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David Brooks has suggested that Trump is the wrong answer to the right question. That question, Brooks believes, is how Americans should deal with upheavals and social shifts like globalization.69 More broadly, the question is how people should react when faced with institutions that appear to be both ill-equipped to cope with contemporary realitie
... See moreEthan Zuckerman • Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them
A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity
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Why did these patterns persist, even as women and minorities made significant inroads into other professional domains? The explanation lies with the characteristic of the Valley VC community that set it apart from other regions, and that made it so good at finding and nurturing one generation of entrepreneurs after another: its personal, tightly ne
... See moreMargaret O'Mara • The Code
The company has been one of the West ’s great competitive advantages. Of course, the West’s success owes much to technological prowess and liberal values.
Adrian Wooldridge • The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea (Modern Library Chronicles Series Book 12)
In essence there is a scarcity of talented labor relative to capital, as evidenced by the relative plenty of venture capital and what economists call “the savings glut.”
Daniel Gross • Talent
The 2016 election constituted a clear regeneracy for both factions. In national politics, it mobilized party partisans to an intensity not seen since the mid-1930s if not the late 1850s.
Neil Howe • The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End
On top, she added her own distinctive techno-futurist gloss—Tofflerism with a stock-picker’s sensibility. It cost over $600 a year to subscribe to Release 1.0, and 1,500 of the tech industry’s most powerful read its every elliptical word.
Margaret O'Mara • The Code
BILL GATES Cofounder, Microsoft; Cochair, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation