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Tesla is the envy of the automotive world. Born at the start of the millennium, it was the first car company to be valued at $1 trillion. Its CEO, the mercurial, charismatic Elon Musk has become not just a celebrity but the richest man in the world. But Tesla’s success was far from guaranteed. Founded in the 2000s, the company was built on an audacious vision. Musk and a small band of Silicon Valley engineers set out to make a car that was quicker, sexier, smoother, and cleaner than any gas-guzzler on the road.

Elon Musk is among the most controversial titans of Silicon Valley. To some, he's a genius and a visionary, and to others, he's a mercurial huckster. Billions of dollars have been gained and lost on his tweets, and his personal exploits are the stuff of tabloids. But for all his outrageous talk of mind-uploading and space travel, his most audacious vision is the one closest to the ground: the electric car.

Education is the first step to better investing. Investing in what you know and understand provides the foundation on which to build an unwavering confidence to remain true to your strategic game plan and not fall victim to emotional decisions. This audiobook was written to introduce and explain new and less traditional, unconventional investment strategies for your consideration.

I wrote a fair number of poems in my younger days, saved and placed in a folder titled “King Among the Prawns”. Now that I’m self-publishing my more recent books, I decided to let these out for a ramble. Some of them I'm quite proud of, and some are fairly naff. They exist as a window on a time in my life when I was näive but learning. Along with these are a second batch, inspired by the trauma and after-effects of my brain hemorrhage and stroke in 2009, and a mental health poetry group I was introduced to shortly after my stroke; great therapy!

A book of short quotable profundity and some quotes from known quotable people. Tim Higgins is a writer of sorts, of things of whatever his mind takes him to write. Usually, he is verbose and given to his own mantra of “why say only five words, when you can use 50?” Occasionally, he writes a rather profound thing, which he reads back when sober and thinks “Did I really write that?”