Books like Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution – and How It Can Renew America
12 books with a reading profile close to Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution – and How It Can Renew America by Thomas L. Friedman. Outward-looking, growth-minded and clear-cut; a moderate read.
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A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing
Also outward-looking and growth-minded · practical, analytical
Burton G.
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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
Also clear-cut · practical, analytical
In Nudge, Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein explain how choice architecture—the way options are presented to us—dictates our daily decisions.
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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Also outward-looking and growth-minded · analytical, economics
Thomas L.
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The Pragmatic Programmer
Also outward-looking and growth-minded · practical, analytical
The Pragmatic Programmer focuses on the technical and philosophical habits that define professional software engineering.
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Abundance
by Ezra Klein
Also outward-looking and growth-minded · analytical, economics
Ezra Klein examines the structural hurdles preventing the United States from building the infrastructure, housing, and clean energy technology required for a functional future.
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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
by Cathy O'Neil
Also outward-looking and growth-minded · analytical, economics
Cathy O’Neil identifies a specific breed of algorithmic modeling she labels Weapons of Math Destruction.
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Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
Also outward-looking and growth-minded · analytical, economics
Rutger Bregman argues that modern society has lost its capacity for visionary thinking and proposes three specific policies to reclaim progress.
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Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers
Also outward-looking and growth-minded · practical, analytical
Geoffrey A.
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The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More
Also outward-looking and growth-minded · analytical, economics
Chris Anderson explains the shift from a hit-driven culture to a niche-driven economy enabled by digital distribution.
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
by Naomi Klein
Also outward-looking · analytical, economics
Naomi Klein argues that the current global economic model and the survival of the planetary ecosystem are fundamentally at odds.
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Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant
by W. Chan Kim
Also outward-looking and growth-minded · practical, analytical
W.
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The Design of Everyday Things
Also outward-looking · practical, analytical
Donald Norman focuses on the cognitive relationship between humans and the manufactured objects they use, from simple door handles to complex digital interfaces.
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