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Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
lacked a willingness to engage in the complexity of the issues he hoped the company might solve.
Reeves Wiedeman • Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork
Americans are now meritocrats by birth. They know this and, because it violates their fundamental beliefs, they go to a lot of trouble not to know it.
George Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
The narrative of Free America remained as inflexible as any ideology: tax cuts and deregulation = freedom and prosperity. Decade after decade you encountered its mantra, like the rituals of a cargo cult, on the website of the Cato Institute, the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal, broadcasts of The Rush Limbaugh Show, and the platform of the
... See moreGeorge Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
capacity for power requires capacity for sustainable self-governance.
Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
the human megaphone is in full swing.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
That’s the way nature works. Whether you have the persistence, determination, dedication to see it through—that’s a different story.”