Best Technology Books | Summaries & Audio

Technology Book Summaries

Land of Promise

by Michael Lind • 2012

America's economic history is a tug-of-war between two founders: one who built, one who dismantled.

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📜 Economic History 🏛️ Political Economy 🏭 Industrial Revolutions 🔬 State-Led Innovation 📉 Rising Inequality

Land of Promise

America's economic history is a tug-of-war between two founders: one who built, one who dismantled.

by Michael Lind 2012 592 pages

3.91

397 ratings

📜 Economic History 🏛️ Political Economy 🏭 Industrial Revolutions 🔬 State-Led Innovation 📉 Rising Inequality

The Instability of Truth

by Rebecca Lemov • 2025

Brainwashing erases its own tracks. You do not see it in cults, courts, or your feed.

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286

📜 History Of Psychology 🧠 Coercive Persuasion 🕯️ Cult Psychology 🔬 Cold War Science 💔 Trauma Studies

The Instability of Truth

Brainwashing erases its own tracks. You do not see it in cults, courts, or your feed.

by Rebecca Lemov 2025 464 pages

3.62

286 ratings

📜 History Of Psychology 🧠 Coercive Persuasion 🕯️ Cult Psychology 🔬 Cold War Science 💔 Trauma Studies

A Beginners Guide To Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies

by Acquilia Adams • 2021

The beginner's playbook for buying Bitcoin, keeping it safe, and staying put through the chaos.

3.80

💰 Cryptocurrency Investing 💱 Digital Currency 🟠 Bitcoin Maximalism 🔑 Financial Sovereignty 📈 Long Term Investing

A Beginners Guide To Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies

The beginner's playbook for buying Bitcoin, keeping it safe, and staying put through the chaos.

by Acquilia Adams 2021

3.80

5 ratings

💰 Cryptocurrency Investing 💱 Digital Currency 🟠 Bitcoin Maximalism 🔑 Financial Sovereignty 📈 Long Term Investing

Could Should Might Don't

by Nick Foster • 2025

Four ways we imagine the future. Three are fantasies. One is a discipline.

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🧭 Futures Thinking 🚫 Technocritique 🛠️ Critical Design ⚠️ Forecasting Fallacies 🏠 Everyday Futures

Could Should Might Don't

Four ways we imagine the future. Three are fantasies. One is a discipline.

by Nick Foster 2025 352 pages

3.68

231 ratings

🧭 Futures Thinking 🚫 Technocritique 🛠️ Critical Design ⚠️ Forecasting Fallacies 🏠 Everyday Futures

The Extended Mind

by Richard Menary • 2008

The mind does not end at the skull. Tools and notebooks may be genuine parts of thinking.

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🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🔬 Cognitive Science 🤸 Embodied Cognition 🔗 Externalism 💭 Consciousness Studies

The Extended Mind

The mind does not end at the skull. Tools and notebooks may be genuine parts of thinking.

by Richard Menary 2008 382 pages

3.76

41 ratings

🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🔬 Cognitive Science 🤸 Embodied Cognition 🔗 Externalism 💭 Consciousness Studies

Carbon Finance

by Sonia Labatt • 2007

Hedging the weather and pricing carbon: the financial instruments built for a warming planet.

2.93

🧪 Carbon Markets 🌍 Climate Finance 🏭 Emissions Trading ⚡ Energy Transition 🌿 Market Environmentalism

Carbon Finance

Hedging the weather and pricing carbon: the financial instruments built for a warming planet.

by Sonia Labatt 2007 288 pages

2.93

15 ratings

🧪 Carbon Markets 🌍 Climate Finance 🏭 Emissions Trading ⚡ Energy Transition 🌿 Market Environmentalism

Why Privacy Matters

by Neil Richards • 2021

Every argument that privacy is dead was made by someone who profits from its funeral.

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🧑‍💻 Digital Privacy 👁️ Surveillance Studies ⚖️ Privacy Law 🗽 Civil Liberties 🛒 Consumer Surveillance

Why Privacy Matters

Every argument that privacy is dead was made by someone who profits from its funeral.

by Neil Richards 2021 304 pages

4.06

177 ratings

🧑‍💻 Digital Privacy 👁️ Surveillance Studies ⚖️ Privacy Law 🗽 Civil Liberties 🛒 Consumer Surveillance

42 Rules of Product Marketing

by Phil Burton • 2012

Spot ready-to-buy signals, translate complexity into outcomes, and arm your sales team to win.

