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πŸ“š Leo Book Club 🦁

#threadcast 41
Mon 04-Nov-24

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I’ve been slacking. Give me a good autobiography I can read next?

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What/who have you read recently in terms of auto-bios? Or in general?

recently Elon musk and Steve Jobs from isaacson. Loved those.

You're a tennis fan? 'Open' by Agassi is a good one...

https://inleo.io/threads/view/adambarratt/re-leothreads-3ap76pz5r

open was awesome.

I read that a few years back.

I wonder if Rafa had one. I would like to read that. I’ll go look.

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