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People who make their own rules when they know they're right...people who get a special pleasure out of doing something well (even if only for themselves)...people who know there's more to this whole living thing than meets the eye: they'll be with Jonathan Seagull all the way. Others may simply escape into a delightful adventure about freedom and ...
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Feb 17, 2021Why, after every major accident and blunder, do we look back and say, How could we have been so blind? Why do some people see what others don't? And how can we change? Drawing on studies by psychologists and neuroscientists, and from interviews with business leaders, whistleblowers, and white collar criminals, distinguished businesswoman and writer...
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Jan 10, 2021New York Post Best Book of 2016We often think of our capacity to experience the suffering of others as the ultimate source of goodness. Many of our wisest policy-makers, activists, scientists, and philosophers agree that the only problem with empathy is that we dont have enough of it.Nothing could be farther from the truth, argues Yale researcher P...
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Rabbi Josh YuterThe last lecture on leadership by the NFL's greatest coach: Bill Walsh Bill Walsh is a towering figure in the history of the NFL. His advanced leadership transformed the San Francisco 49ers from the worst franchise in sports to a legendary dynasty. In the process, he changed the way football is played.Prior to his death, Walsh granted a series of e...
Vinod Khosla
Jan 04, 2013
A Mathematician's Lament
How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form
“One of the best critiques of current mathematics education I have ever seen.”—Keith Devlin, math columnist on NPR’s Morning EditionA brilliant research mathematician who has devoted his career to teaching kids reveals math to be creative and beautiful and rejects standard anxiety-producing teaching methods. Witty and accessible, Paul Lockhart’s co...
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Dec 27, 2011The author of the breakout hit Here Comes Everybody reveals how new technology is changing us for the better. In his bestselling Here Comes Everybody, Internet guru Clay Shirky provided readers with a much-needed primer for the digital age. Now, with Cognitive Surplus, he reveals how new digital technology is unleashing a torrent of creative produc...
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Aug 25, 2010National BestsellerA grand tour of the human immune system and the secrets of health, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times journalistA terminal cancer patient rises from the grave. A medical marvel defies HIV. Two women with autoimmunity discover their own bodies have turned against them. Matt Richtel's An Elegant Defense uniquely entwines ...
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Ben Greenfield#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER With a new afterwordIt is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible--food shortages, refugee emergencies, climate wars and economic devastation.The Uninhabitable Earth is both a trave...
As seen on "CBS This Morning" Worldwide, depression will be the single biggest cause of disability in the next twenty years. But treatment for it has not changed much in the last three decades. In the world of psychiatry, time has apparently stood still...until now with Edward Bullmore's The Inflamed Mind: A Radical New Approach to Depression.A Sun...
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Ben Horowitz, a leading venture capitalist, modern management expert, and New York Times bestselling author, combines lessons both from history and from modern organizational practice with practical and often surprising advice to help executives build cultures that can weather both good and bad times. Ben Horowitz has long been fascinated by histor...
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The New York Times bestselling, groundbreaking investigation of how the global elite's efforts to "change the world" preserve the status quo and obscure their role in causing the problems they later seek to solve. An essential read for understanding some of the egregious abuses of power that dominate today's news.Anand Giridharadas takes us into th...
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Lifespan by David A. Sinclair
21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff
Range by David Epstein
How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
Loonshots by Safi Bahcall
The Third Pillar by Raghuram Rajan
The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cantú
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff
The Future of Capitalism by Paul Collier
Troublemakers by Leslie Berlin
The Breakthrough by Charles Graeber
The Formula by Albert-László Barabási
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Atomic Habits by James Clear
Blitzscaling by Reid Hoffman
The Jungle Grows Back by Robert Kagan
Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
Scale by Geoffrey West
Behave by Robert M. Sapolsky
From Bacteria to Bach and Back by Daniel C. Dennett
The Master Algorithm by Pedro Domingos
The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasseTyson
The Case Against Sugar by Gary Taubes
Deep Learning by Ian Goodfellow
Life on the Edge by Johnjoe McFadden
Other People's Money by Charles V. Bagli
Drunk Tank Pink by Adam Alter
Lying by Sam Harris
Mindfulness in Plain English by Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
The $12 Million Stuffed Shark by Don Thompson
McMafia by Misha Glenny
Eating the Big Fish by Adam Morgan
The Brand Flip by Marty Neumeier
This Is Your Brain on Music by Daniel J. Levitin