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📦 Product Marketing 💻 Tech Marketing 📈 Demand Generation 🛠️ Sales Enablement 💬 Messaging And Positioning

42 Rules of Product Marketing

Spot ready-to-buy signals, translate complexity into outcomes, and arm your sales team to win.

by Phil Burton 2012 128 pages

3.55

44 ratings

📦 Product Marketing 💻 Tech Marketing 📈 Demand Generation 🛠️ Sales Enablement 💬 Messaging And Positioning

Designing a Successful KM Strategy

by Stephanie Barnes • 2014

Most KM strategies collect dust. The playbook for making one leadership champions, not shelves.

4.10

🧠 Knowledge Management 🏢 Organizational Development 🗺️ Strategy Design 🔄 Change Management 🏛️ Organizational Culture

Designing a Successful KM Strategy

Most KM strategies collect dust. The playbook for making one leadership champions, not shelves.

by Stephanie Barnes 2014 224 pages

4.10

29 ratings

🧠 Knowledge Management 🏢 Organizational Development 🗺️ Strategy Design 🔄 Change Management 🏛️ Organizational Culture

Why Study Mathematics?

by Vicky Neale • 2020

A math degree opens careers from kidney swaps to climate models. Effort trumps genius every time.

3.97

📐 Applied Mathematics 🧠 Growth Mindset 📊 Data Science ➗ Mathematical Thinking 📖 Popular Mathematics

Why Study Mathematics?

A math degree opens careers from kidney swaps to climate models. Effort trumps genius every time.

by Vicky Neale 2020 208 pages

3.97

38 ratings

📐 Applied Mathematics 🧠 Growth Mindset 📊 Data Science ➗ Mathematical Thinking 📖 Popular Mathematics

Beginners Guide to Digital Marketing

by Romuald Andrade • 2015

30 days from silent site to lead machine: the SEO, email, and ad playbook for beginners.

3.73

📈 Digital Marketing 🏪 Small Business Marketing 🔍 Seo Tactics 📧 Email Marketing 🧲 Lead Generation

Beginners Guide to Digital Marketing

30 days from silent site to lead machine: the SEO, email, and ad playbook for beginners.

by Romuald Andrade 2015 190 pages

3.73

56 ratings

📈 Digital Marketing 🏪 Small Business Marketing 🔍 Seo Tactics 📧 Email Marketing 🧲 Lead Generation

The Agile Pocket Guide

by Peter Saddington • 2012

Scrum from the inside: how to run sprints, lead teams, and ship products without the overhead.

3.42

🔄 Agile Methodology 🏃 Scrum 📋 Project Management 🛡️ Servant Leadership 📈 Kaizen

The Agile Pocket Guide

Scrum from the inside: how to run sprints, lead teams, and ship products without the overhead.

by Peter Saddington 2012 192 pages

3.42

48 ratings

🔄 Agile Methodology 🏃 Scrum 📋 Project Management 🛡️ Servant Leadership 📈 Kaizen

Modular Online Learning Design

by Amanda Nichols Hess • 2020

A modular design method for online instruction: build once, remix, and scale across every context.

🛠️ Instructional Design 📚 Library Instruction 💻 Online Course Design 📖 Open Educational Resources ♿ Universal Design For Learning

Modular Online Learning Design

A modular design method for online instruction: build once, remix, and scale across every context.

by Amanda Nichols Hess 2020 142 pages

🛠️ Instructional Design 📚 Library Instruction 💻 Online Course Design 📖 Open Educational Resources ♿ Universal Design For Learning

The Mechanic

by Marc 'Elvis' Priestley • 2017

Pranks, pressure, and a $100 million scandal: a mechanic's inside story of Formula One.

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4k+

🏎️ Formula One 🗣️ Insider Tell-All 🔧 Workplace Memoir 😂 Pranks And Camaraderie 🎯 Perfectionism

The Mechanic

Pranks, pressure, and a $100 million scandal: a mechanic's inside story of Formula One.

by Marc 'Elvis' Priestley 2017 243 pages

4.22

4k+ ratings

🏎️ Formula One 🗣️ Insider Tell-All 🔧 Workplace Memoir 😂 Pranks And Camaraderie 🎯 Perfectionism

Automotive Global Value Chain

by Wilson Kia Onn Wong • 2017

Automakers outsourced everything, accidentally handing the wheel to a few giant suppliers.

