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A bedrock principle of Google was serving its users—but a goal was building a giant artificial intelligence learning machine that would bring uncertain consequences to the way all of us live.
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
They’ve put a supercomputer in your pocket, are bringing the internet into developing countries, and are mapping the Earth’s land mass and oceans.
Scott Galloway • The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google
That’s why no one was using Febreze, Stimson realized. The product’s cue—the thing that was supposed to trigger daily use—was hidden from the people who needed it most. Bad scents simply weren’t noticed frequently enough to trigger a regular habit.
Charles Duhigg • The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
I have found the “The Basics of Production,” the first chapter of Andy Grove’s High Output Management,
Ben Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
So focus people’s attention on the opportunity: help them get curious about what their job could become, instead of being fearful of what they might lose.
Tony Fadell • Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
The opportunity was all that mattered.
Tony Fadell • Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
SEE-FEEL-CHANGE.
Dan Heath • Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
a simple framework for avoiding distractions, maintaining energy, and making more time.
John Zeratsky • Make Time: How to focus on what matters every day
A world of flat organizations and tumultuous business conditions—and that’s our world—punishes fixed skills and prizes elastic ones. What an individual does day to day on the job now must stretch across functional boundaries. Designers analyze. Analysts design. Marketers create. Creators market. And when the next technologies emerge and