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Blog / Book Giveaways
System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot
By Porchlight
A forward-thinking manifesto from three Stanford professors—experts who have worked at ground zero of the tech revolution for decades—that reveals how Big Tech’s obsession with optimization and efficiency has sacrificed fundamental human values and demands that we change course to renew our democracy and save ourselves
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Blog / Staff Picks
Windswept : Walking the Paths of Trailblazing Women
Book Review by Emily Porter
Annabel Abbs looks at walking with a feminist's eye, writing about Simone de Beauvoir, Nan Shepherd, Frieda Lawrence, Georgia O’Keefe, and many more who walked and found inspiration that deeply impacted their lives.
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Blog / Staff Picks
The Reading List
Book Review by Lauren Kohlenberg
This novel evokes the magical feeling that arises when you enter a book-filled space. It tells of the power of a community space, the impact of found family, and the reach of a carefully crafted story.
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Blog / Staff Picks
The Antisocial Network: The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders That Brought Wall Street to Its Knees
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
There are so many things to learn—about Wall Street, about short selling, about social media’s growing influence on investing, about the gamification of trading—in the individual stories Ben Mezrich tells and how they connect to one another. But the real magic is in the writing itself.
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Blog / ChangeThis
The Three Pressure Traps
By Dane Jensen
How we navigate pressure in key moments and over the long haul has a huge impact on the trajectory of our life and how much we enjoy the journey.
Categories: changethis
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Blog / New Releases
Books to Watch | August 31, 2021
By Dylan Schleicher, Gabbi Cisneros, Emily Porter
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Blog / Staff Picks
L.A. Weather
Book Review by Gabbi Cisneros
As everyone in the novel finds their own way of working through (or avoiding) their own difficulties, the family drama gets more tense.
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Blog / Book Giveaways
Power, for All: How It Really Works and Why It's Everyone's Business
By Porchlight
Power isn't just for the few at the top; it is potentially for everyone. You have power—and the power to use it.
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Blog / Staff Picks
The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
We face both urgent crises and profound, existential challenges as a species, but we have the ability to cooperate—and to change and evolve the ways in which we do. Nichola Raihani explains how important that ability has been to our success in the past, and how likely it is to determine our fate.
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Blog / Staff Picks
Three Rooms
Book Review by Emily Porter
It tells a universal story that so many of us experience in our own lives when finding our footing: the struggle of making it on our own for the first time, meeting strangers that become good acquaintances—if not a friendship of sorts—and finding ourselves throughout the journey.
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