9 must-read technology books like The Economy of Algorithms: AI and the Rise of the Digital Minions by Marek Kowalkiewicz

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The Economy of Algorithms: AI and the Rise of the Digital Minions

By: Marek Kowalkiewicz

3.74

Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition

An insider's guide to the invisible new economy that is reshaping our lives Welcome to the economy…

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1. The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

By: Ray Kurzweil

3.93

Format: 652 pages, Paperback

“Startling in scope and bravado.” —Janet Maslin,  The New York Times “Artfully envisions a breatht… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • technology
"Play is just another version of work"

-Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

"Hoewel we de illusie hebben dat we beelden met hoge resolutie ontvangen van onze ogen, stuurt de oogzenuw slechts contouren en aanwijzingen over interessante punten in ons blikveld naar het brein. We…"

-Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

"We cannot rely on trial-and-error approaches to deal with existential risks… We need to vastly increase our investment in developing specific defensive technologies… We are at the critical stage toda…"

-Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

"Fredkin [...] praat over een interessant kenmerk van computerprogramma's, waaronder cellulaire automaten: er is geen kortere route mogelijk naar wat de uitkomst wordt. Dit is het wezenlijke verschil …"

-Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

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2. Orientalism

By: None , Edward W. Said

4.12

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the W… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."

-None, Orientalism

"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."

-None, Orientalism

"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."

-None, Orientalism

"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."

-None, Orientalism

3. Contagious: Why Things Catch On

By: Jonah Berger

3.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

New York Timesbestseller and named Best Marketing Book of 2014 by the American Marketing Associatio… read more

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4. The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking

By: Oliver Burkeman

3.94

Format: 450 pages, ebook

A witty, fascinating, and counterintuitive read that turns decades of self-help advice on its head … read more

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5. The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups

By: Daniel Coyle

4.11

Format: 70 pages, Hardcover

An essential book that unlocks the secrets of highly successful groups and provides readers with a … read more

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6. الرحيق المختوم

By: None

3.66

Format: None pages, ebook

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7. Grenseløs (William Wisting, #16)

By: Jørn Lier Horst

3.88

Format: 396 pages, Hardcover

William Wisting blir kontaktet av lederen for en gruppe mennesker som har funnet hverandre på inter… read more

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8. Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things

By: Adam M. Grant

4.12

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times Bestseller“This brilliant book will shatter your assumptions about what it takes … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
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9. Stone Yard Devotional

By: Charlotte Wood

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winn… read more

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10. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

By: Cal Newport

3.73

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. From the New York Times bestsellin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
"What are we really doing here?"

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?"

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured."

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"The pandemic didn’t introduce this trend so much as push its worst excesses beyond the threshold of tolerability."

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

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11. Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It

By: Kashmir Hill

4.14

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The story of a small AI company that gave facial recognition to law enforceme… read more

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  • business
  • technology
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12. Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

By: Yanis Varoufakis

4.01

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The #1 bestselling economist shows how capitalism has been replaced by a more exploitative system, … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • technology
"Il profitto è vulnerabile alla competizione di mercato, mentre la rendita non lo è."

-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

"Se non è un mercato capitalista, in cosa entriamo, buon Dio, quando andiamo su amazon.com ?"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

"Oltre ad avvertirci che ogni nuova epoca forgiata da qualche tecnologia rivoluzionaria produce una generazione che “mai passerà un giorno immune da fatica e dolore, struggendosi anche di notte"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

"La rivoluzione digitale potrebbe consistere nel trasformare i lavoratori salariati in proletari del cloud, che vivono una vita sempre più precaria e stressante sotto il controllo invisibile di capi a…"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

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13. Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails

By: Yanis Varoufakis

4.13

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

In Talking to My Daughter About the Economy, activist Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s former finance min… read more

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  • economics
  • business
"The Matrix is a reflection of our times, or at least our anxieties. It reveals our fear of a mechanization so complete, of a commodification of our bodies and enslavement of our minds so successful, …"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails

"...a cynical person is someone who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing. Our societies tend to make us all cynics. And no one is more cynical than the economist who sees exchange va…"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails

"Bürokrasi, Ordu ve Ruhban Sınıfı Borç, para, inanç ve devlet el ele yürür. Borç olmadan tarımsal fazlalığı yönetmenin kolay yolu yoktur. Borcun ortaya çıkışıyla paranın yıldızı parlamaya başladı. Anc…"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails

"Like any ecosystem, a modern economy cannot survive without recycling. Just as animals and plants are continually recycling the oxygen and carbon dioxide that the other provides, so too must workers …"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails

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14. An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management

