Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs (/ˈdʒɒbz/; February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American inventor and entrepreneur. He was co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Jobs was co-founder and previously served as chief executive of Pixar Animationr Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of the Walt Disney Company in 2006, following the acquisition of Pixar by Disney.
In the late 1970s, Jobs — along with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Mike Markkula and others — designed, developed, and marketed one of the first commercially successful lines of personal computers, the Apple II series. In the early 1980s, Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential of Xerox PARC's mouse-driven graphical user interface, which led to the creation of the Apple Lisa and, one year later, the Macintosh. After losing a power struggle with the board of directors in 1985, Jobs left Apple and founded NeXT, a computer platform development company specializing in the higher-education and business markets.
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Friday, October 14, 2011
Download The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs wildly popular presentations have set a new global gold standard And now this step-by-step guide shows you exactly how to use his crowd-pleasing techniques in your own presentations. The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs is as close as youl ever get to having the master presenter himself speak directly in your ear. Communications expert Carmine Gallo has studied and analyzed the very best of Jobs抯 performances, offering point-by-point examples, tried-and-true techniques, and proven presentation secrets that work every time. With this revolutionary approach, you抣l be surprised at how easy it is to sell your ideas, share your enthusiasm, and wow your audience the Steve Jobs way.
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Monday, February 7, 2011
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson Free Download pdf and epub
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Middle-aged journalist Mikael Blomkvist, who publishes the political magazine Millennium in Stockholm, has lost a libel case involving damaging allegations about billionaire Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström, and is sentenced to three months in prison. Facing jail time and professional disgrace, Blomkvist steps down from his position on the magazine's board of directors, despite strong objections from Erika Berger, Blomkvist's longtime friend, occasional lover, and business partner. At the same time, he is offered an unlikely freelance assignment by Henrik Vanger, the elderly former CEO of Vanger Enterprises. With few other options, Blomkvist accepts the assignment — unaware that Vanger commissioned a comprehensive investigation into Blomkvist's personal and professional history, carried out by gifted private investigator Lisbeth Salander.Blomkvist visits Vanger at his estate on the tiny island of Hedeby, several hours from Stockholm. The old man draws Blomkvist in by promising not only financial reward for the assignment, but also solid evidence against Wennerström. Blomkvist agrees to spend a year writing the Vanger family history as a cover for the real assignment: solving the "cold case" of the disappearance of Vanger's niece Harriet some 40 years earlier. Vanger admits he is obsessed with finding out the truth of what happened to Harriet, and expresses his suspicion that Harriet was murdered by a member of the vast Vanger family, many of whom were present in Hedeby on the day of her disappearance. Each year on his birthday Harriet gave Henrik a pressed flower. On his birthday every year since Harriet's murder, Vanger explains, the murderer torments him with a present of a framed pressed flower which is delivered to him from a different country each time.
Blomkvist uproots himself from his life in Stockholm, moving to Hedeby in the middle of one of the coldest winters on record, and begins the process of analyzing the more than 40 years worth of information Henrik Vanger has obsessively compiled around the circumstances of the day Harriet disappeared. Hedeby is home to several generations of Vangers, all part owners in Vanger Enterprises. Under the pretext of researching the family history, Blomkvist becomes acquainted with the members of the extended Vanger family, most of whom resent his presence. He does, however, start a short lived affair with Cecilia Vanger, the niece of Henrik who has been separated from her abusive husband for many years (those in the Vanger family never get divorced it seems).
Meanwhile, Salander is assigned a new legal guardian, Nils Bjurman, a sadist who extorts sexual favors from her in return for giving her money from her own checking and savings accounts (which he, as her guardian, controls). He eventually rapes her, unaware that she had been videotaping his actions. She retaliates a few days later by incapacitating him with a taser, tying him up, forcing him to watch the recording of the tape and threatening to make it public unless he arranges for her to have permanent control over her money. Before she leaves, she tattoos "I am a sadistic pig, a pervert, and a rapist" in large letters on his torso.
