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Tony Fadell • Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
Timothy Prestero’s “Better by Design.”
Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
Veblen returned to Princeton determined both to replicate the success of the European institutions and to recapture some of the informal mathematical camaraderie of the Proving Ground. He set three immediate goals: to sponsor postdoctoral fellowships for promising young mathematicians, to free existing professors from crushing teaching loads, and t
... See moreGeorge Dyson • Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe
Now: the second-best of times.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Environments that block or limit those new combinations—by punishing experimentation, by obscuring certain branches of possibility, by making the current state so satisfying that no one bothers to explore the edges—will, on average, generate and circulate fewer innovations than environments that encourage exploration.
Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