By: Will Larson

4.10

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

There’s a saying that people don’t leave companies, they leave managers. Management is a key part o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
  • technology
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15. The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter

By: Kai Bird

4.35

Format: 772 pages, Hardcover

An essential re-evaluation of the complex triumphs and tragedies of Jimmy Carter's presidential leg… read more

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  • nonfiction
"...Carter is sometimes perceived as a failure simply because he refused to make us feel good about the country. He insisted on telling us what was wrong and what it would take to make things better. …"

-Kai Bird, The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter

"Watching the podium dance that night from the convention floor was Paul Corbin, a longtime Kennedy family retainer. Corbin had been working for the Kennedys ever since he first encountered Bobby Kenn…"

-Kai Bird, The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter

"...Ironically, three decades later President Barack Obama introduced a universal health insurance bill modeled closely after the Carter bill. Mondale´s former aide Richard Moe wrote that Obamacare ¨b…"

-Kai Bird, The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter

"After it was all over, the Carter people were stunned by Kennedy´s conduct. Why? Why would the Kennedy crowd persist in defeat, knowing that their displays of rancor would only further weaken a Democ…"

-Kai Bird, The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter

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16. The Great Divide: Australia's Housing Mess and How to Fix It (Quarterly Essay #92)

By: Alan Kohler

4.31

Format: 161 pages, Kindle Edition

What caused Australia's housing crisis -- and how we might fix it One of the great mysteries of Au… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • economics
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17. The Shortest History of Economics

By: Andrew Leigh

4.00

Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition

Explore the human story of economics … 'The secret of economics is that the most powerful insights… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
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18. The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives

By: Ernest Scheyder

4.04

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed Reuters reporter Ernest Scheyder reveals the trillion-dollar battle for the resources to … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • technology
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19. The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI

By: Ray Kurzweil

3.93

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The noted inventor and futurist’s successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explor… read more

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  • technology
Cover of Blindsight: The (Mostly) Hidden Ways Marketing Reshapes Our Brains by Matt           Johnson

20. Blindsight: The (Mostly) Hidden Ways Marketing Reshapes Our Brains

By: Matt Johnson

4.29

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Ever notice that all watch ads show 10:10 as the time? Or that all fast-food restaurants use red or… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
"We navigate life by making decisions that maximize pleasure and/ or minimize pain."

-Matt Johnson, Blindsight: The (Mostly) Hidden Ways Marketing Reshapes Our Brains

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21. The Forever War: America’s Unending Conflict with Itself

By: Nick Bryant

4.43

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The Forever War tells the story of how America's political polarization is 250 years in the making,… read more

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  • nonfiction
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22. Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more

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  • nonfiction
"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

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23. Repeat: A Warning from History

By: Dennis Glover

4.54

Format: 132 pages, Kindle Edition

Are we about to see history repeat?'Do you ever stop and ask, 'Is it all going to happen again?' —S… read more

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  • nonfiction
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24. The Skill Code: How to Save Human Ability in an Age of Intelligent Machines

By: Matt Beane

3.94

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From one of the world’s top researchers on work and technology comes an insightful and surprising g… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
  • technology
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25. You Don't Have To Have A Dream: Advice for the Incrementally Ambitious

By: Tim Minchin

4.42

Format: 105 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Life will sometimes seem long and tough. And you will sometimes be happy and sometimes sad. And th… read more

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Cover of Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari

26. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

By: Yuval Noah Harari

4.11

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • technology
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27. Fire

By: John Boyne

4.39

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

On the face of it, Freya lives a gilded existence, dancing solely to her own tune. She has all the … read more

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28. High Noon: Trump, Harris and America on the Brink; Quarterly Essay 95

By: Don Watson

4.00

Format: 156 pages, Kindle Edition

Is the United States disintegrating? Don Watson offers a report from America that catches the ma… read more

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  • nonfiction
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29. The Economy of Algorithms: AI and the Rise of the Digital Minions

By: Marek Kowalkiewicz

3.74

Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition

An insider's guide to the invisible new economy that is reshaping our lives Welcome to the economy… read more

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30. Juice

By: Tim Winton

4.15

Format: 524 pages, Kindle Edition

An epic novel of determination, survival, and the limits of the human spirit. This is Tim Winton as… read more

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31. The Chairman's Lounge: The inside story of how Qantas sold us out

By: Joe Aston

4.44

Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition

From the must-read journalist on how power, money and influence work in this country, the full stor… read more

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  • business

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Ray Kurzweil

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4.12

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Adam M. Grant

4.12

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Cal Newport

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Annie Jacobsen

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The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

Mustafa Suleyman

3.86

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Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing)

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