melancholy

fun

[melancholy @CaconsBella]

@MattWallace888 @elonmusk Finally finally

[melancholy @CaconsBella]

@CFCStan__ @TrollFootball He's from India bro

[Tony Otoa @Comrade_Otoa]

I always come back to this presentation.

[melancholy @CaconsBella]

@EfoNorvisi @eben_offen Especially that Irish accent

[melancholy @CaconsBella]

@StevieBryant_ @Kashe1dz Came here for dis comment

[melancholy @CaconsBella]

@valjoze @omoelerinjare @CynthiaOjukwu9 U made me go an rewatch the video, the kid wan craze 😁

[Math Files @Math_files]

17 Equations That Changed the World by Ian Stewart

1. Pythagoras’s Theorem
a² + b² = c²
Pythagoras, 530 BC

2. Logarithms
log(xy) = log(x) + log(y)
John Napier, 1610

3. Calculus
df/dt = lim₍h→0₎ (f(t + h) - f(t)) / h
Newton, 1668

4. Law of Gravity
F = G·(m₁m₂) / r²
Newton, 1687

5. The Square Root of Minus One
i² = -1
Euler, 1750

6. Euler’s Formula for Polyhedra
V - E + F = 2
Euler, 1751

7. Normal Distribution
Φ(x) = (1 / √(2π)) · e^(-x²/2)
C.F. Gauss, 1810

8. Wave Equation
∂²u/∂t² = c² ∂²u/∂x²
J. d’Alembert, 1746

9. Fourier Transform
f(ω) = ∫₋∞⁺∞ f(x) e^(-2πiωx) dx
J. Fourier, 1822

10. Navier–Stokes Equation
ρ(∂v/∂t + v·∇v) = -∇p + ∇·T + f
C. Navier, G. Stokes, 1845

11. Maxwell’s Equations
∇·E = 0
∇×E = (1/c) ∂H/∂t
∇·H = 0
∇×H = (1/c) ∂E/∂t
J.C. Maxwell, 1865

12. Second Law of Thermodynamics
dS ≥ 0
L. Boltzmann, 1874

13. Relativity
E = mc²
Einstein, 1905

14. Schrödinger’s Equation
iħ ∂ψ/∂t = Hψ
E. Schrödinger, 1927

15. Information Theory
H = -Σ p(x) log p(x)
C. Shannon, 1949

16. Chaos Theory
x₍t+1₎ = kxₜ(1 - xₜ)
Robert May, 1975

17. Black–Scholes Equation
(½)σ²S² ∂²V/∂S² + rS ∂V/∂S + ∂V/∂t - rV = 0
F. Black, M. Scholes, 1990

[melancholy @CaconsBella]

@Kwesi_Agyei_ @TG_DERY @EddKnyame @eddie_wrt Boy no y3 slow ruff 😃

[Tips Excel @gudanglifehack]

My father is 83 years old and has studied US stocks for almost 52 years.
He summarized some simple rules for beginners:
1. Price falls 5% → Hold
2. Price falls 15% → Buy 10%
3. Price falls 25% → Buy 25%
4. Price rises 5% → Continue holding
5. Price rises 15% → Continue holding
6. Price rises 25% → Sell 10%
7. Price rises 35% → Sell 20%
8. Price rises 45% → Sell 30%
9. Price rises 60% → Sell 40%
10. Price rises 100% → Sell everything
Discipline + patience = stable long-term growth.

(Save this later).

[JayNaija @JayNaija]

The day I found out that 51 was divisible by 17 was the day I knew anything was possible in this life

[melancholy @CaconsBella]

@Cbayo09 @imran_services People too wicked 😃😃

[melancholy @CaconsBella]

@astronaia Love seeing people Suceed academically, go higher girl ❤

[mahrukh @parhloumahrukh]

At university, you realize that:
1. many students are dumb
2. you’re not particularly smart either.

[Champ✨ @Ib_ra_himm]

When you barely pass a course, but you see it again the next semester with “II” behind it.

[Juanita Broaddrick @atensnut]

I could not stop watching this. In China they make denim from Abaca banana stalks from the Philippines.

Whole Process was mesmerizing! 😳

[Seth Doe Esq @seth_doe22]

Buying Land in Ghana: The Mistakes People Keep Making

A man buys land.
He pays the full amount.
Receives documents.
Starts building.