Blomkvist fulfills his contractual obligations by immersing himself in the case. After discovering that Salander has hacked into his computer, he persuades her to assist him with research. Together, they discover entries in Harriet's diary that list the names of missing local women corresponding with Bible verses describing brutal forms of divine retribution; this leads them to suspect that they are on the trail of a serial killer who possibly has an accomplice and has been at large for decades. They eventually become lovers, but Blomkvist has trouble getting close to Salander, a loner who treats virtually everyone she meets with hostility.
Ultimately the two discover that Harriet's brother Martin, now CEO of Vanger Industries, has been raping and murdering women for years, having been "initiated" into serial murder by his late father, Gottfried, who also sexually abused him and Harriet. Blomkvist attempts to confront Martin, who kidnaps him and takes him to a torture chamber hidden in the basement of his house. Martin says that he had planned to kill Harriet eventually, but that she disappeared before he could take any action. As Martin is about to kill Blomkvist, Lisbeth bursts in and attacks Martin with a golf club, rescuing Blomkvist. Lisbeth frees Blomkvist as Martin escapes and flees in his car. She pursues him on her motorcycle to the highway, only to see him kill himself by veering straight into a massive head-on collision with a truck.
Blomkvist and Lisbeth realize that Harriet was not actually murdered, but ran away, with the help of Cecilia's sister Anita, to escape from her brother, who had been sexually abusing her. Using Lisbeth's hacking skills and contacts, they track her to Australia, where she successfully runs a sheep farming company and has grown up children with a man she married while in hiding in Italy, although her husband has now passed away. Confronted, she confirms their account of the case, but also reveals that she was actually responsible for the presumed accidental death of her father. She returns to Sweden, where she is happily reunited with her uncle and begins to take a leading role in the newly leaderless family business.
Blomkvist reluctantly agrees with Harriet and Henrik that he will not publish any of the evidence he has found on the Vanger family in a journalistic capacity (Martin as a serial killer). This goes against his belief about what the role of a journalist/reporter is and their role in society to challenge and share information and causes him considerable personal contention, such that he cannot face telling his long time confidante Berger about the true story of what he has found. He is persuaded to not share the information by the Vanger family with support from Salander to protect Harriet and on the condition that the family make considerable annual donations to charities which support women from violence.
Vanger's promises of evidence regarding Wennerström prove to have been mostly a lure for Blomkvist and are not especially substantial. However, using her investigative skills, Salander breaks into Wennerström's computer and discovers that his crimes go beyond even what Blomkvist was convicted of libel for printing. Using the evidence she found, Blomkvist prints an exposé article and book which destroys Wennerström and catapults him and Millennium to national prominence.
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Sunday, February 6, 2011
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The New York Times Book Review’s advice and miscellaneous best-seller list — the place where self-help books go to eyeball one another — is a boisterous rolling carnival of hustlers and hacks and optimists and jokers, with the occasional naked lady, tent preacher, dog trainer or television chef thrown in for good measure. Serious books do appear there, but they’re like guests who’ve wandered into the wrong party.
Among the writers who’ve appeared on that list, Timothy Ferriss — author of “The 4-Hour Workweek” (2007) and now “The 4-Hour Body” — is an unusually beguiling humanlike specimen. He’s a graduate of the prep school St. Paul’s and has a degree in East Asian studies from Princeton University. He is also a Guinness Book of World Records record holder for most consecutive tango spins in one minute, a feat he accomplished with a partner on “Live With Regis and Kelly.”
What else is worth knowing about Mr. Ferriss? After college he founded — and later sold — BrainQuicken, a Web company that sells nutritional supplements. He’s a so-called angel investor in Internet companies. He’s spoken at one of those futuristic, cerebral TED conferences. He pals around with Silicon Valley C.E.O.’s. Wired magazine crowned him, in 2008, the “greatest self-promoter in the world.” He is said to be very good at Chinese kickboxing.
