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Steven Rabalais

General Fox Conner: Pershing’s Chief of Operations and Eisenhower’s Mentor by Steven Rabalais

The Rabbit Hole is written by Blas Moros. To support, sign up for the newsletter, become a patron, and/or join The Latticework. Original Design by Thilo Konzok.

Summary Rabalais uncovers the details behind Fox Conner’s background and his influence on military history, including General Pershing and Dwight Eisenhower. “The legacy of this quintessential man-behind-the-scenes indeed endures. As Black Jack Pershing’s chief of operations and Dwight Eisenhower’s mentor, Fox Conner left an unmistakable imprint upon his nation’s military history. Were they alive today, […]

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Richard Feynman

Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher by Richard Feynman

The Rabbit Hole is written by Blas Moros. To support, sign up for the newsletter, become a patron, and/or join The Latticework. Original Design by Thilo Konzok.

Summary A distillation of some of the key principles that Feynman covers in his lectures Key Takeaways Feynman was a theoretical physicist par excellence. Newton had been both experimentalist and theorist in equal measure. Einstein was quite simply contemptuous of experiment, preferring to put his faith in pure thought. Feynman was driven to develop a […]

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Benjamin Franklin

Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin

The Rabbit Hole is written by Blas Moros. To support, sign up for the newsletter, become a patron, and/or join The Latticework. Original Design by Thilo Konzok.

Summary Franklin tells us about his life and path up until 1791. It was published before his death and has become one of the most famous examples of an autobiography: “He felt the need of school training and set to work to educate himself. He had an untiring industry, and love of the approval of […]

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Patrick McKeown

The Oxygen Advantage by Patrick McKeown

The Rabbit Hole is written by Blas Moros. To support, sign up for the newsletter, become a patron, and/or join The Latticework. Original Design by Thilo Konzok.

Summary In this book you will discover the fundamental relationship between oxygen and the body.  Improving fitness depends on enhancing the release of oxygen to your muscles, organs,  and tissues. Increased oxygenation is not only healthy Key Takeaways The biggest obstacle to your health and fitness is a rarely identified problem: chronic overbreathing What determines how much […]

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Richard Hamming

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn by Richard Hamming

The Rabbit Hole is written by Blas Moros. To support, sign up for the newsletter, become a patron, and/or join The Latticework. Original Design by Thilo Konzok.

“After more thought I decided that since I was trying to teach “style” of thinking in science and engineering, and “style” is an art, I should therefore copy the methods of teaching used for the other arts – once the fundamentals have been learned. How to be a great painters cannot be taught in words; […]

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Wallace D. Wattles

The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles

The Rabbit Hole is written by Blas Moros. To support, sign up for the newsletter, become a patron, and/or join The Latticework. Original Design by Thilo Konzok.

Summary “There is a Science of getting rich, and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic. There are certain laws, which govern the process of acquiring riches; once these laws are learned and obeyed by any man, he will get rich with mathematical certainty.” Key Takeaways Fundamental Propositions There is a thinking stuff […]

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Gary Zukav

The Seat of the Soul by Gary Zukav

The Rabbit Hole is written by Blas Moros. To support, sign up for the newsletter, become a patron, and/or join The Latticework. Original Design by Thilo Konzok.

Summary The greats, mystics, reach for something greater than what they can express directly through their work. What motivates them, motivates us. It is a force, the next step in our evolution is to come into clearer contact with that force Key Takeaways Multi-Sensory vs. 5 Sensory 5 sensory point of view sees a world […]

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Brian Arthur

The Nature of Technology: What it is and How it Evolves by Brian Arthur

The Rabbit Hole is written by Blas Moros. To support, sign up for the newsletter, become a patron, and/or join The Latticework. Original Design by Thilo Konzok.

Summary This book is an argument about what technology is and how it evolves. Technologies are put together from pieces – themselves technologies – that already exist. Technologies therefore share ancestry, combine more, and combined again to create further technologies. Technology evolves similar to how a coral reef builds itself from activities of small organisms […]

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Jannie Mouton, Carie Maas

And Then They Fired Me by Jannie Mouton, Carie Maas

The Rabbit Hole is written by Blas Moros. To support, sign up for the newsletter, become a patron, and/or join The Latticework. Original Design by Thilo Konzok.

Summary My business philosophy is really quite simple: I believe in strategic planning, and then follow an entrepreneurial approach. I empower the right people completely, enable them to secure a percentage of the shareholding, and then believe in their ability to, with help and proper corporate control, establish good businesses. Perhaps this definition is not […]

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Stephen Salsbury

No Way to Run a Railroad: The Untold Story of the Penn Central Crisis by Stephen Salsbury

The Rabbit Hole is written by Blas Moros. To support, sign up for the newsletter, become a patron, and/or join The Latticework. Original Design by Thilo Konzok.

Summary Behind the scenes look at what really happened in the collapse of one of America’s largest business failures, the bankruptcy of Penn Central in 1970. Because railroads are America’s oldest large scale business, organizations observing what has happened to them has great value in understanding fundamental issues facing American businesses in the 1980s. Key […]