Six months later another person appears claiming ownership of the same land.
Soon the police are involved.

Lawyers enter the picture.
Construction stops.
Years later the land is still in dispute.

This story is extremely common in Ghana.
Most land disputes arise not because land cannot be bought safely, but because buyers make avoidable legal mistakes.

Here are some of the biggest mistakes people make when buying land in Ghana.

1. Buying Land Without Conducting a Lands Commission Search
Many buyers rely only on the documents presented by the seller.
That is risky.

A search at the Lands Commission helps determine:
• whether the seller has registered title
• whether the land is already registered to someone else
• whether there are existing interests on the land
Skipping this step is one of the most common causes of land disputes.

2. Failing to Verify the Seller’s Authority
In many cases the person selling the land does not have the authority to do so.

For example:
• a family member selling family land without family consent
• a caretaker selling land belonging to a stool or family
• an individual selling land already sold to another buyer

Always confirm that the seller has legal authority
to transfer the land.

3. Ignoring the Type of Land Ownership
Land in Ghana may belong to:
• stools or skins
• families
• individuals
• the state

Each type of ownership involves different consent and documentation requirements.
Failure to understand this structure often leads to invalid transactions.

4. Not Preparing a Proper Land Sale Agreement

Some buyers pay money and collect documents without signing a proper written agreement.

A written agreement should clearly state:
• the identity of the parties
• the description of the land
• the purchase price
• the obligations of each party
Without a proper agreement, enforcing your rights becomes difficult.

5. Failing to Prepare and Register a Proper Deed
A land transaction must be documented in a deed of conveyance or assignment.

After execution, the deed should be stamped and registered.
Registration protects your interest and provides evidence of ownership.

6. Not Conducting Physical Inspection of the Land
Some buyers pay for land without physically inspecting it.

Important questions should always be answered:
• Is the land already occupied?
• Is someone farming on it?
• Are there structures or disputes on the land?
Physical inspection helps identify potential conflicts early.

7. Ignoring Due Diligence Before Payment
Payment should never be the first step.
Before money changes hands, buyers should conduct proper legal due diligence, including:
• land searches
• verification of ownership
• review of documents
• confirmation of boundaries

Buying land is one of the most significant investments many people make in their lifetime.

Yet many people rush the process and only investigate after problems arise.
In reality, most land disputes in Ghana could be avoided through proper legal checks before purchase.

Buying land safely is not just about having money.

It is about understanding the law and taking the right steps before committing to the transaction.

[Empire-Builders @EmpiresPod]

====S TIER (17 books)====
1. Napoleon: A Life, Andrew Roberts (2014)
2. Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in the West, Cormac McCarthy (1985)
3. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy (1869)
4. The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas (1844)
5. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Morris (1979)
6. Theodore Rex, Edmund Morris (2001)
7. Alexander Hamilton, Ron Chernow (2004)
8. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, William Shakespeare (1623)
9. The Lord of the Rings trilogy, J.R.R. Tolkien (1954-5)
10. All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren (1946)
11. Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1866)
12. The Iliad, Homer (c. 750 BC)
13. Twilight of the Idols & The Antichrist, Friedrich Nietzsche (1888, 1895)
14. Peter the Great: His Life and World, Robert K. Massie (1980)
15. The Odyssey, Homer (c. 725 BC)
16. Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad (1899)
17. The Romanovs: 1613-1918, Simon Sebag Montefiore (2016)

