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Summary of Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Fooled By Randomness by Swift Reads
- By: Swift Reads
- Narrated by: Richard Webb
- Length: 28 mins
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Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (2001) explains how humans routinely underestimate the role luck plays in determining outcomes. This failure to account for uncertainty can lead someone to attribute meaning to a result where none exists, or to overlook the probability of a rare but cataclysmic event....
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Summary of Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Fooled By Randomness by Swift Reads
- Narrated by: Richard Webb
- Length: 28 mins
- Release date: 07-15-19
- Language: English
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Summary of Tara Westover’s Educated by Swift Reads
- By: Swift Reads
- Narrated by: Adrienne Walker
- Length: 28 mins
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Educated (2018) by Tara Westover is a memoir about how an uneducated young woman raised in the remote mountains of Idaho came to earn a doctorate from Cambridge University. Raised outside of society, in a violent household run by Mormon fundamentalists, Tara never saw herself as a person with choices or prospects...
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Summary of Tara Westover’s Educated by Swift Reads
- Narrated by: Adrienne Walker
- Length: 28 mins
- Release date: 05-20-19
- Language: English
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Summary of John Stuart Mill's On Liberty by Swift Reads
- By: Swift Reads
- Narrated by: Richard Webb
- Length: 23 mins
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On Liberty (1859) by John Stuart Mill is an influential philosophical treatise that argues societies can be free only when they celebrate diversity and promote individual freedom. Mill believed that conformity is a blight on human happiness, creativity, and social progress....
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Summary of John Stuart Mill's On Liberty by Swift Reads
- Narrated by: Richard Webb
- Length: 23 mins
- Release date: 08-13-19
- Language: English
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Summary of Michelle Obama’s Becoming
- By: Swift Reads
- Narrated by: Adrienne Walker
- Length: 28 mins
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In Becoming (2018), Michelle Obama recounts the familial, educational, romantic, and political experiences that culminated in her tenure as first lady of the United States. Purchase this in-depth summary to learn more.
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Summary of Michelle Obama’s Becoming
- Narrated by: Adrienne Walker
- Length: 28 mins
- Release date: 03-14-19
- Language: English
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Summary of Steve Brusatte's The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
- By: Swift Reads
- Narrated by: Elise Randall
- Length: 27 mins
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This is a summary of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (2018), which explores how animals developed on earth before the Paleogene period, when mammals emerged as the dominant life form. The narrative begins by describing the dinosaur’s ancestor: a small, unimportant creature struggling for survival in the Permian period, more than 250 million years ago....
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Summary of Steve Brusatte's The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
- Narrated by: Elise Randall
- Length: 27 mins
- Release date: 06-25-19
- Language: English
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Summary of Stephen Hawking’s Brief Answers to the Big Questions
- By: Swift Reads
- Narrated by: George Drake Jr.
- Length: 31 mins
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Brief Answers to the Big Questions (2018) presents the thoughts of theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking on 10 major scientific and philosophical debates, including whether a deity exists, whether intelligent life exists in space, and whether humans should seek out a new home outside of Earth.
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Summary of Stephen Hawking’s Brief Answers to the Big Questions
- Narrated by: George Drake Jr.
- Length: 31 mins
- Release date: 03-26-19
- Language: English
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Summary of Christopher Clark’s The Sleepwalkers
- By: Swift Reads
- Narrated by: Sam Scholl
- Length: 31 mins
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Christopher Clark’s The Sleepwalkers is an expansive account of the days, months, and years leading up to World War I. Clark’s central contention is that scholars’ continuous preoccupation with the question of who was responsible for starting the war stems from an erroneous understanding of the events....
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Summary of Christopher Clark’s The Sleepwalkers
- Narrated by: Sam Scholl
- Length: 31 mins
- Release date: 03-06-19
- Language: English
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Summary of Bob Woodward’s Fear
- By: Swift Reads
- Narrated by: Sam Scholl
- Length: 29 mins
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Fear: Trump in the White House (2018) details the political and personal tribulations that faced an ever-shifting cast of White House staffers during the turbulent first year and a half of Donald Trump’s presidency. Renowned journalist Bob Woodward uses his access to Washington insiders to create a revealing portrait of an administration increasingly crippled by its need to guide, delay, and even hinder Trump’s whims. (Disclaimer: This is NOT the original book. If you’re looking for the original book, it is available from Amazon and Audible.)
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Summary of Bob Woodward’s Fear
- Narrated by: Sam Scholl
- Length: 29 mins
- Release date: 01-11-19
- Language: English
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Summary of Martin Ford's Rise of the Robots by Swift Reads
- By: Swift Reads
- Narrated by: George Drake Jr.
- Length: 30 mins
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Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future by Martin Ford describes the ways automation and rapid advances in technology are shaping the global economy, as well as the profound consequences these technological changes will have for future workers. The role of technology in production has evolved. No longer a mere means of increasing the productivity of human workers, technology has developed methods for replacing workers entirely. Disclaimer: This isn't the original book. If you’re looking for the original book, it's available from Amazon and Audible.
