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Vineetha Naveen Shetty Chief Operations Officer at AeroLeads

It's a beautiful compilation and totally makes sense to avoid the one's

you mentioned. Thank you, James for sharing such a wonderful list.

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Apurv Yadav Summer Intern at TAFE - Tractors and Farm Equipment

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This same article was published on Business Insider yesterday

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Pranav R Bargotra Climate Reality Leader at Climate Reality

Seriously! Now I have to revise my list of "Books to read"...thanks James

for sharing.

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