====A TIER (59 books)====
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon (1776-1788)
2. No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy (2005)
3. The Rise and Fall of American Growth, Robert J. Gordon (2016)
4. The End of History and the Last Man, Francis Fukuyama (1992)
5. Churchill: Walking with Destiny, Andrew Roberts (2018)
6. Caesar: Life of a Colossus, Adrian Goldsworthy (2006)
7. My Early Life: 1874-1904, Winston Churchill (1930)
8. Elon Musk, Walter Isaacson (2023)
9. Alexander the Great, Philip Freeman (2011)
10. Augustus: First Emperor of Rome, Adrian Goldsworthy (2014)
11. Young Stalin, Simon Sebag Montefiore (2007)
12. Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012)
13. Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future, Peter Thiel & Blake Masters (2014)
14. The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Robert A. Caro (1982)
15. Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon: The Greatest Movie Never Made, Alison Castle (2018)
16. Heart of Europe: A History of the Holy Roman Empire, Peter H. Wilson (2016)
17. The Campaigns of Napoleon, David G. Chandler (1966)
18. Catherine the Great & Potemkin: The Imperial Love Affair, Simon Sebag Montefiore (2000)
19. The Road, Cormac McCarthy (2006)
20. A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin (1996)
21. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, Simon Sebag Montefiore (2003)
22. The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914, David McCullough (1977)
23. The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium, Anthony Kaldellis (2023)
24. Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson (2011)
25. A Clash of Kings, George R.R. Martin (1998)
26. Dune, Frank Herbert (1965)
27. The Last Wish, Andrzej Sapkowski (1993)
28. Foundational Concepts in Neuroscience: A Brain-Mind Odyssey, David E. Presti (2015)
29. The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli (1532)
30. Frederick II: A Medieval Emperor, Ernst Kantorowicz (1931)
31. Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley, Antonio Garcia Martinez (2016)
32. Einstein: His Life and Universe, Walter Isaacson (2007)
33. The Burgundians: A Vanished Empire, Bart Van Loo (2021)
34. The Wright Brothers, David McCullough (2015)
35. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley (1932)
36. Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche (1885)
37. Candide, Voltaire (1759)
38. Twelve Against the Gods: The Story of Adventure, William Bolitho (1929)
39. Outer Dark, Cormac McCarthy (1968)
40. The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms, Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010)
41. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon (2000)
42. All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy (1992)
43. The Grand Strategy of Philip II, Geoffrey Parker (1998)
44. Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, Ashlee Vance (2015)
45. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
46. Leonardo da Vinci, Walter Isaacson (2017)
47. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, Walter Isaacson (2003)
48. Leadership in War: Essential Lessons from Those Who Made History, Andrew Roberts (2019)
49. The Historians of Ancient Rome: An Anthology of the Major Writings, Ronald Mellor (1997)
50. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century, Barbara W. Tuchman (1978)
51. Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse (1922)
52. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, Mary Beard (2015)
53. The Godfather, Mario Puzo (1969)
54. The Age of Faith, Will Durant (1950)
55. How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower, Adrian Goldsworthy (2009)
56. The Age of Napoleon, Will Durant (1975)
57. The Normans in the South, 1016-1130, John Julius Norwich (1967)
58. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell (1949)
59. The Time of Contempt, Andrzej Sapkowski (1995)