🚗 Automotive Industry 📦 Supply Chain Management 🏭 Lean Manufacturing 🤝 Mergers And Acquisitions 📊 Oligopoly

Automotive Global Value Chain

Automakers outsourced everything, accidentally handing the wheel to a few giant suppliers.

by Wilson Kia Onn Wong 2017 294 pages

🚗 Automotive Industry 📦 Supply Chain Management 🏭 Lean Manufacturing 🤝 Mergers And Acquisitions 📊 Oligopoly

Startup Myths and Models

by Rizwan Virk • 2020

The startup models behind market timing, founder alignment, and an exit that actually pays.

4.13

🚀 Startup Playbooks 💰 Venture Capital 🌱 Early Stage Startups 🤝 Founder Alignment 🧩 Product-Market Fit

Startup Myths and Models

The startup models behind market timing, founder alignment, and an exit that actually pays.

by Rizwan Virk 2020 288 pages

4.13

52 ratings

🚀 Startup Playbooks 💰 Venture Capital 🌱 Early Stage Startups 🤝 Founder Alignment 🧩 Product-Market Fit

The One Best Way

by Robert Kanigel • 1997

The stopwatch that built modern work and the privileged man who never had to obey one.

4.03

🧪 Scientific Management 🏭 Industrial Management ⚒️ Labor Relations ⏱️ Efficiency Movement 🕰️ Time And Motion Studies

The One Best Way

The stopwatch that built modern work and the privileged man who never had to obey one.

by Robert Kanigel 1997 704 pages

4.03

98 ratings

🧪 Scientific Management 🏭 Industrial Management ⚒️ Labor Relations ⏱️ Efficiency Movement 🕰️ Time And Motion Studies

Some Future Day

by Marc Beckman • 2025

AI is the catalyst that makes our technologies work together, accelerating every field overnight.

3.50

🏥 Ai In Healthcare ⚔️ Ai In Warfare 📚 Ai In Education 🎨 Ai And Creativity 🕵️ Deepfakes And Trust

Some Future Day

AI is the catalyst that makes our technologies work together, accelerating every field overnight.

by Marc Beckman 2025 327 pages

3.50

46 ratings

🏥 Ai In Healthcare ⚔️ Ai In Warfare 📚 Ai In Education 🎨 Ai And Creativity 🕵️ Deepfakes And Trust

Our Biggest Fight

by Frank H. McCourt • 2024

Your mind is the product, and the price is democracy. A new protocol offers a buyback.

4.15

🌐 Big Tech Critique 💰 Data Monopolies ⏳ Attention Economy 🧠 Addictive Design ⚠️ Algorithmic Harms

Our Biggest Fight

Your mind is the product, and the price is democracy. A new protocol offers a buyback.

by Frank H. McCourt 2024 209 pages

4.15

27 ratings

🌐 Big Tech Critique 💰 Data Monopolies ⏳ Attention Economy 🧠 Addictive Design ⚠️ Algorithmic Harms

Visualizing Mathematics with 3D Printing

by Henry Segerman • 2016

3D printing turns polyhedra, knots, and 4D shadows into hands-on objects you finally grasp.

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🖨️ 3d Printing 🧮 Mathematical Models 🌌 Higher Dimensions 🌀 Hyperbolic Geometry 🪢 Knot Theory

Visualizing Mathematics with 3D Printing

3D printing turns polyhedra, knots, and 4D shadows into hands-on objects you finally grasp.

by Henry Segerman 2016 200 pages

4.08

13 ratings

🖨️ 3d Printing 🧮 Mathematical Models 🌌 Higher Dimensions 🌀 Hyperbolic Geometry 🪢 Knot Theory

The Mind's Mirror

by Daniela Rus • 2024

AI extends every human capability, including the worst of us. A framework for the double edge.

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📊 Ai Strategy ⚖️ Ai Ethics 💼 Future Of Work 🤖 Machine Learning 🏛️ Technology Governance

The Mind's Mirror

AI extends every human capability, including the worst of us. A framework for the double edge.

by Daniela Rus 2024 288 pages

3.59

110 ratings

📊 Ai Strategy ⚖️ Ai Ethics 💼 Future Of Work 🤖 Machine Learning 🏛️ Technology Governance

More from Less

Richer, yet using less of everything: how four forces decoupled growth from material consumption.

by Andrew McAfee 2019 352 pages

3.90

1k+ ratings

🧮 Environmental Economics 🤖 Techno-Optimism 🌿 Green Growth 🏭 Industrial Ecology 🌍 Global Poverty Reduction

The Mesh

by Lisa Gansky • 2010

Selling access beats selling ownership. One product, dozens of transactions, and the customers stay.

