Books (18)
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The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the WorldOliver Morton's 'The Planet Remade' dives into the complex world of geoengineering, exploring its potential as a tool to combat climate change but also highlighting its inherent risks and uncertainties.
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Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast FlowEffective software teams are essential for any organization to deliver value continuously and sustainably. But how do you build the best team organization for your specific goals, culture, and needs?
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The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead PhilosophersThe New York Times bestselling author of The Geography of Bliss embarks on a rollicking intellectual journey, following in the footsteps of history’s greatest thinkers and showing us how each—from Epicurus to Gandhi, Thoreau to Beauvoir—offers practical and spiritual lessons for today’s unsettled times.
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Cosmic Citizens and Moonshot Thinking: Education in an Age of Exponential TechnologiesCosmic Citizens and Moonshot Thinking: Education in an Age of Exponential Technologies takes a fresh approach to what we need to do differently to prepare our children for a world of exponential technologies, disruptive innovations, and ubiquitous A.I.
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Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for EveryoneAs told by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Hit Refresh is the story of corporate change and reinvention as well as the story of Nadella’s personal journey, one that is taking place today inside a storied technology company, and one that is coming in all of our lives as intelligent machines become more ambient and more ubiquitous
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Innovation Capital: How to Compete--and Win--Like the World’s Most Innovative LeadersWe've all seen leaders who excel at winning resources and support for their ideas. It turns out that this quality is so valuable, and measurably more important for innovation than just being creative, that it has a name: 'innovation capital.'
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The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of LivingA beautifully packaged daily devotional of Stoic wisdom, featuring new translations of the most celebrated Stoics with historical context and practical tips from bestselling author Ryan Holiday.
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The Gene: An Intimate HistorySpanning the globe and several centuries, The Gene is the story of the quest to decipher the master-code that makes and defines humans, that governs our form and function.
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The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of PovertyGlobal poverty is one of the world’s most vexing problems. For decades, we’ve assumed smart, well-intentioned people will eventually be able to change the economic trajectory of poor countries. From education to healthcare, infrastructure to eradicating corruption, too many solutions rely on trial and error. Essentially, the plan is often to identify areas that need help, flood them with resources, and hope to see change over time. But hope is not an effective strategy.
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The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to QuitSeth Godin proves that winners are really just the best quitters. Godin shows that winners quit fast, quit often, and quit without guilt--until they commit to beating the right Dip.
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To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment HistoryThe never-before-told story of Pixar's improbable success?
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Educated - A MemoirTara Westover was 17 the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her 'head-for-the-hills bag'.
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The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy AnswersA lot of people talk about how great it is to start a business. Is it though?
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The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful GroupsWhat do Pixar, Google and the San Antonio Spurs basketball team have in common? The answer is that they all owe their extraordinary success to their team-building skills.
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Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) WrongMuch of the advice we’ve been told about achievement is logical, earnest…and downright wrong. In Barking Up the Wrong Tree, Eric Barker reveals the extraordinary science behind what actually determines success and most importantly, how anyone can achieve it.
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Competing Against LuckThe foremost authority on innovation and growth presents a path-breaking book every company needs to transform innovation from a game of chance to one in which they develop products and services customers not only want to buy, but are willing to pay premium prices for.
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The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny Beyond EarthHuman civilization is on the verge of spreading beyond Earth. More than a possibility, it is becoming a necessity: whether our hand is forced by climate change and resource depletion or whether future catastrophes compel us to abandon Earth, one day we will make our homes among the stars.