Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us
By: Dan Lyons
3.91
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
At a time of soaring corporate profits and plenty of HR lip service about "wellness," millions of w…
Want to Read $ 11.99"...they sell dollar bills for seventy-five cents and take credit for how fast they’re growing."-Dan Lyons, Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us
"Real wages (adjusted for inflation) have been flat or down for decades. Millennials earn 20 percent less than their parents did at the same stage of their lives, according to a 2017 study by Young Invincibles, an advocacy group."-Dan Lyons, Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us
"a warning to young entrepreneurs: take money from a venture capitalist, and you’ll end up working for some smug, sarcastic, know-it-all prick like this guy, who will constantly tell you that you’re not working hard enough while he spends his days getting into arguments on Twitter."-Dan Lyons, Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us
"Young guys moving west after college no longer hope to become the next Steve Jobs, they want to become the next Mark Andreassen. The Valley has become a Casino where the VCS and Angel Investprs blindly bumping money into every slot machine hoping to hit the Jackpot. The difference is that the bunter who gets lucky on a slot machine doesn’t walk away convinced he is a Genius. Instead of writing about tech, the industry‘s bloggers now write about venture deals and who raised how much at what valuation. The Valley has become obsessed with money, and there is a lot of it around."-Dan Lyons, Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us
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1. Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread— The Lessons from a New Science
By: Alex Pentland
3.52
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From one of the world's leading data scientists, a landmark tour ofthe new science of idea flow, of… read more
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2. Think Like a Freak
By: Steven D. Levitt , Stephen J. Dubner
3.50
Format: None pages, ebook
The New York Times bestselling Freakonomics changed the way we see the world, exposing the hidden s… read more
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3. Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes
By: Svante Pääbo
3.71
Format: 436 pages, Hardcover
What can we learn from the genomes of our closest evolutionary relatives? Neanderthal Man tells the… read more
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4. Robot Visions (Robot #0.5)
By: Isaac Asimov , Ralph McQuarrie
4.33
Format: 300 pages, Mass Market Paperback
From Isaac Asimov, the writer whose name is synonymous with robots and the science of robotics, her… read more
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5. Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation
By: Jonathan Lear
3.90
Format: None pages,
Shortly before he died, Plenty Coups, the last great Chief of the Crow Nation, told his story up to… read more
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6. Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
By: Antonio García Martínez
4.79
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Liar's Pokermeets The Social Networkin an irreverent expose of life inside the tech bubble, from in… read more
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7. Burn Book: A Tech Love Story
By: Kara Swisher
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech… read more
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8. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
By: David Graeber
4.03
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfi… read more
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"Economies around the world have, increasingly, become vast engines for producing nonsense."-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"Bullshit jobs regularly induce feelings of hopelessness, depression, and self-loathing. They are forms of spiritual violence directed at the essence of what it means to be a human being."-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"What we are witnessing is the rise of those forms of popular culture that office workers can produce and consume during the scattered, furtive shards of time they have at their disposal in workplaces…"-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"A fact-finding commission is a way of telling the public that the government is doing something it is not. But a large corporations will behave exactly the same way, if, say, there are revealed to be…"-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
9. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.25
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more
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"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
10. Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters
By: Brian Klaas
4.13
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
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11. Whole Numbers and Half Truths
By: Rukmini S.
4.22
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
How do you see India? Fuelled by a surge of migration to cities, the country's growth appears to… read more
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12. Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
By: Stuart Russell
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A leading artificial intelligence researcher lays out a new approach to AI that will enable us to c… read more
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"To get just an inkling of the fire we're playing with, consider how content-selection algorithms function on social media. They aren't particularly intelligent, but they are in a position to affect t…"-Stuart Russell, Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
13. The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization: The Collapse of Globalization and Its Aftermath
By: Peter Zeihan
4.18
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
2019 was the last great year for the world economy. For generations, everything has been getting… read more
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14. The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It
By: Mary Ann Sieghart
4.36
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An incisive, intersectional look at the mother of all gender biases: a resistance to women’s author… read more
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15. Permanent Record
By: Edward Snowden
4.30
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveill… read more
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"The government should be afraid of the people, the people shouldn't be afraid of the government."-Edward Snowden, Permanent Record
"This was the ultimate leap of faith, in a way: I could hardly trust anyone, so I had to trust everyone."-Edward Snowden, Permanent Record
"A little bit of math can accomplish what all the guns and barbed wire can't: a little bit of math can keep a secret."-Edward Snowden, Permanent Record
"The reason you're reading this book is that I did a dangerous thing for a man in my position: I decided to tell the truth."-Edward Snowden, Permanent Record
16. The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
By: Mustafa Suleyman
3.86
Format: 332 pages, Hardcover
A warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global … read more
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17. House of Open Wounds (The Tyrant Philosophers, #2)