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1k+

🤝 Sharing Economy 💡 Business Model Innovation ♻️ Circular Economy 📦 Product-As-Service 🔓 Open Innovation

The Mesh

Selling access beats selling ownership. One product, dozens of transactions, and the customers stay.

by Lisa Gansky 2010 256 pages

3.66

1k+ ratings

🤝 Sharing Economy 💡 Business Model Innovation ♻️ Circular Economy 📦 Product-As-Service 🔓 Open Innovation

The McDonaldization of Society

by George Ritzer • 1995

Fast-food logic now runs your hospital, your classroom, and your phone. The efficiency isn't free.

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2k+

🛒 Consumer Culture ⚙️ Rationalization Theory 🏛️ Weberian Sociology 🌐 Cultural Homogenization 🔧 Labor Deskilling

The McDonaldization of Society

Fast-food logic now runs your hospital, your classroom, and your phone. The efficiency isn't free.

by George Ritzer 1995 328 pages

3.81

2k+ ratings

🛒 Consumer Culture ⚙️ Rationalization Theory 🏛️ Weberian Sociology 🌐 Cultural Homogenization 🔧 Labor Deskilling

Metaverse for Dummies

by Ian Kahn • 2023

How the metaverse actually works: crypto, virtual land, and the scam radar you need to survive it.

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🌐 Metaverse Guide 🎮 Virtual Worlds 💰 Digital Economy ₿ Cryptocurrency 🥽 Virtual Reality

Metaverse for Dummies

How the metaverse actually works: crypto, virtual land, and the scam radar you need to survive it.

by Ian Kahn 2023

3.40

5 ratings

🌐 Metaverse Guide 🎮 Virtual Worlds 💰 Digital Economy ₿ Cryptocurrency 🥽 Virtual Reality

Paper Prototyping

by Carolyn Snyder • 2003

Paper screens, a colleague at the controls: find the fatal flaws while fixing them is free.

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🎨 User Experience Design 🧪 Usability Testing ✂️ Rapid Prototyping 🔄 Iterative Design 🔍 User Research

Paper Prototyping

Paper screens, a colleague at the controls: find the fatal flaws while fixing them is free.

by Carolyn Snyder 2003 408 pages

3.78

207 ratings

🎨 User Experience Design 🧪 Usability Testing ✂️ Rapid Prototyping 🔄 Iterative Design 🔍 User Research

Here Comes the Sun

by Bill McKibben • 2025

The climate crisis has a solution: the sun, which quietly became the cheapest power on Earth.

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☀️ Renewable Energy ⚡ Electrification ✊ Climate Activism 💰 Energy Economics 🏘️ Decentralized Energy

Here Comes the Sun

The climate crisis has a solution: the sun, which quietly became the cheapest power on Earth.

by Bill McKibben 2025 224 pages

4.50

500+ ratings

☀️ Renewable Energy ⚡ Electrification ✊ Climate Activism 💰 Energy Economics 🏘️ Decentralized Energy

Digimodernism

by Alan Kirby • 2009

The internet did not just add screens. It ended postmodernism and installed a new cultural logic.

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🖥️ Digital Culture 📡 Media Theory 🔄 Postmodernism Critique 👥 Participatory Culture 🎮 Interactive Media

Digimodernism

The internet did not just add screens. It ended postmodernism and installed a new cultural logic.

by Alan Kirby 2009 282 pages

3.49

78 ratings

🖥️ Digital Culture 📡 Media Theory 🔄 Postmodernism Critique 👥 Participatory Culture 🎮 Interactive Media

Forex Trading Made Easy For Beginners

by Marlon Green • 2014

The beginner's path through currency trading: price action, signals, and the risk rules that matter.

💱 Forex Trading 📈 Price Action Trading 🎯 Trading Strategies 📊 Technical Analysis 🤖 Automated Trading

Forex Trading Made Easy For Beginners

The beginner's path through currency trading: price action, signals, and the risk rules that matter.

by Marlon Green 2014 40 pages

💱 Forex Trading 📈 Price Action Trading 🎯 Trading Strategies 📊 Technical Analysis 🤖 Automated Trading

Epic Disruptions

by Scott D. Anthony • 2025

Gunpowder and the iPhone follow the same disruption rules. Eleven case studies trace them.

