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We were tired of overly long books, so we created BookTalks, were we host videos of authors meaningfully condensing the core ideas of their books. The videos condense the content, without loosing depth. They will inspire you every Monday and Thursday, on wide ranging topics from Philosophy to Entrepreneurship, from Science to Art. Enjoy it as much as we enjoyed the curation.

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Mon, Mar 30

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Malcolm Gladwell

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What makes people outperform others

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Fundamentals in Science

Talk by: Paul Davies

Information Theory and The Origins Of Life

The Demon in the Machine (2018)

Talk by: Steven Wolfram

A New Kind of Science

A New Kind of Science (2002)

Talk by: Karl Popper

How Science works

‎The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1959)

Talk by: Donella Meadows

A Philosophical Look at System Dynamics

Thinking in Systems: A primer (2008)

Talk by: Richard Dawkins

How genes are the core building blocks of evolution

The Selfish Gene (1976)

Talk by: Jeff Hawkins

On novel AI approaches

On Intelligence (2005)

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Library

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Think like an Investor

Talk by: Mihir A. Desai

Finance Analogues In Our Lives

The Wisdom in Finance (2017)

Talk by: David Graeber

The History of Debt

Debt: The First 5000 years (2011)

Talk by: Chris Voss

How to negotiate effectively

Never Split the Difference (2016)

Talk by: Nicolas Colin

Building a safety net in the digital age

Talk by: Kate Raworth

What current economic thinking ignores

Doughnut Economics (2017)

Talk by: Annie Duke

Thinking in Bets

Thinking in Bets (2019)

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Timeline

04

Mar

'21

Talk by: Sean Gerrish

The Inner workings of AI

How Smart Machines Think (2018)

29

Aug

'19

Talk by: Albert-László Barabási

The Science of Networks

Linked: The New Science of Networks (2002)

24

Sep

'20

Talk by: Eric Posner

Radical Markets

Radical Markets (2018)

17

Sep

'20

Talk by: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Things That Gain from Disorder

Antifragile (2012)

13

Aug

'20

Talk by: Rutger Bregman

Are Humans Fundamentally Good?

Humankind: A Hopeful History (2020)

06

Aug

'20

Talk by: Terrence Sejnowski

Learning how to learn

Learning how to learn (2018)

30

Jul

'20

Talk by: Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

A Tour of the Modern Human Psyche

Everybody Lies (2017)

23

Jul

'20

Talk by: Rory Sutherland

When Illogical Ideas Win

Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense (2019)

16

Jul

'20

Talk by: Michael Mauboussin

Differentiating between Skill and Luck

The Success Equation (2012)

29

Jun

'20

Talk by: Nate Silver

The Nature of Predictions

The Signal and the Noise (2012)

22

Jun

'20

Talk by: Steven Pinker

Why Violence Has Declined

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (2011)

15

Jun

'20

Talk by: Nicholas Christakis

The Evolutionary Origins of Good Society

Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of Good Society (2019)

08

Jun

'20

Talk by: Duncan J. Watts

How Common Sense Fails Us

Everything Is Obvious: How Common Sense Fails Us (2011)

01

Jun

'20

Talk by: David Foster Wallace

Living a Compassionate Life

This is Water (2009)

18

May

'20

Talk by: Robert Sapolsky

The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (2017)

20

Apr

'20

Talk by: William MacAskill

Doing Good Better

Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Help Others, Do Work that Matters, and Make Smarter Choices about Giving Back (2018)

15

Apr

'20

Talk by: Paul Davies

Information Theory and The Origins Of Life

The Demon in the Machine (2018)

13

Apr

'20

Talk by: Mihir A. Desai

Finance Analogues In Our Lives

The Wisdom in Finance (2017)

09

Apr

'20

Talk by: Garry Kasparov

How Life Imitates Chess

How Life Imitates Chess (2007)

06

Apr

'20

Talk by: Thomas Piketty

Wealth and Income Distribution in Today's World

Capital in the 21st Century (2013)

02

Apr

'20

Talk by: David Graeber

The History of Debt

Debt: The First 5000 years (2011)

30

Mar

'20

Talk by: Malcolm Gladwell

What makes people outperform others

Outliers (2008)

26

Mar

'20

Talk by: Peter Frankopan

A New History of the World

The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (2015)

23

Mar

'20

Talk by: Eric Schmidt

Key management lessons from Google

How Google Works (2014)

19

Mar

'20

Talk by: Chris Voss

How to negotiate effectively

Never Split the Difference (2016)

16

Mar

'20

Talk by: Steven Wolfram

A New Kind of Science

A New Kind of Science (2002)

12

Mar

'20

Talk by: Karl Popper

How Science works

‎The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1959)

12

Mar

'20

Talk by: Douglas Hofstadter

The Limits of Logic

Gödel, Escher, Bach (1979)

09

Mar

'20

Talk by: Donella Meadows

A Philosophical Look at System Dynamics

Thinking in Systems: A primer (2008)

05

Mar

'20

Talk by: Yuval Noah Harari

The journey of humans through history

02

Mar

'20

Talk by: Jake Knapp

How to Test New Ideas in Just Five Days

Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days (2016)

27

Feb

'20

Talk by: Richard Dawkins

How genes are the core building blocks of evolution

The Selfish Gene (1976)

24

Feb

'20

Talk by: Jeff Hawkins

On novel AI approaches

On Intelligence (2005)

20

Feb

'20

Talk by: Patrick Lencioni

How to build a thriving team

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team (2002)

17

Feb

'20

Talk by: Nicolas Colin

Building a safety net in the digital age

13

Feb

'20

Talk by: Daniel Kahneman

Your Fast And Slow Brain

Thinking Fast and Slow (2011)

10

Feb

'20

Talk by: Edwin Catmull

Nurturing Creativity in Organisations

Creativity Inc (2014)

06

Feb

'20

Talk by: Judea Pearl

The Book of Why

The Book of Why (2018)

25

Feb

'21

Talk by: David Epstein

Why be a generalist?

