It invites the reader to watch with trepidation as, one by one, they’re solved by AI. Oliver Roeder, “Seven Games: A Human History.”ĭespite the title, the book isn’t really about the history of checkers, chess, go, backgammon, poker, Scrabble and bridge. (A close second that overlaps in some ways is Lorraine Daston, “Rules: A Short History of What We Live By.”) Fernanda Pirie, “The Rule of Laws: The 4,000 Year Quest to Order the World.”Ī thoughtful history of the long effort by elites to regulate human behavior without first troubling to learn much about how humans behave. For instance: Do we live in a simulation? The notion is “more appealing the less you know about physics.” Does the universe think? Um, maybe. Sabine Hossenfelder, “Existential Physics: A Scientist’s Guide to Life’s Biggest Questions.”Īs the title promises, the author uses physics to consider several existential conundrums.
The authors have spotted a glaring weakness in the corporate model, the persistent mismatch between what a company needs and how it hires. But this one is different - and not only because there’s data aplenty. In my experience, books aimed at helping managers do their jobs better tend to be long on anecdotes and short on data. Tyler Cowen and Daniel Gross, “Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creators, and Winners Around the World.”
Those much-maligned 12th-century concordats between medieval rulers and the Roman Catholic Church might have contributed to explosive economic growth and helped spur the development of parliamentary democracy.
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, “The Invention of Power: Popes, Kings, and the Birth of the West.” Heart-wrenching stories of personal struggle are not my usual cup of tea, but Harris won me over, both for the novelistic intensity of her story and the power of her prose.
0 kommentar(er)