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109

🌪️ Disruption Theory 💡 Innovation History 📊 Business Model Design 🚀 Market Creation 🏚️ Incumbent Failure

Epic Disruptions

Gunpowder and the iPhone follow the same disruption rules. Eleven case studies trace them.

by Scott D. Anthony 2025 288 pages

3.90

109 ratings

🌪️ Disruption Theory 💡 Innovation History 📊 Business Model Design 🚀 Market Creation 🏚️ Incumbent Failure

Building and Dwelling

by Richard Sennett • 2018

A city is two things: physical form and lived experience. Ethical design puts the second first.

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500+

🏙️ Urban Design 👥 Urban Sociology 🏛️ Ethics Of Place 🤖 Smart Cities Critique 🤝 Participatory Planning

Building and Dwelling

A city is two things: physical form and lived experience. Ethical design puts the second first.

by Richard Sennett 2018 368 pages

4.02

500+ ratings

🏙️ Urban Design 👥 Urban Sociology 🏛️ Ethics Of Place 🤖 Smart Cities Critique 🤝 Participatory Planning

Why AI Undermines Democracy and What To Do About It

by Mark Coeckelbergh • 2024

AI dismantles democracy not by malice but by logic. The philosophical fightback begins here.

3.26

🏛️ Political Philosophy ⚖️ Technology Ethics 🗳️ Democratic Theory 🤖 Ai Governance ⚡ Power And Technology

Why AI Undermines Democracy and What To Do About It

AI dismantles democracy not by malice but by logic. The philosophical fightback begins here.

by Mark Coeckelbergh 2024 144 pages

3.26

54 ratings

🏛️ Political Philosophy ⚖️ Technology Ethics 🗳️ Democratic Theory 🤖 Ai Governance ⚡ Power And Technology

Computer Networking Beginners Guide

by Axel Ross • 2019

A beginner's CCNA guide where subnetting, wireless, and security are the core, not an afterthought.

4.00

🌐 Computer Networking 🖧 Cisco Certification 🔒 Network Security 📡 Wireless Networking 🧮 Subnetting

Computer Networking Beginners Guide

A beginner's CCNA guide where subnetting, wireless, and security are the core, not an afterthought.

by Axel Ross 2019 142 pages

4.00

1 ratings

🌐 Computer Networking 🖧 Cisco Certification 🔒 Network Security 📡 Wireless Networking 🧮 Subnetting

Why Data Science Projects Fail

by Douglas Gray • 2024

Eighty percent of AI projects fail. The models work fine; the people, data, and expectations don't.

5.00

📊 Data Science Management 🤖 Ai Implementation ⚙️ Mlops 🧹 Data Quality 🔧 Data Engineering

Why Data Science Projects Fail

Eighty percent of AI projects fail. The models work fine; the people, data, and expectations don't.

by Douglas Gray 2024

5.00

19 ratings

📊 Data Science Management 🤖 Ai Implementation ⚙️ Mlops 🧹 Data Quality 🔧 Data Engineering

La fábrica de cretinos digitales

by Michel Desmurget • 2019

A neuroscientist's radical screen rules: zero before six, thirty minutes a day after.

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500+

🧒 Child Development 📺 Screen Time Effects 📱 Digital Parenting 💻 Tech Criticism 💥 Attention Crisis

La fábrica de cretinos digitales

A neuroscientist's radical screen rules: zero before six, thirty minutes a day after.

by Michel Desmurget 2019 683 pages

4.09

500+ ratings

🧒 Child Development 📺 Screen Time Effects 📱 Digital Parenting 💻 Tech Criticism 💥 Attention Crisis

How to Win at Travel

by Brian Kelly • 2025

First class on a coach budget: the credit card and points playbook for unlocking premium travel.

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2k+

🛠️ Travel Hacking ✈️ Points And Miles 😰 Fear Of Flying 🤝 Travel Etiquette 👨‍👩‍👧 Family Travel

How to Win at Travel

First class on a coach budget: the credit card and points playbook for unlocking premium travel.

by Brian Kelly 2025 336 pages

3.81

2k+ ratings

🛠️ Travel Hacking ✈️ Points And Miles 😰 Fear Of Flying 🤝 Travel Etiquette 👨‍👩‍👧 Family Travel

Managing Products to Deliver Solutions

by John Mansour • 2015

Stop shipping features. Uncover the B2B organizational problems your customers will pay to solve.

