I love reading books.

I'm also a huge fan of reading newsletters.

Here are 7 newsletters I highly recommend checking out.

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I asked, "What’s a book that’s worth rereading every year?"

I received 1,000+ responses.

Here are 20 books you should read and reread:

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Atomic Habits

by @JamesClear

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Man's Search for Meaning

by Viktor

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The Almanack Of Naval Ravikant

by @naval

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The Psychology of Money

by @morganhousel

The Joe Rogan Experience is the biggest podcast in the world.

It got 2+ BILLION downloads last year alone.

Here are 20 @joerogan podcasts worth watching:

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Naval Ravikant (@naval)

Naval is a successful entrepreneur and investor who's also a brilliant thinker and philosopher. He shares a ton of original insightful advice on getting rich, being happy, and living a better life.

Listen

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David Goggins (@davidgoggins)

Goggins is one of the toughest men on the planet. He's an ex-Navy SEAL turned extreme endurance athlete who does 100+ mile runs for fun. If you want to develop a never-quit mindset, study him.

Listen

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MrBeast (@MrBeast)

MrBeast has 100+ million subscribers on YouTube, 50+ million followers on social media, and he's only 24. If you want to learn how to grow a huge audience, listen to this pod and take notes.

Listen here:

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Elon Musk (@elonmusk)

Not only is Elon one of the richest people in the world, but he's also one of the smartest. Listen to learn about how he sees the world, updates on Tesla and SpaceX, the thread of AI technology, and so much more.

Listen

I asked, "What’s the BEST economics book you’ve read?"

I received 250+ responses.

Here are 20 books that will help you better understand how the economy works:

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Basic Economics

by Thomas

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Freakonomics

by @StevenDLevitt &

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Economics in One Lesson

by Henry

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Poor Economics

by Esther Duflo & Abhijit

I have a master's degree in business.

But I’ve learned 10x more from reading newsletters.

Here are 10 FREE newsletters that will teach you about business:

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Morning Brew (@morningbrew)

Get insightful and informative business news that's fun to read and will get you up-to-date with everything going on in the business world in 5

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Robinhood Snacks (@RobinhoodSnacks)

If you're looking for a super short recap of what happened in the stock market, this newsletter is for you. You'll get a recap of market news in just

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Milk Road (@MilkRoadDaily)

A daily newsletter that will be your tour guide and teacher for all things Web3. It will also keep you in the loop on the coolest projects happening in

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The Pomp Letter (@APompliano)

The Pomp Letter is a must-read for anyone interested in Bitcoin and finance. Pomp does an excellent job of explaining how Bitcoin and the economy work and what's going on with

I have a Master's degree in business.

But I learned 10x more from YouTube.

Here are 10 YouTube channels that will teach you more than a $100,000 degree:

Well, folks, the reason I haven’t been sharing many short clips from my morning readings lately is that, well, I’m in chapters 11-17 of Ezekiel. They involve complicated visions that don’t lend themselves to Twitter threads. But at the end of my reading today in Ezek 17,

God delivered a word to the prophet depicting a theme that may be uncomfortable but it’s not incomprehensible.

“I bring down the tall tree and make the low tree tall. I cause the green tree to wither and make the withered tree thrive. I, the Lord, have spoken and I will do it.”

God’s got this thing about pride. He does not let it go unchecked. When his people continue in arrogance after multiple warnings, he is going to bring them down. He will turn the tables. That which has been high will be brought low. This is why we are told by both James and Peter

in the NT that God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble. We need his grace so badly. Repentance is our only real way forward. He also views idolatry as spiritual adultery. This was the case in the judgment that was coming to his people through the Babylonians.

We are caught in a cycle. We keep repeating the same offenses and keep excusing them the exact same ways. Study even just the last century. I beg you to. Face how we evangelicals have bedded down with worldly systems for power. See how every time prophetic voices confronted us

At it's #NewYearsEve we're going to end the year by playing the Agatha Christie game!

I'll show you the book cover artwork by Tom Adams, and you guess the Fontana edition Agatha Christie novel it's from.

Here's your first one...

A little bit trickier for question 2...

A lot trickier for number 3, but the clues are there if you know your Christie...

And here's your last Agatha Christie cover for this round - quite a famous one.

I'll post the answers in a bit, so get your guesses in now please!

Here are the answers to round 1 of the Agatha Christie game. I hope you got a few right, as round 2 will exercise your little grey cells a little bit more...

@curaffairs The author doesn't know enough about search to have written that article and the reason he's having those problems is AI algos like Rank Brain and Google's attempts to use natural language processing nothing to do with SEOs.

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YMYL is not evaluated at the site level, but the query level.

Again this is on Google, not SEOs because they want to surface better sites.

And those devaluations are part of Core Updates which SEOs like me recover sites from.

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Featured Snippets are not optimized for - you can use certain HTML to be pulled in one but there is no definite use case where Featured Snippets are shown or that your site's will show for it. Also doesn't always come from the #1 result.

& that's Google not the SEO.

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Also there are many times when an SEO doesn't want their site in the Featured Snippet cuz it doesn't result in a click to the website. But we have no control over what Google pulls as Feature Snippets except to put in a meta tag to exclude us from them

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And Neil Patel is not an SEO. Most senior level SEOs see him as nothing more than a scammer because reportedly he's ripped them off by stealing their content and articles and passing them off as his.

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Authors, you deserve an agent who…

Replies to your emails in a timely fashion, and lets you know when they won’t be able to.
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Reads your manuscripts, revisions, outlines, and other materials in a timely fashion, provides an EDA when needed, and lets you know if a delay occurs.
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Communicates in a way that works for YOU, be that email, texting, or phone, and is open FROM THE CALL STAGE about any forms of communication they are unable or unwilling to use.
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Understands and respects YOUR publishing goals, and is upfront and honest about how realistic they are.
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Respects your decision to turn down any offer, for any reason, and to hold out for YOUR minimum requirements for taking an offer.
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One slightly warm day and I'm all...

If tomorrow's as slightly warm as today...

And if it's not...