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Neuromancer
- De: William Gibson
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 10 h y 31 m
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Twenty years ago, it was as if someone turned on a light. The future blazed into existence with each deliberate word that William Gibson laid down. The winner of Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, Neuromancer didn't just explode onto the science fiction scene - it permeated into the collective consciousness, culture, science, and technology.Today, there is only one science fiction masterpiece to thank for the term "cyberpunk," for easing the way into the information age and Internet society.
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Story? Classic. Narrator? Ugh.
- De Sage en 11-11-14
- Neuromancer
- De: William Gibson
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
Case and Molly
Revisado: 10-10-24
If you ever wondered where the terms cyberspace or the matrix came from, this book is it. Gibson invented and envisioned some of the tech we have today way back in 1984. This is the story of Case, a cyber cowboy, or hacker back before they were called that. Case gets dragged along on a job to free/hack an AI entity called Wintermute and its counterpart Neuromancer. The two AI’s have been plotting this mission for decades. Case and Molly (the muscle) work on laying the foundations for the job that will go down in space in the lair of the ancient family that created the two AI’s. All along the way Case is haunted by the AI’s and helped by a construct of an old dead hacker friend. The writing is fast and creative. You have to use your imagination fast to keep up. And even though it was written almost forty years ago, Gibson seems to have had a pretty good idea where all the tech is headed. Thanks, Phil, for the recommendation.
This book is for sci-fi fans, tech cowboys, and hackers.
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Start with Why
- How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
- De: Simon Sinek
- Narrado por: Simon Sinek
- Duración: 7 h y 18 m
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The inspirational best seller that ignited a movement and asked us to find our why. Discover the book that is captivating millions on TikTok and that served as the basis for one of the most popular TED Talks of all time - with more than 56 million views and counting. Over a decade ago, Simon Sinek started a movement that inspired millions to demand purpose at work, to ask what was the why of their organization. Since then, millions have been touched by the power of his ideas, and these ideas remain as relevant and timely as ever.
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Useless Dribble
- De Chimdi Azubuike en 03-10-18
- Start with Why
- How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
- De: Simon Sinek
- Narrado por: Simon Sinek
Purpose is paramount
Revisado: 10-10-24
This is my second time through this book, and after understanding the basics from my first read three years ago, I was able to soak up some of the more nuanced lessons and details I didn’t catch the first time. Sinek sets up the book by explaining why Apple, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Wright Brothers successfully changed the world. Each of them had a noble cause, a passion, something that they believed in deeply- a why. Sinek argues that when you start with why and then figure out how the what takes care of itself. Apple’s why is to challenge the status quo, their how is by creating devices that are beautiful and easy to use, and so their what can be dynamic - computers, music players, phones, watches. Most businesses start the other way around. They start with a what- a product or a service- figure out how to produce or offer it, and then they struggle to get their message across to the masses. These backward businesses end up using manipulations to beat the competition rather than inspiring their customers. When an organization’s why, how, and what are in balance, trust emerges. When there is trust, and a clear mission, decisions are easier to make and the company can flourish. Until split happens. Blessed with enough success, a company will be forced to navigate a split. The company’s momentum may try to veer away from its why if leadership changes or the mission gets fuzzy. A company that is successfully able to navigate the split must get back to its why.
I recommend this book to anyone trying to understand business or personal motivators.
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Artemis
- De: Andy Weir
- Narrado por: Rosario Dawson
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
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Jazz Bashara is a criminal. Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you're not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right? Not when you've got debts to pay and your job as a porter barely covers the rent. Everything changes when Jazz sees the chance to commit the perfect crime, with a reward too lucrative to turn down.
