7 Minute Books: Free Book Summaries

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  The AI-First Company by Ash Fontana - Book Summary 26.09.2026 9นาที

  Sam and Sophie break down Ash Fontana's case for putting AI at the core of a business instead of sprinkling it on top. They get into data network effects, why messy data hoards fail, and when to transform a legacy company.
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  SPIN Selling by Neil Rackham - Book Summary 26.09.2026 7นาที

  Rackham watched 35,000 real sales calls and found that the classic closing techniques actually kill big deals. Here's what the top performers did instead.
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  A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare by James Shapiro - Book Summary 26.09.2026 6นาที

  James Shapiro zooms in on 1599, the year Shakespeare wrote Hamlet, Henry V, Julius Caesar and As You Like It while London panicked about the queen dying. It's a wild, human look at how genius actually gets made.
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  Hacking Growth by Sean Ellis & Morgan Brown - Book Summary 25.09.2026 7นาที

  Sean Ellis and Morgan Brown make the case that growth is a repeatable weekly process, not a big-budget gamble. We break down the 40 percent test, the ICE score, and why most experiments are supposed to fail.
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  Mini Habits by Stephen Guise - Book Summary 25.09.2026 7นาที

  We dig into Stephen Guise's Mini Habits, the weirdly liberating idea that the way to change your life is to aim embarrassingly small. One push-up. One sentence. That's it.
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  Start-up of You by Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha - Book Summary 25.09.2026 8นาที

  Reid Hoffman says the safest career move is the riskiest one. We break down competitive advantage, permanent beta, and why your network is your real net worth.
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  The Knowledge by Lewis Dartnell - Book Summary 25.09.2026 6นาที

  What if every machine, book, and digital record vanished overnight? We talk through Lewis Dartnell's The Knowledge and why it made us feel weirdly humble about glass windows.
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  Platform Scale by Sangeet Paul Choudary - Book Summary 25.09.2026 8นาที

  We break down Sangeet Paul Choudary's Platform Scale and why Airbnb owns no rooms and Uber owns no cars. The architecture behind the biggest companies of the last twenty years, minus the hype.
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  Nine Nasty Words by John McWhorter - Book Summary 25.09.2026 8นาที

  John McWhorter takes the nine most taboo words in English and shows us they're tiny time capsules. We dig into why 'damn' used to be terrifying and why slurs hit different.
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  Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke - Book Summary 25.09.2026 8นาที

  Anna Lembke explains why our brains are wired to tip the pleasure-pain seesaw, and why a dopamine fast might be the reset we all need. Two friends talk through the science and the surprising freedom in choosing discomfort.
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  To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee - Book Summary 25.09.2026 7นาที

  We dig into Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, from the trial that breaks Jem's faith to the quiet hero who's been watching over Scout all along. It's about courage, empathy, and what we lose when we finally see the world clearly.
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  The Awakened Brain by Lisa Miller - Book Summary 24.09.2026 9นาที

  Sam and Sophie dig into Lisa Miller's research on the neural circuit that fires during awe — and the depression study that made them both put the book down for a minute.
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  A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams - Book Summary 24.09.2026 9นาที

  Two friends unpack a play that's less about what happens and more about how people break. It's a brutal, poetic look at what we sacrifice to survive.
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  Bedtime Biography: Madame Curie by Eve Curie - Book Summary 24.09.2026 9นาที

  We read Eve Curie's biography of her mother, and it wrecked us a little. It's not really about radium. It's about a woman who just refused to stop.
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  Why We Make Mistakes by Joseph T. Hallinan - Book Summary 24.09.2026 10นาที

  We think we're rational, but Joseph T. Hallinan shows our mistakes are predictable, systematic, and built into the architecture of the brain. Sam and Sophie dig into why that's actually good news.
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  Well Endowed by Vivian Tu - Book Summary 24.09.2026 7นาที

  Vivian Tu's Well Endowed reframes money as a mindset, not a math test. We talk about the scripts for raises, boundaries, and why your budget should feel like permission, not punishment.
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  Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston A. Price - Book Summary 24.09.2026 8นาที

  A Cleveland dentist travels the globe and finds something wild: traditional peoples had perfect teeth and no dentists. Then they met white flour. We dig into why.
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  Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) by George Orwell - Book Summary 24.09.2026 8นาที

  We got into 1984 and honestly it wrecked us a little. The surveillance stuff is famous, but the part about language shrinking your thoughts is what kept us up.
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  Sovereign Self by Acharya Shunya - Book Summary 23.09.2026 10นาที

  Acharya Shunya says we've been wearing a mask so long we forgot it's on. We talk about the moment the mask slips, and what's underneath. Honestly, it's kind of a relief.
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  The Daily Laws by Robert Greene - Book Summary 23.09.2026 6นาที

  Robert Greene says mastery isn't a gift, it's a daily practice. We dig into the apprenticeship, social intelligence, and why constraints can set you free.