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Make Money Easy by Lewis Howes Create Financial Freedom and Live a Richer Life

What's it about? Make Money Easy (2025) helps you dismantle the hidden, emotional barriers and limiting stories that prevent you from achieving financial peace. You’ll learn to heal your relationship with money, seeing it not as a source of stress but as a tool to fuel your purpose. Ultimately, this journey guides you to redefine and build the truly “rich life” you desire, grounded in fulfillment and freedom. Money often brings up strong feelings, reaching beyond the numbers on a page. It connects to daily choices big and small, holding unspoken significance. You might sense its link to your hopes, your plans for the future, or perhaps even moments of unease about handling it all. It’s a current running beneath the surface, influencing how you move through your days. This lesson maps out a pathway for exploring that connection more deeply. It presents ideas intended to help you reshape your relationship with money, starting from within and moving outward into practical action. Fo...

Wild Courage by Jenny Wood Go After What You Want and Get It

What's it about? Wild Courage (2025) is about embracing traits that are often seen as flaws – like being weird, selfish, or shameless – and using them as strengths to go after what you want. It encourages everyone to show up authentically and take bold risks, offering practical prompts to help build confidence and pursue personal and professional growth. When was the last time you held back from pursuing what you truly wanted because you were afraid of what others might think? That hesitation – the moment when your inner voice says “don’t be weird” or “stop being so selfish”? That’s exactly where wild courage becomes essential. Wild courage means showing up as your full, real self even when it’s uncomfortable or goes against what’s expected. The traits we often try to hide are often the very things that set us apart and make us effective. The people who get what they want are usually the ones who learn to use these traits on purpose. In this lesson you’ll learn how qualities th...

Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

What's it about? Careless People (2025) is a high-ranking, insider memoir about the tumultuous and problematic rise and global spread of Facebook. It details how corporate policies, practices, and growth-at-any-cost values have become a threat to democracy worldwide. You’re probably familiar with Facebook’s internal motto: move fast and break things. It’s designed to foster a startup mindset and get employees innovating and pushing at speed. But what are the consequences when a company moves fast and breaks things when those “things” include their employees, communities … democracy? This lesson dives into the remarkable tale of Sarah Wynn-Williams, Facebook’s highest-ranking whistleblower. It uncovers her fascinating and deeply disturbing tale of the unchecked corporate power, ignorance, and greed that gave rise to the Metaverse. Sarah Wynn-Williams was an early, if naive, believer in Facebook’s ability to change the world for the better – and she wanted in. As a former polic...

AI Valley by Gary Rivlin The Mad Dash to Cash In on Artificial Intelligence

What's it about? AI Valley (2025) chronicles the high-stakes race to capitalize on artificial intelligence following ChatGPT’s explosive debut, focusing on LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and DeepMind cofounder Mustafa Suleyman as they build an AI startup amid fierce competition from tech giants. It reveals how the economics of AI shifted power back to established companies, threatening Silicon Valley’s startup culture while promising to fundamentally reshape human-computer interaction. In Silicon Valley, the race to dominate artificial intelligence – or AI – became the defining tech battle of our era. When ChatGPT burst onto the scene in late 2022, it marked a tipping point after decades of overpromised and underdelivered AI technology. Suddenly, machines could converse like humans, create original content, and solve complex problems with apparent ease. But beneath the hype lay a fundamental question: In a field requiring billions of dollars in computing resources and exceptiona...

The Stress Paradox by Sharon Horesh Bergquist Why You Need Stress to Live Longer, Healthier, and Happier

What's it about? The Stress Paradox (2025) flips the script on how we think about pressure, showing that the very thing we try to avoid might actually help us grow stronger, smarter, and more resilient. What if stress isn’t your enemy, but your hidden superpower? Find out how stepping outside your comfort zone might be the best thing you can do for your health and wellbeing. When we usually think about stress, it’s the chronic kind that comes to mind – work deadlines, family pressures, money worries. But the first thing you should know is that there is bad stress and good stress. Think of how exercising stresses your muscles, your lungs, and your heart, but in a way that ends up making everything stronger. What if we were to tell you that this same kind of growth happens on the cellular level when your body is stressed by food, temperatures, and other kinds of healthy stressors? There’s a word for this kind of good stress – it’s hormesis – and you’re going to hear a lot about ...

Smart Until It's Dumb by Emmanuel Maggiori Why Artificial Intelligence Keeps Making Epic Mistakes (and why the AI Bubble Will Burst)

What's it about? Smart Until It’s Dumb (2023) explores the gap between what artificial intelligence appears to achieve and what it actually understands. It challenges the hype surrounding modern AI by revealing how systems that seem intelligent often rely on shallow tricks and fail in unpredictable ways. It urges a more grounded view of AI’s capabilities and its role in society. Artificial Intelligence is everywhere – from the recommendations on your streaming app to the filters in your inbox. It writes, chats, and analyzes data at dizzying speed. And lately, it’s been treated as something close to magic – a force so powerful it might cure disease, drive cars, or even develop feelings. But for all its impressive feats, AI still gets basic things wrong. It mistranslates simple sentences, mislabels people in photos, and stumbles over ambiguity a child could understand. The systems behind today’s breakthroughs are extraordinary, but they aren’t what most people think they are. B...

What to Do When You Become the Boss by Bob Selden How New Managers Become Successful Managers

What's it about? What to Do When You Become the Boss (2007) offers practical strategies for effectively managing in all directions: upward, downward, and inward. This accessible manual covers essential management skills from team leadership and performance management to decision-making and self-management, serving as both an introduction for new managers and a reference tool for experienced leaders navigating workplace challenges. So, you’ve been promoted to management. Congratulations! The pay is better, but the job? That’s another story. Remember when you knew exactly what success looked like in your role? Now the markers have shifted. Your technical skills got you here, but suddenly, you’re juggling team dynamics, unclear expectations, and conversations no one trained you to have. Such moments of doubt are part of every new manager’s journey. The sleepless nights worrying about how to motivate that underperforming team member or navigate conflict between colleagues? Completely...