Reading collection
Digital Literacy
Think clearly in the age of AI, algorithms, and information overload.
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Collection index
A shelf with an argument.
Every collection gathers books around a practical life problem. Open the title that feels closest, then let the shelf widen the frame.
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Kai-Fu Lee
AI Superpowers
AI will automate many jobs, but it cannot automate what it means to be human. Our task is to double down on our humanity.
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Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths · 2016
Algorithms to Live By
A good algorithm does not make life mechanical. It gives judgment a sharper edge and anxiety a smaller job.
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Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
Everybody Lies
The truth is not always what people say in public. It is often what they search for in private.
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Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Ronnlund · 2018
Factfulness
The goal is not to feel hopeful. It is to become harder to fool.
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Max Tegmark · 2017
Life 3.0
Everything we love about civilization is a product of intelligence, so amplifying our intelligence with artificial intelligence has the potential to help life flourish like never before — as long as we keep the technology beneficial.
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George Gilder
Life After Google
The post-Google future begins when trust stops being rented from platforms and starts being verified at the edges.
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James Bridle
New Dark Age
The new dark age begins when we mistake prediction for knowledge and convenience for freedom.
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Adam Greenfield
Radical Technologies
The real question is not whether technology is radical. It is whether ordinary people still get to contest the world it makes ordinary.
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Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler
The Future Is Faster Than You Think
The future feels sudden only when you miss the compounding signals that made it inevitable.
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Michio Kaku
The Future of the Mind
The future of the mind is not a gadget story. It is the story of private experience becoming a public technology.
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Alec Ross
The Industries of the Future
The future is not something to predict from a distance. It is something to read in the industries already rearranging power.
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Kai-Fu Lee, Chen Qiufan
AI 2041
The future of AI is neither automatic utopia nor automatic collapse. It is institutional design under pressure.
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Austin Kleon · 2014
Show Your Work!
Do not wait to be discovered; become useful in public.
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Tiago Forte · 2022
Building a Second Brain
A note is only valuable when it can return at the moment of use.
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ADHD & Focus
For the restless and the distracted. Books that meet you where you are.
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Become Hard To Manipulate
A persuasion-literacy curriculum. Read these and you'll start to see the strings: in ads, in apps, in conversations, in your own head.
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Better Conversations, Better Life
Most of your relationships are made of sentences. Six books on listening hard, speaking clearly, and turning conflict into connection.
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