Book Summary: Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt
You’re probably familiar with bad strategy. It’s full of fluff, lofty visions and desirable outcomes, with no clue on how to achieve […]
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Book Summary: Scarcity by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir
This summary of Scarcity: The True Cost of Not Having Enough by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir explains how scarcity changes the […]
Book Summary: Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall
This is a summary of Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps that Explain Everything About the World by Tim Marshall. While the book’s […]
Criticisms of “The Righteous Mind” by Jonathan Haidt
In this post, I levy several criticisms at Jonathan Haidt’s generally excellent book, The Righteous Mind. You can find my summary of […]
Solutions in “Not the End of the World”
Hannah Ritchie’s book Not the End of the World covers a range of solutions for each of the 7 major environmental problems […]
Book Summary: Not the End of the World by Hannah Ritchie
In Not the End of the World, Hannah Ritchie uses data to explain why we can stand to be more optimistic about […]
Book Summary: How Big Things Get Done by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner
Why did the Sydney Opera House ruin its architect’s career? What can we learn about megaprojects from Pixar’s movies? This summary of […]
Book Summary: How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
This summary of How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt explains how American democracy […]
“Thinking in Systems” and Economics
Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows uses many economics-related examples. Even though Meadows’ background is as an environmental scientist, she clearly knows […]
Book Summary: Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows
This summary of Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella Meadows explains how systems thinking can help us better understand and change […]