6 Top personal development books like Extreme Privacy: What It Takes to Disappear by Michael Bazzell

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Extreme Privacy: What It Takes to Disappear

By: Michael Bazzell

4.36

Format: 566 pages, Paperback

Completely rewritten Second Edition (2020) presents the definitive 565-page privacy manual. Michael…

If you liked the personal development plot in Extreme Privacy: What It Takes to Disappear by Michael Bazzell , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. The Art of Invisibility: The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data

By: Kevin D. Mitnick , Robert Vamosi

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Kevin Mitnick, the world's most famous hacker, teaches you easy cloaking and counter-measures for c… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • technology
"In the midst of this culture of openness and sharing, we need to think carefully about the information we're volunteering to the world. Sometimes the world is listening."

-Kevin D. Mitnick, The Art of Invisibility: The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data

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2. The 50th Law

By: Robert Greene , Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson

4.17

Format: 291 pages, Imitation Leather

In The 50th Law, hip hop and pop culture icon 50 Cent (aka Curtis Jackson) joins forces with Robert… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • business
  • self help
"fear is an emotion we find hard to resist or control"

-Robert Greene, The 50th Law

"The source of (50 Cents') power is his utter fearlessness."

-Robert Greene, The 50th Law

"You'll be successful as the mother fu*kers you talk to no reason"

-Robert Greene, The 50th Law

"50 Cent is a master player at power, a kind of hip-hop Napoleon Bonaparte."

-Robert Greene, The 50th Law

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3. The Warren Buffett Portfolio

By: Robert G. Hagstrom

4.23

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

The Warren Buffett Way provided the first look into the strategies that the master uses to pick sto… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
  • self help
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4. The Book of Disquiet

By: Fernando Pessoa , Richard Zenith

4.41

Format: 544 pages, Paperback

Fernando Pessoa was many writers in one. He attributed his prolific writings to a wide range of alt… read more

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"My past is everything I failed to be."

-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."

-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

"Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!"

-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

"There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful."

-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

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5. Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon

By: Kim Zetter

4.17

Format: 406 pages, Hardcover

In January 2010, inspectors with the International Atomic Energy Agency noticed that centrifuges at… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • technology
"The nations, of course, that are most at risk of a destructive digital attack are the ones with the greatest connectivity. Marcus Ranum, one of the early innovators of the computer firewall, called S…"

-Kim Zetter, Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon

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6. Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker

By: Kevin D. Mitnick , William L. Simon , Steve Wozniak

4.12

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Kevin Mitnick was the most elusive computer break-in artist in history. He accessed computers and n… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • technology
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7. On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

By: William Zinsser

4.24

Format: 321 pages, Paperback

On Writing Well has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity and the warmth of its style. It … read more

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  • personal development
  • nonfiction
  • reference
  • business
  • self help
"Less is more."

-William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

"Truth needs no adornment."

-William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

"Don't be kind of bold. Be bold."

-William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

"Writers are the custodians of memory..."

-William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

8. The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron

By: Bethany McLean , Peter Elkind

4.01

Format: 560 pages, Paperback

There were dozens of books about Watergate, but only All the President's Mengave readers the full s… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business

9. The 48 Laws of Power

By: Robert Greene , Joost Elffers

4.32

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

This amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive book synthesizes the philosophies of Machiavelli, S… read more

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10. The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success

By: Darren Hardy

3.90

Format: 15 pages, Kindle Edition

No gimmicks. No Hyperbole. No Magic Bullet. The Compound Effect is based on the principle that deci… read more

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11. The Rational Male

By: Rollo Tomassi

4.25

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

The Rational Maleis a rational and pragmatic approach to intergender dynamics and the social and ps… read more

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12. Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success

By: Mark Victor Hansen , Napoleon Hill , Michael Bernard Beckwith , Sharon L. Lechter

3.93

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Napoleon Hill wrote this book in 1938, just after publication of his all-time bestseller, Think and… read more

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13. 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works

By: Dan Harris

3.99

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

After having a nationally televised panic attack on Good Morning America, Dan Harris knew he had to… read more

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14. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

By: Salman Rushdie

4.10

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

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15. Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

By: Cal Newport

4.06

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

Minimalism is the art of knowing how much is just enough. Digital minimalism applies this idea to o… read more

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  • personal development
  • technology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • self help
"Who could justify trading a lifetime of stress and backbreaking labor for better blinds? Is a nicer-looking window treatment really worth so much of your life?"

-Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

"Digital minimalism definitively does not reject the innovations of the internet age, but instead rejects the way so many people currently engage with these tools."

-Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

"The thought process that went into building these applications, Facebook being the first of them, . . . was all about: “How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?"

-Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

"For many people, their compulsive phone use papers over a void created by a lack of a well-developed leisure life. Reducing the easy distraction without also filling the void can make life unpleasant…"

-Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

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16. Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach

By: Mark Richards

4.26

Format: 419 pages, Paperback

Although salary surveys worldwide regularly identify software architect as one of the top ten best … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • technology
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17. How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics

By: Michael Pollan

4.27

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Could psychedelic drugs change our worldview? One of America's most admired writers takes us on a m… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
"The opposite of spiritual is not material but egotistical."

-Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics

"Normal waking consciousness feels perfectly transparent, and yet it is less a window on reality than the product of our imaginations-a kind of controlled hallucination."

-Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics

"Nature does in fact teem with subjectivities — call them spirits if you like — other than our own; it is only the human ego, with its imagined monopoly on subjectivity, that keeps us from recognizing…"

-Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics

"The philosophical implications of "predictive coding" are deep and strange. The model suggests that our perceptions of the world offer us not a literal transcription of reality but rather a seamless …"

-Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics

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18. The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters

By: Priya Parker

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A transformative exploration of the power, purpose, and benefits of gatherings in our lives: at wor… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • business
  • self help
"Chill" is a selfishness disguised as kindness"

-Priya Parker, The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters

"Good controversy is much more likely to happen when it is invited in but carefully structured."

-Priya Parker, The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters

"In a world of infinite choices, choosing one thing is the revolutionary act. Imposing that restriction is actually liberating."

-Priya Parker, The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters

"Barack Obama's aunt once told him, 'If everyone is family, no one is family.' It is blood that makes a tribe, a border that makes a nation. The same is true of gatherings. So here is a corollary to h…"

-Priya Parker, The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters

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19. We Are Bellingcat: Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News

By: Eliot Higgins

4.12

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The page-turning inside account of the organization solving international mysteries and wielding th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • technology
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20. The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You

By: Julie Zhuo

4.21

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Instant Wall Street Journal Bestseller! Congratulations, you're a manager! After you pop the ch… read more

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  • personal development
  • technology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • self help
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21. Extreme Privacy: What It Takes to Disappear

By: Michael Bazzell

4.36

Format: 566 pages, Paperback

Completely rewritten Second Edition (2020) presents the definitive 565-page privacy manual. Michael… read more

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  • personal development
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  • business
  • technology

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