4.00

📦 B2b Product Management 👔 Product Managers 🤝 Solution Selling 🎯 Market Segmentation 💎 Value Proposition Design

Managing Products to Deliver Solutions

Stop shipping features. Uncover the B2B organizational problems your customers will pay to solve.

by John Mansour 2015 78 pages

4.00

6 ratings

📦 B2b Product Management 👔 Product Managers 🤝 Solution Selling 🎯 Market Segmentation 💎 Value Proposition Design

The Great Nerve

by Kevin J. Tracey • 2025

Two-thirds of deaths trace to inflammation. One nerve can stop it, and electricity is the key.

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500+

🧠 Neuroimmunology 🧬 Vagus Nerve 🔥 Inflammation Control ⚡ Autonomic Nervous System 🦠 Autoimmune Disease

The Great Nerve

Two-thirds of deaths trace to inflammation. One nerve can stop it, and electricity is the key.

by Kevin J. Tracey 2025 320 pages

3.99

500+ ratings

🧠 Neuroimmunology 🧬 Vagus Nerve 🔥 Inflammation Control ⚡ Autonomic Nervous System 🦠 Autoimmune Disease

How Algorithms Create and Prevent Fake News

by Noah Giansiracusa • 2021

Algorithms chase engagement, not truth. Lies outperform facts every time, and platforms know it.

3.25

⚖️ Algorithmic Bias 📰 Online Misinformation 🎭 Deepfakes 🤖 Ai Ethics 🏛️ Tech Accountability

How Algorithms Create and Prevent Fake News

Algorithms chase engagement, not truth. Lies outperform facts every time, and platforms know it.

by Noah Giansiracusa 2021 248 pages

3.25

20 ratings

⚖️ Algorithmic Bias 📰 Online Misinformation 🎭 Deepfakes 🤖 Ai Ethics 🏛️ Tech Accountability

The Case against Perfection

by Michael J. Sandel • 2007

Genetic engineering really threatens: the humility and mutual obligation a decent society needs.

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1k+

🧬 Bioethics 🧫 Genetic Engineering 🧪 Human Enhancement ⚖️ Meritocracy Critique 🧘 Human Limits

The Case against Perfection

Genetic engineering really threatens: the humility and mutual obligation a decent society needs.

by Michael J. Sandel 2007 176 pages

3.83

1k+ ratings

🧬 Bioethics 🧫 Genetic Engineering 🧪 Human Enhancement ⚖️ Meritocracy Critique 🧘 Human Limits

So Very Small

by Thomas Levenson • 2025

How humanity finally saw the invisible world, defeated it, and may now lose the rematch.

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213

🏥 History Of Medicine 🦠 Germ Theory 🤒 Infectious Disease 💊 Antibiotic Resistance 🔬 Microbial World

So Very Small

How humanity finally saw the invisible world, defeated it, and may now lose the rematch.

by Thomas Levenson 2025 448 pages

4.30

213 ratings

🏥 History Of Medicine 🦠 Germ Theory 🤒 Infectious Disease 💊 Antibiotic Resistance 🔬 Microbial World

Lost in a Good Game

by Pete Etchells • 2019

The research that clears video games of harm, and the surprising ways they improve our lives.

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500+

🎮 Video Game Psychology ⏳ Screen Time Research 🌐 Digital Culture 🧩 Gaming Motivation 🧠 Gaming And Cognition

Lost in a Good Game

The research that clears video games of harm, and the surprising ways they improve our lives.

by Pete Etchells 2019 320 pages

3.72

500+ ratings

🎮 Video Game Psychology ⏳ Screen Time Research 🌐 Digital Culture 🧩 Gaming Motivation 🧠 Gaming And Cognition

Meat

by Bruce Friedrich • 2025

Nine calories of grain yield one of chicken. The technology that can break that math.

4.38

🌾 Future Of Food 🍔 Alternative Protein 🔬 Cellular Agriculture 🛡️ Food Security 🌍 Climate Mitigation

Meat

Nine calories of grain yield one of chicken. The technology that can break that math.

by Bruce Friedrich 2025 320 pages

4.38

97 ratings

🌾 Future Of Food 🍔 Alternative Protein 🔬 Cellular Agriculture 🛡️ Food Security 🌍 Climate Mitigation

The Breath of the Gods

by Simon Winchester • 2025

Polynesian canoes, the Spanish Armada, and Japan's salvation all turned on wind. Its full biography.

