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Your Life Is Manufactured
Your Life Is Manufactured
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How We Make Things, Why It Matters, and How We Can Do Better
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Stolen Focus
Stolen Focus
Johann Hari
Why You Can't Pay Attention – and How to Think Deeply Again
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Understanding Artificial Intelligence
Understanding Artificial Intelligence
Nicolas Sabouret
A Straightforward Explanation of AI and Its Possibilities
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Weapons of Math Destruction
Weapons of Math Destruction
Cathy O’Neil
How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
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Homo Deus
Homo Deus
Yuval Noah Harari
A Brief History of Tomorrow
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What Is Intelligence?
What Is Intelligence?
Blaise Aguera y Arcas
Lessons from AI About Evolution, Computing, and Minds
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Indistractable
Indistractable
Nir Eyal
How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life
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Decision-Driven Analytics
Decision-Driven Analytics
Bart de Langhe & Stefano Puntoni
Leveraging Human Intelligence to Unlock the Power of Data
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Human Edge in the AI Age
Human Edge in the AI Age
Nitin Seth
Eight Timeless Mantras For Success
19.4 min
4.3
Attention Span
Attention Span
Gloria Mark
A Groundbreaking Way to Restore Balance, Happiness and Productivity
18.6 min
4.4
Alpha Girls
Alpha Girls
Julian Guthrie
The Women Upstarts Who Took On Silicon Valley’s Male Culture
20.3 min
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Evil Robots, Killer Computers, and Other Myths
Evil Robots, Killer Computers, and Other Myths
Steven Shwartz
The Truth About AI and the Future of Humanity
23.5 min
4.2
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
George Orwell
A Dystopian Classic on the Dangers of Totalitarianism
21.6 min
4.8
Blank Space
Blank Space
W. David Marx
A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century
20.9 min
4.2
Empire of AI
Empire of AI
Karen Hao
Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
21.8 min
4.1
Me, My Customer, and AI
Me, My Customer, and AI
Henrik Werdelin
The New Rules of Entrepreneurship
18.3 min
3.7
Supremacy
Supremacy
Parmy Olson
AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World
25.6 min
4.2
Robin Hood Math
Robin Hood Math
Noah Giansiracusa
Take Control of the Algorithms That Run Your Life
21.7 min
4.1
The Third Chimpanzee
The Third Chimpanzee
Jared Diamond
The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
18.3 min
4.3
How Progress Ends
How Progress Ends
Carl Benedikt Frey
Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations
19.4 min
4.4
Storytelling with Data
Storytelling with Data
Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic
A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals
18.4 min
4.3
It's Complicated
It's Complicated
danah boyd
The Social Lives of Networked Teens
21.4 min
4.1
Whole Earth Discipline
Whole Earth Discipline
Stewart Brand
An Ecopragmatist Manifesto
21.8 min
4.2
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
Future proof yourself against the 21st Century
20.2 min
4.4
The AI-First Company
The AI-First Company
Ash Fontana
How to Compete and Win with Artificial Intelligence
16.3 min
4.0
Nexus
Nexus
Yuval Noah Harari
A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
21.3 min
4.3
Tech Leadership
Tech Leadership
Andrew Swerdlow
How to Evolve from Individual Contributor to Tech Leader
21 min
4.4
Artificial Intelligence and Generative AI for Beginners
Artificial Intelligence and Generative AI for Beginners
David M. Patel
The Complete Guide
18.3 min
4.0
The Sirens' Call
The Sirens' Call
Chris Hayes
How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource
25.6 min
4.3
Life After Google
Life After Google
George Gilder
The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy
23.1 min
3.9
The Next Renaissance
The Next Renaissance
Zack Kass
AI and the Expansion of Human Potential
23 min
4.5
If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... Where Is Everybody?
If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... Where Is Everybody?
Stephen Webb
75 Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and Extraterrestrial Life
19.5 min
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