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Even though the small team was going somewhere, they weren’t quite sure of their destination. “Larry didn’t have a plan,” says Hassan. “In research you explore something and see what sticks.”

Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

A quixotic intellectual troubadour, he has prosecuted a series of discrete visions united only by a potent sense of curiosity and a provocative optimism.

John Markoff • Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand

The fourth frontier is the idea that we can engineer an indefinite steady state that will feel to people like they live in a period of perpetual growth, but will abide by the laws of physics and game theory that govern our universe.

Heather Heying • A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life

Small Spaces

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The engineer and historian of engineering Henry Petroski presents a very elegant point. Had the Titanic not had that famous accident, as fatal as it was, we would have kept building larger and larger ocean liners and the next disaster would have been even more tragic.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Incerto 4-Book Bundle

The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better: A Penguin eSpecial from Dutton

Tyler Cowen

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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

Carlota was born in Venezuela in 1939. Her first career there was as a civil servant specialized in energy and innovation policy[34]. Later in life, she switched to academia, settling in the UK where she started to focus on the relationship between technological change and financial markets. Almost by coincidence, her only book to date, Technologic