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Professors downplay the cutthroat culture of academia, but managers never tire of comparing business to war.
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
Makers and Takers: The Economics of the Kalshi Prediction Market
ucd.iethe subject of digital technology and spaces focuses on what digital technology might do for us, this book explores what the same technology might do to us.
John A. McArthur • Digital Proxemics: How Technology Shapes the Ways We Move (Digital Formations Book 110)
software firm offered cloud software for businesses at an extremely low monthly fee of $19.90 per workstation. The price for the comparable competitive product stood at more than $100. Several months after the launch, the company’s CEO told me that “small businesses are really excited about our prices. For the first time, they can afford this kind
... See moreHermann Simon • Confessions of the Pricing Man: How Price Affects Everything
From that moment, Meredith Whitney became E. F. Hutton: When she spoke, people listened. Her message was clear: If you want to know what these Wall Street firms are really worth, take a cold, hard look at these crappy assets they’re holding with borrowed money, and imagine what they’d fetch in a fire sale. The vast assemblages of highly paid people
... See moreMichael Lewis • The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Adam Appich, master of science, is there with several studies that show how legacy cognitive blindness will forever prevent people from acting in their own best interests.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
no more need to have them enforce our contracts.