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Book: Bank 3.0: Why Banking Is No Longer Somewhere You Go But Something You Do
Author: Brett King
ISBN: 978-1-118-58963-2
Chapter 2: The ROI of Great Customer Experience
There’s a scene in It’s a Wonderful Life where George Bailey is running a small bank, fighting to keep loans going to regular people. He’s the good guy. The bank is on the side of the little guy.
Before you pick a breed, you need to learn the language. Pig farming has its own vocabulary, and if you do not know the basics, everything else will be confusing.
Book: Backyard Farming: Composting | Author: Kim Pezza | Chapter 2: What Is Composting?
Composting is basically using nature’s own recycling system on purpose. You take organic materials, things that were once alive, and let decomposition turn them into rich, dark soil. That’s it. That’s the whole concept.
Previous: Xantcha Wakes in Serra’s Realm
Chapter 15 is pure chaos after the slow burn of the previous chapter. Islands collide. Everything falls apart. And Serra’s idea of peacekeeping is basically a giant laser.
Before we hit the actual chapters, the book opens with two documents from Candlekeep. The first is a history of the Simbul, Alassra Shentrantra. The second is study notes about a forgotten goddess named Zandilar. Both are important, so let me cover them quick.
This is part of my series retelling Diary of a Very Bad Year. Today we’re covering Keith Gessen’s introduction.
Keith Gessen got introduced to the anonymous hedge fund manager (HFM) in late 2006. Someone called HFM a “financial genius” who ran the emerging markets desk at a midtown hedge fund. Gessen was skeptical. He knew plenty of people from college who went into finance, but mostly for the lifestyle. Working hard, drinking beer, watching football.
Book: The Nether Scroll by Lynn Abbey Series: Lost Empires, Book 4 (Forgotten Realms) ISBN: 0-7869-1566-8
We’ve walked through the entire Nether Scroll chapter by chapter. Time to step back and talk about the book as a whole.
Most people think getting a small business loan is straightforward. You walk into a bank, show them your business plan, and they hand you money. Right?
Book: The Rise and Fall of a Dragon King | Author: Lynn Abbey | Series: Chronicles of Athas, Book 5
This is it. The final chapter. And Abbey opens it not with Hamanu, but with Ruari, the young half-elf druid, wedged into the corner of his bed, so drunk he thinks he might die. When a woman appears in his doorway, he literally thinks she’s Death come to claim him.