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🧱 Microhistories 🌬️ Atmospheric Science 🌍 Climate And Civilization 🌪️ Forces Of Nature 📖 Popular Science

The Breath of the Gods

Polynesian canoes, the Spanish Armada, and Japan's salvation all turned on wind. Its full biography.

by Simon Winchester 2025 386 pages

3.79

500+ ratings

🧱 Microhistories 🌬️ Atmospheric Science 🌍 Climate And Civilization 🌪️ Forces Of Nature 📖 Popular Science

The Good Virus

by Tom Ireland • 2023

Bacteria-eating viruses saved lives for a century. Then the West abandoned them as antibiotics rose.

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🦠 Phage Therapy 💊 Antibiotic Resistance 🌍 Microbial Ecology 🥶 Cold War Science 🧬 Molecular Biology History

The Good Virus

Bacteria-eating viruses saved lives for a century. Then the West abandoned them as antibiotics rose.

by Tom Ireland 2023 400 pages

4.38

500+ ratings

🦠 Phage Therapy 💊 Antibiotic Resistance 🌍 Microbial Ecology 🥶 Cold War Science 🧬 Molecular Biology History

Valley Verified

by Kyla Zhao • 2024

A fashion writer leaves Manhattan gloss for a startup that dismisses her expertise.

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1k+

🐟 Fish Out Of Water 💻 Silicon Valley 🚀 Startup Culture 👩‍💻 Women In Tech 💼 Office Politics

Valley Verified

A fashion writer leaves Manhattan gloss for a startup that dismisses her expertise.

by Kyla Zhao 2024 384 pages

3.50

1k+ ratings

🐟 Fish Out Of Water 💻 Silicon Valley 🚀 Startup Culture 👩‍💻 Women In Tech 💼 Office Politics

Unboxed

by Gordon Calleja • 2022

Board games succeed or fail on six forms of involvement. Most designers only account for one.

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🎲 Board Game Design 📚 Game Studies 🧠 Play Theory 📖 Analog Revival 🔍 Phenomenology

Unboxed

Board games succeed or fail on six forms of involvement. Most designers only account for one.

by Gordon Calleja 2022 312 pages

3.46

13 ratings

🎲 Board Game Design 📚 Game Studies 🧠 Play Theory 📖 Analog Revival 🔍 Phenomenology

Inviting Disaster

by James R. Chiles • 2001

Catastrophe is never one mistake. It's small failures linking up while everyone looks elsewhere.

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500+

🧨 Technological Disasters 🏗️ Engineering Failures 🔗 System Failures 🧠 Human Factors 🏢 Organizational Failure

Inviting Disaster

Catastrophe is never one mistake. It's small failures linking up while everyone looks elsewhere.

by James R. Chiles 2001 338 pages

4.03

500+ ratings

🧨 Technological Disasters 🏗️ Engineering Failures 🔗 System Failures 🧠 Human Factors 🏢 Organizational Failure

Conversion Optimization

by Khalid Saleh • 2010

Double revenue without a single new visitor. The psychology of online conversion, tested.

3.93

🎯 Conversion Optimization 🧠 Customer Psychology 🧪 A/B Testing 👤 User Personas 🔒 Trust Building

Conversion Optimization

Double revenue without a single new visitor. The psychology of online conversion, tested.

by Khalid Saleh 2010 268 pages

3.93

74 ratings

🎯 Conversion Optimization 🧠 Customer Psychology 🧪 A/B Testing 👤 User Personas 🔒 Trust Building

LLM Adoption in the Enterprise (for True Epub)

by Isabelle Nguyen

AI demos that never ship: a product-first playbook for turning LLMs into real business value.

🤖 Ai Product Management 🧠 Llm Applications 🏢 Enterprise Ai ✍️ Prompt Engineering 🔄 Rapid Prototyping

LLM Adoption in the Enterprise (for True Epub)

AI demos that never ship: a product-first playbook for turning LLMs into real business value.

by Isabelle Nguyen

🤖 Ai Product Management 🧠 Llm Applications 🏢 Enterprise Ai ✍️ Prompt Engineering 🔄 Rapid Prototyping

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