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The Next Renaissance
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Gilded Rage
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Smart Until It's Dumb
Smart Until It's Dumb
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Shared Wisdom
Shared Wisdom
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Cultural Evolution in the Age of AI
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Elon Musk
Elon Musk
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Why Digital Transformations Fail
Why Digital Transformations Fail
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The Surprising Disciplines of How to Take Off and Stay Ahead
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What Is Intelligence?
What Is Intelligence?
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The Science and Technology of Growing Young
The Science and Technology of Growing Young
Sergey Young
An Insider's Guide to the Breakthroughs That Will Dramatically Extend Our Lifespan . . . and What You Can Do Right Now
24.4 min
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Robin Hood Math
Robin Hood Math
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Take Control of the Algorithms That Run Your Life
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Monster Transformation
Monster Transformation
Ari Lightman
Conquer Your Digital Fears
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Weapons of Math Destruction
Weapons of Math Destruction
Cathy O’Neil
How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
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Super Nintendo
Super Nintendo
Keza MacDonald
The Game-Changing Company That Unlocked the Power of Play
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The Thinking Machine
The Thinking Machine
Stephen Witt
Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip
21.6 min
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AI Made Simple
AI Made Simple
Rajeev Kapur
A Beginner's Guide to Generative Intelligence
20 min
4.2
Chokepoints
Chokepoints
Edward Fishman
How the Global Economy Became a Weapon of War
24.4 min
4.2
The Means of Prediction
The Means of Prediction
Maximilian Kasy
How AI Really Works (and Who Benefits)
17.3 min
4.1
Indistractable
Indistractable
Nir Eyal
How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life
22.9 min
4.4
Nexus
Nexus
Yuval Noah Harari
A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
21.3 min
4.3
The Chemistry Book
The Chemistry Book
Derek B Lowe
From Gunpowder to Graphene, 250 Milestones in the History of Chemistry
38.3 min
4.6
Decision-Driven Analytics
Decision-Driven Analytics
Bart de Langhe & Stefano Puntoni
Leveraging Human Intelligence to Unlock the Power of Data
21.1 min
4.4
The Third Chimpanzee
The Third Chimpanzee
Jared Diamond
The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
18.3 min
4.3
Open to Work
Open to Work
Ryan Roslansky & Aneesh Raman
How to Get Ahead in the Age of AI
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Data
Data
Mark O'Donnell
Harness Your Numbers to Go from Uncertain to Unstoppable
22.3 min
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Whole Earth Discipline
Whole Earth Discipline
Stewart Brand
An Ecopragmatist Manifesto
21.8 min
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Understanding Artificial Intelligence
Understanding Artificial Intelligence
Nicolas Sabouret
A Straightforward Explanation of AI and Its Possibilities
16.2 min
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Artificial Intelligence and Generative AI for Beginners
Artificial Intelligence and Generative AI for Beginners
David M. Patel
The Complete Guide
18.3 min
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Tech Leadership
Tech Leadership
Andrew Swerdlow
How to Evolve from Individual Contributor to Tech Leader
21 min
4.4
Money in the Twenty-First Century
Money in the Twenty-First Century
Richard Holden
Cheap, Mobile, and Digital
18.6 min
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The Deep Learning Revolution
The Deep Learning Revolution
Terrence J. Sejnowski
Artificial intelligence meets human intelligence
18.9 min
4.5
The Sirens' Call
The Sirens' Call
Chris Hayes
How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource
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AI Valley
AI Valley
Gary Rivlin
The Mad Dash to Cash In on Artificial Intelligence
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