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Blog / Editor's Choice
The Inside Game: Bad Calls, Strange Moves, and What Baseball Behavior Teaches Us About Ourselves
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Everyone in baseball and in business, an interest in either or in the way we think, should own this book.
Categories: editors-choice, big-ideas-new-perspectives, personal-development-human-behavior
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Blog / Interviews
We're All in This Together: An Interview with Mike Robbins
By Dylan Schleicher
“For us to do our best work, have the kind of impact we truly want to have, and unlock our full potential, we can’t do it alone; we must to do it together. If you and your team are willing to do what it takes, you can build and sustain an incredibly strong culture of trust and performance, and accomplish remarkable things.” -Mike Robbins
Categories: interviews
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Blog / ChangeThis
Building Ethical, Empathic, and Inclusive AI
By Rana El Kaliouby
We depend too much on technology to give it up. And doing so would be a terrible mistake. We need our technology more than ever. But we need to make it smarter, better, and more humane. And fortunately, we now have the tools to do this.
Categories: changethis
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Blog / New Releases
Books to Watch | April 21, 2020
By Porchlight
Categories: new-releases
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Blog / Book Giveaways
No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram
By Porchlight
Social media has become even more important during the Coronavirus crisis as a means of keeping in touch and connected—a lifeline to the outside world. But it is also a source of rumor, questionable information from unverified sources, and outright scams related to the pandemic. Sarah Frier shows how this came to be, and how Instagram’s dominance acts as a lens into our society, highlighting our fraught relationship with technology.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / Editor's Choice
The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World—and Globalization Began
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Valerie Hansen's new book will change the way you view the world of antiquity, and the world of today.
Categories: editors-choice, big-ideas-new-perspectives
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Blog / Staff Picks
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Book Review by Roy Normington
Our Senior Customer Service Specialist, Roy Normington, reviews Nella Larsen's Harlem Renaissance novel, finding it still speaks powerfully to issues of identity, race, class, gender, and sexuality today.
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Blog / ChangeThis
Why We Need More Women of Color in Tech
By Susanne Tedrick
You might be asking yourself why on earth I would subject myself to a field that has typically been non-welcoming to women of color and where the support structures are iffy, at best. For all the negative news and statistics, there really is no greater time for us to be here. I’d like to share with you why by sharing my journey to tech.
Categories: changethis
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Blog / New Releases
Books to Watch | April 14, 2020
By Porchlight
Categories: new-releases
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Blog / Book Giveaways
Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life
By Porchlight
Fortunately, you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to think like one.
Categories: giveaways