![]() ![]() Rightly so, the biography details the many unorthodox methods ( not “unsound methods,” captain Kurtz) and means to lift the company “off the ground,” and how SpaceX’s in-house manufacturing model dramatically reduces rockets costs. Krasny touches on a many topics in this fifty minute interview, but Vance believes that SpaceX is Elon Musk greatest achievement. Great read.įor those who need more insights and information on the Elon Musk empire, KQED’s Michael Krasny interviewed Ashlee Vance on Monday, June 1, and tried to peal back the layers on the “techno-utopian,” also know as Elon Musk. It’s been a couple of weeks reading this monument to entrepreneurial vision, also known as the Elon Musk biography, and it doesn’t disappoint. How can it? It has action, life lessons, money, private jets, women, science, business acumen, science fiction, drama, cars, rockets, coups, winning, losing, divorce, greed and Silicon Valley tales. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() It is this new reality, Grandin says, that explains the rise of reactionary populism and racist nationalism, the extreme anger and polarization that catapulted Trump to the presidency. And now, the combined catastrophe of the 2008 financial meltdown and our unwinnable wars in the Middle East have slammed this gate shut, bringing political passions that had long been directed elsewhere back home. But this deflection meant that the country’s problems, from racism to inequality, were never confronted directly. For centuries, he shows, America’s constant expansion - fighting wars and opening markets - served as a “gate of escape”, helping to deflect domestic political and economic conflicts outward. In The End of the Myth, acclaimed historian Greg Grandin explores the meaning of the frontier throughout the full sweep of US history - from the American Revolution to the War of 1898, the New Deal to the election of 2016. Today, though, America has a new symbol: the border wall. ![]() ![]() Symbolizing a future of endless promise, it was the foundation of the United States’ belief in itself as an exceptional nation - democratic, individualistic, forward-looking. Winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfictionįrom a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a new and eye-opening interpretation of the meaning of the frontier, from early westward expansion to Trump’s border wall.Įver since this nation’s inception, the idea of an open and ever-expanding frontier has been central to American identity. ![]() ![]() His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. ![]() He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.Īll he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission - and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish.Įxcept that right now, he doesn't know that. ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Ali is bitten during a zombie hunt and has a strange reaction, even after being given the antidote. Before Ali can figure things out, Cole has already dumped her, leading to pages of misery for everyone involved. One is Cole’s gorgeous ex, and the other, a handsome “he-slut,” shares visions with Ali when he meets her eyes-just like the visions that kick-started Ali and Cole’s romance. ![]() Romantically, things are great with her boyfriend, Cole, right up until two out-of-state zombie slayers arrive. Just when Ali’s getting into a comfortable rhythm with her new zombie-fighting life, everything falls apart. In this follow-up to Alice in Zombieland (2012), Ali Bell and her friends, fellow hunters of invisible spirit zombies, confront internal threats and endless relationship drama. ![]() ![]() He also needed some spiritual healing, so Ewan suggested that embarking on another “Long Way” adventure might do the trick. ![]() When Charley suffered the first of two serious motorcycle accidents in 2016, he needed over a dozen surgeries and lots of permanent titanium to help him to physically recover. They turned that passion into epic adventures that inspired their popular television series, Long Way Round in 2004, and Long Way Down in 2007, also directed by David Alexanian and Russ Malkin. The pair became best friends after meeting on the set of The Serpent's Kiss in 1997 and discovering a shared love of motorcycles. ![]() In conjunction with Apple TV+, we sat down with Boorman to discuss their latest series, Long Way Up, which follows the pair crossing 13 countries and two continents from the bottom of South America through Central America and up to Los Angeles on electric motorcycles. Fans of actors Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman will be delighted to learn that they have embarked on a new epic motorcycle trip. