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By Stav Ziv
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The new year opens the gate for a flood of resolutions. Some people swear they'll hit the gym, quit smoking or spend less time on social media. On the list of New Year's resolutions for Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg? Read more books.
"I've found reading books very intellectually fulfilling," Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook note on Friday, sharing the challenge he has set for himself for 2015. "Books allow you to fully explore a topic and immerse yourself in a deeper way than most media today."
Zuckerberg will choose a new book to crack open every other week, "with an emphasis on learning about different cultures, beliefs, histories and technologies." He'll post his choices on a page he created, "A Year of Books," so that people (Facebook is no longer calling them "users") can follow along and discuss the selections—a Facebook book club, if you will. The page has already clocked tens of thousands of "likes."
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The first title in a list of more than two dozen that will follow if Zuckerberg sticks to his resolution is a 2013 book by Moisés Naím, a former minister of trade and industry for Venezuela, the editor of Foreign Policy for 14 years and now a fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The book "explores how the world is shifting to give individual people more power that was traditionally only held by large governments, militaries and other organizations," Zuckerberg wrote when he announced his selection.
Naím's 320-page The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States: Why Being in Charge Isn't What It Used to Be, was described by The Washington Post as "a truly important contribution, persuasively portraying a compelling dynamic of change cutting across multiple game-boards of the global power matrix."
The paperback version of Naím's book is now "temporarily out of stock" on Amazon, while a few new and used copies of both the paperback and hardcover versions are available from Amazon partners, or as an e-book on Kindle. A snapshot from the end of October shows the book still in stock, with several outlets reporting that Amazon sold out of the book just a few days after Zuckerberg announced it as his first pick.
On New Year's Eve, Zuckerberg wrote a Facebook note to crowdsource suggestions for what his challenge in 2015 ought to be:
Every year I take on a challenge to broaden my perspective and learn something about the world beyond my work at Facebook.
In past years, some of my challenges have been:
Learning to speak Mandarin (Zuckerberg gave an interview in the language in October of 2014)
Meeting one new person who doesn't work at Facebook every day
Writing a thank you note each day to someone who made the world better
Being a vegetarian (or only eating meat if I killed the animal myself)
Wearing a tie every day
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