A Cure for Darkness by Alex Riley
The Empire of Depression by Jonathan Sadowsky
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How to Break Up With Your Car
The surprising case for walking, cycling, community—and life after automobile overload.
Life After Cars by Sarah Goodyear, Doug Gordon, and Aaron Naparstek
Paved Paradise Henry Grabar
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Where Intelligence Really Comes From
Why simple neurons—and simple algorithms—can create minds far more complex than their parts.
Act One: The Emergent Mind by Gaurav Suri and Jay McClelland
Act Two: Journey of the Mind by Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam
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Want to Lead Better? Stop Being So Authentic.
We’ve all been told to bring our authentic selves to work, to be vulnerable, to share our truth. But what if all that authenticity is actually holding you back? What if the pressure to be yourself is keeping you from becoming the person you want to be?
Act One: Don't Be Yourself by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
Act Two: Authentic by Jodi-Ann Burey
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Leading the Future of AI-Enhanced, On-Demand Work
Now, if you run any kind of business, you know that finding the right talent can be one of your hardest problems. You can spend months recruiting, weeks interviewing, and then hope your new hire works out. But what if that whole model is becoming obsolete? What if, instead of hoarding talent, you could access exactly the expertise you need, exactly when you need it—and have a high-performing team assembled in minutes?
Melissa Valentine and Michael Bernstein are Stanford professors who've spent years studying the future of work, and their new book, Flash Teams: Leading the Future of AI-Enhanced, On-Demand Work, reveals how this radical shift is already happening. We’ll hear from them in just a moment. Then in the second half we’ll hear some Big ideas from the 2024 book Open Talent: Leveraging the Global Workforce to Solve Your Biggest Challenges by John Winsor and Jin Paik.
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