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A ferrari with no motor
- De will en 11-18-17
- Artemis
- De: Andy Weir
- Narrado por: Rosario Dawson
Welding but on the Moon
Revisado: 10-10-24
Jazz Bashara is a smuggler- on the moon. She should have been so many other things, but she wasn’t properly motivated. When she is properly motivated by a job for a million slugs (moon currency) she turns into a saboteur. The sabotage job doesn’t go to plan and Jazz finds herself being hunted by a Brazilian mobster who kills her employer. Taking the sabotage a step further becomes the only option for Jazz to stay on the moon. She recruits a group of friends, enemies, and family to pull off the job. She needs to blow up the aluminum smelter on the moon to keep the Brazilian mob from taking over the small lunar community. In the process of blowing up the smelter, she accidentally pollutes the air in all the lunar environments with chloroform, knocking the whole city out. How will she refresh the air before she kills the whole settlement?
This book is for welders, street rats, and space junkies.
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The Infinite Game
- De: Simon Sinek
- Narrado por: Simon Sinek
- Duración: 6 h y 56 m
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Finite games, like football or chess, have known players, fixed rules, and a clear endpoint. The winners and losers are easily identified. Infinite games, games with no finish line, like business or politics, or life itself, have players who come and go. The rules of an infinite game are changeable, while infinite games have no defined endpoint. There are no winners or losers - only ahead and behind. The question is, how do we play to succeed in the game we’re in? In this revelatory new audiobook, Simon Sinek offers a framework for leading with an infinite mindset.
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I love Sinek but...
- De Amazon Customer en 11-11-19
- The Infinite Game
- De: Simon Sinek
- Narrado por: Simon Sinek
To Infinity And Beyond
Revisado: 10-10-24
There are two types of games: finite and infinite. For finite games, there are clear rules, a beginning and end, and players choose to play. Soccer is a finite game. In an infinite game, there can be many players who don’t even know they are playing, there is no clear set of rules, and there is no clear beginning and no clear ending. In an infinite game, the point is to keep playing as long as possible. Life is an infinite game. Sinek argues that companies are using a finite mindset when they would be better served to be using an infinite mindset. Leaders are choosing short-term tactics to “win” and it is causing long-term problems. Sinek points out that many public companies have been working quarter to quarter trying to maximize shareholder earnings using finite methods like layoffs to meet arbitrary projections. They should be focusing on the long-term by investing in employees and giving value to customers and in the end, those methods would take care of the long-term success and short-term success too. Companies that can unite in the service of a just cause are better able to weather storms and focus on results. Sinek defines a just cause as being for something, inclusive, service-oriented, resilient, and idealistic. In order to keep the focus on the just cause, companies need a CEO who will champion the just cause and communicate it clearly over and over. A strong CEO will build trusting teams, protect from ethical fading, and build the will and resources to succeed in the future. Sinek also touches on the need for companies to have existential flexibility which allows them to change and adapt in order to survive. Working for a big, public company for several years, I have seen finite-minded leaders make extremely poor choices for short-term “wins” that end up crippling our capabilities for long after those short-term choices are gone. I have also seen some brave leaders who are willing to do the right things for their people in spite of the pressures they get to do the easy things or cut corners. Seeing the trust and success of those leaders willing to take the harder road with an infinite mindset has been encouraging to me as I learn to lead.
This book is for anyone who leads.
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The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
- The Chronicles of Narnia
- De: C. S. Lewis
- Narrado por: Michael York
- Duración: 4 h y 21 m
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Four adventurous siblings—Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie—step through a wardrobe door and into the land of Narnia, a land frozen in eternal winter and enslaved by the power of the White Witch. But when almost all hope is lost, the return of the Great Lion, Aslan, signals a great change...and a great sacrifice.
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Suitable for children
- De Phebe en 01-09-12
- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
- The Chronicles of Narnia
- De: C. S. Lewis
- Narrado por: Michael York
Safe? Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good.
