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Organizations as varied as Y Combinator, MIT’s Radiation Lab, and ARPA have astonishing track records in catalyzing progress far beyond their confines. While research exists on all of these fronts, we’re underinvesting considerably. These examples collectively indicate that one of our highest priorities should be figuring out interventions that inc... See more

Businesses are more successful when they hire women: more collaborative,3 more profitable,4 more inclusive.5 Women are in fact more effective leaders,6 less likely to take unnecessary risks,7 great at multitasking,8 and have higher emotional intelligence9— as the Harvard Business Review put it, “one of the least counter-intuitive findings in the so

Jessica Bennett • Feminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace

Until recently, idea capital in tech was constrained, and mostly only accessible by startup founders. If you had an idea for improving public society that required money and talent to execute, and you didn’t do it as a startup, you either had to get the EA community to care about it, or – as the old joke goes – convince Peter Thiel to fund it.

Nadia Asparouhova • Idea Machines

Within the AI space, she is the female founder who has raised most VC funding.

Daniela Braga • Project Voice Worldwide: DefinedCrowd, the GitHub of AI

By the 1920s, 15 percent of all American women had worked as operators, and AT&T was the largest employer in the United States. AT&T decided to remove the old-school telephone operators and replace them with much cheaper direct dialing. Operator jobs dropped rapidly by 50 to 80 percent. As might be expected, the job market overall adjusted

Ethan Mollick • Co-Intelligence

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

Your key resource people may be engineers, designers, artists, city managers, accountants, mathematicians, chemists, editors, district sales managers, or some of each. But average them all out and they’re making one fifth of what the chief executive gets. Fair? Not in my book. And it cuts two ways.

Robert C. Townsend • Up the Organization: How to Stop the Corporation from Stifling People and Strangling Profits (J-B Warren Bennis Series)

knew when I saw those statistics that the mythology around Silicon Valley was basically a lie, because ingenuity, hard work, hustle, grit, and innovation aren’t traits that are prevalent only in the straight White male population.

Arlan Hamilton • It's About Damn Time: How to Turn Being Underestimated into Your Greatest Advantage

(i) For the first time in history, the frontier of technology is reaching the majority of the world’s population. (ii) Technology at a human scale is democratizing personal productivity as never before.