If a movie were to be made of Mr. Ferriss’s life, it would star Matthew McConaughey in little rectangular eyeglasses. Mr. Ferriss likes to pose without a shirt — in some photographs he sprouts chest hair; in others, it’s been waxed away — and to describe the veins that run across his abdomen. He tosses around words like “thrashing” and, to refer to inanimate things, “bad boys.” His new book opens at an outdoor Nine Inch Nails concert.
He can use without irony, as he does in “The 4-Hour Body,” lines like: “I was enjoying French food and a bottle of Bordeaux with a 25-year-old female yoga instructor new to San Francisco, fresh from the Midwest.” This poor woman lets slip that she’s unable to have an orgasm. Mr. Ferriss, as any humanitarian would, makes it a point to fix this problem for her. “I was able to facilitate orgasms,” he writes, “in every woman who acted as a test subject.”
Everything about Mr. Ferriss’s book declares: This is not your auntie’s self-help book. No muffled “I’m OK — You’re OK” tone here. The vibe is: I’m Superbad, bro, and I have dimples. You’re a mole person who, if you become an angel investor in my books, might someday touch the hem of my Speedo.
In his previous book, “The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich” (his subtitles are awesome), which was on the hardcover advice best-seller list for more than 75 weeks, he delivered tips like (I’m exaggerating only slightly): hire an overseas virtual assistant for a few bucks an hour and use the extra time to ski in the Andes.
His new one, “The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman,” made its debut at No. 1 on the hard-cover advice list on Jan. 2. It’s among the craziest, most breathless things I’ve ever read, and I’ve read Klaus Kinski, Dan Brown and Snooki.
Mr. Ferriss offers advice about so many disparate things — not simply losing weight and building muscle and improving sex and living forever, but learning to hold your breath longer than Houdini (!) and hit baseballs like Babe Ruth (!!) — that paging through “The 4-Hour Body” is like reading the sprawling menu in a dubious diner, quite certain the only thing you’d dare order is the turkey club.
Here’s a better analogy: “The 4-Hour Body” reads as if The New England Journal of Medicine had been hijacked by the editors of the SkyMall catalog. Some of this junk might actually work, but you’re going to be embarrassed doing it or admitting to your friends that you’re trying it. This is a man who, after all, weighs his own feces, likes bloodletting as a life-extension strategy and aims a Philips goLite at his body in place of ingesting caffeine.
As befits the former chief executive of a nutritional supplements company, Mr. Ferriss talks up a witches’ brew of juices, nuts, potions and drugs. Here’s a typical burp from an early chapter: “Overfat? Try timed protein and pre-meal lemon juice. Undermuscled? Try ginger and sauerkraut. Can’t sleep? Try upping your saturated fat or using cold exposure.”
Want to have “wolverine” sex? Who doesn’t? Eat 4 Brazil nuts, 20 raw almonds and 2 capsules of fermented cod-liver oil and butterfat four hours before intercourse. Mr. Ferriss used a hormone-slash-drug called human chorionic gonadotropin and more than tripled his semen volume. “Happy days,” he writes.
Mr. Ferriss makes difficult things seem very easy. But that line from the old Tom Waits song applies here: “The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away.” Mr. Ferriss, for example, makes a big deal about how, on his diet, you’re encouraged to go wild one day a week, eating whatever garbage makes you happy. “Welcome to Utopia,” he says. Everybody ready to dig in?
His advice for pulling this off mentions that diarrhea, unless one is careful, may result. One must consume grapefruit juice before the day’s second meal. One needs to ingest layers of supplements to increase insulin sensitivity. He drinks cooled yerba mate tea during his pig-out meals and likes a greens supplement. Best of all, he instructs one to “engage in brief muscular contraction throughout the binge.”
To paraphrase Dean Wormer lecturing the pledge Flounder in “Animal House”: “Fat, twitchy and stupid is no way to go through life, son.”
I’ll give Mr. Ferriss this: He is never boring. He’s always, on every page, as eager as a puppy going for a morning walk. He verges on being pretty funny. John Updike never described an intimate part of a woman’s anatomy as resembling “an Imperial Guard from Star Wars.” Dr. Ruth never followed a sex tip with a warning like, “Build a strong neck so she doesn’t pop your head off.”