Revisado: 10-10-24
The four Pevensie children get shipped out of London to their uncle’s house in the rural countryside to keep them safe during the war. They discover the wardrobe, which is a portal from our world to Narnia. Narnia is many centuries older than in book 1, and the White Witch has made it always winter and never Christmas. The arrival of the children and Aslan marks a change in the balance of power. But one of the children, Edmond, turns traitor and tries to sell his siblings to the witch for power and tasty food. Aslan orchestrates Edmund’s rescue just before the White Witch can execute him. Enraged, she gathers her army and arranges a meeting with Aslan where she claims the traitor’s blood as her right citing the deep magic written on the Stone Table at the dawn of time. Aslan negotiates with the witch, then moves his camp and helps his leaders prepare for battle. That night he offers himself as an innocent sacrifice for Edmond and the evil army kills him on the Stone Table. You are missing out if you haven’t read this book or seen the movie. I won’t give away the ending here. This story holds many truths and powerful moments. The theme of redemption is especially powerful. I enjoy this book each time I revisit it.
This is for adventurers, traitors, and beavers.
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Deep Work
- Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
- De: Cal Newport
- Narrado por: Jeff Bottoms
- Duración: 7 h y 44 m
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Master one of our economy’s most rare skills and achieve groundbreaking results with this “exciting” audiobook (Daniel H. Pink) from an “exceptional” author (New York Times Book Review). Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It's a skill that allows you to quickly master complicated information and produce better results in less time. Deep Work will make you better at what you do and provide the sense of true fulfillment that comes from craftsmanship.
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Blocking off time each day to work without distractions will make you more productive
- De M.J. en 11-17-16
- Deep Work
- Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
- De: Cal Newport
- Narrado por: Jeff Bottoms
Cell Phones Down
Revisado: 10-10-24
This is a book about doing deep (extended, undistracted, focused) brain work. In Part 1 Newport argues 1- deep work is valuable, 2- deep work is rare, and 3- deep work is meaningful. In Part 2 Newport describes many strategies for building deep work habits and getting away from shallow distractions. Here are the 4 rules and some ideas discussed to support them: Rule 1- Work deeply. Focus on the wildly important. Act on the lead measures. Keep a compelling scoreboard. Have a cadence of accountability. Schedule blocks of time to be disconnected from the internet. Practice working to a deadline to improve focus. Rule 2- Embrace boredom. Meditate proactively by working on a problem while going on a walk or a run. Rule 3- Quit social media. Write down the top goals you are trying to achieve, then evaluate if the networking tools (social media, IM, email, etc…) support accomplishing these goals. If not, don’t use them. Rule 4- Drain the shallows. Schedule your workday on paper. Fix your schedule and say no to shallow tasks. Be hard to reach. Don’t reply to emails. Build the habit of letting small bad things happen so that you have time to do big good things. Here’s an ironic twist- I tried reading this book last year, but I got distracted. Having dug in and finished it, I did find several strategies I intend to use at work and was validated in several of the strategies that I already use.
This book is for thought workers, craftsmen, and the easily distracted.
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A Christmas Carol: A Signature Performance by Tim Curry
- De: Charles Dickens
- Narrado por: Tim Curry
- Duración: 3 h y 31 m
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A Signature Performance: Tim Curry rescues Charles Dickens from the jaws of Disney with his one-of-a-kind performance of the treasured classic. Our listeners loved this version so much that it inspired our whole line of Signature Classics.
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Wonderful!!!
- De Alia en 12-11-09
Scrooge
Revisado: 10-10-24
Each Christmas season I like to read this short book. Growing up, my dad always watched the movie during Christmas time. This is the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, a super cranky, stingy, greedy old man who is visited by ghosts on Christmas Eve- “Darkness is cheap and Scrooge liked it.” The ghosts scare the greed and selfishness right out of him. The ghost of Christmas Past reminds Scrooge of times when he had joy and celebration and fellowship in his heart. The ghost of Christmas Present shows Scrooge the opportunities he would have the next day and would miss out on if he continued in his greedy way. The ghost of Christmas Future shows Scrooge his legacy if he remained unchanged and it was devastating. When Scrooge wakes up from his night of ghosts, it is Christmas morning and his heart has been changed. He immediately begins to mend the relationships he had been actively sabotaging. He is generous, joyful, and he gets his laugh back. This book reminds me to live always with the spirit of Christmas in my heart, to laugh, and to carry my children lightly on my shoulders.
