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Back to SearchTHE BOMBER MAFIA: Malcolm Gladwell on Warfare, Audiobooks, and the Future of Storytelling
Malcolm Gladwell’s extraordinary new book, “The Bomber Mafia,” tells the story of a group of pilots who met on a muggy airbase in central Alabama and…
4 years, 5 months ago
EFFORTLESS: Embrace the Easy Option
Teddy Roosevelt once said that nothing is worth doing “unless it means effort, pain, and difficulty.” And to that bestselling author Greg McKeown say…
4 years, 6 months ago
HIGH CONFLICT: How to Defuse Any Squabble (Amanda Ripley & Susan Cain)
Have you ever lain awake at night, obsessing over a conflict with a colleague or a relative or a politician you’ve never met? That’s what journalist …
4 years, 6 months ago
EXTENDED MIND: Want to Get Smarter? Try Thinking Outside of Your Brain
Modern life has not been easy on our brains. Average IQ scores rose steadily throughout the last century. Now they appear to be leveling off. The pro…
4 years, 6 months ago
DELUSIONS: How Self-Deception Can Help You Flourish (Shankar Vedantam & Daniel Pink)
Is it really so bad to be a little bit delusional? Not according to Shankar Vedantam. In his new book, “Useful Delusions: The Power and Paradox of th…
4 years, 6 months ago
AI: The Extraordinary Story of the Tech That’s Changing the World
In 1958, a psychologist named Frank Rosenblatt took a five-ton computer, fed it a steady diet of punch cards, and taught it how to recognize the lett…
4 years, 7 months ago
MINE: How the Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives
Ownership is simple, right? Something is either yours or it isn’t. Case closed. But who owns the space behind your airplane seat, the results of the …
4 years, 7 months ago
GATHERING: Mastering the Art of Hanging Out
You’ve posted a photo of your vaccine card on Instagram. The CDC says it’s okay to leave your bunker. Some of your friends have expressed interest in…
4 years, 7 months ago
EMAIL: Would the World Be Better Without It?
What’s the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning and the last thing you do before bed? If you’re a modern knowledge worker, your answer …
4 years, 7 months ago
WORK: Should You Do Less of It? Adam Grant and James Suzman on the 15-Hour Workweek.
Our work consumes us. But does it have to? Anthropologist James Suzman has spent decades living in the Kalahari Desert with one of the world’s last h…
4 years, 8 months ago