Written with stark honesty and humor, Lewis’s memoir is also something else: maybe the funniest and most unsparing account of raising a family ever published, from the point of view of a husband. 

Sheryl Kara Sandberg is an American technology executive, author, and billionaire. She is the chief operating officer of Facebook and founder of LeanIn.Org. In June 2012, she was elected to Facebook's board of directors by existing board members, becoming the first woman to serve on its board.

Sheryl

Home Game

In the 1980s, Michael Lewis worked at The Salomon Brothers, a Wall Street investment firm.  During his years at the firm, Lewis rose from callow trainee to bond salesman, earning millions and drawing a level of interest in the company unmatched since the gold rush.  The Liar’s Poker is an account of those heady, frenzied years—a behind-the-scenes look at a unique and turbulent time in American business.  From the frat-boy camaraderie of the forty-first floor trading room to the killer instinct that made ambitious young men gamble everything on a high-stakes game of bluffing and deception, here is Lewis’s knowing and hilarious insider’s account of an unprecedented era of greed, gluttony, and outrageous fortune. 

Tim O'Reilly is the founder of O'Reilly Media (formerly O'Reilly & Associates). He popularised the terms open source and Web 2.0.

Liar's Poker

Lewis’s book is a well-told story, but it also happens to chronicle the changes in modern football. The title of the book refers to Oher’s position on the football field and the left side of his body-the side toward which most passes are thrown. With both these elements of the story in play, you can’t help but read this book slowly and savor every word.

The Blind Side

New York Times Bestseller.  “A superb book.  .  .  .  [Lewis] makes Silicon Valley as thrilling and intelligible as he made Wall Street in his best-selling Liar’s Poker. ”―TimeIn the weird glow of the dying millennium, Michael Lewis set out on a safari through Silicon Valley to find the world’s most important technology entrepreneur.  He found this in Jim Clark, a man whose achievements include the founding of three separate billion-dollar companies.  Lewis also found much more, and the result―the best-selling book The New New Thing―is an ingeniously conceived history of the Internet revolution. 

Austen Allred is the Co-Founder and CEO of Bloom Institute of Technology.

Austen

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.

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