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Explicit to Implicit to Tacit: Summaries of noble books by eminent authors.

A flow of books, a river of knowledge

A flow of books, a river of knowledge

A stream of perspectives in the realm of remembered times
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Daniel Gusev
Mar 14

The Ottomans: Khans, Ceasars and Califs

By Marc David Baer
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Daniel Gusev
Mar 1

A Pipeline Runs Through It:

The Story of Oil from Ancient Times to The First World War. – By Keith Fisher
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Daniel Gusev
Feb 10

Free Market: The History of an Idea

By Jacob Soll
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Daniel Gusev
Jan 29

A short impression from (finally) reading “The Man From The Future: The Visionary Life of John von…

By Ananyo Bhattacharya
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Daniel Gusev
Jan 18

Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time – by Yasha Mounk

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Daniel Gusev
Dec 27, 2024

The Golden Road by William Dalrymple

A bibliography of 50 pages alone is a testament to willpower and intellectual capacity of the author – yet the aim to provide a clear road…
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Daniel Gusev
Dec 26, 2024
Global population decline does not preclude new chapter of economic growth from happening:

Global population decline does not preclude new chapter of economic growth from happening:

In different times economic growth kicked-off of gains from newly identified efficiencies and broad behavioural change
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Daniel Gusev
Jun 20, 2024
Saint Augustine’s City of God

Saint Augustine’s City of God

A reference guide on the Creation — and a design book for the ideal communal relationship based on a religious moral compass
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Daniel Gusev
May 9, 2024

History rhymes

An eternal strife between the individual intellectual thought and the collective faith.
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Daniel Gusev
Apr 7, 2024
Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing — by Peter Robinson

Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing — by Peter Robinson

A telling story about a “financialisation” of the manufacturing competence, that earned Boeing the status in the past, as well as delivery…
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Daniel Gusev
Jan 9, 2024
A review of “The Great Transition” by Emmanuel Daniel

A review of “The Great Transition” by Emmanuel Daniel

A intellectual foray in the accelerating pace of change — and shape — of financial services
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Daniel Gusev
Nov 27, 2023
Review of “The Delivery Man” by Sebastien Taveau

Review of “The Delivery Man” by Sebastien Taveau

A bold and reassuring tale from a veteran payments innovator
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Daniel Gusev
Nov 27, 2023
Part I: 1930ies & Soviet Russia criticising “capitalist West” while acquiring its tech and…

Part I: 1930ies & Soviet Russia criticising “capitalist West” while acquiring its tech and…

The very same time shopping on credit for technical tools built by the world that shall crumble.
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Daniel Gusev
Apr 16, 2023
A unique (personal) relationship between Soviet Union and the United States in the 20th Century

A unique (personal) relationship between Soviet Union and the United States in the 20th Century

Originally planned as (just) a book review, now also a collection of several articles on the matter of cooperation and ideologies that…
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Daniel Gusev
Apr 10, 2023
Carlota Perez – Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital

Carlota Perez – Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital

Went through https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1843763311/ while doing a research of past growth cycles.
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Daniel Gusev
Dec 18, 2022
A Book Map on contemporary Russia

A Book Map on contemporary Russia

A book nut that I am, studying well researched books on times of not so distant past captivated me. Especially one concerned of a major…
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Daniel Gusev
Dec 8, 2022
A contrarian view from a leading diplomatic mind of the US:

A contrarian view from a leading diplomatic mind of the US:

The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal
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Daniel Gusev
Mar 12, 2022
Book Review: Re-educated by Lucy Kellaway

Book Review: Re-educated by Lucy Kellaway

Lucy’s weekly column in the The Financial Times that I subscribed over a decade ago always carried wit and charisma through which she…
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Daniel Gusev
Jul 16, 2021

The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner by Daniel Ellsberg

Where I read this book several years ago, it still resonates clearly — amid new instability between now Russia and the US, cancelling Open…
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Daniel Gusev
Jun 13, 2021

King Richard: Nixon and Watergate by Michael Dobbs

A well planned and meticulously researched book that provides a bout of fresh air, despite decades spent on the subject and countless…
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Daniel Gusev
Jun 13, 2021
Fizz: How Soda Shook Up the World

Fizz: How Soda Shook Up the World

Tristan Donovan won my heart with Replay: The History of Video Games and repeats with a story about the cola wars
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Daniel Gusev
Jan 12, 2020

Books Jan 11th 2020

First time I read about how tech either influenced or suffered an impact from gender employment was in Bernardo Batiz-Lazo book about ATM…
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Daniel Gusev
Jan 11, 2020
January 1–10th 2020: New books to read

January 1–10th 2020: New books to read

New additions, bold plans, ambitious conquests
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Daniel Gusev
Jan 9, 2020
Robert Caro: Working

Robert Caro: Working

A titan shares his quirks in a short book — as if a reprieve from the work on his monumental 5th volume on LBJ
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Daniel Gusev
Jan 9, 2020
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