30

Jan

'20

Talk by: Jamie Metzl

Hacking Our Genome

Hacking Darwin (2019)

27

Jan

'20

Talk by: David Wallace-Wells

The Uninhabitable Earth

The Uninhabitable Earth (2019)

16

Jan

'20

Talk by: Scott Galloway

How Facebook, Apple Is Playing a Different Game

The Four (2017)

13

Jan

'20

Talk by: Dan Ariely and Jeff Kreisler

How Our Perception of How to Spend Money Is Flawed

Dollars and Sense (2017)

09

Jan

'20

Talk by: András Tilcsik

Why Our Systems Fail

Meltdown: Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It (2018)

06

Jan

'20

Talk by: Susan Cain

A World Made for Introverts

02

Jan

'20

Talk by: Nick Chater

The Improvising Mind

The Mind is Flat (2018)

26

Dec

'19

Talk by: Matthew Walker

Why We Sleep (2017)

23

Dec

'19

Talk by: Peter Thiel

Building Startups

Zero to One (2014)

19

Dec

'19

Talk by: Ray Dalio

Automated decision making machines

Principles (2017)

16

Dec

'19

Talk by: Andrew Lo

Adaptive Market Hypothesis

Adaptive Markets (2017)

12

Dec

'19

Talk by: Safi Bahcall

The principles of innovation

Loonshots (2019)

09

Dec

'19

Talk by: Clayton M. Christensen

Being mindful about your goals

How will you measure your life? (2012)

28

Nov

'19

Talk by: Rutger Bregman

The case for Universal Basic Income

Utopia for Realists (2016)

25

Nov

'19

Talk by: Steven Pinker

How language shapes your thinking

The Stuff of Thought (2005)

14

Nov

'19

Talk by: Kate Raworth

What current economic thinking ignores

Doughnut Economics (2017)

11

Nov

'19

Talk by: Maria Konnikova

Why we trust someone

The Confidence Game (2017)

07

Nov

'19

Talk by: Max Tegmark

Our Mathematical Universe

Our Mathematical Universe (2014)

04

Nov

'19

Talk by: Annie Duke

Thinking in Bets

Thinking in Bets (2019)

31

Oct

'19

Talk by: Carlo Rovelli

The Order of Time

The Order of Time (2017)

28

Oct

'19

Talk by: Douglas Murray

The Death of Europe

The Strange Death of Europe (2017)

24

Oct

'19

Talk by: Michael Blastland

The Hidden Half

The Hidden Half (2019)

21

Oct

'19

Talk by: Duncan Green

How change happens in society

How Change Happens (2016)

17

Oct

'19

Talk by: Binyamin Appelbaum

How Economists got to rule the world

The Economists' Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society (2019)

14

Oct

'19

Talk by: Steven Johnson

Emergence and Collective Intelligence

Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software (2002)

10

Oct

'19

Talk by: Jared Diamond

Guns, Germs and Steel

Guns, Germs and Steel (1997)

07

Oct

'19

Talk by: Steven Pinker

Enlighement Now (2018)

03

Oct

'19

Talk by: Paul Mason

Contemporary Capitalism

PostCapitalism (2015)

30

Sep

'19

Talk by: Max Tegmark

The future of humanity

Life 3.0 (2017)

26

Sep

'19

Talk by: Scott Galloway

The Algebra of Happiness

The Algebra of Happiness (2019)

23

Sep

'19

Talk by: Daniel C. Dennett

Old and new thinking tools

Intuition Pumps and Other Tools of Thinking (2014)

19

Sep

'19

Talk by: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Owning the risks you create

Skin in The Game (2017)

16

Sep

'19

Talk by: Arthur Herman

Plato Versus Aristotle

The Cave and the Light (2013)

12

Sep

'19

Talk by: Yuval Noah Harari

21 lessons for the 21st century

21 lessons for the 21st century (2018)

09

Sep

'19

Talk by: Mariana Mazzucato

Who creates value in today's society?

The Value of Everything (2018)

05

Sep

'19

Talk by: Brian Christian

Algorithms and Human Decision Making

Algorithms to Live By (2016)

02

Sep

'19

Talk by: Ben Horowitz

Hard Management Decisions

The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers (2014)

03

Feb

'20

Talk by: Nick Bostrom

How an AI Could Take Over The World

Superintelligence (2014)

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Enhancing your Brain

Talk by: Garry Kasparov

How Life Imitates Chess

How Life Imitates Chess (2007)

Talk by: Malcolm Gladwell

What makes people outperform others

Outliers (2008)

Talk by: Daniel Kahneman

Your Fast And Slow Brain

Thinking Fast and Slow (2011)

Talk by: Edwin Catmull

Nurturing Creativity in Organisations

Creativity Inc (2014)

Talk by: Jamie Metzl

Hacking Our Genome

Hacking Darwin (2019)

Talk by: Matthew Walker

Why We Sleep (2017)

Talk by: Daniel C. Dennett

Old and new thinking tools

Intuition Pumps and Other Tools of Thinking (2014)

Talk by: Nick Bostrom

How an AI Could Take Over The World

Superintelligence (2014)

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