By: Clayton Christensen Published: 2012 Read: 2018 Summary: Management theories typically used to analyze companies, company strategies, and industries are used instead to define and explain what causes success, happiness and meaning in people’s lives, relationships and careers. As these
Paths, dangers, strategies By: Nick Bostrom Published: 2014 Read: 2016 Summary: Intelligence: skill at prediction, planning and means-ends instrumental reasoning (not: normative, rationality or reason). General intelligence: possessing common sense and an effective ability to learn, reason, and plan to
The evolutionary origins of a good society By: Nicholas A. Christakis. Published: 2019 Read: 2019 Summary: Natural selection has equipped us with the capacity and desire to form and join groups. It is argued that humans universally evolved a set
How Modern Biology Is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease, and Inheritance By: Nessa Carey Published: 2012 Read: 2018 Summary: Epigenetics refers to external modifications of DNA that regulate the expression of genes, turning them “on” or “off.” While the
Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life. By: Nick Lane Published: 2015 Read: 2019 Summary: Why is life the way it is. Complex life on earth probably arose once only from a single common ancestor. We don’t know how
The greatest espionage story of the cold war. By: Ben Macintyre Published: 2018 Read: 2019 Summary: As the Cold War heats up, Oleg Gordievsky, a KGB agent, becomes disappointed with the brutalities of the Soviet system, develops an appreciation of
Secrets and lies in a Silicon Valley startup. By: John Carreyrou Published: 2018 Read: 2019 Summary: The rise and fall of Theranos, a Silicon Valley startup that tried unsuccessfully to develop a miniature blood testing device. Pursuing a “fake-it-till-you-make-it approach”,
The evolution of order, from atoms to economies By: Cesar Hidalgo Published: 2015 Read: 2018 Summary: The concept of entropy dictates that disorder, randomness and chaos should increase over time. Yet, in the universe we see pockets of growing order,
Why Catastrophes Happen By: Mark Buchanan Published: 2000 Read: 2018 Summary: Are there general rules in situations where scientists have so far failed to find predictable patterns (for instance, the timing of the next big earthquake, the form a snowflake
On Homecoming and Belonging. By: Sebastian Junger Published: 2016 Read: 2019 Summary: Tribal behavior is an evolved human trait. Humans have a need to belong, to be part of a larger whole. Solidarity, making sacrifices and acting in the group’s