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When Elvis wanted to become a federal agent
Elvis Presley's letter to President Richard Nixon
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Fooled by Randomness : by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance"
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Leonardo Da Vinci's CV
The artist's letter to Ludovico Sforza(mayor of Milan) shares critical insights on how to write a good CV; also that hustle culture was alive even back…
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December 2021
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Abundance is harder for us to handle than scarcity
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And it was all yellow
John Chu (Director, Crazy Rich Asian's) letter to Coldplay
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August 2021
Shoe Dog - Phil Knight
“Life is growth. You grow or you die.” - the best bits from the iconic Nike founder
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July 2021
Groucho Marx to Woody Allen
"There is no money is answering letters"
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Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
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Dali's letter to Federico García Lorca
Dali and Garcia Lorca exchange thoughts on the meaning of their art.
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Zero to One - Peter Thiel
“All Rhodes Scholars had a great future in their past.”
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Churchill's letter to The London Times
Written during the drought of 1919, after hearing of the Royal Dukes plan to hold prayers in churches, for God to bring rain
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The Hard Thing About Hard Things - Ben Horowitz
Leadership is the ability to get someone to follow you even if only out of curiosity
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