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  Open Secrecy - How Technology...

  Isak Ladegaard

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  Examines how the global digital underground is liberated by "open secrecy"—a novel and ominous mix of tools for mass communication and anonymity 
    
  Shadowy groups are increasingly capable of collective action. Using military-grade encryption, rerouting software, and cryptocurrencies, anonymous and pseudonymous actors can now communicate, solve problems, recruit members, and manage resources across multiple public and semipublic spaces. This swirling mix of secrecy and openness enables people to move through cyberspace like nomads with verifiable personas, which makes them impossible to stop. 
    
  Isak Ladegaard takes readers inside a dark, digital economy for banned drugs that has survived numerous police crackdowns, examines how activist software developers in China and other countries have maintained paths to the open internet, and documents how the American far right uses the same tools to sustain antisocial movements based on paranoia and hate. Timely and perceptive, Open Secrecy argues that although information technology enables mass surveillance, it also undermines state power by boosting groups that evade its rule. These dual forces of control and liberation are propelling us forward, with no one at the wheel. 
    
  "A fascinating, expertly researched, and beautifully written examination of the juxtaposition between openness and secrecy in the dark digital underbelly of the internet."—Alexandrea Ravenelle, author of Side Hustle Safety Net: How Vulnerable Workers Survive Precarious Times

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  Taming the Risk Hurricane -...

  David Hillson

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  A leading expert on risk management describes how to steer your company through a "risk hurricane"-the extreme risk exposure that can lead to major disruption for your business. 
   
  Risk management has become a standard part of the strategic tool kit, providing senior leaders with a forward-looking radar to scan the future and give early warnings of approaching threats and opportunities. However, even best-in-class organizations can falter in the face of extreme risk exposure. Special circumstances demand special responses, and extreme risk exposure needs very careful handling. Routine risk management approaches will fall short, but businesses that demonstrate a high degree of flexibility and resilience will have the competitive advantage and the ability to thrive where others fail. 
   
  The causes and consequences of meteorological hurricanes have parallels in the way uncontrolled risk exposure can develop in organizations. Both are caused largely by predictable factors, but both are characterized by sustained uncertainty and severe impact once they develop. If we can learn to predict a risk hurricane, prepare for it effectively, and survive its effects, then our organizations will be well placed to address the challenge of extreme risk exposure, if and when we are unfortunate enough to face it.

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  On the Hunt for Great Companies...

  Simon Kold

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  An unparalleled practical training tool for investment analysis, On the Hunt for Great Companies helps listeners move beyond using rules of thumb for companies or investment hypotheses based on broad-level pattern recognition. Listeners will learn how to assess all the essential traits of a good business, including passionate management, staying power, abnormal reinvestment options, low dependency risk, and to identify emerging quality. 
   
    
   
  This book is supported by a wealth of real-world examples, both contemporary and historical, and true business stories and anecdotes from investor and former comedian Simon Kold. In this book, listeners will learn about: 
   
   
   
  ● Elements of intense and durable competitive advantage such as scale economies, switching costs, network effects, brands, proprietary resources, and modest value extraction 
   
   
   
  ● Methods to formulate falsifiable test statements and empirically test those predictions, rather than relying on heuristics or box-checking 
   
   
       
  Detailed, sophisticated, and highly actionable, On the Hunt for Great Companies is an essential for professional investors of all sizes, in all industries, in both public and private markets.

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  Stablecoins & Banking

  BLOCKCHAINS BLUEPRINT

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  The related discussions in this audiobook explore stablecoins, digital currencies designed to maintain a stable value, and their growing impact on traditional banking. It details the mechanisms behind stablecoins, their advantages over conventional banking, and their various use cases in areas like trading, decentralized finance, and international payments. A significant portion focuses on the "GENIUS Act," a proposed landmark legislation in the United States aiming to establish a comprehensive regulatory framework for stablecoins. Furthermore, we examine how the integration of stablecoins could transform traditional banking products and services, potentially leading to new revenue streams and increased efficiency, while also considering the international adoption and the push for regulatory harmonization across different nations.

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  Passive Income Streams

  Jonas Berns

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  Passive Income Streams: The Ultimate Guide to Building Wealth with Passive Income. Learn How to Build Streams of Income That Work for YouIn today's fast-paced world, traditional 9-5 jobs can be draining and leave little room for financial freedom. But what if there was a way to earn money without sacrificing your time and energy? Enter passive income. Passive income refers to a stream of income that requires little to no ongoing effort from you once it is set up. This audiobook is a comprehensive guide to understanding and generating passive income. From real estate investing to starting an online business, this audiobook covers a wide range of strategies to help you achieve financial independence and live life on your terms.This audiobook will cover the following topics:- Introduction to Passive Income- The Different Types of Passive Income- Investing in Real Estate as Passive Income- Investing in Stocks and Bonds as Passive Income- Creating a Dividend Portfolio- Building a Business for Passive Income- Creating and Monetizing Online Content for Passive Income- Royalties and Intellectual Property as a Means to Generate Passive Income- Setting and Achieving Financial Goals- And many more!Whether you're looking to supplement your current income or build wealth, this audiobook provides the tools and knowledge you need to start creating passive income streams today. To learn more, download your copy of this audiobook today!

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  The Reward of Doing

  John Collopy

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  Why is it so easy for us to identify what we want, yet seemingly so hard to take the steps we need to get it? Why is it that people with achievable dreams and a route to making them come true so often fail to follow through to success? These are smart people, with realistic, realizable goals. Yet when it comes to changing their behavior in the ways they must to get where they want to go, they just don’t do it. The fact is all those old bromides we were raised on are true; our happiness in life is 100% up to us. Our choices dictate our outcomes. The conundrum is why we so consistently make the wrong ones.  John Collopy – businessman, speaker, coach, and author - has helped thousands of people at all levels of accomplishment to greater success in their lives and work. He built a thriving real estate business from the ground up, RE/MAX Results, with sales of over $9.5 billion dollars a year. As an AA member and recovering alcoholic, he’s mentored many people working toward getting and staying sober and heard all kinds of stories over cups of coffee. In his newest book, The Reward of Doing, he shares his insights into what holds us back from success and how to change the ways we think, plan, and act, both in our careers and personal lives, to put our dreams within our reach.  In The Reward of Doing, you’ll learn – How the conflicts between what we think we want and what we actually want cause us to fail.Why putting yourself first is the least selfish thing you can do – and among the most important choices you’ll make on your way to success.How to confront and conquer the negative ideas you absorbed in childhood and put the past behind you for good.How to design an infrastructure of support for you and your goals that will power your efforts to succeed.How to stop making excuses and start making progress. If you’re ready to do the work, The Reward of Doing offers you a practical, no-nonsense guide to powering past what’s holding you back, and charts a course to happiness in both your professional and personal lives.

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