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AMERICAN KINGPIN Book summary

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AMERICAN KINGPIN  The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road   By Nick Bilton  When Ross Ulbricht created the Silk Road, a clandestine online drug bazaar hidden on the deep web, he was a 26-year-old libertarian idealist living in Austin, Tex., talking his girlfriend’s ear off about Austrian economics and seasteading experiments — the idea of creating communities in the middle of the sea, free from government regulations. For all his lofty ambitions, he felt like a failure. He had flunked his Ph.D. exam and was unable to find a buyer for his seasteading gaming simulation. But with the Silk Road he was able to marry his business ambitions and anti-authoritarian philosophy; he envisioned it as a powerful way to defy what he perceived to be the state’s irrational drug policies. Using an anonymizing browser like Tor and the cryptocurrency Bitcoin, people could discreetly buy and sell drugs. Ulbricht taught himself to code and he began by selling mushrooms t...
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Eat that frog

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Can’t Hurt Me

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Can’t Hurt Me The Book in One Sentence Can’t Hurt Me  is about how David Goggins transformed himself into one of America’s fittest athletes through self-discipline, mental toughness, and hard work. The Five Big Ideas The Accountability Mirror The Governor  The 40% Rule The Cookie Jar Taking Souls Can’t Hurt Me Summary “By the time I graduated, I knew that the confidence I’d managed to develop didn’t come from a perfect family or God-given talent. It came from personal accountability which brought me self respect, and self-respect will always light a way forward.” “Very few people know how the bottom feels, but I do. It’s like quicksand. It grabs you, sucks you under, and won’t let go. When life is like that it’s easy to drift and continue to make the same comfortable choices that are killing you, over and over again.” “You’re probably living at about 40 percent of your true capability.” “Heraclitus, a philosopher born in the Persian Empire back in the fifth century BC, had it ...
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