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Author Dan Heath writes “when your employees are consulted, they will contribute. When they are empowered, they will act. When they are trusted, they will lead.” He has written another masterpiece book on change. Enjoy these #BookNotes: #Leadership #Reset

Money And The Meaning Of Life by Jacob Needleman #booknotes

SA News #Thread | 1/10 Want to Start Reading Books? Start Small! Do you want to make book reading your habit but can't even manage to get past the first few pages in a book? Do not worry, everyone needs to start somewhere, and all you have to do is start small! All you have to do is set aside time, even if its only 5-10 minutes, to read every day. #BookReading #ReadingHabits #BookLovers #SelfGrowth

6/10 Do Not Worry About How Long It Takes You Some people can read a book really quickly while others may take a couple of weeks to get through a single book. Both of these are totally normal paces to read at so do not stress about it! #ReadingTips #NoPressure #Learning #BookCommunity

7/10 Keep a Log Of What You Read After every book you read try and write down a fun fact, quote, or lesson that you learned from that book. Just do whatever you want so long as you have something written down to jog your memory! #ReadingJournal #BookNotes #Knowledge #PersonalGrowth

Discover the power of excerpt notes, observation notes, and even library cards for effective book annotation. See how a brief thought or key term can unlock deeper understanding. #BookNotes #StudyTips

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book notes (38 of b) ------------- 1/13 Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall by Zeke Faux @ZekeFaux (304 pgs, Published 2023) (#booknotes from 2023) Context: ------------ These #booknotes are not book reviews, nor book summaries. Just my high-level thoughts on the book along with some quotes which I find interesting. In some quotations, I have included bracketed text (like this) to enable flow / context and three dots (like this...) to bring together dispersed sentences, to synthesise an idea. If @ZekeFaux would not like me to quote from this book, please DM me the same, I would promptly delete the quotes here-from. My Notes: ------------ I picked this as there are not many books in Crypto written by journalists from mainstream publications. The book largely goes into USDT (a crypto stablecoin), Axie (a game), and a few stories here and there around some of the more nefarious and colourful crypto-founders. Some quotes from the book follow:

Don Clifton, father of strengths-based education wrote: “What if we studied what was right about people versus what is wrong with them?“ His groundbreaking research & assessment changed the world. Read #BookNotes on the power of strengths: #StrongNotWrong

The Missing is Book Notes playlist—and many thanks to the Largehearted Boy (and Myles & Noah too) for that. @713Books @lcheuk @largeheartedboy #themissing #booknotes #Bookpromotion

book notes (10 of b) ------------- 1/15 Capital Wars – The Rise of Global Liquidity by Michael Howell @crossbordercap 388 pgs Published 2020 (#booknotes from 2021) (These #booknotes are not book reviews, nor book summaries. Just my high-level thoughts on the book along with some quotes which I find interesting. PS: If Michael @crossbordercap would not like me to quote from this book, please DM me the same, I would promptly delete the quotes here-from.) This book on global liquidity, by a practitioner and not an academician, is a no-branier pick. To borrow from Henry Higgins - “the difficulty is to find them to do”. In my view, to be able to form a working, measurable definition of “global liquidity” that one can rely upon, is in itself an achievement. And this book provides a compelling model. Just as Soros’ two books (see my 2019 post) provide an equally compelling, but alternate model. The approach here must be that of a slow-read and to think of it as much as a text-book as a 'finance-book' and to understand its arguments very clearly and properly. For, if the book is subjected to a fast-read, one would end on the other side none-the-more-savvy. The end-goal here must be to create one’s own model on liquidity, by standing on the shoulders of giants (such as this book), if I may invoke the 17th century Newton, with due courtesy to the 12th century French. Some quotes from the book follow: #booknotes #crossbordercap #michaelhowell #liquidity #capitalwars #m2 #shadowbanking

14/15 “Keynes put it slightly differently by pointing out that there can be no such thing as liquidity for the investment community as a whole: someone has to take on risk” #booknotes #crossbordercap #michaelhowell #liquidity #capitalwars #m2 #shadowbanking

15/15 “A major tenet of liquidity theory is that interest rates are not the price of money. Rather this is the exchange rate. Low interest rates reflect either a poor return on industrial capital and/or a large excess demand for ‘safe’ assets.” #booknotes #crossbordercap #michaelhowell #liquidity #capitalwars #m2 #shadowbanking /end

book notes (12 of b) ------------- 1/6 Infinite Powers: The Story of Calculus by Steven H. Strogatz @stevenstrogatz 389 pgs Published 2019 (#booknotes from 2021) (These #booknotes are not book reviews, nor book summaries. Just my high-level thoughts on the book along with some quotes which I find interesting. PS: If @stevenstrogatz would not like me to quote from this book, please DM me the same, I would promptly delete the quotes here-from.) To understand how calculus evolved, from first principles can be sheer joy (for some people, such as myself). Steven Strogatz takes us on a joyride: - starting with why Greeks disdained arithmetic and revered geometry, - how Asians, led by Indians, Chinese and especially the Arabs built algebra, - and then in early 1600s, the French started linking algebra to geometry, even though algebra was still frowned upon in Europe, - and how arithmetic found a way to develop along the way, - and then in the second half of the seventeenth century, it was up to Newton and Leibnitz to independently develop calculus, by bringing together differentiation and integration, Newton by bringing classical physics to geometry using tools of algebra and Leibnitz by bringing them together more intuitively. The way this book on calculus, finds its origins in Physics, and inspiration in art - referencing Picasso’s methods of abstraction – is quite very fascinating. One finishes reading this book and immediately wishes to read the entire body of works by Prof. Strogatz. An absolute delight. Some quotes from the book follow: #booknotes #InfinitePowers #Calculus #Math #Strogatz

Does anyone else have books that look like this 🫣 This is my surefire sign of a great read How do you take #BookNotes ? Let me know in the comments 👇🏼 #TheCuriousBookClub

Started Narrative Economics, a book from Nobel-prize-winning economist & Princeton professor Robert Shiller. It offers a theory on the role narratives, "popular stories spread through word of mouth, the news media, and social media," and how they affect the economy #booknotes

'Taming Fruit' by Bernd Brunner (@BrunnerBernd): a fascinating and hugely readable overview of the vital importance to humankind of fruit and fruit growing throughout history. Available from @greystonebooks on Nov 4th. My review: #pomology #booknotes

Bernard Lewis of @Princeton died Saturday at age 101. The Middle East scholar appeared on #Booknotes in 2001. Watch it here...

Evolution in man in recent times has been social rather than biological. Cultural transmission of innovation is what has propelled our species forward. #booknotes

Congratulations to Savannah and Kirsty for winning the @Apps4Good 2017 Information category and launch of their #booknotes app today! Download the app today! So proud @thomsonreuters is a sponsor!

Graph view of my own mind captured so far. @obsdmd I will be adding more and more! Currently doing para + gtd + zettlekasten. Ask me anything! #zettlekasten #obsidianmd #booknotes

#BrazosBest Danielle Dutton has a #BookNotes playlist at @largeheartedboy: Listen while you read MARGARET THE 1st!

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