Can One Presentation Really Change Everything for Your Business?
Dan Kennedy opens his book with a bold claim: one great presentation can change everything. Your income. Your business. Your entire career.
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Rousseau on Human Nature: Why We Went Wrong
Most philosophers before Rousseau looked at human conflict and said: “People are just born selfish. That’s how it is.” Hobbes said life without government is “nasty, brutish, and short.” Everyone nodded. Rousseau said: “Wait. What if we weren’t born this way? What if society made us like this?”
Retelling No B.S. Guide to Powerful Presentations by Dan Kennedy
I just finished reading No B.S. Guide to Powerful Presentations by Dan Kennedy and I have thoughts.
Ordinary Men Chapter 11: The Late September Shootings
By this point in the book, you start to dread the pattern. A village name you have never heard of. A date. A body count. And the same men doing the killing, over and over again.
Who Was Rousseau? the Wild Life of a Political Genius
Before we get into Rousseau’s ideas, we need to understand the man. His life reads like a novel with bad decisions, genius moments, paranoia, and burned bridges across Europe.
Retelling Rousseau: A Modern Guide to the Social Contract
You ever wonder why your government gets to tell you what to do? Like, who decided that? And why do you go along with it?
Ordinary Men Chapter 10: Deportations to Treblinka
The men of Battalion 101 discovered something about themselves in August 1942: it was a lot easier to load people onto trains than to shoot them in the face. And that discovery changed the entire nature of their participation in the Holocaust.
Lucifer's Banker Uncensored: Final Thoughts on the Biggest Whistleblower Story Ever
One guy walked into the Department of Justice with proof that UBS was helping 19,000 Americans hide over $20 billion from the IRS. The government used his evidence to collect billions in fines and back taxes. Then they put him in prison for 40 months.
Babel-17 Retelling Complete: What a 1966 Sci-Fi Novel Taught Me About Language, Identity, and Thinking
Nineteen posts. One book. A whole lot of thinking about how words shape who we are.
We’re done. The retelling of Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany is complete. And now I want to step back from the chapter-by-chapter breakdown and talk about the book as a whole. What it’s about. What it made me think. And whether you should read it yourself.
Cities in Flight Retelling: Final Thoughts on Blish's Masterwork
Twenty-three posts. Four novels. A timeline that starts with Cold War paranoia in Washington and ends with the literal birth of new universes. We’re done.