How can Mr. Ferriss get away with touting so many practices that are outside medicine’s mainstream? He seems to think of himself as a kind of Twitter-era Johnny Appleseed or Hans and Franz, wandering the planet, pumping you up, making orgasms sweeter and abs six-packier. He quotes one doctor who says to him, “You — Tim Ferriss — can do more outside the system than inside it.”
He also writes, “I have no prestige to lose.”
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All the Devils Are Here:
The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis
By Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera
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One of the great mysteries of the financial crisis is that more than two years and dozens of books after its onset, we're still trying to figure out exactly who pulled off the heist. In All the Devils Are Here, Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera attempt to create a financial whodunit and take the latest stab at apportioning responsibility. The result—a Hieronymous Bosch painting of Wall Street bankers, insurance conglomerates, and Washington insiders—is hardly uncharted territory. Yet the authors distinguish themselves through clever sleuthing. Sure, many investment bankers, credit-rating agencies, and regulators were malignant in one way or another, but just as many were simply clueless. The authors' grand conclusion is rather simple: Bright people can do some pretty stupid things.
Take investment bankers. They brewed the intoxicants that spurred the mortgage frenzy and formulated mad-scientist concoctions—like the infamous "synthetic CDOs"—that were essentially casino bets on the housing market. Somewhat inexplicably, Wall Street also bought its own poison in the form of housing-related debt, derivatives, and options. American International Group (AIG), Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, and Merrill Lynch died—or set themselves up for near-death experiences—by drinking their own potions. Are these people really evil geniuses? Schlubs is more like it. As one risk manager at Merrill told the authors, "We fell for our own scam."
Rating agencies such as Standard & Poor's (MHP), Moody's Investors Service (MCO), and Fitch were intended to be one of the system's primary monitors of these companies' creditworthiness. Yet, the authors write, they had failed to issue a single warning about Enron, Tyco, or WorldCom before those companies started to blow up in 2001. That dismal experience should have hammered the credibility of ratings and raters. Yet the rating business thrived for the simple reason, McLean and Nocera attest, that both financial institutions and government needed an apparently independent body to put a seal of approval on corporate debt. As one former analyst says, "Enron taught [the raters] how small the consequences of a bad reputation were."
They took the lesson to heart. Throughout the housing bubble, the agencies stuck triple-A ratings on huge swaths of mortgage-backed securities without bothering to ask what might happen if credit were to slow down or house prices were to fall.
In a better world, regulators would have clamped down on Wall Street and the rating agencies and forced them to correct their previous mistakes. However, as McLean and Nocera explain, regulators had little muscle in an age when both Democrats and Republicans believed the market should regulate itself.
The authors tell the tale of Brooksley Born, head of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, who tried to police financial derivatives during the Clinton Administration. For her efforts she got a bureaucratic mauling from free-market apostles Lawrence Summers and Robert Rubin, both of whom were adamant that derivatives didn't need to be supervised. Many regulators, however, weren't as well-intentioned as Born. Some tried to expand their empires by granting institutions freedom from persnickety restrictions such as state laws intended to end predatory lending. Even after 25 states tried to crack down on mortgage abuses and the FBI warned of the dangers, federal regulators remained blithely unconcerned.
Dicey firms thrived in this environment. Ameriquest, a mortgage originator that inflated appraisals, encouraged customers to lie about their incomes and misled clients about fees. At Ameriquest, the authors write, twentysomething loan officers fueled by diets of coke and meth worked 14-hour days and made $20,000 or more a month if they survived the nonstop pressure from above. "Think Glengarry Glen Ross," one of those former loan officers tells the authors.
Eventually, it all had to come tumbling down. After brilliantly detailing the blunders of a multitude of institutions and individuals, McLean and Nocera come to a tame conclusion. "Much of what took place during the crisis was immoral, unjust, craven, delusional behavior," they write, "but it wasn't criminal." Just criminally stupid.
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