Aftermath: Seven Secrets of Wealth Preservation in the Coming Chaos

Business & Money

RICKARDS, James

Economics

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The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution

"How Jim Simons launched the Quant revolution"--Book jacket.

Biographies & Memoirs

ZUCKERMAN, GREGORY

Professionals & Academics

John Maeda is one of the world's preeminent interdisciplinary thinkers on technology and design. In How to Speak Machine, he offers a set of simple laws that govern not only the computers of today, but the unimaginable machines of the future. Technology is already more powerful than we can comprehend, and getting more powerful at an exponential pace. Once set in motion, algorithms never tire. And when a program's size, speed, and tirelessness combine with its ability to learn and transform itself, the outcome can be unpredictable and dangerous. Take the seemingly instant transformation of Microsoft's chatbot Tay into a hate-spewing racist, or how crime-predicting algorithsm reinforce racial bias. How to Speak Machine provides a coherent framework for today's product designers, business leaders, and polycmakers to grasp this brave new world. Drawing on his wide-ranging experience from engineering to computer science to design, Maeda shows how businesses and individuals can identify opportunities afforded by technology to make world-changing and inclusive products--while avoiding the pitfalls inherent to the medium.

How to Speak Machine: Computational Thinking for the Rest of Us

MAEDA, John

Management & Leadership

Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining the World

SCOTT ADAMS

Personal Finance

Edge

Huang, Laura

MOTIVATION CODE

Todd Henry

What leaders in any field can learn from legendary conductors and their mixtures of control and letting go. A conductor in front of his orchestra is an iconic symbol of leadership--but what does a maestro actually do in order to create unity, excellence and harmony? And how can a leader in other fields, remote from violin playing and Mozart, benefit from observing orchestral conductors? Itay Talgam explores the different ways a maestro can work with his orchestra, by examining the leadership styles of six of the most famous and distinctive conductors of all time: the commanding Ricardo Muti, the fatherly and passionate Arturo Toscanini, the calm Richard Strauss, the guru-like Herbert von Karajan, the dancing Carlos Kleiber, and the master of dialogue Leonard Bernstein. Against the backdrop of traditional controlling leadership, Talgam shows how great contemporary leadership mixes control and letting go, promotes new knowledge by choosing to be ignorant, creates unity through embracing gaps, and enhances leadership effectiveness by adopting keynote listening. Using the same universal tools, leaders can conduct their organizations to their maximum potential--whether in business, education, government, sports, or any other field.

The Ignorant Maestro

Talgam, Itay

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