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Does anyone have recommendations for: 1. books about startups, startup culture - similar to "founders at work," which comes highly recommended and I'll be starting soon. 2. biographies/nonfiction of successful business people/companies - similar to "Nuts!" (southwest airlines), "The Sam Walton Story," (walmart), or "Dave's Way" (wendy's) 3. good biographies in general
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Recommendations for nonfiction about con men, confidence games, swindlers, etc? Specifically 19th-early 20th century if possible, nothing modern technology/finance related
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Eason the Fifth posted:Red Storm Rising is a pretty great book too. Really captures the 80's Cold War flashpoint vibe. Sarern posted:My one weird trick for Clancy is to stop after Clear and Present Danger. That's still the one I like best from early Clancy, I feel it did the best job at the things he was good at Chuck Buried Treasure posted:The general rule of thumb in my opinion at least is that Clancy was good when he was writing during the Cold War. Once the Soviet Union fell things get real iffy I took Rainbow Six with me on a post-high school trip to Europe and I remember thoroughly enjoying it, though I vaguely recall the storyline might not hold up all these years later.
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Jul 7, 2020 20:26
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StrixNebulosa posted:I poked my head in here to ask for a super-indulgent rec: I want to read about hyper-competent characters being competent and possibly being lauded for it. I don't care what the genre is, fiction or non-fiction, I want to see someone being REALLY GOOD at something and showing off. Winning at competitive knitting, disarming bombs, any subject, I just want to read about it. Captain Monkey posted:Andy Weir's The Martian. I have never read more page turning competence porn of the engineering / language variety than Andy Weir's "The Martian" and "Project Hail Mary."
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Jul 5, 2021 19:34
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This is a spoiler, revealed about a quarter through the book
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also posted this in the historical fiction thread, but just in case: should I read Clavell's Asian Saga in publication or chronological order? publication: King Rat Taipan Shogun Noble House Whirlwind Gaijin chronological: Shogun Taipan Gaijin King Rat Noble House Whirlwind
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