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How We Got Here: A Slightly Irreverent History of Technology and Markets by Andy Kessler
Running Money: Hedge Fund Honchos, Monster Markets and My Hunt for the Big Score by Andy Kessler
Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business by Rana Foroohar
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America by Rick Perlstein
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High by Kerry Patterson and Joseph Grenny
Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In by Roger Fisher and William L. Ury
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, 3rd Edition: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships by Marshall B. Rosenberg
Getting More: How You Can Negotiate to Succeed in Work and Life by Stuart Diamond
Understanding Context: Environment, Language, and Information Architecture by Andrew Hinton

my core values

on working with me (and space i’ll definitely give you)

I work spiky :) This is sometimes due to personal commitments, community organization work, talks, coffees, my brain getting interrupted by things that are not

How to read research the good enough way

There are many, many, many, many opinions on how to read research papers.

Here is my introduction to how to read enough of a paper to know whether you want to read more.

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	## How to save my cell into a clever trick:
	%%writefile -a python_clever_tricks.py