I recommend this book to those who need some Christmas hope.
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Fathered by God
- Learning What Your Dad Could Never Teach You
- De: John Eldredge
- Narrado por: John Eldredge
- Duración: 6 h y 23 m
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John Eldredge calls men back to a simple and reassuring truth: God is our father. In life's trials and triumphs, God is initiating boys and men through the stages of manhood from beloved son to cowboy to warrior to lover to king to sage. Fathered by God maps out the path of manhood - not more rules, not another list of principles, not formulas, but a sure path men have followed for centuries before us.
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great reading
- De James Peach en 04-02-19
- Fathered by God
- Learning What Your Dad Could Never Teach You
- De: John Eldredge
- Narrado por: John Eldredge
The Masculine Journey
Revisado: 10-10-24
Every young man is asking himself this question: Do I have what it takes? We all feel fatherless at some point. We all know what it’s like to be wounded by our fathers. In this book, Eldridge breaks down the stages of the male journey: Beloved Son, Cowboy, Warrior, Lover, King, and Sage. These stages are the pattern for how men will be challenged, grown, and embraced by God as he leads them to himself. As a boy, each of us looks to our dad to see if we are the beloved son. In boyhood we want to know if we are dangerous, do we have our dad’s attention? Boys can be crushed by an overbearing, harsh, or critical dad. Looking to God, we all want to know, are you there God? Do you love me? Am I your beloved son? As the boy grows to be a teenager and young adult, he enters the Cowboy stage where adventures and danger test the man. This is when the man learns about good and evil, easy and hard, danger and safety, comfort and hardship. In the cowboy stage, the young man is asking the questions, “what am I made of?” And “what is this world made of?” Next comes the warrior stage. How do you train the warrior? Hardship. The warrior spends this stage finding and fighting for the truth. The quality and character of the warrior and his effectiveness and power come from the lessons he learns in the previous stages. If the warrior was not confirmed as a beloved son and did not learn about good and evil in the cowboy stage, the warrior will not fight for justice and may even use his strength to abuse others. The lover stage can come at the same time as the warrior stage, but this is the time in the man’s journey when he learns about beauty. In a healthy journey, the lover will learn to love and seek God first. The lover will find God in the beauty he brings in nature, in poetry, and in healing. The man spends this stage learning to love and be loved. Next comes the stage when the man is the king. When is a man ready to wield power? You can tell the power of a king by how the people in his kingdom are thriving. God teaches us how to fight by putting us in situations where we must fight. Will we let him teach us? Friendship with God makes a good king. How many leaders act like a friend of God? We men were made for this stage. We are made to be good kings who will use our power to build up those in our kingdoms. Our families, our workplaces, our teams, our communities should all be areas we can build people up. Finally, men can become a sage like Yoda, Gandalf, or Dumbledore. In this stage, men are gray with the weight of many winters. They can offer their wisdom to men of all ages and in all stages of their journey. At this stage, men can be tempted to disappear and relax, but we need these men and their wisdom more than ever. We need to sit at their feet with humility and questions and ask them for their wisdom. In my experience, we call the sage the “old guy”. The old guy knows how to do all the things and fix all the problems and use all the tools. Old guys are so valuable to younger men who know how to ask the right questions. This is an amazing book filled with hope and power for men on their journeys. Thanks, Seth for the recommendation.
This book is for men, young and old, who are looking for ways to understand their journey better.
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The Magician's Nephew
- The Chronicles of Narnia
- De: C. S. Lewis
- Narrado por: Kenneth Branagh
- Duración: 3 h y 56 m
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Digory and Polly meet and become friends one cold, wet summer in London. Their lives burst into adventure when Digory's Uncle Andrew, who thinks he is a magician, sends them hurtling to...somewhere else. They find their way to Narnia, newborn from the Lion's song, and encounter the evil sorceress Jadis, before they finally return home.
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An incredible children's series
- De Jason en 05-14-05
- The Magician's Nephew
- The Chronicles of Narnia
- De: C. S. Lewis
- Narrado por: Kenneth Branagh
But what about the guinea pig?
