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• 🚀 How ideas spread 

• 🔥 Choosing ambition

• 📚 Reading “hostile” book reviews

• 🏢 Why do institutions try to preserve the problem

Happy Reading!
– Phelipe

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Book of the Week

The Tipping Point explores the phenomenon of how ideas, trends, and social behaviors spread and gain momentum. The book points out the critical point, the "tipping point", at which these phenomena experience a sudden and dramatic shift, transitioning from slow, limited growth to rapid, widespread adoption.

Top Articles

A roundup of the week's most popular articles and essays from Playtext.

1. Ambition's Gravity (14 min)

All that progress can be overwhelming or empowering, and which of those two it is is entirely up to you. You should spend the time to figure out the most ambitious thing you could dream of doing with your one wild and precious life.

2. My Simple Habit for Smarter Book Reading (9 min)

Why reading “hostile” book reviews is the key to smarter reading.

3. Institutions Try to Preserve the Problem to Which They Are the Solution (19 min)

The paradox where efforts to address issues inadvertently ensure those issues persist, serving the interests of the institution or entity involved.

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