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting. Such advertising cookies may enable such third-party vendors to serve ads to our readers. She currently makes her home in central Michigan with her husband of eighteen years along with her five young children and their rambunctious pets. ![]() Her first book, The Preacher's Bride (Bethany House Publishers), is releasing in the fall of 2010. Some third-party vendors such as Google use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this and other websites. Jody Hedlund is an author of inspirational historical romances. BookGorilla is published independently by Stephen Windwalker and Windwalker Media and is not endorsed by, Inc. This content is provided "as is" and is subject to change or removal at any time. Certain content that appears on this website is provided by Amazon Services LLC. ![]() Amazon, Kindle and the Amazon and Kindle logos are trademarks of, Inc. As an Amazon Associates participant, we earn small amounts from qualifying purchases on the Amazon sites, which in turn allows us to provide our editorial content FREE to readers.Īpart from its participation in the Associates Program, BookGorilla is not affiliated with Amazon or Kindle in any other way. 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In her free time, she teaches yoga, writes for her personal blog STACKED (), drinks a lot of tea, and enjoys disappearing for days reading good books. Kelly lives in the Chicago area with her husband, her daughter, her rabbit, and five needy-but-awesome cats. Before becoming a fully-fledged adult-like person, she worked in the swanky Texas Legislative Library entering data into a computer while surrounded by important politicians, scooped gelato for hungry college students, and spent hours reading, annotating, and scanning small-town Texas newspapers into a giant searchable database. ![]() Her current position is with Book Riot, the largest independent book website in North America, where she focuses on talking about young adult literature in all of its manifestations. ![]() Kelly Jensen is a former teen librarian who worked in several public libraries before pursuing a full-time career in writing and editing. ![]() ![]() ![]() “I don’t give a shit about you,” I say very clearly. The seven different monitors, the uncountable tubes and IVs, the mask. We get to my mom’s room and stop outside the glass, and I don’t say anything at first, I just let him take it in. Let me show you something.” And he follows because he’s a curious douchebag and still wants his chance to lord this new turn over me. ![]() I’m in a rumpled T-shirt and jeans and he’s in a five-thousand-dollar suit and I don’t even care. “Well, and Valdman has tapped me to take over the firm when he retires.” Northcutt looks ready to gloat in full, but he pauses and tilts his head at me. A description of stock options and retirement funds held within the company and how to transfer the accounts. ![]() “Anyway, you’re fired.” He cheerfully hands me a folder that I don’t bother to open. And then he takes a good look at me, with scruff that’s definitely graduated to a full-on beard and my wrinkled clothes. ![]() ![]() ![]() Or maybe a bout of depression will kill our sex drive for a while. Maybe, in our sixties, we’ll develop an interest in being spanked. Of course we don’t stop being attracted to other people after we get married! And of course one person can’t always fulfill all our desires. This belief is damaging because it completely ignores how human sexuality works. ![]() One of the most damaging myths about monogamous relationships is the idea that once we find a life partner, we’ll never so much as desire anybody else, because this partner will fulfill all of our sexual needs. The key message here is: It’s a myth that one person can fulfill all our needs and desires. That’s a huge amount of pressure to put on just one person! No wonder so many marriages end in divorce these days. This magical person will be able to support us, share our political enthusiasms and interests, be the perfect coparent to our children, and even be our best friend. We’ve been taught that our soulmate should be all things to us. Most of us grow up believing a very compelling fairy tale: that we’ll grow up to meet The One, get married, and then live happily ever. ![]() ![]() ![]() Psychological egoism: doctrine that each human being DOES seek what is good for them: you don't need to be persuaded that something is good for you, you automatically do it. (if its healthy for you, you ought to eat it) - is possible to go against this self-interest though. > Hobbes calls this a 'Commonwealth' Whats ethical and psychological egoism? Ethical egoism: doctrine that says a person OUGHT to seek whats good for himself. Whats the difference between a subjective good and a conventional good? Subjective good: good because someone thinks it isĬonventional good: because a ruler (e.g.: parliament, king), who everyone agrees to obey, decrees that it is. What seems good (or bad) to you is good (or bad) for you and same goes for me SO good and bad are relative to an individuals appetites and aversions. Whats another name for this? An apparent good is whatever someone desiresĪn apparent bad is whatever someone desires. ![]() SO this makes good and bad relative to an individuals what? (hint: types of endeavours) What makes something an 'apparent' good or bad? Gods not involved in determining whats good and bad. 'there is nothing good or evil in the nature of an object'. (and is god involved) He thinks there is no absolute standard of good and evil independent of human appetites and desires. ![]() What does Hobbes think about the standard of 'good' and 'evil'? ![]() |