QuickRead Podcast - Free book summaries

QuickRead Podcast - Free book summaries

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Summary of Alone Together by Sherry Turkle | Free Audiobook

Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other. Today, it’s easier than ever to connect with another person. Thanks to social media apps like Facebook, we have opened ourselves up to become available at all hours of the day. While this makes people stay connected vir ...  Show more

Summary of Start Something That Matters by Blake Mycoskie | Free Audiobook

Unlock your potential to make a difference in the world. We all want to do something that matters. We all hope that our lives will leave a positive impact on the world. Unfortunately, however, we often get stuck along the way, overwhelmed by the weight of our own fears or the gri ...  Show more

Summary of Social Physics by Alex Pentland | Free Audiobook

How Good Ideas Spread: The Lessons from New Science. Each time you use your cell phone to call someone, scroll social media, download an app, use the GPS, or make an online purchase, you are creating data. This data is more useful than you might realize, and when it is collected ...  Show more

Summary of Smarter by Dan Hurley | Free Audiobook

The New Science of Building Brain Power. How can you make yourself smarter? Do you simply read more books? Learn a new language? Pick up a new instrument? Improving your intelligence has long been thought of as bogus among the scientific community. In other words, you are stuck w ...  Show more

Summary of Scale by Geoffrey West | Free Audiobook

The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life, in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies What do the smallest mammals on earth have in common with the largest? What do these mammals have in common with cities? With economies? With companies? ...  Show more