Editor's Choice
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Editor's Choice
Acting with Power: Why We Are More Powerful Than We Believe
By Dylan Schleicher
Deborah Gruenfeld teaches us how to understand and own the power we have, and to use it more consciously and with intent, so we use it in the service of others instead of defaulting to the instinct we all have to protect ourselves.
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The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It
By Dylan Schleicher
"From the best-selling author of Saving Capitalism and The Common Good, an urgent analysis of how the "rigged" systems of American politics and power operate, how this status quo came to be, and how average citizens can enact change."
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Editor's Choice
Great State: China and the World
By Dylan Schleicher
"The book is an epic history of China that I can’t hope to encapsulate in such a brief review, the story of a nation “in international contexts and on global scales.” But the stories Brook tells are those of individuals that played a part in that history, sometimes far outside the borders of the modern
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Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving
By Dylan Schleicher
"We work feverishly to make ourselves happy. So why are we so miserable? This manifesto helps us break free of our unhealthy devotion to efficiency and shows us how to reclaim our time and humanity with a little more leisure."
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Editor's Choice
Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West
By Dylan Schleicher
"In a revealing look at the intersection of wealth, philanthropy, and conservation, John Farrell takes us inside the exclusive world of the ultra-wealthy, showing how today's richest people are using the natural environment to solve the existential dilemmas they face."
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Editor's Choice
The Autonomous Revolution
By Dylan Schleicher
William Davidow and Michael Malone ask us to reimagine what Patrick Henry’s proclamation to “Give me liberty or give me death” means at a time when the companies that control the internet also increasingly control the overall economy and our very lives—at a time when “Suddenly commercial enterprises,
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Editor's Choice
Life's Great Question: Discover How You Contribute To The World
By Dylan Schleicher
"Self-awareness is extremely important. But getting to know yourself is important primarily, Tom Rath believes, because it allows you to connect and contribute to the lives of others."
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Editor's Choice
Sabotage: The Hidden Nature of Finance
By Dylan Schleicher
“The very idea of a ‘free’ market has become synonymous with an ‘unregulated’ market—one that is unaccountable to the wider public that must act as a lender of last resort when their financial machinations come to a grinding halt due to an engineering flaw of their own design.”
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Editor's Choice
Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope
By Dylan Schleicher
"Focusing on those left behind during an era of unprecedented economic growth and increasing income inequality in places like Nicholas Kristof’s hometown of Yamhill, Oregon, Tightrope’s most powerful moments are in the stories of individuals struggling to get by—incarcerated, addicted, and, like 60 percent
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Editor's Choice
Don't Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles—and All of Us
By Dylan Schleicher
Every page of Rana Foroohar’s Don’t Be Evil is a revelation, a reinforcement for the ideas that have made our economy sustainable in the past, and have been largely discarded in the disruption Silicon Valley has spread throughout our economy.