====B TIER (83 books)=====
1. The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution, Walter Isaacson (2014)
2. The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge, David McCullough (1972)
3. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, David Graeber & David Wengrow (2021)
4. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2007)
5. History of the Franks, Gregory of Tours (c. 594)
6. Roman History, Cassius Dio (c. 229)
7. Commentarii de Bello Gallico, Julius Caesar (c. 50 BC)
8. A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens (1859)
9. Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Max Tegmark (2017)
10. Fall of the Roman Republic, Plutarch (c. 100)
11. The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka (1915)
12. Life of Charlemagne, Einhard (c. 830)
13. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury (1953)
14. The Romans: A 2000 Year History, Edward J. Watts (2025)
15. Sword of Destiny, Andrzej Sapkowski (1992)
16. The Innovation Stack: Building an Unbeatable Business One Crazy Idea at a Time, Jim McKelvey (2020)
17. Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction, Derek Thompson (2017)
18. Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It, Chris Voss (2016)
19. The Inner Game of Tennis, W. Timothy Gallwey (1974)
20. How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne, Sara Bakewell (2010)
21. The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Ben Horowitz (2014)
22. The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway (1952)
23. Otto III, Gerd Althoff (2003)
24. The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte, Robert Asprey (2000)
25. The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini (2003)
26. Meditations, Marcus Aurelius (c. 180)
27. Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike, Phil Knight (2016)
28. Afghan Napoleon: The Life of Ahmad Shah Massoud, Sandy Gall (2021)
29. Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire, Roger Crowley (2015)
30. Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, David Epstein (2019)
31. Empires of the Normans: Makers of Europe, Conquerors of Asia, Levi Roach (2022)
32. Agricola and Germania, Tacitus (c. 98)
33. Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway, Snorri Sturluson (c. 1230)
34. Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners, Sigmund Freud (1920)
35. First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans, Thomas E. Ricks (2020)
36. How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer, Sara Bakewell (2010) - DUPLICATE
37. Stalin's Folly: The Tragic First Ten Days of World War II on the Eastern Front, Constantine Pleshakov (2005)
38. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, Doris Kearns Goodwin (2005)
39. Gesta Regum Anglorum (Chronicle of the Kings of England), William of Malmesbury (c. 1125)
40. Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche (1886)
41. The Sorrows of Young Werther, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1774)
42. As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner (1930)
43. Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, Sigmund Freud (1921)
44. The Poetic Edda, Various (trans. Jackson Crawford) (c. 1270)
45. The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World, Niall Ferguson (2008)
46. Blood of Elves, Andrzej Sapkowski (1994)
47. On Revolution, Hannah Arendt (1963)
48. The Abacus and the Cross: The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages, Nancy Marie Brown (2010)
49. The Colosseum, Mary Beard & Keith Hopkins (2005)
50. The Cognitive Challenge of War: Prussia 1806, Peter Paret (2009)
51. The Romans: From Village to Empire, Mary T. Boatwright et al. (2004)
52. The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream, H.W. Brands (2002)
53. The House of Islam: A Global History, Ed Husain (2018)
54. Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, Adam Hochschild (2016)
55. Historia Augusta, Various (attributed) (c. 400)
56. Night, Elie Wiesel (1956)
57. The Frankish Kingdoms Under the Carolingians, 751-987, Rosamond McKitterick (1983)
58. History of the Empire from the Death of Marcus, Herodian (c. 250)
59. The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith (1776)
60. The Alexiad, Anna Komnene (c. 1148)
61. The Wandering Scholars of the Middle Ages, Helen Waddell (1927)
62. Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne (1829)
63. Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller (1949)
64. Lying, Sam Harris (2013)
65. Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe (1958)
66. Ecce Homo, Friedrich Nietzsche (1908)
67. The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War, Nicholas Thompson (2009)
68. Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything, Joshua Foer (2011)
69. The Carolingian World, Marios Costambeys, Matthew Innes & Simon MacLean (2011)
70. Memoirs of Napoleon, His Court and Family, Laure Junot, Duchesse d'Abrantes (1831)
71. The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company, Robert Iger (2019)
72. Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built, Duncan Clark (2016)
73. Beowulf, Unknown (trans. J.R.R. Tolkien) (c. 1000)
74. The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde (1895)
75. Struggle for Empire: Kingship and Conflict Under Louis the German, 817-876, Eric J. Goldberg (2006)
76. Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness, Donald L. Barlett & James B. Steele (1979)
77. Animal Farm, George Orwell (1945)
78. Strange Pilgrims, Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1992)
79. Patton: A Genius for War, Carlo D'Este (1995)
80. The Origin and Deeds of the Goths, Jordanes (c. 551)
81. Predatory Kinship and the Creation of Norman Power, 840-1066, Eleanor Searle (1988)
82. The Lady of the Lake, Andrzej Sapkowski (1999)
83. War As I Knew It, George S. Patton Jr. (1947)

