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What is the book you have given most as a gift, and why?

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Jacqueline Novogratz Founder and chief executive of Acumen
But the book I give right now in this time of so much despair is Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning, where he really looks at people in the Holocaust and asks himself, why did some just sort of crumple up and die and others stayed resilient and strong? And that at the end of the day, no one can take our dignity away from us.
Recorded Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show, 6 May 2021 source ↗
Derek Sivers Founder of CD Baby; author of Anything You Want
20 years ago i read a brilliant book called How Buildings Learn by Stuart Brand. Again, I highly recommend this book. In fact, I think it's my most gifted book. I love this book. I've read it so many times.
Recorded Tate Hackert, podcast transcript, Drink and Think, 14 May 2025 source ↗

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