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Summary of Martin Ford's Rise of the Robots by Swift Reads
- Narrated by: George Drake Jr.
- Length: 30 mins
- Release date: 12-28-18
- Language: English
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Summary of Sigmund Freud's Dream Psychology
- By: Swift Reads
- Narrated by: Joseph Passaro
- Length: 21 mins
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This is a summary of Sigmund Freud's Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners (1921), which describes the curious and complex mental processes that unfold in dreams. Each night, the slumbering mind crafts dramatic and elaborate productions, or dreams, that sleepers watch like a movie....
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Summary of Sigmund Freud's Dream Psychology
- Narrated by: Joseph Passaro
- Length: 21 mins
- Release date: 07-04-19
- Language: English
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Summary of Ken Kocienda’s Creative Selection by Swift Reads
- By: Swift Reads
- Narrated by: Adrienne Walker
- Length: 30 mins
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Creative Selection: Inside Apple’s Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs (2018) explores how Apple creates its products through the perspective of a programmer who worked at the corporation for more than a decade. Author and software engineer Ken Kocienda uses stories from his time at Apple to demonstrate how the company pushes its employees to solve seemingly impossible programming problems...(Disclaimer: This is NOT the original book. If you’re looking for the original book, it is available from Amazon and Audible.)
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Summary of Ken Kocienda’s Creative Selection by Swift Reads
- Narrated by: Adrienne Walker
- Length: 30 mins
- Release date: 02-05-19
- Language: English
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Summary of Ben Reiter’s Astroball
- By: Swift Reads
- Narrated by: Sam Scholl
- Length: 26 mins
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Astroball: The New Way to Win it All, by Ben Reiter, tells the dramatic story of how the Houston Astros transformed from being the worst team in professional baseball to the best. Reiter first made the bold prediction that the Astros would win a World Series in a Sports Illustrated cover story in June 2014. (Disclaimer: This is NOT the original book. If you’re looking for the original book, it is available from Amazon and Audible.)
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Summary of Ben Reiter’s Astroball
- Narrated by: Sam Scholl
- Length: 26 mins
- Release date: 01-30-19
- Language: English
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Summary of Jason Fried’s it Doesn’t Have to be Crazy at Work
- By: Swift Reads
- Narrated by: Sam Scholl
- Length: 26 mins
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It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work (2018) teaches companies and entrepreneurs how to increase productivity and improve work performance by setting reasonable boundaries on the hours spent completing tasks. Authors Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson use their web application company, Basecamp, as an example of a tranquil work environment where calm, steady progress is favored over breakneck speed.... Purchase this in-depth summary to learn more.
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Summary of Jason Fried’s it Doesn’t Have to be Crazy at Work
- Narrated by: Sam Scholl
- Length: 26 mins
- Release date: 03-28-19
- Language: English
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Summary of Leander Kahney’s Tim Cook by Swift Reads
- By: Swift Reads
- Narrated by: Sam Scholl
- Length: 25 mins
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In Tim Cook: The Genius Who Took Apple to the Next Level (2019), technology journalist Leander Kahney explains how a mild-mannered man from a small town in Alabama became the CEO of one of America’s most influential and successful companies. Cook, who once served as Apple’s chief operating officer, was considered a strange choice to replace Steve Jobs when he was announced as the company’s new leader in 2011...
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Summary of Leander Kahney’s Tim Cook by Swift Reads
- Narrated by: Sam Scholl
- Length: 25 mins
- Release date: 06-19-19
- Language: English
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Summary of Howard Schultz’s: From the Ground Up
- By: Swift Reads
- Narrated by: George Drake Jr.
- Length: 30 mins
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In From the Ground Up: A Journey to Reimagine the Promise of America (2019), Howard Schultz examines how his upbringing in a working class New York family influenced his actions when he became chairman and CEO of Starbucks. Schultz uses his eventual professional success to argue that the United States still can be a land of opportunity if those with means are willing to give chances and resources to those without.
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Summary of Howard Schultz’s: From the Ground Up
- Narrated by: George Drake Jr.
- Length: 30 mins
- Release date: 04-30-19
- Language: English
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Summary of Adam Fisher’s Valley of Genius by Swift Reads
- By: Swift Reads
- Narrated by: Conner Goff
- Length: 29 mins
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Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley (As Told By the Hackers, Founders, and Freaks Who Made It Boom) (2018) is an account of how a region of California became the central hub for technological innovation in the latter half of the 20th century. Disclaimer: This is NOT the original book. If you’re looking for the original book, it is available from Amazon and Audible.
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Summary of Adam Fisher’s Valley of Genius by Swift Reads
- Narrated by: Conner Goff
- Length: 29 mins
- Release date: 12-28-18
- Language: English
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