====C TIER (103 books)====
1. Heavenly Intrigue: Johannes Kepler, Tycho Brahe, and the Murder Behind One of History's Greatest Scientific Discoveries, Anne-Lee & Joshua Gilder (2004)
2. Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth, Justin Mares & Gabriel Weinberg (2015)
3. The Age of Agade: Inventing Empire in Ancient Mesopotamia, Benjamin R. Foster (2016)
4. The Cambridge History of Russia, Vol. 1: From Early Rus' to 1689, Maureen Perrie (ed.) (2006)
5. Ancient Rome, William E. Dunstan (2010)
6. The Magnificent Ride: The First Reformation in Hussite Bohemia, Thomas A. Fudge (1998)
7. The Economy of Renaissance Florence, Richard A. Goldthwaite (2009)
8. The Emperor and the Saint: Frederick II of Hohenstaufen, Francis of Assisi, Richard Casady (2011)
9. Maxims and Reflections, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1833)
10. Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1981)
11. Baptism of Fire, Andrzej Sapkowski (1996)
12. Pudd'nhead Wilson, Mark Twain (1894)
13. Around the World in Eighty Days, Jules Verne (1873)
14. The Sorrows of the Ancient Romans: The Gladiator and the Monster, Carlin A. Barton (1993)
15. The Normans in Europe, Elisabeth Van Houts (2000)
16. History of the Goths, Herwig Wolfram (1988)
17. The Young Emperors: Rome, A.D. 193-244, George C. Brauer (1967)
18. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams (1979)
19. The Normans: The Conquests That Changed the Face of Europe, Francois Neveux (2008)
20. Carolingian Chronicles: Royal Frankish Annals and Nithard's Histories, Bernhard Walter Scholz & Barbara Rogers (1970)
21. Warfare in Tenth-Century Germany, David S. Bachrach (2012)
22. Medieval Germany, 500-1300: A Political Interpretation, Benjamin Arnold (1997)
23. Pre-Sargonic Period: Early Periods, Volume 1 (2700-2350 BC), Douglas R. Frayne (2008)
24. Jan Hus: Religious Reform and Social Revolution in Bohemia, Thomas A. Fudge (2010)
25. The Roman Games: Historical Sources in Translation, Alison Futrell (2006)
26. From Roman to Merovingian Gaul: A Reader, Alexander Callander Murray (2000)
27. Napoleon the Man, Dmitry Merezhkovsky (1929)
28. Warfare in Medieval Europe c.400-c.1453, Bernard S. Bachrach & David S. Bachrach (2017)
29. The Tower of the Swallow, Andrzej Sapkowski (1997)
30. Information: The New Language of Science, Hans Christian von Baeyer (2003)
31. William the Conqueror, David Bates (2016)
32. The Last Viking: The True Story of King Harald Hardrada, Don Hollway (2021)
33. William I and the Norman Conquest, Frank Barlow (1965)
34. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, Jared Diamond (1997)
35. The Oxford History of Byzantium, Cyril Mango (ed.) (2002)
36. William the Conqueror: The Norman Impact upon England, David C. Douglas (1964)
37. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, John Maynard Keynes (1936)
38. Historia Normannorum (History of the Normans), Dudo of Saint-Quentin (c. 1015)
39. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis (1950)
40. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens (1861)
41. The Medieval Empire in Central Europe, Herbert Schutz (2010)
42. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari (2011)
43. Mesopotamia: The Invention of the City, Gwendolyn Leick (2001)
44. The Merovingian Kingdoms, 450-751, Ian Wood (1994)
45. Warfare and Society in the Barbarian West, 450-900, Guy Halsall (2003)
46. War, Revolution, and the Bureaucratic State, Howard Brown (1995)
47. The 48 Laws of Power, Robert Greene (1998)
48. Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit, John Douglas & Mark Olshaker (1995)
49. The Story of Russia, Orlando Figes (2022)
50. Liber Historiae Francorum, Unknown (c. 727)
51. The Deeds of Count Roger of Calabria and Sicily, Geoffrey Malaterra (c. 1099)
52. Clausewitz and Modern Strategy, Michael I. Handel (1986)
53. Frederick the Great on the Art of War, Jay Luvaas (1966)
54. Building Anglo-Saxon England, John Blair (2018)
55. The Great Transformation, Karl Polanyi (1944)
56. Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis, Jared Diamond (2019)
57. Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell (2008)
58. Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know, Malcolm Gladwell (2019)
59. King Hammurabi of Babylon: A Biography, Marc Van de Mieroop (2004)
60. Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It, Scott Kupor (2019)
61. Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization, Paul Kriwaczek (2010)
62. Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman (2011)
63. The Growth of Napoleon: A Study in Environment, Norwood Young (1910)
64. The Illustrated Chronicles of Matthew Paris, Matthew Paris (trans. Richard Vaughan) (c. 1259)
65. The Civilization of the Middle Ages, Norman Cantor (1993)
66. Macroeconomics as a Second Language, Martha Olney (2009)
67. Four Books of Histories, Richer of Saint-Remi (c. 998)
68. A History of the Ancient Near East, ca. 3000-323 BC, Marc Van de Mieroop (2004)
69. Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War, Rick Atkinson (1993)
70. Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator, Ryan Holiday (2012)
71. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, Atul Gawande (2009)
72. The Normans in Europe, Elisabeth Van Houts (2000) - DUPLICATE
73. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee (1960)
74. A Doll's House, Henrik Ibsen (1879)
75. The Restoration of Rome: Barbarian Popes and Imperial Pretenders, Peter Heather (2013)
76. The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien (1990)
77. The Boy Who Lost His Face, Louis Sachar (1989)
78. Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling (1997)
79. The Giver, Lois Lowry (1993)
80. The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton (1967)
81. The Complete Works of Liudprand of Cremona, Liudprand of Cremona (trans. Paolo Squatriti) (2007)
82. The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians, Peter Heather (2005)
83. Creating a Common Polity: Religion, Economy, and Politics in the Making of the Greek Koinon, Emily Mackil (2013)
84. Beloved, Toni Morrison (1987)
85. Percy Jackson & The Olympians series, Rick Riordan (2005)
86. The Silence of the Lambs, Thomas Harris (1988)
87. Past Convictions: The Penance of Louis the Pious and the Decline of the Carolingians, Courtney M. Booker (2009)
88. The Emperor Frederick II of Hohenstaufen, Immutator Mundi, Thomas Curtis Van Cleve (1972)
89. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner (2005)
90. Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran, Roya Hakakian (2004)
91. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, Yuval Noah Harari (2018)
92. Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston (1937)
93. Conrad II, 990-1039: Emperor of Three Kingdoms, Herwig Wolfram (2006)
94. Red Dragon, Thomas Harris (1981)
95. Emperors and Gladiators, Thomas Wiedemann (1992)
96. Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty (2013)
97. Microeconomics as a Second Language, Martha Olney (2009)
98. Among the Hidden, Margaret Peterson Haddix (1998)
99. For the Time Being, Annie Dillard (1999)
100. The Medici Effect: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us About Innovation, Frans Johansson (2004)
101. The Life of Cesare Borgia, Rafael Sabatini (1911)
102. The Memory and Motivation of Jan Hus, Medieval Priest and Martyr, Thomas A. Fudge (2013)
103. Baghdad, Yesterday: The Making of an Arab Jew, Sasson Somekh (2007)