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.51
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
City-by-city, kingdom-by-kingdom, the Palleseen have sworn to bring Perfection and Correctness to a… read more
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18. The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it
By: Will Storr
4.14
Format: 437 pages, Kindle Edition
For centuries, philosophers and scholars have described human behaviour in terms of sex, power and … read more
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"Whilst we play life as a game, our conscious experience of it takes the form of a story."-Will Storr, The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it
"We build an infinite variety of imaginary games. Groups of people gather together, agree what symbols they’re going to use to mean “status,"-Will Storr, The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it
"The story idealists sometimes tell of humanity says we're natural seekers of equality. This isn't true. Utopians talk of injustice whilst building new hierarchies and placing themselves at the top. W…"-Will Storr, The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it
19. Don't Trust Your Gut: Using Data to Get What You Really Want in Life
By: Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
3.80
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is as good a data storyteller as I have ever met.” — Steven Levitt, co-aut… read more
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20. Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry
By: Jason Schreier
4.05
Format: 301 pages, Paperback
From the bestselling author of Blood, Sweat, and Pixels comes the next definitive, behind-the-scene… read more
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21. White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy
By: Thomas F. Schaller
3.82
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A searing portrait and damning takedown of America’s proudest citizens — who are also the least lik… read more
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22. The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief, and Compassion -- Surprising Observations of a Hidden World
By: Peter Wohlleben
3.75
Format: 7 pages, Audio CD
Through vivid stories of devoted pigs, two-timing magpies, and scheming roosters, The Inner Life of… read more
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"La ciencia es contraria a la sensibilidad de los animales hasta que ésta ya no pueda negarse. ¿No sería mejor argumentar, por si acaso, lo contrario, para no maltratar innecesariamente a los animales?"-Peter Wohlleben, The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief, and Compassion -- Surprising Observations of a Hidden World
"Si de verdad somos la especie más inteligente de este planeta -algo que presupongo-, ¿entonces por qué la ciencia no recorrió hace tiempo el camino inverso? ¿Por qué esforzarse durante años en enseña…"-Peter Wohlleben, The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief, and Compassion -- Surprising Observations of a Hidden World
23. The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us
By: Paul Tough
4.40
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
“Indelible and extraordinary.”—Tara Westover, author of Educated: A Memoir, New York Times Book Rev… read more
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24. Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World
By: Clive Thompson
3.98
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed tech writer Clive Thompson, a brilliant and immersive anthropological reckoning with… read more
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"More than introversion or logic, though, coding selects for people who can handle endless frustration."-Clive Thompson, Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World
"When you meet a coder, you're meeting someone whose core daily experience is of unending failure and grinding frustration."-Clive Thompson, Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World
"For years, coders have been programming computers so that they perform repetitive tasks for us. Now they automate our repetitive thoughts."-Clive Thompson, Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World
25. Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans
By: Melanie Mitchell
4.37
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping examination of the current state of artificial intelligence and how it is remaking our w… read more
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"Hofstadter... fears that AI might show us that the human qualities we most value are disappointingly simple to mechanize."-Melanie Mitchell, Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans
26. Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and THE WASHINGTON POST
By: Martin Baron
4.20
Format: 549 pages, Kindle Edition
“A closely observed, gripping chronicle of politics and journalism during a decade of turmoil.” — T… read more
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27. The Missing Cryptoqueen: The Billion Dollar Cryptocurrency Con and the Woman Who Got Away with It
By: Jamie Bartlett
4.22
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
175 countries, four billion dollars, one the thrilling rise and fall of the biggest cryptocurrency… read more
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28. It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work
By: Jason Fried
4.01
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In this timely manifesto, the authors of the New York Times bestseller Rework broadly reject the pr… read more
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29. Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us
By: Dan Lyons
3.91
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
At a time of soaring corporate profits and plenty of HR lip service about "wellness," millions of w… read more
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"...they sell dollar bills for seventy-five cents and take credit for how fast they’re growing."-Dan Lyons, Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us
"Real wages (adjusted for inflation) have been flat or down for decades. Millennials earn 20 percent less than their parents did at the same stage of their lives, according to a 2017 study by Young In…"-Dan Lyons, Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us
"a warning to young entrepreneurs: take money from a venture capitalist, and you’ll end up working for some smug, sarcastic, know-it-all prick like this guy, who will constantly tell you that you’re n…"-Dan Lyons, Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us
"Young guys moving west after college no longer hope to become the next Steve Jobs, they want to become the next Mark Andreassen. The Valley has become a Casino where the VCS and Angel Investprs blind…"-Dan Lyons, Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us
30. True or False: A CIA Analyst's Guide to Spotting Fake News
By: Cindy L. Otis
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
"If I could pick one book to hand to every teen—and adult—on earth, this is the one. True or False … read more
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31. Üretme Tüket: Ithalat-Siyaset-Rant Kıskacında Tarım
By: Ali Ekber Yıldırım
4.39
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
"Üretimden uzaklaştırılan Türkiye, tarımda hemen her ürünü ithal eder duruma geldi. Kendine yeterli… read more
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