Revisado: 10-10-24
This is the latest set of books Jet picked for us to read together. The Chronicles of Narnia series begins with this fantastic creation story. Digory meets Polly and the two children find themselves in the middle of a magic experiment. Digory’s uncle Andrew is a minor magician meddling with powers he doesn’t fully understand. Uncle Andrew tricks Polly into trying on a magic ring which takes her to the wood between the worlds. Then he sends Digory to bring her back. Digory and Polly visit a dying world named Charn as the experiment progresses. There, Digory awakes a powerful and evil enchantress named Jadis. Jadis forces the children to take her to the magician who sent them, then she tries to take over our world. Digory and Polly use their magic rings to take the witch Jadis back to the wood between the worlds, and then into a brand new world called Narnia. In Narnia, they watch the great lion Aslan sing the world into existence. Jadis panics, attacks Aslan, and then runs away. Unfazed, Aslan continues his creation and then he sends Digory on a mission. Because Digory brought the evil witch into Narnia, he is tasked with retrieving a fruit from the far-off tree of life which he must plant in Narnia to protect the land from the witch. Digory and Polly travel by flying horse to the mountains where Digory finds the tree of life and the witch who tempts him to take the fruit for his own. Digory almost caves, until the witch goes too far and suggests they leave Polly behind. That thought snaps Digory back to himself and he understands the evil of the witch. He and Polly return to Aslan and Digory plants the tree that will protect Narnia from the witch. Digory thinks that by following Aslan’s command he has sacrificed his chance to heal his sick mother, but Aslan knows his heart and allows Digory to take a fruit from the new tree. Aslan sends Digory and Polly back to London, where the fruit heals and restores Digory’s mother. The children plant the core of the fruit with the magic rings and the resulting tree eventually becomes a wardrobe- the wardrobe in the second book. Jet said the book is very good and his favorite part was when they were exploring Narnia as it was being created.
This is for readers of all ages, especially adventurers
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The Gray Man
- De: Mark Greaney
- Narrado por: Jay Snyder
- Duración: 11 h y 11 m
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Court Gentry is known as The Gray Man—a legend in the covert realm, moving silently from job to job, accomplishing the impossible, and then fading away. And he always hits his target. But there are forces more lethal than Gentry in the world. And in their eyes, Gentry has just outlived his usefulness. Now, he is going to prove that for him, there's no gray area between killing for a living-and killing to stay alive.
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The gray man talks about gentry in the 3rd person on the court
- De Safekeeper en 07-26-17
- The Gray Man
- De: Mark Greaney
- Narrado por: Jay Snyder
Court vs Everyone
Revisado: 10-10-24
If you need an action-packed thriller that will keep you up reading past your bedtime, this is it. The action starts in the desert of Iraq. The Gray Man (Court Gentry) is introduced trying to escape after doing some bad things to some bad men. He blows up his own escape plan by sniping some terrorists who shot down a US helicopter and are filming atrocities. After being picked up by a crew on an L-100 Hercules, Court is betrayed by his handler, Sir Donald Fitzroy, who orders the crew to kill Court. After a gun battle in the big airplane, Court finds himself walking out of the desert again. Sir Donald is being blackmailed by a young American lawyer, Lloyd, working for a French mega-corporation who needs Court dead to protect its reputation and land a massive Nigerian natural gas contract. Lloyd sets up a contest between kill teams from 12 countries, offering $20 Million for the body of the Gray Man. Lloyd keeps Sir Donald and his family as bait drawing Court through a gauntlet of killers to a French castle for the final showdown. By the time Court assaults the castle he is shot, stabbed, cut by glass, using someone else’s blood, and very tired. I won’t ruin the chase and the ending for you here. My real question is this: who would win in a fight between Mitch Rapp and Court Gentry. Send me your votes. Thanks to my friend Michael for the recommendation of this fantastic book.
I recommend this book to anyone who likes gun battles, James Bond, or Jason Bourne.
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