====D TIER (60 books)====
1. Macroeconomics, 2nd Edition, J. Bradford DeLong & Martha Olney (2006)
2. The Salian Century: Main Currents in an Age of Transition, Stefan Weinfurter (1999)
3. Germany in the Early Middle Ages, 800-1056, Timothy Reuter (1991)
4. The Napoleonic Empire and the New European Political Culture, Michael Broers et al. (2012)
5. Good Economics for Hard Times, Abhijit Banerjee & Esther Duflo (2019)
6. The Police of France, Philip John Stead (1957)
7. Frederick II of Hohenstaufen: A Life, Georgina Masson (1957)
8. Books Are Made Out of Books: A Guide to Cormac McCarthy's Literary Influences, Michael Lynn Crews (2017)
9. The Street Lawyer, John Grisham (1998)
10. Early Medieval Europe, 300-1000, Roger Collins (1991)
11. Sword, Miter, and Cloister: Nobility and the Church in Burgundy, 980-1198, Constance Brittain Bouchard (1987)
12. The Rainmaker, John Grisham (1995)
13. Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, Yuval Noah Harari (2015)
14. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty, Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson (2012)
15. Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos, Walter Isaacson & Jeff Bezos (2020)
16. Fundraising, Ryan Breslow (2022)
17. How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking, Jordan Ellenberg (2014)
18. Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others, Stephanie Dalley (1989)
19. Rome and its Empire, AD 193-284, Olivier Hekster (2008)
20. The Black Death: Natural and Human Disaster in Medieval Europe, Robert Gottfried (1983)
21. How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie (1936)
22. Henry IV of Germany, 1056-1106, I.S. Robinson (1999)
23. Akkad, the First World Empire, Mario Liverani (1993)
24. William Wallace: Brave Heart, James Mackay (1995)
25. Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell, Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg & Alan Eagle (2019)
26. How Google Works, Eric Schmidt & Jonathan Rosenberg (2014)
27. The Lean Startup, Eric Ries (2011)
28. Kings and Queens, Neil Grant (1996)
29. The Battle of the Catalaunian Fields, AD 451, Evan Schultheis (2019)
30. Hacking Growth: How Today's Fastest-Growing Companies Drive Breakout Success, Sean Ellis & Morgan Brown (2017)
31. Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions, Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths (2016)
32. Growth Hacker Marketing, Ryan Holiday (2013)
33. The Gods of War, Conn Iggulden (2006)
34. Collaboration and Resistance in Napoleonic Europe, Michael Rowe (2003)
35. Moonwalking with Einstein, Ed Cooke (featured in Joshua Foer) (2011) - DUPLICATE
36. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793, Jim Murphy (2003)
37. The Longest Night: The Bombing of London on May 10, 1941, Gavin Mortimer (2005)
38. Napoleon: A Life, Paul Johnson (2002)
39. A Short History of the Italian Renaissance, Virginia Cox (2015)
40. Vaclav Havel, Kieran Williams (2016)
41. Ancient Iraq, Georges Roux (1964)
42. Reset: Regaining India's Economic Legacy, Subramanian Swamy (2019)
43. Death and Life in the Tenth Century, Eleanor Duckett (1967)
44. Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization, Lars Brownworth (2009)
45. The Normans: From Raiders to Kings, Lars Brownworth (2014)
46. The Normans: The History of a Dynasty, David Crouch (2002)
47. The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire c.500-1492, Jonathan Shepard (ed.) (2008)
48. This America: The Case for the Nation, Jill Lepore (2019)
49. Napoleon's Empire: European Politics in Global Perspective, Ute Planert (2015)
50. The American Revolution, 1775-1783, John Richard Alden (1954)
51. D-Day: Minute by Minute, Jonathan Mayo (2014)
52. The Trial of Jan Hus: Medieval Heresy and Criminal Procedure, Thomas A. Fudge (2013)
53. Norse Mythology, Neil Gaiman (2017)
54. The Baobab and the Mango Tree: Lessons About Development, Nicholas Thompson & Scott Thompson (2020)
55. Pirate Latitudes, Michael Crichton (2009)
56. Target Iran: The Truth About the White House's Plans for Regime Change, Scott Ritter (2006)
57. Alexander the Great: The Macedonian Who Conquered the World, Sean Patrick (2013)
58. Napoleon: The Art of War & Power, George D'Aguilar (2017)
59. Napoleon's Police, Peter de Polnay (1970)
60. Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist, Kate Raworth (2017)

