Editor's Choice
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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The Likeability Trap: How to Break Free and Own Your Worth
By Dylan Schleicher
"Women are perceived as either strong and cold or weak and warm. An award-winning journalist and cohost of PBS’s Amanpour and Company examines likeability and empowers readers to reject an outdated image of leadership instead of reinventing themselves."
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The Turn-On: How the Powerful Make Us Like Them-from Washington to Wall Street to Hollywood
By Dylan Schleicher
In his new book Steven Goldstein encourages the reader to appreciate the “power in popularity,” that “likeability is leverage,” and explores how businesspeople, politicians, and entertainers wield it.
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Editor's Choice
The Infinite Game
By Dylan Schleicher
In his new book, Simon Sinek takes on the difference between finite and infinite games, and the damage done by shareholder capitalism.
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Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
By Dylan Schleicher
The profound and mostly unanswered question at the foundation of AI researcher Stuart Russell’s new book on developments in his field is “What if we succeed?”