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Listen to an excerpt from THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE by Stephen R. Covey and read by Stephen R. Covey with Sean Covey.

7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE Audiobook Excerpt

As the wealthy flee Earth, a young woman must decide whether to follow her partner to a new world or stay behind to save a dying planet. By Lindsay Brodeck. Illustration by Amelia Bates.

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Afterglow

"These records changed my emotional perspective on music." Recorded live at Dekmantel, the Italian techno artist dissects the records that shaped his approach to DJing and production.

There are few artists as widely respected as Donato Dozzy, who is known for his unique approach to building hypnotic, acid-infused atmospheres as a solo artist and as one half of Voices From The Lake. He is also a singular curator at the head of Spazio Disponibile alongside Neel, and a DJ with a reputation for building sophisticated and slowly unwinding sets at festivals like Labyrinth, Terraforma and Horst, as well as in public spaces and museums.

In this Exchange live from Dekmantel 2023, Resident Advisor's editor-in-chief, Whitney Wei, asks Dozzy about the songs that shaped his craft in our Playing Favourites flagship series. He takes us back to his childhood, playing the first track that introduced him to electronic music before moving chronologically through his life and the pieces that acted as lynchpins in his creative development. He discusses how he grew up in a musical household, listening to classical orchestrations with his parents before finding Italo disco and the stylings of Giorgio Moroder, Lory D and The Future Sound of London. These albums, he says, influenced how he builds his sets, leaning into slowly unfolding narratives as he moves from one track to another. "When I started releasing albums, I decided that I wanted to create stories," he says. Listen to the episode in full.

Tracklist:
Franco Battiato - Summer on a Solitary Beach
Giorgio Moroder - The Chase
Lory D - Abrupt Interruption
The Future Sound of London - Cascade
Kruder & Dorfmeister - DJ Kicks 1996
Mike Parker - Dispatches
Die Woodys - Fitchtl's Lied
Verde Prato - Nina Sonando
Donato Dozzy - Valentina

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Listen to an excerpt from THE GLASS CASTLE by Jeannette Walls and read by the author. Now a major motion picture starring Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, and Naomi Watts.

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Listen to an excerpt from ELOISE by Kay Thompson, drawings by Hilary Knight and read by Bernadette Peters.

ELOISE Audiobook Excerpt

Listen to an excerpt from GETTING THINGS DONE by David Allen, read by the author

GETTING THINGS DONE Audiobook Excerpt

Intellectual property arrangements in the music industry 
can be incredibly complex. This is both the result and the cause of the numerous intermediaries that sit between the listener and the artist.  
Ujo aims to solve this problem for the benefit of all. Jesse Grushack explains. 

http://ujomusic.com/

Content: Jesse Grushack, Arthur Falls
Editing: Richard Toth

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State Change #12 - Jesse Grushack, Ujo

Just as "social networking" is a bland term that doesn't really capture the layers of what happens underneath (and on top of) social networking platforms, "crowdfunding" is a broader phenomenon than what the term and tools implies. Or so argue the guests on this episode of the a16z Podcast, Tilt co-founder and CEO James Beshara and a16z general partner Jeff Jordan with Sonal Chokshi.

Crowdfunding isn't just about reaching a certain threshold to make something, but it's also about "pre-commerce" or "pretail" -- the next evolution in commerce, which involves the ability to suss out demand before production and sell directly to consumers. Crowdfunding is also about "social commerce" -- the ability to not only build community, but trigger collective action towards some goal. There's even a sort of Dunbar's number equivalent for crowdfunding, the tipping point at which the momentum of this collective action takes over (hint: it involves the magic number of 34%).

Beyond crowdfunding, there are broader themes of economic change and behavior at play here -- whether it's people's tolerance for waiting and buying something before it exists; a new type of scarcity and desire for experiential buying; or makers creating or co-creating things publicly, and even incompletely. All we know is that we're at a watershed moment of sorts -- as evidenced by car manufacturer Tesla's pre-orders for its Model 3, which is not even going to be available for a few years. And yet...!

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Chapter 53 (Born To Run audiobook excerpt)

Listen to an excerpt from THE TB12 METHOD by Tom Brady. Read by Jonathan Todd Ross and Tom Brady.

THE TB12 METHOD Audiobook Excerpt

Listen to an excerpt from WAY OF THE WOLF, written and read by Jordan Belfort.

WAY OF THE WOLF Audiobook Excerpt - Prologue

Listen to an excerpt from Chapter 7 of MANHATTAN BEACH by Jennifer Egan, read by Norbert Leo Butz, Vincent Piazza, and Heather Lind.

MANHATTAN BEACH Audiobook Excerpt - Chapter 7, read by Vincent Piazza

Listen to an excerpt from PRINCIPLES by Ray Dalio and read by Ray Dalio and Jeremy Bobb

PRINCIPLES Audiobook Excerpt

Listen to an excerpt from HABITS OF A HAPPY BRAIN by Loretta Graziano Breuning and read by Amanda Carlin

HABITS OF A HAPPY BRAIN Audiobook Excerpt

A Christmas Carol audiobook excerpt, by Charles Dickens, performed by Patrick Stewart

A CHRISTMAS CAROL Audiobook Excerpt

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