[Dr. Olawale Ogunlana @doctorwalesmd]

I’ll always say this, the writing of ATLA was goated.

These people put their whole heart into the project and it shows.

If you remove Zuko’s story alone, it’s powerful enough to be its own TV show.

There are redemption arcs, and there’s Zuko’s story.

I remember this line to heart.

“My father says she (Azula) was born lucky, he says I was lucky to be born! I don’t need luck though. I don’t want it. I’ve always had the struggle and fight in me, and that’s made me strong. It’s made me who I am.”

I still feel goosebumps from this quote.

[A.Y.O @YusufAsunmogejo]

I like it when motivational speakers speak with confidence. All we hear is the Process: be diligent, form a community of dream executors, always show up, and so on.

But have you noticed that they often sell the process, yet rarely acknowledge the variables?

This is because there is no guarantee those processes will make you an outlier. It probably won’t, because the variables on which the processes depend are rarely discussed. They can’t actually because there are no patterns to that. lol 😂

Just as Robert Herjavec of Shark Tank said, "I can tell you the person who will succeed if ten people walk into this room." He was asked how, and he said that anyone who follows the process — e.g, being confident, always prepared for opportunities, etc — will succeed.

He then said, But to be super successful? To be a Billionaire? To become an outlier? You just have to get lucky or find some grace on your way up.

The most important factor is Grace. Many people who would ordinarily have been successful by the scale of their efforts/process have gone into the ruins of history because they lack Grace.

The process matters, and I preach that too; however, always pray for God’s grace because grace perfects the variables to make your process shine.

Remember: at the end of the day, only winners become motivational speakers.

[goma @soigomaa]

In 200yrs from now, a whole new set of humans will walk on this Earth. We all will be gone. Strangers will live in your house not knowing that you 200yrs ago slept in the same room. No one will remember us. No one will visit our grave. No one will talk about us. We will just be another part of history, So no, it's not that deep.

[Philosophy Of Physics @PhilosophyOfPhy]

This is the beauty of calculus. Wish someone had taught it like this to me.

( 🎥 Dm fro credit)