Tomer Cohen: prediction

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…First question, what are two or three books you find yourself recommending most to other people? I love to give trios of books that I really like. So my current trio is, they're very diverse in topics, so apologies if it's not falling all into tech. But the first one is called Why Nations Fail. It's a book I read a decade ago even more and the authors of it just won the Nobel Prize last year. And it basically talks about why does some nations succeed and some fail? And it's not the usual explanations we go for, which is, oh, it's culture, it's natural resources, it's the kind of religion. A lot of those tends to be the kind of immediate excuses people have. It kind of falls into two camps. Are there extractive or inclusive institutions? Can people participate broadly and opportunities shared or there are institutions that basically are supposed to be attracting from many and give to some. So it's just an incredible way to just think about how you build a nation. And for us at LinkedIn, we think a lot about the idea of opportunities, so how you build a product as well. And it's just a good way to move away from easy explanations into what really makes a country really successful as well. Second book, it's called Outlive. It's really about the idea, it's kind of like the author, Peter Attia talks about the idea of medicine 3. 0, which is really the notion of building personalized medicine, which I think in the world of AI will become incredible in the future. But it's all those, let's call those categories that you should think about for your life so you can just optimize your health as much as possible and goes for everything through fitness to diet to the biggest health factors you should think about. But it's a great long book. Then lastly- The one in my bookshelf behind me.…

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